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Room

Room
  • Author(s): Emma Donoghue
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 2000's

Told in the inventive, funny, and poignant voice of Jack, Room is a celebration of resilience – and a powerful story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible. To five-year-old Jack, Room is the...

Room 119 – The Whitby Trader

Room 119 – The Whitby Trader
  • Author(s): T F Lince
  • Location(s): Whitby, London, North Yorkshire, Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern day

High-flying trader Dean Harrison has it all – the London penthouse apartment; the fast car; the beautiful wife. But when the threads of Dean’s life start to unravel, they do so with alarming speed. Following the advice of a...

Rootbound

Rootbound
  • Author(s): Alice Vincent
  • Location(s): South London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When she was a girl, Alice Vincent loved her grandfather’s garden – the freedom, the calm, the beauty of it. Twenty years later, living in a tiny flat in South London, that childhood in the garden feels like a...

Rooted

Rooted
  • Author(s): Idabel Allen
  • Location(s): Tennessee, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Working his lifetime to bury a shameful past and restore the family name, Grover McQuiston rules the town of Moonsock, Tennessee and his family with an iron fist. Or he did, until his eerily skittish tomboy granddaughter, Sarah Jane,...

Rose and the Burma Sky

Rose and the Burma Sky
  • Author(s): Rosanna Amaka
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar), Nigeria
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

One war, one soldier, one enduring love 1939: In a village in south-east Nigeria at the brink of world, young Obi watches from a mango tree as a colonial army jeep speeds by, filled with soldiers laughing and shouting,...

Rose Nicolson

Rose Nicolson
  • Author(s): Andrew Greig
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, Dundee/St Andrews, The Scottish Borders
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 16th Century

Embra, winter of 1574. Queen Mary has fled Scotland, to raise an army from the French. Her son and heir, Jamie is held under protection in Stirling Castle. John Knox is dead. The people are unmoored and lurching under...

Rose Under Fire

Rose Under Fire
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Wein
  • Location(s): Germany
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2, 1940s

While flying an Allied fighter plane from Paris to England, American ATA pilot and amateur poet, Rose Justice, is captured by the Nazis and sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious women’s concentration camp. Trapped in horrific circumstances, Rose finds hope...

Rosemary’s Baby

Rosemary’s Baby
  • Author(s): Ira Levin
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): 1960s

Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse, an ordinary young couple, settle into a New York City apartment, unaware that the elderly neighbors and their bizarre group of friends have taken a disturbing interest in them. But by the time Rosemary discovers...

Rosie’s Little Cafe on the Riviera

Rosie’s Little Cafe on the Riviera
  • Author(s): Jennifer Bohnet
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

A summer of taking chances! Rosie Hewitt’s dream of opening a little French café on the Riviera is finally coming true. She’s giving up on love and instead chasing her own perfect recipe for happiness… Only, she never expected...

Ross Poldark: A Novel of Cornwall 1783 – 1787 (Poldark Book 1)

Ross Poldark: A Novel of Cornwall 1783 – 1787 (Poldark Book 1)
  • Author(s): Winston Graham
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Later 18th Century

Cornwall in the 1780s – when powerful forces of revolution and reaction are at large in the world. Tired from a grim war in America, Ross Poldark returns to his land and his family. But the joyful homecoming he...

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