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The Raiders and the Cross

The Raiders and the Cross
  • Author(s): Patrick Larsimont
  • Location(s): London, Malta, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

Jox may have survived the Battle of Britain, but this war isn’t over yet… Winter, 1940 Enemy raiders are bombing Britain’s cities relentlessly. Casualties are high and morale is at an all-time low. Jox McNabb and the rest of...

The Railway Girls

The Railway Girls
  • Author(s): Leah Fleming
  • Location(s): West Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th century

Deep in the dales of the West Riding Fells lies Scarsbeck, a remote village peopled by a close-knit community of colourful characters: Ellie Birkett, steadfastly resisting her mother’s attempts to marry her off; Vicar Hardy, wrestling with the temptations...

The Rapunzel Act

The Rapunzel Act
  • Author(s): Abi Silver
  • Location(s): East London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Breakfast TV host and nation’s darling, Rosie Harper, is found brutally murdered at home, suspicion falls on her spouse, formerly international football star, Danny walks on water Mallard, now living out of the public eye as trans woman,...

The Reacher Guy: The Authorised Biography of Lee Child

The Reacher Guy: The Authorised Biography of Lee Child
  • Author(s): Heather Martin
  • Location(s): Kirkby Lonsdale, Belfast, The Midlands, United States (USA), Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): Present

Lee Child is the enigmatic powerhouse behind the bestselling Jack Reacher novels. With millions of devoted fans across the globe, and over a hundred million copies of his books sold in more than forty languages, he is that rarity,...

The Reading Party

The Reading Party
  • Author(s): Fenella Gentleman
  • Location(s): Oxford, Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

It is the 1970s and and Oxford’s male-dominated institutions are finally opening their doors to women… Sarah Addleshaw is a young and spirited academic, determined to prove her worth as she starts term as her college’s first and only...

The Redeemed

The Redeemed
  • Author(s): Tim Pears
  • Location(s): The West Country
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW1 on

It is 1916. The world has gone to war, and young Leo Sercombe, hauling coal aboard the HMS Queen Mary, is a long way from home. The wild, unchanging West Country roads of his boyhood seem very far away...

The Reluctant Gardener

The Reluctant Gardener
  • Author(s): Marek Z Turner
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Some gardens grow flowers. Some grow secrets. In the small Devon town of Ivybridge, recently widowed Reg Burridge shuffles through his quiet routines, he expects to experience grief, not fear. But when a small act of kindness spirals into...

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 Resort

The Resort
  • Author(s): Sue Watson
  • Location(s): South Devon
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a dream trip becomes your worst nightmare… You’ve been excited about this getaway for months – at last, a chance to reconnect with your husband at a secluded island resort. But when he unexpectedly calls you from the...

The Rest is Silence

The Rest is Silence
  • Author(s): Kevin Scully
  • Location(s): New South Wales, Bethnal Green, Dorset
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s to 2000s

A monastery is dying.Brother Columba and his frail Abbot face the task of having to leave the rural sanctuary that has been home to an order of monks since its foundation to live in a care home in inner-city...

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