British & Irish
epub |eng | 2017-07-27 | Author:Beryl Bainbridge

Lt. Henry Robertson (Birdie) Bowers July 1911 Mid-winter night fell on June 22nd. We had an orgy, and no wonder, for on that date the sun began to turn back. ...
( Category: British & Irish January 17,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-27 | Author:Rosamond Lehmann

Part Two It was then the time began when there wasn’t any time. The journey was in the dark, going on without end or beginning, without landmarks, bearings lost: asleep? ...
( Category: British & Irish January 16,2023 )
epub |eng | 2021-01-15 | Author:John Banville

25 Phoebe was furious at herself. What had possessed her to go to William Latimer, him of all people, and tell him about Quirke’s phone call? She felt shaken, and ...
( Category: British & Irish January 16,2023 )
epub |eng | 2021-03-22 | Author:Molly Clavering

2 Mrs. Lorimer and Miss Douglas enjoyed their picnic very much. It was delightful to get away from domestic affairs, especially after the rather extra strenuous ten days which both ...
( Category: British & Irish January 14,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-27 | Author:Lesley Glaister

I rang Green’s next day, which was a week to the dot from when we’d spoken, and was told she was off sick again. Sick my foot. I drove to ...
( Category: British & Irish January 14,2023 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:Kate Pullinger

6 You would be delighted with a morning peep of the varied and highly tinted foliage at James Bay. The splendour of its rich and gorgeous hues, reflecting the bright ...
( Category: British & Irish January 9,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-07-21 | Author:Jen Faulkner [Faulkner, Jen]

31 Catherine Wednesday 16th October My first instinct is to race to my car and drive to her. Why is she at the surgery? My mind races with the possibilities. ...
( Category: British & Irish December 26,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Bayley

PART TWO People like pictures, if they do, for all sorts of different reasons. I personally find something rather sympathetic in Nancy Deverell’s attitude to them, as revealed in the ...
( Category: British & Irish December 18,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sandy Taylor [Taylor, Sandy]

For most of January, London was covered in a blanket of snow. One morning, Alice appeared in the kitchen, where me and Raffi were eating our breakfast. She was all ...
( Category: British & Irish December 16,2022 )
azw3 |eng | 2021-07-08 | Author:NICHOLAS RHEA [RHEA, NICHOLAS]

Chapter Seven During market days in the small towns dotted around the North York Moors, one of our duties was to patrol among the stalls with our eyes wide open, ...
( Category: British & Irish December 16,2022 )
epub |eng | 2021-11-04 | Author:Tessa Hadley [Hadley, Tessa]

FIVE Dear Jean, I don’t suppose you will have heard – although the channels along which gossip flows are tentacular, so one never knows – of the odd twist of ...
( Category: British & Irish December 15,2022 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-10 | Author:Raymond Williams [Raymond Williams]

Signs of a Vengeance IN THE COLD bright April morning, the black twigs of the heather and the grey upper branches of the beech wood shone in drops from the ...
( Category: British & Irish December 15,2022 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-23 | Author:Alice Thomas Ellis [Alice Thomas Ellis]

THE FLY IN THE OINTMENT My coffee had gone cold. It looked, I thought, as though it had died, since it had a grey, inert appearance and only something dead ...
( Category: British & Irish December 10,2022 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-03 | Author:Mary Wesley [Wesley, Mary]

PART III A Year Later A YEAR LATER, IF she thought of Claud, it seemed right to Laura that an affair begun in a spirit of jest should end on ...
( Category: British & Irish December 10,2022 )
pdf | | 2022-08-24 | Author:Jonathan Grimm

( Category: British & Irish November 29,2022 )