epub |eng | 2020-07-28 | Author:Malcolm Archibald [Archibald, Malcolm]

Chapter Eighteen CAPE COAST CASTLE OCTOBER 1873 Moving with impressive speed, Wolseley called together the chiefs and kings to a palaver the next day. Rather than squeeze the kings into ...

epub |eng | 2017-01-27 | Author:William L. Gibson [Gibson, William L.]

* * * Some long-time residents still referred to Johor Bahru by its original name, Tanjong Putri, when it was merely a coastal fishing village at the foot of the ...

epub |eng | 2017-05-30 | Author:Poh Seng Goh [Goh, Poh Seng]

10 THROUGH GAPS BETWEEN the trees amongst which the village of Loc Son was located, Thanh could see patches of sky, horizontal rice fields and, violaceous in the distance, small ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Philip Trotter [Trotter, Philip]

As Pham studied the wrecked altar of the great hall, he smiled and thought back to the beginning of the evening. Driving through the dark and silent streets of Saigon ...

epub |eng | 2022-04-26 | Author:Bennett, Ann

15 Hanoi, 1945 As she hurried to work in the Mairie the morning after she’d been approached by the man from the Viet Minh at the Tran Quoc pagoda, she ...

epub |eng | 2024-01-29 | Author:Sundari Venkatraman [Venkatraman, Sundari]

THE WILFUL PRINCESS One more day had passed and Sarvani felt her strength returning, her wound almost healed. While her body felt nourished by the healthy meals the warrior prepared ...

epub |eng | 2012-11-04 | Author:Ty-Casper, Linda

He refuses to accept my apology. Instead he watches Aling Enyang pouring his coffee into the fresh cup. The old one has become too hot for his lips. If I ...

epub |eng | 2023-10-31 | Author:Ann Bennett [Bennett, Ann]

17 Ghorepani, 1943 The village men found Lieutenant Harper asleep next to what remained of Alisha’s funeral-pyre, beside the fast-flowing stream in the valley bottom where, a day or two ...

epub |eng | | Author:Ismat Chughtai [Chughtai, Ismat; Naqvi, Tahira]

32 Shaman found it extremely tedious to spend her time chatting aimlessly all day long while waiting for the results of her exams. Because she had been living in the ...

epub |eng | 2021-03-15 | Author:Alex Rutherford

* * * Nicholas and Tuhin Singh’s onward journey through central India proved uneventful. Each day after breakfasting at dawn they set off, rode for five hours, rested themselves and ...

epub |eng | 2021-08-01 | Author:Starling, Boris

11 June–July 2016 It was properly hot now, summer squatting over the city and asserting its residency for the next few months. The days were becoming ever more humid, and ...

epub |eng | 2015-11-17 | Author:Sujata Massey [Massey, Sujata]

Chapter Eight JULIAN Chinsurah Winter 1924 Father asked what I thought of Calcutta, just as he’d asked about Darjeeling. I huffed out all my breath and said, “I miss it.” ...

epub |eng | 2020-07-14 | Author:Ann Bennett [Bennett, Ann]

* * * October 1939 Since Lord and Lady Dundas visited, Robert has been involved in planning something else with the city council. From the hints he’s dropped, I realise ...

epub |eng | 2021-04-29 | Author:Alka Joshi [Joshi, Alka]

16 LAKSHMI Shimla We didn’t talk about what just happened on our way back from the lower pasture. It was awkward with all three of us present. The only time ...

epub |eng | 2023-04-30 | Author:Mark Atkinson [Atkinson, Mark]