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Rose and Renzo

Rose and Renzo
  • Author(s): Carolyn O'Brien
  • Location(s): Manchester
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 1930s

Manchester, 1936 Fascism looms in Europe, and Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts are on the rise. Meanwhile, aspiring artist Rose is drawn to an unlikely stranger, unaware her future is about to be caught up in the growing storm. Facing straitened...

Roses for Sophie

Roses for Sophie
  • Author(s): Alyssa J Montgomery
  • Location(s): Hunter Valley, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Romance

From the polished, pacy, passionate pen of Alyssa J Montgomery come a delicious billionaire, a mining heiress, a marriage of convenience and a very inconvenient attraction. To convince the court that his playboy days are over and to keep...

Rotes Gold

Rotes Gold
  • Author(s): Tom Hillenbrand
  • Location(s): Luxembourg, Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

“Tom Hillenbrand regt genussvoll den Appetit der Krimileser an.” Die Welt. Seit der Luxemburger Koch Xavier Kieffer mit Frankreichs berühmtester Gastrokritikerin liiert ist, wird er zu den exklusivsten Events eingeladen. Doch das edle Dinner beim Pariser Bürgermeister endet bereits...

Route 66

Route 66
  • Author(s): Billy Connolly
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Billy Connolly, music-lover, biker, and scourge of the beige and the bland the world over, has dreamed about taking a trip on the legendary Route 66 since he first heard Chuck Berry belting out one of the greatest rock...

Ru

Ru
  • Author(s): Kim Thuy
  • Location(s): Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Malaysia (Malaya), Montreal
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 1970s onwards

Ru: In Vietnamese it means lullaby: in French it is a small stream, but also signifies a flow – of tears, blood, money. Kim Thúy’s Ru is literature at its most crystalline: the flow of a life on the...

Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic

Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic
  • Author(s): Tom Holland
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): Roman Republic

An accessible book about this period of the Roman Republic, instructive and well written.

Rules of Civility

Rules of Civility
  • Author(s): Amor Towles
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1930s

Set in New York City in 1938, Rules of Civility tells the story of a watershed year in the life of an uncompromising twenty-five-year- old named Katey Kontent. Armed with little more than a formidable intellect, a bracing wit,...

Runaway Summer

Runaway Summer
  • Author(s): Ruth Saberton
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Since leaving Polwenna Bay for the bright lights of London, actress Summer Penhalligan has tried her hardest to never look back; Jake, her childhood sweetheart, let her down terribly and the beautiful Cornish village holds nothing but painful memories....

Running for the Hills

Running for the Hills
  • Author(s): Horatio Clare
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Second haf 20th Century

When Jenny and Robert fall in love in the late 1960s they decide to build a new future together, away from the city. They escape to an isolated sheep farm nestled on a mountainside. It has no running water...

Running Haunted

Running Haunted
  • Author(s): Effrosyni Moschoudi
  • Location(s): Nafplio
  • Genre(s): Comedy, Paranormal, Romance
  • Era(s): contemporary

Kelly ran a marathon… and wound up running a house. With a ghost in it. Kelly Mellios is a stunning, athletic woman, who has learned–the hard way–to value herself. Having just finished her first marathon in the alluring Greek...

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