epub |eng | | Author:Ryn Shell

HOME TODAY “Your ute should be fine here until morning. It’s tied down tight. Get in the back of the police car, and we’ll take you back to town.” The ...

epub |eng | 2020-11-25 | Author:Viveka Portman

Chapter 18 Margaret felt Anne’s icy hand grip her own as a pair of dirty, worn brown boots drew up before her and splattered her short-hemmed skirt with grey, reeking ...

epub |eng | 2022-07-11 | Author:David Blackie

* When the two deck hands found him, he was still sitting, both hands gripping the guard rail. It couldn’t have been long after the man went overboard; a few ...

epub |eng | 2019-02-16 | Author:Jackie French

Chapter 36 It is necessary to tell a child ‘no’ so they understand what is acceptable and what is not. A man in power, unfortunately, is rarely told, ‘No, that ...

epub |eng | 2023-01-04 | Author:David Whish-Wilson

I awoke the next day. I were still in the boat. The blanket were tucked under my chin. The old man’s cabbage-tree hat sheltered my face. I were laid on ...

epub |eng | 2022-03-16 | Author:Vivian Stuart

The six scarlet-uniformed officers composing the court of criminal jurisdiction filed into their seats, and in response to the usher’s stentorian ‘All stand for his Majesty’s justices of the peace!’ ...

epub |eng | 2011-12-06 | Author:Louis Nowra

ACT TWO SCENE ONE The living room of a working-class house, morning. A coffin lies on a table surrounded by flowers. FRANCIS stands before it. MRS WITCOMBE, a neighbour, enters. ...

epub |eng | 2008-12-15 | Author:Kain Massin

Herod preceded them into the hall he used as his throne room whenever he was displaced by the governor. It was not as grand as his regular hall, but it ...

epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Azhar Abidi

THEN ONE day, quite suddenly, we were summoned to the King’s private chamber. I had been here several times before but the impression of comfort and splendor never failed to ...

epub |eng | 2014-12-15 | Author:Thomas Hardy [Hardy, Thomas]

“You are mighty sensitive for a cottage girl!” said the young man. Tess made no reply to this remark, of which, indeed, she did not quite comprehend the drift, unheeding ...

epub |eng | 2021-09-29 | Author:Tania Blanchard

* * * ‘Thank you for helping him,’ said Vincenzo one evening not long after our trip to the springs. We were sitting in the kitchen, waiting for the pot ...

epub |eng | 2022-05-15 | Author:Deborah Goldie

CHAPTER 13 Will woke to the sound of excited boys. It took him a few seconds to work out why and then he remembered. Today was Saturday; the day of ...

epub |eng | 2021-10-15 | Author:Catherine McCullagh

Chapter 20 A mere matter of timing The next day the men were up early, keen to shake the defeatist dust of Wilhelmshaven from their feet and smell the clean ...

epub |eng | 2022-06-03 | Author:Michael Winkler

23. Well, I said, that is – whatever it is. Never good at character names. A mention of Bob Fitzsimmons all those years ago! The familiar juddering punctuation. ‘Curlicues’ was ...

epub |eng | 2021-10-20 | Author:Jackie French

Kat placed the letters back behind the frame and fastened it again. So that had been the beginning. This was the end. She was not sure what to feel. Anger ...