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Revenge, Secrets and Lies

Revenge, Secrets and Lies
  • Author(s): M A Macklin
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

For over thirty years the Jacksons and the Barbers were liked and admired by their neighbours in Waverley Terrace… After the arrival of Spike McEwan, (the neighbour from hell) their lives become intolerable – music, full-volume, night after night....

Riceyman Steps

Riceyman Steps
  • Author(s): Arnold Bennett
  • Location(s): North London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

It is 1919 shortly after the termination of the 1st European holocaust. Henry Earlforward, a middle aged North London Bookseller, courts and marries Violet Arb, a widow who has inherited the confectioners shop opposite his own premises in Riceyman...

RING OF CLAY

RING OF CLAY
  • Author(s): Margaret Kaine
  • Location(s): Staffordshire
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 1950/1960

An unforgettable story of love, loss and a secret waiting to be told. RING OF CLAY is a compelling regional saga, and won the Romantic Novelists’ Association New Writer’s Award, and the Society of Authors’ Sagittarius Prize.

Rise of an Oligarch

Rise of an Oligarch
  • Author(s): Carlito Sofer, Nik Krasno
  • Location(s): Kyiv, London, Lugansk, Tel Aviv
  • Genre(s): Thriller

When Ukrainian oligarch Mikhail Vorotavich is close to achieving his ambition of topping the Forbes rich list, an assassination attempt leaves him in a coma and his vast business empire rapidly descends into turmoil. Laying in a hospital bed,...

River

River
  • Author(s): Esther Kinsky
  • Location(s): East London, World
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern Day

In RIVER, a woman moves to a London suburb for reasons that are unclear. She takes long, solitary walks by the River Lea, observing and describing her surroundings and the unusual characters she encounters. Over the course of these...

River of Stars

River of Stars
  • Author(s): Georgina Moore
  • Location(s): Richmond-upon-Thames
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s / present

Jo hasn’t seen Oliver since that magical, life-changing summer when their idyllic island paradise was shattered. Growing up on Walnut Tree Island, they were everything to each other, defying a feud that fractured their families decades before. If first...

River Rats

River Rats
  • Author(s): Andy Griffee
  • Location(s): Bath
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Present day

A brilliantly evocative crime mystery set in the splendour of Georgian Bath, Somerset, UK. Jack Johnson has a talent for trouble – wherever he goes on his narrowboat, it seems to follow him. Moored up on the River Avon...

Riverflow

Riverflow
  • Author(s): Alison Layland
  • Location(s): Shropshire, Ceredigion, Welsh Borders
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller, Cli-fi
  • Era(s): Contemporary

“No longer the benign friend of summer, the Severn was a restless dragon slithering its way past” After a beloved family member is drowned in a devastating flood, all Bede and Elin Sherwell want is peace to pursue their...

Robert Baden-Powell: A Biography – foreword by Bear Grylls OBE

Robert Baden-Powell: A Biography – foreword by Bear Grylls OBE
  • Author(s): Lorraine Gibson
  • Location(s): Africa, Afghanistan, India, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Biography
  • Era(s): 1857 to present day

Robert Baden-Powell was Britain’s first celebrity. A conflicted character – militarist and pacifist, macho man and drag artist, elitist and socialist – he was one of the 20th century’s most influential and, latterly, controversial Englishmen, finding fame not once,...

Rodinsky’s Room

Rodinsky’s Room
  • Author(s): Iain Sinclair, Rachel Lichtenstein
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Biography, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

David Rodinsky lived above a synagogue in the heart of the old Jewish East End of London, and sometime in the late 1960s he disappeared. His room, a chaos of writings, annotated books and maps, gramophone records and clothes,...

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