epub |eng | 2024-02-24 | Author:Diane Armstrong

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO The Sinai, 1917 Eli took one look at Aaron and burst out laughing at the sight of his fashion-conscious friend attired like a Bedouin. ‘Your keffiyeh is a ...

epub |eng | 2022-10-13 | Author:Vivian Stuart [Stuart, Vivian]

CHAPTER 6 Within a few days of taking up residence in Sydney’s Government House, Mrs. Macquarie suffered a miscarriage. They had been hectic days for the new Governor and his ...

epub |eng | 2022-08-18 | Author:Vivian Stuart [Stuart, Vivian]

8 The next day was Sunday, and as had become his custom, William Bligh reserved two hours between rising and breaking his fast to receive, in person, petitions and complaints ...

epub |eng | 2015-06-15 | Author:Carlton, Demelza [Carlton, Demelza]

Eighteen Mr Hertz and his wife led the way along the reef, splashing through the water in their sandals and socks. The footwear was just the beginning of their matching ...

epub |eng | 2016-10-31 | Author:Keneally, Thomas & Keneally, Tom [Keneally, Thomas & Keneally, Tom]

Around this time my friend Liz Cosgrove, who also attended Frank’s services at Longueville, took up the cause of child sex slaves in Calcutta. She volunteered to run a sub-committee ...

epub |eng | 1967-01-01 | Author:Keneally, Thomas [Keneally, Thomas]

15 Ann had first put on the St Megan’s cord five years before, ordered by her mother after a story was spread about a German regiment running wild in a ...

epub |eng | | Author:Leah Kaminsky [Kaminsky, Leah]

CHAPTER 15 MUNICH THURSDAY 19TH JUNE, 1924 Papa sat beside her on the sofa, reading The Adventures of Pinocchio, her favourite story. Anna imagined the wooden puppet’s nose growing longer ...

epub |eng | 2024-07-15 | Author:Barbara Sumner

Birdie stands on tiptoe as she tries to see the distant shore. The cold air is invigorating. She closes her eyes, the breeze lifting her pale hair as she licks ...

epub |eng | 2024-02-15 | Author:Jackie French

Twenty-Nine Mair A pig will never look as sweet as an apple tree in bloom, until it’s stewed in cider And there she found paradise. The first garden bed had ...

epub |eng | 2018-01-18 | Author:James Philip [Philip, James]

Chapter 18 | Treading Water Thursday 14th February 1963 Government House, Cheltenham If the United Kingdom Interim Emergency Administration had had a Chancellor of its Exchequer – or rather, had ...

epub |eng | | Author:Julie Janson

While riding down the Great Western Road into Emu Plains, I looked at the tiny settlements, the English shepherds folding their fleeces in neat piles. Everything in those times was ...

epub |eng | | Author:Tony McNamara

SCENE THIRTEEN Catherine’s quarters. CATHERINE and HERMES gambol about. HERMES: You are in high spirits today. CATHERINE: I believe I am. Here’s a topic. You and me and the future. ...

mobi |eng | 2023-12-26 | Author:Izaz Khan [Khan, Izaz]

Chapter Ten Seru came to Hassan’s house late at night as arranged. They went into an unused bure. There was a rope bed, a couple of wooden boxes, and a ...

epub |eng | 2024-01-09 | Author:Wilson, Wendy M.

They were at Stewart’s Redoubt in the middle of the Brunswick Line within half an hour. They had seen no one on the way, and Mr. Charles had clung to ...

epub |eng | | Author:John Biggins

I stared at it for some moments. My mother had been in poor health for some years past, but it was still quite unexpected. Yet I felt no particular grief—except ...