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The Road to Cromer Pier

The Road to Cromer Pier
  • Author(s): Martin Gore
  • Location(s): Cromer, Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970 to current

Janet’s first love arrives out of the blue after thirty years. Those were simpler times for them both. Sunny childhood beach holidays, fish and chips and big copper pennies clunking into one armed bandits. The Wells family has run...

The Road to Dalton

The Road to Dalton
  • Author(s): Shannon Bowring
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

In most small towns, the private is also public. In the town of Dalton, one local makes an unthinkable decision that leaves the community reeling. In the aftermath, their problems, both small and large, reveal a deeper understanding of...

The Road to Jerusalem

The Road to Jerusalem
  • Author(s): Jan Guillou, Anna Paterson (translator)
  • Location(s): Varnhem, Sweden
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, In Translation
  • Era(s): 12th century

The hero of this phenomenally successful historical trilogy is Arn Magnusson, born in 1150 to an aristocratic Swedish family. THE ROAD TO JERUSALEM covers his childhood and education at the Cistercian monastry of Varnhem. There he is taught the...

The Road To Lichfield

The Road To Lichfield
  • Author(s): Penelope Lively
  • Location(s): Lichfield
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Ann Linton leaves her family in Berkshire and sets up camp in her father’s house when he is taken into a nursing home in distant Lichfield. As she shares his last weeks she meets David Fielding, and the love...

The Road to Noeware, Woven Branches book 1

The Road to Noeware, Woven Branches book 1
  • Author(s): G L Yancy
  • Location(s): South Georgia
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Haunted by sins of the past while grappling with the challenges of the present, the citizens of Tennyson County, Georgia, must come to grips with the reality that not all secrets stay buried forever. Allison Edwards, a part-time journalism...

The Road to the Country

The Road to the Country
  • Author(s): Chigozie Obioma
  • Location(s): Nigeria
  • Genre(s): Epistolary, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

At first the vision is grainy―like something seen through wet glass. But slowly it clears, and there appears the figure of a man. When a country is plunged into civil war, two brothers on either side of it are...

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...

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