Historical
mobi |eng | 2011-03-27 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

The Romans had been to Ynys Trebes, of course, but they had not fortified it, only built a pair of villas on its summit. The villas were still there: King ...
( Category: Historical February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-07-31 | Author:Harry Sidebottom

XVII At dawn on the fifth day, Boreas finally gave over. High above, ragged dark clouds still scudded south, vanishing inland over the mountains. Yet down in the port of ...
( Category: Historical February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-01-16 | Author:Harry Harrison

Silently Hund unslung his Ithun pendant and handed it to Shef, pulled back his tunic to reveal the calluses and weals worn into his neck by years of the collar. ...
( Category: Norse & Viking February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-01-16 | Author:Harry Harrison

"What about the mill?" demanded Shef. "Late on they brought a thrall-woman to me. They did not want to, told me it was useless, and so was she. They were ...
( Category: Norse & Viking February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-27 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

PART THREE Nimue’s Curse Queen Igraine sat in my window and read the last sheets of parchment, sometimes asking me the meaning of a Saxon word, but otherwise saying nothing. ...
( Category: Historical February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-01-16 | Author:Raymond E. Feist

• CHAPTER THIRTEEN • The Pillars of Heaven KASPAR GRUNTED WITH THE EFFORT. He and Flynn had rigged up the armour so they could carry it hammocklike in a sling, ...
( Category: Historical February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-27 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

Our chief business in those years was to prepare Mordred for the throne. He was already our King for he had been acclaimed as a baby on Caer Cadarn’s summit, ...
( Category: Historical February 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:David Gemmell

XIX ____________________ WINGS OVER OLYMPOS I The days were becoming increasingly strange for Hekabe the queen. The statues that lined the garden path often smiled at her, and yesterday in ...
( Category: Historical February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-01-16 | Author:Harry Harrison

( Category: Norse & Viking February 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-01-13 | Author:Larke, Glenda [Larke, Glenda]

It was dark by the time Saker had finished telling Juster his adventures since they’d last met. The remains of their evening meal littered the desk in the captain’s cabin, ...
( Category: Historical February 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-01-10 | Author:Cooper, Karina [Cooper, Karina]

Chapter Sixteen For all I did not hide the intentions of my return to Society’s gilded halls, Fanny’ s excitement could not be dimmed. Once she had assured herself of ...
( Category: Historical February 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-30 | Author:Juliet Marillier [Marillier, Juliet]

‘Flidais. A word with you in private.’ I had broken a household rule and come right into the women’s quarters to find my betrothed. The attendants laid aside their embroidery ...
( Category: Historical February 8,2015 )
epub, mobi |slv | 2011-07-19 | Author:Kevin J. Anderson [Anderson, Kevin J.]

Soldan Xivir and his special guests gathered on the palace hill for the nightly “banquet” of food brought from the central cooksites. Imir and Jikaris sat by Xivir, while Lithio ...
( Category: Epic February 6,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-09-09 | Author:Karen Miller

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Riding at a slow jog-trot to the first day of the Crown Court, in company with Humbert and Clemen’s herald and its ruinously inept Marcher lords and the ...
( Category: Epic February 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-29 | Author:Prue Batten [Batten, Prue]

They sat together eating curry and then sucking on pink watermelon the colour of the royal seraglio walls. Neither said a word but Finnian felt caught between a boulder and ...
( Category: Historical February 2,2015 )