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The Road to Wanting

The Road to Wanting
  • Author(s): Wendy Law-Yone
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

Na Ga was always in search of a better life. But now she sits, alone, in a hotel room in Wanting, a godforsaken town on the Chinese-Burmese border. Plucked from her wild life as a rural eel-catcher, Na Ga...

The Road Trip

The Road Trip
  • Author(s): Beth O'Leary
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Addie and her sister are about to embark on an epic road trip to a friend’s wedding in rural Scotland. The playlist is all planned and the snacks are packed. But, not long after setting off, a car slams...

The Rock of Tanios

The Rock of Tanios
  • Author(s): Amin Maalouf
  • Location(s): Lebanon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1880s

Tanios was a child of the mountains of Lebanon in the 1880s when the Egyptian Pashas were struggling against Ottoman domination and the British and French plotted with and against each other. Amin Maalouf’s novel, The Rock of Tanios,...

The Roman Spring Of Mrs Stone

The Roman Spring Of Mrs Stone
  • Author(s): Tennessee Williams
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Post WW2

Mrs Stone is rich and famous, and becomes a widow. But as her looks fade and old age creep in, she looks for distraction and dedides to settle in Rome. But she cannt escape the machinations of age and...

The Romanov Bride

The Romanov Bride
  • Author(s): Robert Alexander
  • Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): pre-Russian revolution

As the Russia of Nicholas and Aleksandra rushes full speed toward catastrophe, The Romanov Bride follows the lives of two revolutionary souls, that of Grand Duchess Elisavyeta (or Ella), sister of the tsaritsa Aleksandra, and that of Pavel, a...

The Romanov Empress

The Romanov Empress
  • Author(s): C W Gortner
  • Location(s): Russia, St Petersburg (Leningrad)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Turn of 20th Century

Barely nineteen, Minnie knows that her station in life as a Danish princess is to leave her family and enter into a royal marriage—as her older sister Alix has done, moving to  England to wed Queen Victoria’s eldest son....

The Rome Apartment

The Rome Apartment
  • Author(s): Kerry Fisher
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2020s

As I stood on the terrace and gazed out over the most glorious view, he studied my face and said to me ‘Why do you look sad? No-one should be sad in Rome. We only have this one life,...

The Room on Rue Amélie

The Room on Rue Amélie
  • Author(s): Kristin Harmel
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

When Ruby first marries the dashing Frenchman she meets in a coffee shop, she pictures a life strolling arm in arm along French boulevards, awash in the golden afternoon light. But it’s 1938, and war is looming on the...

The Rooster Bar

The Rooster Bar
  • Author(s): John Grisham
  • Location(s): Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 2010s

Three law school students in Washington DC uncover a web of financial interests linked to one sinister man. He runs the “diploma mill” college they all attend, the loans companies they accrue debt with, and parts of the banking...

The Roots of Heaven

The Roots of Heaven
  • Author(s): Romain Gary
  • Location(s): Chad
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1950s

The Roots of Heaven takes as its subject the deliberate and relentless hunting and killing of elephants for their ivory. Morel, a former dentist whose survival in a Nazi concentration camp he attributes to his fixation on the freedom...

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