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The Rug Bazaar

The Rug Bazaar
  • Author(s): Marylee MacDonald
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): contemporary

Two American women. Two Turkish men. In exotic Istanbul everyone’s on the make. “A duet of stories that flies in the face of anything you’d think a love story could be. These are independent stories, yet, as a pair,...

The Rule of Four

The Rule of Four
  • Author(s): Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason
  • Location(s): New Jersey, Princeton
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Suspense
  • Era(s): early 21st century

An ivy league murder, a mysterious coded manuscript, and the secrets of a Renaissance prince collide memorably in The Rule of Four — a brilliant work of fiction that weaves together suspense and scholarship, high art and unimaginable treachery....

The Rules of Arrangement

The Rules of Arrangement
  • Author(s): Anisha Bhatia
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Current

Zoya Sahni has a great education, a fulfilling job and a loving family (for the most part). But she is not the perfect Indian girl. She’s overweight, spunky and dark-skinned in a world that prizes the slim, obedient and...

The Rules of Attraction

The Rules of Attraction
  • Author(s): Bret Easton Ellis
  • Location(s): New Hampshire
  • Genre(s): Humour, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Lauren, who changes the man in her bed even more often than she changes course, is dating Victor but sleeping with Sean. Sean – cool, ambivalent and deeply cynical – might be in love with Lauren, but he’s not...

The Rules of Revelation

The Rules of Revelation
  • Author(s): Lisa McInerney
  • Location(s): County Cork
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘THE RULES OF REVELATION is not only a glorious, bold, funny state-of-the-nation novel, but a beautiful and painful love story too’ SALLY ROONEY REUNIONS. RECRIMINATIONS. RECKONINGS. Ireland. Great nationalists, bad mothers and a whole lot of secrets. Ryan Cusack...

The Run of the Country

The Run of the Country
  • Author(s): Shane Connaughton
  • Location(s): County Cavan
  • Genre(s): Fiction

In both A Border Station (1989) and The Run of the Country, Connaughton skilfully mined his Cavan upbringing for stories that revolved around generational conflict, sectarian bigotry and doomed emotional attachment. Both works are very much of their time...

The Runaway Bride

The Runaway Bride
  • Author(s): Mary Jayne Baker
  • Location(s): Yorkshire Dales
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Here comes the bride… but how long can she hide? When Kitty Clayton flees her wedding, her life seems worryingly futureless. All she knows is she’d rather sleep on the streets than go back to cheating Ethan. After picking...

The Runaway Bridesmaid

The Runaway Bridesmaid
  • Author(s): Daisy James
  • Location(s): Devon, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Squeezing herself into a frothy, flouncy, bubble-gum pink dress, Rosie Hamilton thinks that being a bridesmaid for her spoilt little sister Freya can’t get any worse. But discovering her boyfriend in a cupboard with the bride, ten minutes before...

The Runaway Ex

The Runaway Ex
  • Author(s): Shani Struthers
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

The Runaways are back… For Layla Lewis, life is finally back on track. After her “runaway year” in Cornwall, another year has passed—an idyllic year spent with sexy new love, Joseph Scott, in the sultry heat of Florence. For...

The Runaway Husband

The Runaway Husband
  • Author(s): Julie Highmore
  • Location(s): Oxford
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

More side-splitting amateur sleuthing in Oxford… Private eye Edie Fox wishes she could be half as glamorous and successful as her new client, Jessica Relish, who comes into her floundering detective agency in search of her missing husband Hugh....

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