Historical
mobi |eng | 2016-03-15 | Author:Ian McGuire

CHAPTER FIFTEEN For four days and nights, Brownlee lies insensible on his cot, open-eyed but barely breathing. The left side of his face is blackened and misshapen. His eye is ...
( Category: Historical April 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-21 | Author:Helen Simonson

“Your marble thigh so sinewed, whitely, Would that my hand might press to warm Life to the veins, set sap to running— And harvest the shepherd home to the farm.” ...
( Category: Historical April 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-21 | Author:Paul J McAuley

6 The vaporous liquid that soaked the cloth did not put Pasquale entirely to sleep. It was as if he were hovering at the border of dreaming and waking, might ...
( Category: Historical March 19,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-01-10 | Author:Tessa Harris [Harris, Tessa]

Chapter 30 Bibby Motte winced suddenly and made an odd hissing sound as she sucked in air through her clenched teeth. A ruby-red droplet of blood was blooming on her ...
( Category: Historical March 14,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Christopher Rush

31 I didn’t go to the Theatre myself. I went home instead, sat down among the morning’s breadcrumbs and bits of bacon and stared at the wall, two feet from ...
( Category: Historical March 14,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Elizabeth Chadwick

CHAPTER 21 Annais looked down at her husband. The fight was over and Gerbert’s expression wore peace instead of the ravages of pain and fever. His brow was smooth; his ...
( Category: Historical March 14,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rhys Bowen

Nineteen I blinked as a bright light shone down on me. I sat up, heart thudding, only to see that it was the morning sun, shining directly into my face. ...
( Category: Historical March 14,2016 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-02-10 | Author:Scott, Paul [Scott, Paul]

Chapter Nine WHEN HE SLIPPED out of the hotel half-an-hour later it was in a spirit more of desperation than of lingering rebellion. Used though he was to bad Monday ...
( Category: Historical March 14,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-02-01 | Author:Sophia James

Chapter Ten Señora Antonia Herrera y Salazar briskly tied the ribbons of her new bonnet beneath her chin and bent to reassure the old woman before her, tucked warmly into ...
( Category: Historical March 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 1958-03-13 | Author:H E Bates

CHAPTER 13 LOOKING up from the boat he saw Pierre lying flat on the jetty in the same attitude as he had left him in the afternoon, and above him ...
( Category: Military March 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-11 | Author:Penelope Wilcock

The Nineteenth Day On this day sleet fell, riding wildly on a cruel wind. Every man shivered, so cold to the bone that he could hardly get to sleep at ...
( Category: Historical March 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-13 | Author:Melvyn Bragg [Bragg, Melvyn]

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR ‘So why would he want to do a thing like that, Mr. Hawesley?’ William did not want to be drawn. Sadie’s energy always felt like an assault. He ...
( Category: Historical March 14,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-03-08 | Author:Barker, Pat [Barker, Pat]

So she trudged from bed to bed, basin to basin, ward to ward. All the time, floating in front of her eyes, was the memory of the purple, howling dwarf ...
( Category: Military March 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-07 | Author:Carole Mortimer [Mortimer, Carole]

Chapter Nine Griffin was at a loss as to know what to do next, his fingers lightly stroking the dark silkiness of Bea’s hair as she lay with her head ...
( Category: Historical March 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-11 | Author:David Kirk [Kirk, David]

CHAPTER TEN A week later, the grass of Miyamoto rippled around Munisai’s feet. It was long, dry, and ragged, the color of straw, but Munisai didn’t care. It was home, ...
( Category: Military February 29,2016 )