Search results for "adam"
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-19 | Author:Robey Jenkins

ABOUT THE AUTHOR ROBEY JENKINS A Public School-educated, Oxford-graduate, retired Army officer, Robey Jenkins likes defying stereotypes. Having left the beaten career track, he divides his time between parenting his ...
( Category: other October 19,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-02-09 | Author:Adam Zamoyski [Zamoyski, Adam]

19 The Duke of Texas Tsar Alexander was still fixated on Spain. ‘He regarded Spain,’ the British minister plenipotentiary in Vienna, Sir Robert Gordon, reported to Castlereagh in May 1821, ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-19 | Author:Davenport-Hines, Richard; Sisman, Adam; [Davenport-Hines, Richard; Sisman, Adam;]

On the morning of Saturday 23 April, the very morning that Trevor-Roper’s article announcing the discovery of the Hitler diaries was published in The Times, he spoke by telephone to ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence October 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-14 | Author:Claire Adams [Adams, Claire]

Chapter Twelve Owen I left Quinn's parents' house and headed home. It took a long time sitting in my car in the driveway before I went inside. "Something wrong with ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction October 19,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Adam Thorpe

5 I reach into the bowels of your oldest files: what are lives but the illusion that all this matters? So easily scattered, it slides into the third bin-bag, already ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction October 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-05-17 | Author:Adam Thorpe [Adam Thorpe]

8 Aleppo pine against the deepening sky. Triremes’ prows prancing over darkened water. Because you have no thirst, perhaps, you soar. Aleppo pine against the sudden evening. 9 Heathland, then ...
( Category: other October 19,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Adam Thorpe

A MATCH FLARES. Big deal. It’s George lighting the candles. It’s nobody’s birthday. Actually, today is my birthday, remember? Hope you liked the steam train cake. Yeah, it was supposed ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction October 19,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Adam Thorpe

He nods slowly, as if she’s recited from the Book of Common Prayer. Probably a mistake. Bugger-it-all-up Sheena. Blue Monday followed by Blue Tuesday. Already the third week of 2012 ...
( Category: Genre Fiction October 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-06-08 | Author:Adam Thorpe [Adam Thorpe]

ABANDON 1 It had never once occurred to him that dying might be pleasurable. Without the solace of faith, he had anticipated the final weeks of weakening powers with some ...
( Category: other October 19,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Adam Thorpe

4 Yet the iron bonds are of my own making, and my master is the Lord God Himself. Indeed, in these fallen days, clerks and scriveners form their letters better ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction October 19,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Adam Thorpe

TEN The washing line in front of the trees bore a holed sweater, wan tee shirt, encrusted socks and faded boxer-shorts alongside a multi-pocketed, vaguely military pair of trousers, stiff ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction October 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2003-11-20 | Author:Adam Thorpe [Adam Thorpe]

THE CAUSEWAY It was only a rowing-boat, back in those days; one-man crew, potato-sacks and gossip, too small for a car. So the tiny island bred its own species: unlicensed, ...
( Category: other October 19,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Adam Thorpe

10 AL DIDN’T BEAT about the bush: he and Jane moved out to a secret location in deepest west Berkshire – a farmhouse B & B with blazing log fire, ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction October 19,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Adam Thorpe

PLAYGROUND ACCIDENT My son’s forehead’s snickered across yet again by thread; like tiny flies the stitches have settled for days, but a year and a half is the scar’s reign, ...
( Category: other October 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-07-05 | Author:Adam Thorpe [Adam Thorpe]

Quite warm. Lawn being mown. Dear Mother, It’s not easy to write to you about certain things, but I must. The beechwood wouldn’t do. As soon as we plunged in, ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense October 19,2017 )