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Rizzio

Rizzio
  • Author(s): Denise Mina
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1566

Longlisted for the 2022 CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award It’s Saturday evening, 9 March 1566, and Mary, Queen of Scots, is six months pregnant. She’s hosting a supper party, secure in her private chambers. She doesn’t know that...

Road Trip Rwanda: A Journey Into the New Heart of Africa

Road Trip Rwanda: A Journey Into the New Heart of Africa
  • Author(s): Will Ferguson
  • Location(s): Rwanda
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Hope lives in Africa. Twenty years after the genocide that left Rwanda in ruins, Giller Prize-winning author Will Ferguson travels deep into the once-mysterious “Land of a Thousand Hills” with his friend and cohort Jean-Claude Munyezamu, a man who...

Roam Alone

Roam Alone
  • Author(s): Hilary Bradt
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A unique title from Bradt, showcasing a brand new collection of remarkable travellers’ tales with a different slant, following on the heels of To Oldly Go!, one of the UK’s best-selling travel titles of 2015. All the contributors were...

Robert Baden-Powel: A Biography

Robert Baden-Powel: A Biography
  • Author(s): Lorraine Gibdon
  • Location(s): United Kingdom, World
  • Genre(s): Biography, Historical
  • Era(s): 1850s to 2020s

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,...

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,...

Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa

Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa
  • Author(s): Joseph Farrell
  • Location(s): Samoa, Upolu
  • Genre(s): Biography, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Late 19th century

Almost every adult and child is familiar with his Treasure Island, but few know that Robert Louis Stevenson lived out his last years on an equally remote island, which was squabbled over by colonial powers much as Captain Flint’s...

Rocco and the Nightingale

Rocco and the Nightingale
  • Author(s): Adrian Magson
  • Location(s): Picardie (Picardy)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1960s

When a minor Paris criminal is found stabbed in the neck on a country lane in Picardie it looks like another case for Inspector Lucas Rocco. But instead he is called off to watch over a Gabonese government minister,...

Rock and a Hard Place

Rock and a Hard Place
  • Author(s): Angie Stanton
  • Location(s): Wisconsin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): early 21st century

One day while watching the Interstate exit for her dad’s long awaited return, Libby’s life is rocked when Peter Jamieson steps off his tour bus and into her life. After a couple chance meetings with Peter, Libby breaks away...

Rock Hard

Rock Hard
  • Author(s): Nalini Singh
  • Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

In New York Times Bestselling author Nalini Singh’s newest contemporary romance, passion ignites between a gorgeous, sinfully sexy man who built himself up from nothing and a shy woman who has a terrible secret in her past… Wealthy businessman...

Rock Hard (Danny Lancaster Book 4)

Rock Hard (Danny Lancaster Book 4)
  • Author(s): Bill Todd
  • Location(s): Gibraltar
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

When Danny Lancaster gets a call from an old friend it’s a chance to swap his troubles in Brighton for a sunshine reunion in Gibraltar. He hasn’t seen Pogo since Afghanistan. They have war stories to retell, beers to...

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