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A tiny room, furnished in early MFI, of which every surface was covered in china ornaments and plaster knick-knacks whose only virtue was that they were small, and therefore of limited individual horr...

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

A tiny room, furnished in early MFI, of which every surface was covered in china ornaments and plaster knick-knacks whose only virtue was that they were small, and therefore of limited individual horr...

Tags: curios, gewgaws, knick knacks, ornaments, stuff, tchotchkes, trinkets

He had nothing against cherry tomatoes except that any attempt to cut them shot them off the plate with a velocity that could lay out a gemsbok at fifty paces, and putting them in the mouth whole and...

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

He had nothing against cherry tomatoes except that any attempt to cut them shot them off the plate with a velocity that could lay out a gemsbok at fifty paces, and putting them in the mouth whole and...

Tags: vegetables

About Author
Cynthia Harrod-Eagles (born 13 August 1948) is a British writer of romance and mystery novels. She normally writes under her own name but also uses the pseudonyms Emma Woodhouse and Elizabeth Bennett. Cynthia was born on 13 August 1948 at Shepherd's Bush, London, England and wrote her first novel in 1972 while still at university.

Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom .... These are the beginnings of sorrows.

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom .... These are the beginnings of sorrows.

Tags: ww1

Mum always ought to be, getting tea. Women and food: how they locked on to your heart, taking it so young that if you had ever been properly loved and nurtured, you could never quite untangle them aga...

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Mum always ought to be, getting tea. Women and food: how they locked on to your heart, taking it so young that if you had ever been properly loved and nurtured, you could never quite untangle them aga...

One of the early reasons for Atherton's devotion to Slider had been that Slider had never, from the first meeting, looked at him askance. Slider had his countryman father's view that God had made all...

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

One of the early reasons for Atherton's devotion to Slider had been that Slider had never, from the first meeting, looked at him askance. Slider had his countryman father's view that God had made all...

But the living must fear death, or they would not struggle to stay alive. from 'The Fallen Kings.

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

But the living must fear death, or they would not struggle to stay alive. from 'The Fallen Kings.

Tags: historical fiction

The very least one requires for civilisation to survive is an adequate supply of sound wines.

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

The very least one requires for civilisation to survive is an adequate supply of sound wines.

Tags: wine

The former Mary Loveday was a thin woman in whose face any youthful beauty she may have possessed had been extinguished by years and unhappiness. There were unbecoming shadows around her eyes, two lin...

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

The former Mary Loveday was a thin woman in whose face any youthful beauty she may have possessed had been extinguished by years and unhappiness. There were unbecoming shadows around her eyes, two lin...

Somewhere, waiting for you. Nothing is ever lost.

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Somewhere, waiting for you. Nothing is ever lost.

She ate up London and spat it out, and now she’s recharging her batteries in Bursford before going back into the fray,’ Jack said.

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

She ate up London and spat it out, and now she’s recharging her batteries in Bursford before going back into the fray,’ Jack said.

One of the great benefits of being married is always having someone to tie one's tie.

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

One of the great benefits of being married is always having someone to tie one's tie.

Tags: practicality

Instead, the Daily Mail’s editor picked out only the ‘brightest’ items of news, digested them, and rewrote them so as to turn them into ‘stories’. These always had to be short, strongly prejudiced in...

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Instead, the Daily Mail’s editor picked out only the ‘brightest’ items of news, digested them, and rewrote them so as to turn them into ‘stories’. These always had to be short, strongly prejudiced in...

Of course one has to give diplomacy a chance, but it would be better for us, if we are going to have to fight them, for the Cabinet to start now before the Boers are ready for us.’ ‘Well, public opini...

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Of course one has to give diplomacy a chance, but it would be better for us, if we are going to have to fight them, for the Cabinet to start now before the Boers are ready for us.’ ‘Well, public opini...

Leading the way was his boss, Commander ‘Dave’ Carpenter, in a suit so sharp you could peel mangoes with it.

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Leading the way was his boss, Commander ‘Dave’ Carpenter, in a suit so sharp you could peel mangoes with it.

Joanna had the fisherman's pie. 'What's under the mashed potato?' Slider asked. Joanna chewed thoughtfully for a moment and then looked down. 'Something white,' she said at last. 'With little bits of...

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Joanna had the fisherman's pie. 'What's under the mashed potato?' Slider asked. Joanna chewed thoughtfully for a moment and then looked down. 'Something white,' she said at last. 'With little bits of...

I could refer you to a colleague who specialises in such things – or, as it happens, a clinic has just opened in Holloway to advise on birth control and dispense devices. You might find that more anon...

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

I could refer you to a colleague who specialises in such things – or, as it happens, a clinic has just opened in Holloway to advise on birth control and dispense devices. You might find that more anon...

Schmoozes the customers, brings light and warmth to the

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Schmoozes the customers, brings light and warmth to the

Father Ramsay smiled his sphingine smile. ‘You know my opinion of buttermilk,’ he said. ‘I’ll wait for the ale.

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Father Ramsay smiled his sphingine smile. ‘You know my opinion of buttermilk,’ he said. ‘I’ll wait for the ale.

Crafty Collins took up with him. You wouldn’t have thought they had a thing in common. I mean, Crafty, he had enough upstairs. He wasn’t stupid by many a long mile. But this Bates bloke, he was colleg...

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Crafty Collins took up with him. You wouldn’t have thought they had a thing in common. I mean, Crafty, he had enough upstairs. He wasn’t stupid by many a long mile. But this Bates bloke, he was colleg...

Asquith, in the House, had shocked many people by opposing the franchise for women on the grounds that woman was not the female of the human species but a distinct and inferior species of her own, and...

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Asquith, in the House, had shocked many people by opposing the franchise for women on the grounds that woman was not the female of the human species but a distinct and inferior species of her own, and...