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The Quiet Girls

The Quiet Girls
  • Author(s): J M Hewitt
  • Location(s): Pomona Island
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Detective Carrie Flynn’s sister Hattie was kidnapped when they were both little girls. After the police failed to find the culprit, Carrie swore she would become a detective and solve the case herself. But the face of the man...

The Quiet Streets of Winslow

The Quiet Streets of Winslow
  • Author(s): Judy Troy
  • Location(s): Winslow AZ
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When the murdered body of a young woman is found in a river wash in Black Canyon City, Arizona, Deputy Sheriff Sam Rush begins an investigation that leads deeper and deeper into the mystery of her death and the...

The Rabbi’s Cat 2

The Rabbi’s Cat 2
  • Author(s): Joann Sfar
  • Location(s): Africa, Algeria
  • Genre(s): Historical, Humour
  • Era(s): 1930s

Joann Sfar’s beloved, humorous, and wise talking cat is back for more beautifully illustrated adventures in Algiers and across Africa in the 1930s. While the rabbi is away, his cat tags along with Malka of the Lions (the rabbi’s...

The Race

The Race
  • Author(s): Roy Peachey
  • Location(s): China, France, Scotland, United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary and World War Two (1944)

Get ready for the race of your life… This is what it feels like when I’m running. When I’m running fast, I feel free. 12-year-old Lili is determined to defeat her arch rival in front of the Queen during...

The Rachel Incident

The Rachel Incident
  • Author(s): Caroline O'Donoghue
  • Location(s): Cork City
  • Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+
  • 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 Raiders and the Cross

The Raiders and the Cross
  • Author(s): Patrick Larsimont
  • Location(s): London, Malta, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

Jox may have survived the Battle of Britain, but this war isn’t over yet… Winter, 1940 Enemy raiders are bombing Britain’s cities relentlessly. Casualties are high and morale is at an all-time low. Jox McNabb and the rest of...

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...

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