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Return of a King

Return of a King
  • Author(s): William Dalrymple
  • Location(s): Afghanistan
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

In the spring of 1839, the British invaded Afghanistan for the first time. Led by lancers in scarlet cloaks and plumed shakos, nearly 20,000 British and East India Company troops poured through the high mountain passes and re-established on...

Return to the Olive Farm

Return to the Olive Farm
  • Author(s): Carol Drinkwater
  • Location(s): Le Cannet
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

After sixteen months of travelling round the Mediterranean in search of the ancient secrets of the olive tree, Carol returns to her beloved olive farm in the south of France, to her husband Michel and his burgeoning family. However,...

Reunited in the Desert

Reunited in the Desert
  • Author(s): Helle Amin
  • Location(s): Jeddah
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Modern

As I approached the house, I was gripped with terror. Call it a mother’s instinct, call it what you will. I knew that something terrible had happened. When I saw that my husband’s car had gone, I feared the...

Revenge

Revenge
  • Author(s): Dana Delamar
  • Location(s): Italy
  • Genre(s): Romance, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The first book in a proposed series. Kate is a young American woman who is married Vince Andretti, who is part of the “family”. she is drawn into a world that she has only heard about from the news...

Revenge of Rome

Revenge of Rome
  • Author(s): Simon Scarrow
  • Location(s): East Anglia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): AD61

(Eagles of the Empire 23) ROME AND BOUDICA. A DUEL TO THE DEATH. AD 61. Britannia is divided. The rebel horde has been defeated. But the leader, Boudica, and her remaining warriors are still at large. With them is...

Revolt

Revolt
  • Author(s): Qaisra Shahraz
  • Location(s): Pakistan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A multi-layered, multi-faceted story of love and loss, finding and losing, and mixed-race marriage, Revolt is the tale of three wealthy sisters and the problems that no amount of money can solve. There is a daughter, abandoned because of...

Revolution Earth

Revolution Earth
  • Author(s): Lambert Nagle
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Stephen Connor, trainee Metropolitan Police detective is first on the scene when a cyclist is killed in a seemingly ordinary hit-and-run. Just another tragedy on a London street? Nothing seems to trouble the killer, Big Oil PR Greg Palmer...

Rhodes to Romance

Rhodes to Romance
  • Author(s): Anna Pagram
  • Location(s): Rhodes
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Another compelling contemporary romance from Anna Pagram, RHODES TO ROMANCE follows the trials and tribulations of Amber Dudley as she struggles to come to terms with her sheltered upbringing and her fear of commitment. Dissatisfied with her life in...

Rico Stays (Pigeon-Blood Red #3)

Rico Stays (Pigeon-Blood Red #3)
  • Author(s): Ed Duncan
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After enforcer Richard “Rico” Sanders stepped in to protect his girlfriend from a local mob boss’s hot-headed nephew, all hell broke loose. When the smoke cleared, the nephew had vanished and three goons lay dying where they’d stood. Fighting...

Riding the Iron Rooster – By Train Through China

Riding the Iron Rooster – By Train Through China
  • Author(s): Paul Theroux
  • Location(s): China
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1980s

Paul Theroux left Victoria Station on a rainy Saturday in April thinking that taking eight trains across Europe, Eastern Europe, the USSR and Mongolia would be the easy way to get to the Chinese border – the relaxing way,...

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