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Radio Free Vermont

Radio Free Vermont
  • Author(s): Bill McKibben
  • Location(s): Vermont
  • Genre(s): Political, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

-A book that’s also the beginning of a movement, Bill McKibben’s debut novel Radio Free Vermont follows a band of Vermont patriots who decide that their state might be better off as its own republic. As the host of...

Rafael’s Wings

Rafael’s Wings
  • Author(s): Sian Mackay
  • Location(s): Mallorca
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Her life as she knows it in Scotland is over. Ornithologist Luisa Ross embarks on an odyssey to Spain where, during the course of a lonely fieldwork assignment in the mountains of Mallorca, she discovers an extraordinary and mysterious...

Raft of Stars

Raft of Stars
  • Author(s): Andrew J Graff
  • Location(s): Wisconsin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The further you run the closer you get to the truth… An instant classic for fans of Where the Crawdads Sing and We Begin at the End! ’One of the finest debut novels to emerge so far in 2021’...

Rag-and-Bone Christmas

Rag-and-Bone Christmas
  • Author(s): Dilly Court
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1860s

Paradise Row, London. December 1865. Snow is falling fast and Sally Suggs is working tirelessly to bring in enough money to keep bread on the table. Her father, a skilled rag-and-bone man, has fallen ill and now Sally has...

Ragtime

Ragtime
  • Author(s): E L Doktorow
  • Location(s): New York State, New Rochelle
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy
  • Era(s): 1900 - 1914

Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century & the First World War. The story...

Rah Rah and Roos Farming and Travel in the Great Southern Land

Rah Rah and Roos  Farming and Travel in the Great Southern Land
  • Author(s): Stephen Malins
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2002

Is it time you ditched the office and headed to the outback of Australia for the adventure of a lifetime? In 2002, a young Englishman left London behind to do just that. One year, 2,000 sheep: 4,000 km travelled....

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...

Raintree County

Raintree County
  • Author(s): Ross Lockridge Jr
  • Location(s): Indiana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1892

Throughout a single day in 1892, John Shawnessy recalls the great moments of his life—from the love affairs of his youth in Indiana, to the battles of the Civil War, to the politics of the Gilded Age, to his...

Raj

Raj
  • Author(s): Gita Mehta
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Earlier 20th Century

Born a princess of the Royal Household of Balmer, Jaya Singh is torn between the traditions of her upbringing and the ideals of the Mahatma, as India draws inexorably towards the bloody struggle for independence from the British Raj....

Rama and Sita: The Story of Diwali

Rama and Sita: The Story of Diwali
  • Author(s): Malachy Doyle, Christopher Corr (illustrator)
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

The perfect picture book to introduce children to Rama and Sita and the story of Diwali, with text by award-winning author Malachy Doyle and stunning, colourful illustrations from Christopher Corr. Rama and Sita live happily in the forest –...

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