Historical Fiction
epub |eng | 2023-10-11 | Author:Richard Wake [Wake, Richard]

PART VII 32 For the last four days, Henri had directed Freddy to send one of his guys to sit in the lobby of the George V. His only direction ...
( Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense April 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 2023-10-09 | Author:Andrew Wareham [Wareham, Andrew]

“A thousand guineas in coin, Jim. More than twenty pounds weight of gold! I need not tell you to keep your pistols loaded.” “Earnshaw has a pair strapped to his ...
( Category: Irish April 9,2024 )
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2023-09-26 | Author:Ken Follett

( Category: European April 9,2024 )
mobi |eng | 2023-08-03 | Author:Frances Reynolds

CHAPTER 14 FITZWILLIAM DARCY I had been with Deane, half-listening to his litany of evidence that his heir’s intelligence was far greater than is usually met with, when I saw ...
( Category: Short Stories April 9,2024 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tony McNamara

SCENE THIRTEEN Catherine’s quarters. CATHERINE and HERMES gambol about. HERMES: You are in high spirits today. CATHERINE: I believe I am. Here’s a topic. You and me and the future. ...
( Category: Australian & Oceanian April 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-15 | Author:Michael Pearce [Pearce, Michael]

The meeting had already gone on for some time. It was being chaired by Saunders, a Scot from the Ministry of Public Works, who was proceeding painfully slowly through the ...
( Category: African April 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 2021-03-09 | Author:Joshua Ian

CHAPTER EIGHT Paris, 1907 The conversation of the crowd was like a sea of noise below. It was similar to standing in the train station waiting for an approaching train. ...
( Category: European April 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 2024-03-12 | Author:Jennie Walters [Walters, Jennie]

‘Don’t ever pull a stunt like that again,’ the incident officer told Floss. ‘It’s a miracle you weren’t killed.’ He ruffled her hair. ‘You were jolly brave though.’ ‘I’ll say,’ ...
( Category: World War II April 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 2024-02-02 | Author:Jessica Mills [Mills, Jessica]

| 24 | Crystalline King’s College London, The Strand, 1 May 1952 That morning, the mahogany box where the tabulations for our calculations are stored ricochets off a table leg ...
( Category: Biographical April 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 2024-04-15 | Author:Jonathan Lunn

Thirteen The clarion’s shrill cry sounded clear across the shallow valley to where the English waited behind the hawthorn hedge. ‘Here they come!’ shouted someone. Kemp gazed at the glittering ...
( Category: Medieval April 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 2024-02-25 | Author:Forrest, Alistair

PART THREE: FIREFIGHT CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Coastal Seas off Actium, Greece, the last day of Sextilis (August), 31BC Eurycles retched and choked on bitter bile, a strange whistling noise assaulting his ...
( Category: Ancient April 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 2023-10-11 | Author:SARA SAMUELS

Olivia Malik’s demeanor toward me had been cold to the point of frostbite since returning from Vincenzo Zampa’s house. I was still struggling to control my anger toward him for ...
( Category: Renaissance April 9,2024 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2021-09-06 | Author:Jack Carnegie

In a way, I did feel sorry for him, his brain was gone, you could tell him anything and he’d feel a part of it. I repeated, “So why did ...
( Category: World War II April 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 2024-03-08 | Author:David Field [Field, David]

10 The fields to their left led towards a slowly running river as they trotted their mounts into Quorndon. There was a central green, around which several humble cottages were ...
( Category: Medieval April 8,2024 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-07 | Author:Michael Pearce [Pearce, Michael]

Aisha said that it was all very well for boys because when it ended they would go on to a job. But girls had to marry. Their parents would fix ...
( Category: British April 8,2024 )