epub |eng | 2021-12-20 | Author:Sheila Armstrong [Armstrong, Sheila]

lemons High-flung handfuls of white polystyrene shapes, falling in gentle waves. A package has come early for Christmas, and the two children have stolen away the S-shaped filling to make ...

epub |eng | 2023-10-08 | Author:Eva Jordan [Jordan, Eva]

CHAPTER 28 ‘Do you remember Jules’s funeral?’ Eileen asked, staring at his headstone. Leora nodded. ‘Surprisingly well. Considering how long ago it was.’ Weather-wise it had been an awful day. ...

epub |fra | 2023-09-02 | Author:Ellen Wood [Wood, Ellen]

epub |eng | 2020-03-25 | Author:Small Mercies (retail) (epub)

Chapter Twenty-One ‘I hope you’ve found the evening useful, Clive.’ They were standing outside the front door of the farmhouse. Rowan Wiseman and Charlie were already heading for the car, ...

epub |eng | | Author:Olivia Fitzsimons

epub |eng | 2023-03-16 | Author:Sheila Armstrong [Armstrong, Sheila]

Twenty-seven minutes into the dive and the other diver signals that half of his tank has been used up. Robert has a little more, but he nods and makes a ...

epub |eng | 2018-12-15 | Author:Graham Greene [Greene, Graham]

PART FOUR SUBOTICA I The telegraph receiving set in the station-master’s office at Subotica flickered; dots and dashes were spilt into the empty room. Through the open door Lukitch, the ...

epub |eng | 2019-03-17 | Author:Rachel Wesson [Wesson, Rachel]

Chapter 34 Kate couldn’t reply. She pulled Cathy closer to her and together they shivered and prayed with the others around them in the boat. A shout from the officer ...

epub |eng | 2024-02-24 | Author:Lynn, Victoria

CHAPTER ELEVEN Jane Collins-Bennet checked a column of figures again, then sighed and swiveled in her chair, looking out the window, seeing nothing. She simply could not concentrate on numbers ...

epub |eng | 2023-04-29 | Author:Jennifer Manuel [Manuel, Jennifer]

Something snapped inside me. Clutching Hannah’s composition tightly, as if it was the only evidence I had, I marched out of the school and headed toward the village in pursuit ...

epub |eng | | Author:Rachel Crowther [Crowther, Rachel]

Chapter Twenty-Six Faith felt rather sorry for herself on the journey back from Aldeburgh. It had been a lovely weekend, she thought, but – what? Was this just the usual ...

epub |eng | 2023-10-20 | Author:Trudy J. Morgan-Cole [Morgan-Cole, Trudy J.]

Eighteen A Storm Arises Harbour Grace, January 1619 Then from the angry North Cloud-gath’ring Jove a dreadful storm call’d forth… —Homer’s Odysseys, Book 9, 117–18 “And this word is…monstrous, is ...

epub |eng | 2023-06-09 | Author:Andrew Barrow [Barrow, Andrew]

24 The relationship between Mr Blunt and Pauline the model had not worked out. ‘Your friend,’ she soon screamed hysterically at me down the telephone, ‘has stolen a hundred pounds ...

epub |eng | 2023-11-08 | Author:Imogen Clark [Clark, Imogen]

40 It was the week before Christmas but Michelle’s tree was still conspicuous by its absence. Donna had been nagging at her to put it up for at least a ...

epub |eng | 2023-09-12 | Author:Diana Evans [Evans, Diana]

She got a job in an Italian café in Dorking town centre as a waitress and cycled there on her bike. She had four shifts a week of walking about ...