Historical Fiction
epub |eng | 2018-11-06 | Author:Grace Burrowes [Burrowes, Grace]

Chapter Eighteen “I saw the Minster in York,” Ned announced. “It’s ever so beautiful, with heaven-windows and echoes and no poor people. Himself said the Minster were there even when ...
( Category: British May 4,2022 )
epub |eng | 2020-12-12 | Author:Matthew Harffy [Harffy, Matthew]

Thirty Thinking back, that was the moment when I truly came to believe that I was on the path that God had chosen for me. He could have allowed me ...
( Category: Medieval May 4,2022 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:J.R.Tomlin [J.R.Tomlin]

"The line of King Alexander had many branches besides the Balliols. That must be considered." "And risk another battle over the crown?" someone shouted. James craned around to see who, ...
( Category: Scottish May 4,2022 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Richard Woodman [Woodman, Richard]

‘How is she?’ Monck asked Clarges as the coach completed its lurching crossing of London Bridge and turned west towards Whitehall. ‘Nan is heavy with child, George. You must marry ...
( Category: British May 4,2022 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Richard Woodman [Woodman, Richard]

DUNBAR September 1650 ‘Steady men, steady!’ Monck’s voice seemed lost in the drizzle and the close blackness of the wet night. He looked left, along the line of his own ...
( Category: Military May 4,2022 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Dorothy Dunnett

Never afterwards could Jerott clearly recollect that journey home. Waiting stiffly for Lymond, in a mental turmoil, he had tried to piece it out. There had been a bitter struggle, ...
( Category: Scottish May 4,2022 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Dorothy Dunnett

Self-respect forbade that Philippa should cry on her way back to the Hôtel de Guise; and when she arrived in her room, Célie was waiting to speak to her. The ...
( Category: Scottish May 4,2022 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Dorothy Dunnett

To dissect a fully grown giraffe with any success, in the open, in Aleppo, in September, demands an esoteric assortment of talents, such as, for example, a smart turn of ...
( Category: Scottish May 3,2022 )
epub |eng | 2020-05-01 | Author:Jen Geigle Johnson [Johnson, Jen Geigle]

Chapter Thirteen June only half listened as Lord Smallwood went on about his latest horse purchase. She was interested in horses. At one point in her life, she’d dreamed of ...
( Category: British May 3,2022 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-15 | Author:Jokha Alharthi & Marilyn Booth [Alharthi, Jokha & Booth, Marilyn]

Azzan and Qamar Azzan’s head lay in Qamar’s lap, his eyes fixed on the stars glittering in the soft clear desert sky. She was gliding her fingertips along his lashes ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage May 3,2022 )
epub |eng | 2017-11-25 | Author:John Jakes

Chapter 17 Law crouched behind a pillar-stone, breathing hard. Beside him lay the intricately carved bone chest. He’d carried it on his shoulder for more than ten stebbii. Overhead the ...
( Category: German May 3,2022 )
epub |eng | 2009-07-08 | Author:unknow

“Be patient, Paco,” the mother said, “you will soon be well.” “Come to the egg. Come, little pains, into the egg,” said Trini. “Now I have them caught in the ...
( Category: World War II May 3,2022 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:John Shors [John Shors]

THOUGH THE PIPE HAD LEFT HIS lips an hour before, Loc’s senses were still dominated by opium’s heavy hand. The drug simultaneously managed to slow his mind yet heighten his ...
( Category: Japanese May 3,2022 )
epub |eng | 2021-03-25 | Author:Issy Brooke [Brooke, Issy]

13 They rode home in the carriage in sullen silence. The sullenness, in truth, was emanating from Emily Johnson with such force that it quite put a thick blanket upon ...
( Category: British May 2,2022 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-23 | Author:Ray Bradbury [Bradbury, Ray]

Mrs. Elmira Brown’s foot hurt her in the middle of the night, so she got up and went down to the kitchen and ate some cold chicken and made a ...
( Category: Short Stories May 2,2022 )