A 30 per cent increase in sales of erotic novels is mainly thanks to female readers. There is no embarrassment of putting one’s reading choice past a cashier under the amused eyes of other customers.
WINE THOUGHTS . When all that is left hangs on Memory’s threads, Threads far richer in number, Than the fair hairs of your head. Which of those memories shall I dwell on? . Will it be the moment when the moonbeam, Paused upon your lovely face, When my […]
They significantly contributed to the development of Roman architecture, religion, and art. The Etruscan kings ruled Rome in the 7th and 6th centuries BC and had a significant impact on the formation of the Roman political system.
Being a traveller, I would shortlist David Livingstone and as a historian King Edward VIII and Napoleon Bonaparte. As a writer, an evening with Charles Dickens has much appeal. I can also imagine a fireside chat to understand the motivation of emperors and revolutionaries better.
Unable to move, his heart stood still as the howling alternated between the sounds of an abandoned woman weeping and then ascending into a near-deafening shrieking as a fit of uncontrollable anger was released.
The coins date between 1000 and 1065, most minted during the reign of Edward the Confessor (1042-1066). The balance of the find was issued by Aethelred II (978-1016) and Canute (1016-1035).
But they are no match for a prowling marauder for whom death is no more to be feared than is birth. The mercenary turned arms dealer has a single lead and an insatiable thirst for a messy and vengeful justice.
The Bronze Age teenager was wearing a wool skirt belted with a large bronze disk with spirals on it.
Figurines from the Bronze Age show women in similar dress, with spiral symbols associated with a Scandinavian sun cult, so historians have concluded the girl must have been a priestess of that cult.
the poacher ensnared the poacher. From being a trader in the human flesh of the Dark Continent he was coopted to being a looter of seaborne gold, treasure, ingots, jewellery and whatever else caught his glad eye.
The fortunate reader of this semi-fictional novel will reach the final chapters of The Soul Mates, and in particular, read the last revealing episode. Here, the startling message on the tombstone will send a shudder through the reader.
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