British & Irish Literature & Fiction
epub |eng | 2018-07-11 | Author:Christine Combe [Combe, Christine]

Chapter Nineteen Friday, 23 March 1798 E linor woke suddenly from a sound sleep, and for a moment had to stop and think where she was. Pemberley, she recalled. They ...
( Category: British & Irish Literature & Fiction June 19,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-05-01 | Author:Sally Britton [Britton, Sally]

The quiet of the garden had sunk into Luca’s soul, easing the muscles in his shoulders and the tautness of his thoughts. Until Miss Arlen mentioned her mistress to him. ...
( Category: Christian Literature & Fiction June 18,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-06-09 | Author:Hilary Boyd [Boyd, Hilary]

17 ‘I’m going to ring Dr Wright,’ Caitlin said, as she tucked Connie into the spare-room bed in their Shoreditch flat, which was in a converted warehouse, with huge casement ...
( Category: British & Irish Literature & Fiction June 15,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-06-15 | Author:Sujata Massey [Massey, Sujata]

18 A Golden-Eared Dog Once the Cuttingmasters had left the car, Arman closed the passenger door and Perveen settled herself in the wide space. She had felt cramped before, but ...
( Category: British & Irish Literature & Fiction June 10,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-05-12 | Author:Conn Iggulden [Iggulden, Conn]

20 As lamps were lit across the camp, Aristides drank cold water, washing the dust of a long march from his throat. The first day had been a little chaotic ...
( Category: British & Irish Literature & Fiction June 10,2021 )
epub |eng | 1779-03-15 | Author:Fanny Burney [Burney, Fanny]

LETTER XLVII. EVELINA TO THE REV. MR. VILLARS. Holborn, June 18th. MADAME DUVAL rose very late this morning, and, at one o'clock, we had but just breakfasted, when Miss Branghton, ...
( Category: European History June 10,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-03-31 | Author:William Henry Hudson

17 The Age of Johnson: Verse 79. General Characteristics. Broadly viewed, the history of our later eighteenth century poetry is, as we have said, the history of a struggle between ...
( Category: European History June 8,2021 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-12-21 | Author:Shelley Adina

* Venice lay basking in the sun, the breeze toying with the lacy drapes inside open windows. Somewhere down one of the waterways, a gondolier sang a plaintive melody. “This ...
( Category: British & Irish Literature & Fiction June 5,2021 )
epub |eng | 2009-08-15 | Author:Laurie R King [King, Laurie R]

As if it had understood me, it whirled around to look at the house, and when I did the same, I saw Elizabeth Chase in her doorway. At first glance ...
( Category: British & Irish Literature & Fiction June 4,2021 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-15 | Author:Charles Dickens [Dickens, Charles]

CHAPTER 38 Kit—for it happens at this juncture, not only that we have breathing time to follow his fortunes, but that the necessities of these adventures so adapt themselves to ...
( Category: British & Irish Literature & Fiction June 3,2021 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-14 | Author:Sarah Woodbury [Sarah Woodbury]

Chapter Six “Pssst! Gwen!” Gwen sat up abruptly at the sound of Edain’s voice and bumped her head on the low shelf below which she’d been sleeping. The floor of ...
( Category: British & Irish Literature & Fiction June 2,2021 )
mobi |eng | 2000-03-01 | Author:William Harrison Ainsworth

Chapter XVIII HOW THE ROYAL CORPSE WAS BROUGHT TO SAINT GEORGE'S CHAPEL Next morning the numerous occupants of the convent arose betimes, and prepared for the journey to Windsor. The ...
( Category: British & Irish Literature & Fiction June 2,2021 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-19 | Author:Patrick O'Brian [O'Brian, Patrick]

CHAPTER SEVEN "No, no. Keep your sword and give me your hand," I said; and perhaps that may sound rather like Drury Lane, when the fellow in pink breeches and ...
( Category: British & Irish Literature & Fiction June 1,2021 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-19 | Author:Patrick O'Brian [O'Brian, Patrick]

CHAPTER SIX There were no banquets at the Cape for Jack Aubrey; there were few kind words from the Admiral, either, although the Commodore had brought in all his squadron ...
( Category: British & Irish Literature & Fiction June 1,2021 )
epub |eng | 1989-10-14 | Author:Edward Marston [Marston, Edward]

* * * Chapter Seven Nicholas Bracewell bent over the body and examined it as best he could in the circumstances. He saw no wound, no blood, no mark of ...
( Category: British & Irish Literature & Fiction May 31,2021 )