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Rani & Sukh

Rani & Sukh
  • Author(s): Bali Rai
  • Location(s): Punjab, Leicester
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s/2004

A powerful and gripping novel that sweeps the reader from modern-day Britain to the Punjab in the 1960s and back again in a ceaseless cycle of tragedy and conflict. 1950s Punjab – a secret affair goes terribly wrong and...

Ransomed

Ransomed
  • Author(s): M A Hunter
  • Location(s): Weymouth
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Some secrets are too big to bury… Investigative journalist Emma Hunter never thought she’d be a bestselling author. Especially not for a blistering exposé of the brutal horrors committed at an orphanage. Some secrets breed in the dark… All...

Raven

Raven
  • Author(s): Stan Jackson
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Present

When Laura Wellbourne phones Professor Perry Webster, he doesn’t recall his former student by name. That’s because she was always know as Raven. She’s changed her identity and cut off her shock of black hair. Raven has been accused...

Raw Content

Raw Content
  • Author(s): Naomi Booth
  • Location(s): West Yorkshire, Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Grace’s work requires her to be careful. She spends her days reading and editing legal case files, making sure the latest judgments are published as quickly and accurately as possible. But outside of her work, Grace is not a...

Raw Material

Raw Material
  • Author(s): J J Marsh
  • Location(s): London, Pembrokeshire, Wales
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

“You never know who’s watching.” Bank Holiday weekend. Beatrice Stubbs takes some holiday snaps on a secluded Welsh beach. Innocent pictures reveal rather more than cliffs and seagulls, and someone wants them destroyed. But Beatrice has other things on...

Reach for a different Sun

Reach for a different Sun
  • Author(s): Jenni O'Connor
  • Location(s): England, Jamaica
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s to present

When retired Jamaican campaigner and lobbyist Mary Odell dies suddenly, her niece, Monique – a London-based journalist – suspects foul play. Her misgivings lead her deep into the murky waters of Jamaica’s turbulent past, opening up a Pandora’s box...

Ready Or Not

Ready Or Not
  • Author(s): Ste Sharp
  • Location(s): Felixstowe
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1990s

Luke Redfern is drawn into another life or death adventure, forcing him to make some big decisions. Christmas 1996, and Luke is living in London, gigging with his band, Beachhead. Britpop is in full swing and things are going...

Red Hollow

Red Hollow
  • Author(s): Natalie Marlow
  • Location(s): Warwickshire
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

Warwickshire, 1934 Deep in a hamlet in the Warwickshire countryside, Red Hollow Hall is a male-only sanatorium run by the charismatic psychiatrist Dr Moon. However, all is not well, and Dr Moon’s patients are leaving Red Hollow in droves....

Red is the Colour

Red is the Colour
  • Author(s): Mark L Fowler
  • Location(s): Stoke on Trent
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2002 looking back to 1972

It is the summer of 2002. The corpse of a 15 year old boy, who has been missing for thirty years, is discovered in Stoke-on-Trent. The city is on the cusp of change and Chief Superintendent Berkins wants the...

Red Pill

Red Pill
  • Author(s): Hari Kunzru
  • Location(s): Paris, Berlin, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After receiving a prestigious writing fellowship in Germany, the narrator of “Red Pill” arrives in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee and struggles to accomplish anything at all. Instead of working on the book he has proposed to write, he...

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