Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine
- Location(s): Ukraine
- Era(s): 1930s
In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the twentieth century. With unprecedented authority and detail, Red Famine investigates how...
- Location(s): Warwickshire
- Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
Warwickshire, 1934 Deep in a hamlet in the Warwickshire countryside, Red Hollow Hall is a male-only sanatorium run by the charismatic psychiatrist Dr Moon. However, all is not well, and Dr Moon’s patients are leaving Red Hollow in droves....
- Location(s): Stoke on Trent
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 2002 looking back to 1972
It is the summer of 2002. The corpse of a 15 year old boy, who has been missing for thirty years, is discovered in Stoke-on-Trent. The city is on the cusp of change and Chief Superintendent Berkins wants the...
- Location(s): India, Jammu
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In the village of Morha Madana, overlooking the Chenab, the joys of harvesting ripe maize get sullied when, one summer,gun-toting militants of the tanzeem start swarming the hills. As the militants fight in the name of azadi, the villagerslives...
- Location(s): Iceland
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): 1950s
Gunnar Kampen grows up in Iceland during the Second World War in a household fiercely opposed to Hitler and Nazism. At nineteen he seems set for a conventional, dutiful life. And yet in the spring of 1958, he founds...
- Location(s): Georgia
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): early 21st century
The new Kay Scarpetta novel from the world’s #1 bestselling crime writer. Determined to find out what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months earlier, Kay Scarpetta travels to the Georgia Prison for Women, where...
- Location(s): Algeria, Sahara
- Genre(s): Young Adult
This magical story, written for teenagers but enjoyed by all ages, tells the story of the young bard Mid-e-Mid, famed throughout the vast grazing lands of his Tuareg tribe for his mellifluous voice and quick-witted lyrics. A coming-of-age novel...
- Location(s): Mauritius
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
In Red Moon At Dawn, the shadow of empire stretches long over Mauritius. As World War II rages elsewhere, islanders face their own, related battle: a workers’ strike met with lethal colonial force. Framed through the voices of the...
Red Panda Rescue (The Adventure Club)
- Location(s): The Himalayas
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
Do you like exploring, animals and adventure? Then join The Adventure Club this summer! A brand new illustrated series for younger readers about animals and adventure from much-loved author Jess Butterworth – writer of classic adventure stories in vibrantly...
- Location(s): Paris, Berlin, London, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
After receiving a prestigious writing fellowship in Germany, the narrator of “Red Pill” arrives in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee and struggles to accomplish anything at all. Instead of working on the book he has proposed to write, he...
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