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Rainbow Milk

Rainbow Milk
  • Author(s): Paul Mendez
  • Location(s): Wolverhampton, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s & 2000s

Rainbow Milk is an intersectional coming-of-age story, following nineteen-year-old Jesse McCarthy as he grapples with his racial and sexual identities against the backdrop of a Jehovah’s Witness upbringing and the legacies of the Windrush generation. In the Black Country...

Ralph’s Party

Ralph’s Party
  • Author(s): Lisa Jewell
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

Meet the residents of 31 Alamanac Road . . . Ralph and Smith are flatmates and best mates. Nothing can come between them – until the gorgeous Jemima moves in. They’re both falling for her, but which one of...

Raw Material

Raw Material
  • Author(s): J J Marsh
  • Location(s): London, Pembrokeshire, Wales
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

“You never know who’s watching.” Bank Holiday weekend. Beatrice Stubbs takes some holiday snaps on a secluded Welsh beach. Innocent pictures reveal rather more than cliffs and seagulls, and someone wants them destroyed. But Beatrice has other things on...

Red Pill

Red Pill
  • Author(s): Hari Kunzru
  • Location(s): Paris, Berlin, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After receiving a prestigious writing fellowship in Germany, the narrator of “Red Pill” arrives in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee and struggles to accomplish anything at all. Instead of working on the book he has proposed to write, he...

Refugee Boy

Refugee Boy
  • Author(s): Benjamin Zephaniah
  • Location(s): Eritrea, Ethiopia, London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Acclaimed performance poet and novelist Benjamin Zephaniah’s honest, wry and poignant story of a young refugee left in London is of even more power and pertinence today than when it was first published. Life is not safe for Alem....

Reparation

Reparation
  • Author(s): Gaby Koppel
  • Location(s): Stamford Hill, Budapest, Cardiff
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

1997 and Elizabeth’s emigre parents approach retirement in straitened circumstances. Mutti has come up with a novel solution – she is going to claim compensation from the Hungarian Government – hard enough for someone with a clear mind, but...

Riceyman Steps

Riceyman Steps
  • Author(s): Arnold Bennett
  • Location(s): North London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

It is 1919 shortly after the termination of the 1st European holocaust. Henry Earlforward, a middle aged North London Bookseller, courts and marries Violet Arb, a widow who has inherited the confectioners shop opposite his own premises in Riceyman...

Rise of an Oligarch

Rise of an Oligarch
  • Author(s): Carlito Sofer, Nik Krasno
  • Location(s): Kyiv, London, Lugansk, Tel Aviv
  • Genre(s): Thriller

When Ukrainian oligarch Mikhail Vorotavich is close to achieving his ambition of topping the Forbes rich list, an assassination attempt leaves him in a coma and his vast business empire rapidly descends into turmoil. Laying in a hospital bed,...

River

River
  • Author(s): Esther Kinsky
  • Location(s): East London, World
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern Day

In RIVER, a woman moves to a London suburb for reasons that are unclear. She takes long, solitary walks by the River Lea, observing and describing her surroundings and the unusual characters she encounters. Over the course of these...

Robert Baden-Powell: A Biography – foreword by Bear Grylls OBE

Robert Baden-Powell: A Biography – foreword by Bear Grylls OBE
  • Author(s): Lorraine Gibson
  • Location(s): Africa, Afghanistan, India, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Biography
  • Era(s): 1857 to present day

Robert Baden-Powell was Britain’s first celebrity. A conflicted character – militarist and pacifist, macho man and drag artist, elitist and socialist – he was one of the 20th century’s most influential and, latterly, controversial Englishmen, finding fame not once,...

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