Contemporary
epub |eng | | Author:Madeleine Wickham [Wickham, Madeleine]

Richard no longer winced when he heard Zara refer to her mother as “Fleur.” Sometimes he even found it faintly endearing. He watched as Antony and Zara settled themselves on ...
( Category: Dark Humor March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Danny Wallace [Wallace, Danny]

FOURTEEN Or ‘Southeast City Window’ I think there’s something nice about not knowing. There’s plenty of stuff I don’t know. And plenty of stuff I do that I’d rather I ...
( Category: Humorous March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-06-28 | Author:Sarah Mason [Mason, Sarah]

Chapter Thirteen Over dinner and a sneaky white wine spritzer that my mother manages to coax Emma to drink, she, my father and Sam hear Emma's story for the first ...
( Category: Humor & Satire March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2004-06-27 | Author:Sarah Mason [Mason, Sarah]

"They're French." "In France?" I repeat again. "That's where the French live, Clemmie," puts in Sam. "Awfully inconvenient, I know. Brighton would be easier but there you are. That's the ...
( Category: Humor & Satire March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-01-01 | Author:Sarah Mason [Mason, Sarah]

seventeen It’s Monday morning and I am on my way to the police station. Tristan is behaving himself and even my black eye has reduced sufficiently for me to be ...
( Category: Humor March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1990-08-27 | Author:Jean Plaidy [Plaidy, Jean]

"The people did not like me." she went on. "They hate people to be in command if they are not of their blood. They said Henry could not beget a ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-01-15 | Author:Diane Setterfield [Setterfield, Diane]

Halfway through a game, she tilted her head. She couldn’t exactly hear it, but her inner ear, which was tuned constantly to her twin, told her Adeline was calling her. ...
( Category: Historical Fantasy March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1990-01-01 | Author:Jean Plaidy [Plaidy, Jean]

SANCTUARY What followed was like a dream and I remember only snatches of it. The ecstasy of riding those night-quiet streets on Richard’s horse; the bliss of being close to ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Elizabeth Chadwick [Chadwick, Elizabeth]

The Welsh Marches, February 1140 The stink of burning horn filled the farrier’s small corner of Woolcot’s crowded bailey as he pressed a red-hot horseshoe on to Gorvenal’s near hind ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:A. L. Kennedy [Kennedy, A. L.]

‘Cloudberries.’ ‘I’m sorry, what did you say?’ Beth is sitting and frowning up at a tall, nervy man in a pebble-dashed jacket and bad shoes. He is standing beside her ...
( Category: Architecture March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-05-28 | Author:Jeanette Winterson [Jeanette Winterson]

He looked at the apple. For the first time he began to think that he had colluded in his punishment. Why had he fought against the gods? He already had ...
( Category: Fairy Tales March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1972-04-18 | Author:Danielle Steel [Steel, Danielle]

To John, with all my love, d.s. 1. When Love Is New 2. Growing Together 3. Growing Apart 4. Letting Go 5. Loneiy Feelings 6. Beginning Again 7. Love Lost ...
( Category: Love Poems March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-05-11 | Author:Michelle Hughes [Hughes, Michelle]

chapter twelve Light of Day Making her way into his bathroom, there was no doubt about how sore she was. Her muscles ached in ways they'd never known before and ...
( Category: Contemporary March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-13 | Author:Suzanne Jenkins [Jenkins, Suzanne]

Marie struggled to get to work on time on Monday. It was never easy, but Mondays were awful. Usually, she would be coming in with Jack. He would drop her ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-10 | Author:W. Somerset Maugham [Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)]

[There is a distant sound in the street of Chinese instruments being played. George. Hulloa, there's the procession coming along. Knox. What procession? George. It's a Manchu wedding. The amah ...
( Category: British & Irish March 26,2014 )