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Rotten Row

Rotten Row
  • Author(s): Petina Gappah
  • Location(s): Harare, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It is just after nine o’clock in the morning. Gidza will die in exactly forty-three minutes and thirteen seconds. ‘Rotten Row’ is the Criminal Division of Harare, and the courts and the unfortunates who pass through them are the...

Rouen: How quickly can a woman run?

Rouen: How quickly can a woman run?
  • Author(s): Nilam A McGrath
  • Location(s): Rouen
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): present day

If you had only one moment to flee, would you? After years of being boxed into an abusive relationship, a young academic finds the courage to flee from the man who claims to love her. Set in Rouen, France,...

Rough

Rough
  • Author(s): Robin van Eck
  • Location(s): Calgary
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2013

It is 2013 and Calgary’s Bow River is beginning to rise. Two homeless men stand by the bank and contemplate the death of another friend-an accident? ​ Taking cover downtown that night, Shermeto intervenes in the attack on a...

Rough Magic

Rough Magic
  • Author(s): Lara Prior-Palmer
  • Location(s): Mongolia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Mongol Derby is the world’s toughest horse race. A feat of endurance across the vast Mongolian plains once traversed by the people of Genghis Khan, competitors ride 25 horses across a distance of 1000km. Many riders don’t make...

Rough Music

Rough Music
  • Author(s): Patrick Gale
  • Location(s): North Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Julian is a contented if naïve only child, and a holiday on the coast of North Cornwall should be perfect, especially when distant American cousins join the party. But their arrival brings upheaval and unexpected turmoil. It is only...

Rough Sleeper

Rough Sleeper
  • Author(s): James Davidson
  • Location(s): Liverpool
  • Genre(s): Noir, Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

Hunting a killer, a female detective is drawn into the abyss… Liverpool is in the grip of a serial killer. He suffocates his victims using a bin bag, and discards them like refuse on the streets. After tricking her...

Roughing It

Roughing It
  • Author(s): Mark Twain
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction, Short Stories
  • Era(s): 1860s

Based on Mark Twain’s 1872 autobiographical novel, Roughing It follows the travels of young Mark Twain through the Wild West during the years 1861–1867. After a brief stint as a Confederate cavalry militiaman, he joined his brother Orion Clemens,...

Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece

Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece
  • Author(s): Patrick Leigh Fermor
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 20th century

Patrick Leigh Fermor’s ‘Mani’ compellingly revealed a hidden world of Southern Greece and its past. Its northern counterpart takes the reader among Sarakatsan shepherds, the monasteries of Meteora and the villages of Krakora, among itinerant pedlars and beggars, and...

Round Ireland in Low Gear

Round Ireland in Low Gear
  • Author(s): Eric Newby
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1980s

‘You’ve had some pretty crazy ideas in your life, Newby, but this is the craziest.’ Grandmother Wanda Newby was exasperated after continuous rain, snow, and gales that knocked from her bike. Twice. To avoid other tourists, Eric Newby had...

Roundabout of Death

Roundabout of Death
  • Author(s): Faysal Khartash
  • Location(s): Aleppo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jumaa is a schoolteacher in Aleppo. He observes and lives through the literal disintegration of his beautiful native city. Through his eyes, in a mixture of first and third person narration, we experience the razing of entire neighbourhoods, the...

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