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The Remains of the Day

The Remains of the Day
  • Author(s): Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past . . . A contemporary classic, The Remains of the...

The Remarkable Feather Waka; a Moriori Tale of Long Ago

The Remarkable Feather Waka; a Moriori Tale of Long Ago
  • Author(s): June Allen
  • Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa), Chatham Islands
  • Genre(s): Mythology
  • Era(s): Pre 19th Century

The Moriori had been living a peaceful life in the Chatham Islands for many centuries before they were almost all killed by a tribe of Maori from New Zealand in the mid 19th Century. Just a few stories remain...

The Remedy for Love

The Remedy for Love
  • Author(s): Bill Roorbach
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When the “Storm of the Century” threatens western Maine, Eric closes his office early and heads to the grocery store. In line ahead of him, an unkempt and seemingly unstable young woman comes up short on cash, so Eric...

The Remembered Soldier

The Remembered Soldier
  • Author(s): Anjet Daanje, David McKay (Translator)
  • Location(s): Flanders
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation, Romance
  • Era(s): 1922

An extraordinary love story and a captivating novel about the power of memory and imagination. Flanders 1922. After serving as a soldier in the Great War, Noon Merckem has lost his memory and lives in a psychiatric asylum. Countless...

The Removed

The Removed
  • Author(s): Brandon Hobson
  • Location(s): Oklahoma
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Magical Realism
  • Era(s): Modern

Steeped in Cherokee myths and history, a novel about a fractured family reckoning with the tragic death of their son long ago—from National Book Award finalist Brandon Hobson In the fifteen years since their teenage son, Ray-Ray, was killed...

The Renoir Girls

The Renoir Girls
  • Author(s): Catherine Ostler
  • Location(s): France, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1880s onwards

An astonishing true story of splendour, scandal and tragedy in Golden Age Paris. In 1881, Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted two young sisters from a Jewish banking dynasty at their home in Paris’s grand 8th arrondissement. Pink and Blue, a portrait of Elisabeth...

The Renovation

The Renovation
  • Author(s): Kenan Orhan
  • Location(s): Salerno, Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Dilara’s father is disappearing. He has dementia and the disease steals a little more of him each day. Dilara has persuaded him to move in with her, hiring builders to adapt her apartment in preparation, but when the renovation...

The Repentants

The Repentants
  • Author(s): Kate Forster
  • Location(s): Iceland, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1790s

St Monans, Fife, Scotland 1790. Two women are forced to publicly repent in church, one for adultery the other for breaching the sabbath. Wealthy housewife, Florrie, and salt serf, Eliza, form a quick and unusual bond over their mutual...

The Replacement Wife

The Replacement Wife
  • Author(s): Darby Kane
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

The #1 International bestselling author of Pretty Little Wife returns with another thrilling domestic suspense novel that asks, how many wives and girlfriends need to disappear before your family notices? Elisa Wright is a mom and wife, living a...

The Replacements

The Replacements
  • Author(s): David Putnam
  • Location(s): Costa Rica
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Bruno Johnson, ex-detective with Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and an ex-convict, is hiding out from the FBI in Costa Rica, tending bar to support eight children he illegally rescued from abusive homes. Partway through a normal day, Barbara...

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