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Riding the Whirlwind: An Ethiopian Story of Love and Revolution

Riding the Whirlwind: An Ethiopian Story of Love and Revolution
  • Author(s): Bereket Habte Selassie
  • Location(s): Ethiopia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1969-1974

Set during the revolutionary period in Ethiopia from 1969-1974, this highly praised novel merges fact and fiction in its story of the political machinations and love life of a high-ranking government official.

Rifles for Watie

Rifles for Watie
  • Author(s): Harold Keith
  • Location(s): Kansas, Linn County
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): American Civil War

Jeff Bussey walked briskly up the rutted wagon road toward Fort Leavenworth on his way to join the Union volunteers. It was 1861 in Linn County, Kansas, and Jeff was elated at the prospect of fighting for the North...

Right of Sanctuary

Right of Sanctuary
  • Author(s): Nicola Clifford
  • Location(s): Mid Wales
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

When strong minded cop DC Heidi Holtz finds that her sister is living with a strange cult called The Church of New Eden, she wants her back. But the boundary lines of consent and coercion are difficult to gauge...

Rimini

Rimini
  • Author(s): Pier Vittorio Tondelli, Elena Pala (Translator)
  • Location(s): Rimini
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Summer 1983, Rimini. Against the crowded panorama of the Adriatic Riviera, dazzling with its neon lights and promised pleasures, seven lives intersect. A young journalist on his first important assignment, determined to unravel a web of political corruption. A...

RING OF CLAY

RING OF CLAY
  • Author(s): Margaret Kaine
  • Location(s): Staffordshire
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 1950/1960

An unforgettable story of love, loss and a secret waiting to be told. RING OF CLAY is a compelling regional saga, and won the Romantic Novelists’ Association New Writer’s Award, and the Society of Authors’ Sagittarius Prize.

Ripeness

Ripeness
  • Author(s): Sarah Moss
  • Location(s): Ireland, Italy
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s-2020s

It is the 60s and, just out of school, Edith finds herself travelling to rural Italy. She has been sent by her mother with strict instructions: to see her sister, ballet dancer Lydia, through the final weeks of her...

Riptide

Riptide
  • Author(s): Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1990s

For generations, treasure hunters have tried to unlock the deadly puzzle known as the Water Pit: a labyrinth of shafts and tunnels that honeycombs the heart of a small island off the coast of Maine. Reputed to be the...

Rise of an Oligarch

Rise of an Oligarch
  • Author(s): Carlito Sofer, Nik Krasno
  • Location(s): Kyiv, London, Lugansk, Tel Aviv
  • Genre(s): Thriller

When Ukrainian oligarch Mikhail Vorotavich is close to achieving his ambition of topping the Forbes rich list, an assassination attempt leaves him in a coma and his vast business empire rapidly descends into turmoil. Laying in a hospital bed,...

Rise of Emperors: Masters of Rome

Rise of Emperors: Masters of Rome
  • Author(s): Gordon Doherty, Simon Turney
  • Location(s): Italy, France, Germany
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late Antiquity, Late Roman Empire

Their rivalry will change the world forever. As competition for the imperial throne intensifies, Constantine and Maxentius realise their childhood friendship cannot last. Each man struggles to control their respective quadrant of empire, battered by currents of politics, religion...

Rise to the Fly

Rise to the Fly
  • Author(s): Cheryl Rees-Price
  • Location(s): Mid Wales
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Will the police or a devious killer win this battle of wits? A quiet corner of Wales becomes the centre of a murder investigation when the bodies of a retired couple are found near the shore of a reservoir....

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