epub |eng | 2010-11-15 | Author:Denis Kehoe

Luanda: February 1969 HEAT RISING, MID-FEBRUARY. Helena is at home, alone, early on a Saturday afternoon, thinking she should really tidy the place up. There are breakfast dishes still in ...

epub |eng | 2021-11-02 | Author:Trudy J. Morgan-Cole [Morgan-Cole, Trudy J.]

FIFTEEN Unwelcome News Is Delivered THE SHIP’S CANNONS BOOMED, THE CRACK REVERBERating through every timber of the vessel. For the first time, there was no answering thunder from the other ...

epub |eng | 2022-05-31 | Author:Anjali Joseph

‘Keteki,’ said Mark the next afternoon, ‘let’s finish up now. I’m going for a walk, do you want to come? Or are you going to Ved’s?’ ‘Not today,’ Keteki said. ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Nick Laird [Laird, Nick]

‘I have the whole set now, you know. The last two I bought, with the stars and without the stripes, and with the stripes but without the stars…’ Walter stopped, ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Carol Birch [Birch, Carol]

22 Then suddenly, days of heat that filtered their somnolence down to me under veil upon veil of brightening leaves. And I caught a cold, which I hate, particularly in ...

epub |eng | | Author:Unknown

If I’d had a pocket, I could have stuffed the letters I wish I’d had a pocket in my dress, so that If I were a true detective, inspired by ...

epub |eng | 2022-10-15 | Author:Gurnaik Johal

This Vaisakhi, she found her dad in the kitchen, already cooking. Aman warmed up last night’s parathe and the two of them finished off the last of the mango achar. ...

epub |eng | 2021-03-18 | Author:Molly Clavering

IV “Why should there have been anything wrong with him?” cried Amanda, making a last wild effort to maintain her silence. “After all, he is my husband, and he’s missing. ...

epub |eng | 2013-04-15 | Author:Virginia Lee

In the absence of males, Rose has become the head of the Lacey family, as it is her income from Davis’s Mills that supports her mother and sister. Consequently, both ...

epub |eng | 2018-12-25 | Author:Pauline Isaksen [Isaksen, Pauline]

Wild Waters Chris waved the slip of paper at arm’s length and glowered at Danny, his nostrils flaring. “Why do you have these personal details about my wife?” Danny glanced ...

epub |eng | 2020-02-18 | Author:Whitaker, Chris [Whitaker, Chris]

23 IT RAINED SO LONG DUCHESS took to sitting by the window, on the box seat, sky watching, just like the old man. She noticed him watching her close, and ...

epub |eng | 2020-01-25 | Author:Bill Ricardi [Ricardi, Bill]

Chapter 15 Sunday was their day. No work, no classes. Just two people who found that their time was best spent with each other. Two people who were very much ...

epub |eng | 2018-10-09 | Author:Tana French [French, Tana]

epub |eng | 2019-09-03 | Author:Emma Donoghue [Donoghue, Emma]

V Neither Here nor There In the morning Michael was up and dressed and antsy. “Can we get out of here?” “Just give me a chance to dress. Are you ...

epub |eng | 2018-06-07 | Author:Caoilinn Hughes (author) [Hughes, Caoilinn]

She stays up for hours and hours watching the news and sending emails. A couple of bites from oboists, but dammit more nibbles than bites. She can see this had ...