British & Irish
epub |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:Candace Camp [Candace Camp]

SHE WAS IN BETTER SPIRITS THE NEXT morning when she got up and went downstairs. There were only two women in the dining room breakfasting when she went in. Sophronia ...
( Category: Historical November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Salley Vickers

8 I HAVE WONDERED SOMETIMES IF COMPASSION ISN’T THE most dangerous enemy of promise because it so readily wears the mask of virtue. Com passion: with passion. But it wasn’t ...
( Category: Contemporary November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-23 | Author:Margaret Thornton [Margaret Thornton]

Chapter Fourteen It was easy for Patience, also, to recognise the visitors. Who else could it be but Mrs Dennison and Mrs Bragg, plus the two children and a pushchair, ...
( Category: Historical November 24,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-06 | Author:Nick Spalding [Spalding, Nick]

ZOE’S WEIGHT LOSS DIARY Tuesday, June 10th 12 stone, 5 pounds (2 stone, 2 pounds lost) I can’t believe we’ve been at this for three months now. Time seems to ...
( Category: Humorous November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-01 | Author:Andrew Marr [Andrew Marr]

8 Tuesday, 19 September Referendum Day Minus Two The Campaign What a man. What a leader. Over the weekend, as Whitehall insiders knew, the prime minister had been working flat ...
( Category: Europe November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-23 | Author:Emma Tennant

A Cup of Tea When morning finally came, the Queen woke from a dream of two of her corgis, Whisky and Sherry, jumping on her bed as in the morning ...
( Category: Biographical November 24,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-30 | Author:Kate Worsley

Luke goes right down to the orlop deck, a place he usually avoids, before he finds Charlie. He stands in a knot of men by the empty purser’s office. The ...
( Category: Historical November 23,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | | Author:Alasdair Gray [Gray, Alasdair]

21: LAMPETER Said the principal, “Welcome, gentlemen, to St David’s College, Lampeter. We don’t know each other yet, but when we separate four years from now I hope we shall ...
( Category: British & Irish November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-06-23 | Author:Julian Stockwin [Stockwin, Julian]

The tall ship marches on the azure seas; In silent pomp she cleaves the watery plain The pride and wonder of the billowy main.’ A respectful silence and scattering of ...
( Category: Historical November 23,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2014-08-28 | Author:Kate Furnivall

Chapter 34 Dodie For two hot days and two stormy nights Flynn scarcely left Dodie’s side. He brought her breakfasts of mango and corn bread, in the evening fried up ...
( Category: Historical November 23,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-08-27 | Author:Richard Scarsbrook

SECRET IDENTITIES “That’s one trouble with dual identities, Robin. Dual responsibilities.” — Batman, from the TV series Batman, 1966–1968 The Statistician wakes up and smells the coffee. Literally. He rubs ...
( Category: Humorous November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-22 | Author:Mimi Khalvati [Mimi Khalvati]

I feel sorry for my smallness, short trunk, short legs, sleeves rolled up, feet too large to be in proportion. When I sit and plant them squarely, side by side ...
( Category: British & Irish November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-01-03 | Author:Sebastian Faulks [Sebastian Faulks]

MONS BELGIUM 1914 THERE WERE TWO reasons Pietro dreaded going to see his grandfather in Nottingham. The first was Bobby, a woolly-coated terrier who lay in front of the fire ...
( Category: Contemporary November 23,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Indu Sundaresan

An Alexandria Moon April, 1850 Four years later The whole third page of the Bombay Herald, almost all of it actually, was taken up with the advertisement by Dossabhoy Merwanjee ...
( Category: Indian November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-12-11 | Author:Julian Stockwin [Stockwin, Julian]

Chapter 8 ‘Minorca! Of course…’ ‘It has t’ be,’ agreed Kydd, offering the remaining whitebait to Renzi. It did not take much deliberation to understand why an invasion of the ...
( Category: Historical November 23,2014 )