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Remembering Babylon

Remembering Babylon
  • Author(s): David Malouf
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): Mid-19th century

In the mid-1840s a thirteen-year-old British cabin boy, Gemmy Fairley, is cast ashore in the far north of Australia and taken in by aborigines. Sixteen years later he moves back into the world of Europeans, among hopeful yet terrified...

Remembering Shanghai: A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels

Remembering Shanghai: A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels
  • Author(s): Claire Chao, Isabel Sun Chao
  • Location(s): Shanghai, Hong Kong
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): late 1800s-present

A high position bestowed by China’s empress dowager grants power and wealth to the Sun family. For Isabel, growing up in glamorous 1930s and ’40s Shanghai, it is a life of utmost privilege. But while her scholar father and...

Remembrance Day

Remembrance Day
  • Author(s): Leah Fleming
  • Location(s): Yorkshire, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1914 and 2003

Lest we forget… A poignant tale of love and loss for fans of Nadine Dorries and Katie Flynn. It’s 2003 and at over 100 years old, Selma Dixon is the last link to the hidden truth behind her village’s...

Remote Control

Remote Control
  • Author(s): Kotaro Isaka
  • Location(s): Sendai
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Masaharu Aoyagi is a driver for a delivery company in the city of Sendai in northern Japan. Two years ago he had achieved brief notoriety for rescuing a movie actress from a robbery attempt while making a delivery to...

Remote People

Remote People
  • Author(s): Evelyn Waugh
  • Location(s): Ethiopia
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1930s

Perhaps the funniest travel book ever written, Remote People begins with a vivid account of the coronation of Emperor Ras Tafari – Haile Selassie I, King of Kings – an event covered by Evelyn Waugh in 1930 as special...

Remote Sympathy

Remote Sympathy
  • Author(s): Catherine Chidgey
  • Location(s): Buchenwald
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

“A powerful and disturbing study in terrible lies and the human need to believe them. Few readers will close this book unshaken.” ANNIE PROULX   Moving away from their lovely apartment in Munich isn’t nearly as wrenching an experience...

Renaissance On The Road

Renaissance On The Road
  • Author(s): Barry Smith
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): modern day

Setting out on tour, an Early Music trio from Seville hook up with Eduardo, on the run from family betrayal. The road trip takes them north through the storied streets of deep Spain, as relationships develop, secrets are revealed...

Rendezvous in Russia

Rendezvous in Russia
  • Author(s): Lauren St John
  • Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From Cornwall to Russia. Laura, her faithful husky Skye and Tariq are whirled into a breathtaking mystery adventure when they join the film crew on the set of THE ARISTOCRATIC THIEF about an art heist that could never be...

Renoir’s Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon

Renoir’s Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon
  • Author(s): Catherine Hewitt
  • Location(s): Paris, France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1880s

In the 1880s, Suzanne Valadon was considered the Impressionists’ most beautiful model. But behind her captivating façade lay a closely-guarded secret. Born in poverty in rural France, as a teenager Suzanne began, in Montmartre, posing for – and having...

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...

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