History & Criticism
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-02 | Author:Ben Kane

Chapter XVII: Homecoming At the junction, Tarquinius stopped. The northern Italian countryside had been growing more familiar since before dawn, but he knew this spot better than anywhere in the ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1976-01-01 | Author:Philippa Gregory

Summer 1626 Tradescant had thought that complaints about the duke were in the mouths of ignorant men, boys like J, women like Elizabeth, and wayside preachers, whose opinions might disturb ...
( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-05-08 | Author:Hilary Mantel

Now Edward Seymour is promoted into the king’s privy chamber, a singular mark of favour. And the king says to him, ‘I think I should have young Rafe Sadler among ...
( Category: Biographical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-12-15 | Author:Philippa Gregory

The net is closing around me. It is so close now that I can almost see the cords. If Lord Lisle says that he knew I would make the king ...
( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-12 | Author:Dorothy Dunnett

Chapter 25 IT WAS NOT, however, the two equal swords of Katelina van Borselen that Nicholas found waiting for him on his return, at long last, to the capital. Before ...
( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-12 | Author:Dorothy Dunnett

As always now, the reaction was almost more than he could bear. It took a major effort of will, after the messenger had gone and he had dispatched his brother’s ...
( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-21 | Author:Anne Perry

He began with the names she had given him. Roderick Alberd proved to be an eccentric with flying hair and whiskers in the manner of the late Franz Liszt, and ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-12 | Author:Dorothy Dunnett

Chapter 26 IN EDINBURGH – the ancient epicentrum towards which, in counter-flow, there had streamed for six months all the molten concerns of the Banco di Niccolò – in Edinburgh, ...
( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-01-02 | Author:Philippa Gregory

Summer 1626 Tradescant had thought that complaints about the duke were in the mouths of ignorant men, boys like J, women like Elizabeth, and wayside preachers, whose opinions might disturb ...
( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-01-02 | Author:Philippa Gregory

Sir Robert was leaning down to whisper to the seated queen, when Cecil walked into the presence chamber, and saw the queen laugh up at him. The desire between the ...
( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-11 | Author:Dorothy Dunnett

Chapter 22 FAR FROM THE RAVAGES he had unwittingly caused, the Charetty lawyer Gregorio saw the time draw near at last when he could find and confront the Scottish lord ...
( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-11-28 | Author:P. D. James

2 Tuesday morning promised to be a pleasant day with even the hope of autumn sunshine. Wilkinson, the coachman, had a well-deserved reputation for forecasting the weather and two days ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1966-01-01 | Author:Jean Plaidy

Anne was relieved when Sarah went. Sunderland! she thought. That man. Never. She pulled the bell rope. “Hill,” she said. “Send Hill.” Abigail came, green eyes anxious. “Your Majesty is ...
( Category: Biographical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-25 | Author:Anne Perry

allin attended the morning rehearsal the following day. Now he was quite open about his suggestions, and Alice was eager to adapt them. Douglas seemed less displeased, and Caroline noticed ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1979-12-31 | Author:William Horwood

26 THEY stayed for several weeks near the field to which Boswell had led them. Not only were they all tired and in need of rest and food to regain ...
( Category: Epic March 25,2014 )