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The Red Scarf

The Red Scarf
  • Author(s): Kate Furnivall
  • Location(s): Siberia
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

Davinsky Labor Camp, Siberia, 1933: Only two things in this wretched place keep Sofia from giving up hope: the prospect of freedom, and the stories told by her friend and fellow prisoner Anna, of a charmed childhood in Petrograd,...

The Red-Haired Woman

The Red-Haired Woman
  • Author(s): Orhan Pamuk
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

From the Nobel Prize winner and best-selling author of Snow and My Name Is Red, a fable of fathers and sons and the desires that come between them. On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul, a...

The Redeemed

The Redeemed
  • Author(s): Tim Pears
  • Location(s): The West Country
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW1 on

It is 1916. The world has gone to war, and young Leo Sercombe, hauling coal aboard the HMS Queen Mary, is a long way from home. The wild, unchanging West Country roads of his boyhood seem very far away...

The Redeemer

The Redeemer
  • Author(s): Jo Nesbo
  • Location(s): Oslo
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A freezing December night Christmas shoppers have gathered to listen to a Salvation Army carol concert. Then a shot rings out and one of the singers falls to the floor, dead. A blood-curdling terror Detective Harry Hole and his...

The Redemption of Alexander Seaton

The Redemption of Alexander Seaton
  • Author(s): S G MacLean
  • Location(s): Banff
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery

Banff, Scotland, the 1620s. A young man walks unsteadily through the streets. Is he just drunk or is there something more sinister happening? When he collapses in front of two sisters on that dark, wet night, the women guess...

The Regrets

The Regrets
  • Author(s): Amy Bonnaffons
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Reality and dream collide in Amy Bonnaffons’s dazzling, wildly inventive miracle of a love story about an affair between the living and the dead (NPR) For weeks, Rachel has been noticing the same golden-haired young man sitting at her...

The Reign of Greed

The Reign of Greed
  • Author(s): José Rizal
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): late 19th Century

Dr. Jose Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda (1861-1896) was a Filipino polymath, nationalist and the most prominent advocate for reforms in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial era. He attended the Ateneo Municipal de Manila, earning a Bachelor...

The Reindeer Hunters

The Reindeer Hunters
  • Author(s): Lars Mytting
  • Location(s): Butangen, Norway
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): early 20th century

The year is 1903, and twenty-two years have passed since Astrid Hekne died in childbirth. Her son Jehans lives on a modest smallholding up in the hills near Butangen, having withdrawn from his community. He is drawn to freedom,...

The Reluctant Baker

The Reluctant Baker
  • Author(s): Sara Alexi
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

WARNING: THIS NOVEL WILL MAKE YOU WANT TO ESCAPE TO THE SUN. There is a lazy Mediterranean village full of colourful characters. There is sunshine and wine and a long sandy beach… There are nagging in-laws, jealous neighbours and...

The Reluctant Nude

The Reluctant Nude
  • Author(s): Meg Maguire
  • Location(s): Cape Breton Island
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Fallon Frost’s late foster mother had done so much to heal the wounds of her damaged childhood. So when a lecherous developer plans to bulldoze her old home to make room for a strip mall, the practical, ordered life...

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