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The Rachel Incident

The Rachel Incident
  • Author(s): Caroline O'Donoghue
  • Location(s): Cork City
  • Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQ+
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Rachel Incident is an all-consuming love story. But it’s not the one you’re expecting. It’s unconventional and messy. It’s young and foolish. It’s about losing and finding yourself. But it is always about love. When Rachel falls in...

The Radetzky March

The Radetzky March
  • Author(s): Joseph Roth
  • Location(s): Austria
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Turn 20th Century

Set during the doomed splendour of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, The Radetzky March tells the story of the celebrated Trotta family, tracing their rise and fall over three generations. Theirs is a sweeping history of heroism and duty, desire and...

The Ragazzi

The Ragazzi
  • Author(s): Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

“The Ragazzi” comes from the same vivid and violent world as Pasolini’s great films. In the poverty and chaos of postwar Rome, Ricetto and his gang survive by their wits, their cruelty and their instincts for survival. Their lives...

The Raging Storm

The Raging Storm
  • Author(s): Ann Cleeves
  • Location(s): Devon, North Devon
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The villages of Greystone and Morrisham are fictional. When Jem Rosco – sailor, adventurer and local legend – blows into town in the middle of an autumn gale, the residents of Greystone, Devon, are delighted to have a celebrity...

The Railway Girls

The Railway Girls
  • Author(s): Leah Fleming
  • Location(s): West Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th century

Deep in the dales of the West Riding Fells lies Scarsbeck, a remote village peopled by a close-knit community of colourful characters: Ellie Birkett, steadfastly resisting her mother’s attempts to marry her off; Vicar Hardy, wrestling with the temptations...

The Railway to Heaven

The Railway to Heaven
  • Author(s): Matthew Woodward
  • Location(s): Asia, Europe
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Taking his long-distance train travels to a whole new level, Matthew Woodward embarks on an intrepid journey from his home in the UK to Lhasa in deepest Tibet, for many years closed to visitors. Travelling over 20,000 kilometres on...

The Rain Never Came

The Rain Never Came
  • Author(s): Lachlan Walter
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): The Future

In a thirsty, drought-stricken Australia, the country is well and truly sunburnt. As the Eastern states are evacuated to more appealing climates, a stubborn few resist the forced removal. They hide out in small country towns – where no...

The Rainbird

The Rainbird
  • Author(s): Jan Brokken
  • Location(s): Gabon
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jan Brokken’s compelling account of his journey to one of the world’s most mysterious and remote countries — Gabon in Central Africa — following in the footsteps of such famous Europeans as Stanley and Schweitzer.

The Rake and his Honour

The Rake and his Honour
  • Author(s): Beth Elliott
  • Location(s): Ariège
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Early 19th Century

1813 Napoleon is on the rampage through France. But some are not willing to sit back and witness the end of the reign of King Louis and the Bourbons. Louise Fauriel comes from a family of talented silversmiths. Recently...

The Ranger

The Ranger
  • Author(s): Ace Atkins
  • Location(s): Northeast Mississippi
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Northeast Mississippi, hill country, rugged and notorious for outlaws since the Civil War, where killings are as commonplace as in the Old West. To Quinn Colson, it’s home — but not the home he left when he went to...

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