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The Royal Rebel: The Life of Suffragette Princess Sophia Duleep Singh

The Royal Rebel: The Life of Suffragette Princess Sophia Duleep Singh
  • Author(s): Bali Rai, Rachael Dean (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): India, England
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 19th century, 20th century

Rebel, Princess, Suffragette: this is the incredible true story of the life of Princess Sophia Duleep Singh, a forgotten heroine of the early twentieth century. Born in 1876, Princess Sophia Duleep Singh was the daughter of the last Sikh...

The Runaway Bride

The Runaway Bride
  • Author(s): Mary Jayne Baker
  • Location(s): Yorkshire Dales
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Here comes the bride… but how long can she hide? When Kitty Clayton flees her wedding, her life seems worryingly futureless. All she knows is she’d rather sleep on the streets than go back to cheating Ethan. After picking...

The Runaway Bridesmaid

The Runaway Bridesmaid
  • Author(s): Daisy James
  • Location(s): Devon, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Squeezing herself into a frothy, flouncy, bubble-gum pink dress, Rosie Hamilton thinks that being a bridesmaid for her spoilt little sister Freya can’t get any worse. But discovering her boyfriend in a cupboard with the bride, ten minutes before...

The Runaway Ex

The Runaway Ex
  • Author(s): Shani Struthers
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

The Runaways are back… For Layla Lewis, life is finally back on track. After her “runaway year” in Cornwall, another year has passed—an idyllic year spent with sexy new love, Joseph Scott, in the sultry heat of Florence. For...

The Runaway Husband

The Runaway Husband
  • Author(s): Julie Highmore
  • Location(s): Oxford
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

More side-splitting amateur sleuthing in Oxford… Private eye Edie Fox wishes she could be half as glamorous and successful as her new client, Jessica Relish, who comes into her floundering detective agency in search of her missing husband Hugh....

The Runaways

The Runaways
  • Author(s): Holly Webb
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): WW2, 1930s

Written by bestselling author Holly Webb, The Runaways beautifully captures the spirit of Great Britain during the Second World War, weaving together themes of resilience, identity and what it means to call a place your home. It’s London in...

The Running Grave

The Running Grave
  • Author(s): Robert Galbraith
  • Location(s): Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Cormoran Strike Book 7 Private Detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son, Will, has gone to join a religious cult in the depths of the Norfolk countryside. The Universal Humanitarian Church is, on the surface,...

The Russian Lieutenant

The Russian Lieutenant
  • Author(s): Peter Marshall
  • Location(s): Portsmouth
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a Russian warship arrives in Portsmouth Dockyard, a handsome uniformed officer strides down the gangway to meet Marina Peters, an English girl of Russian ancestry, who had discovered him on a dating website. She works for the Royal...

The Salt Marsh

The Salt Marsh
  • Author(s): Clare Carson
  • Location(s): Kent, Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary/Cold War

Sam Coyle’s father lived in the shadows – an undercover agent among the spies and radicals of Cold War London. That world claimed his life, and Sam is haunted by his absence. He left nothing behind but his enemies;...

The Sandglass

The Sandglass
  • Author(s): Romesh Gunesekera
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon), London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

The Sandglass tells the story of two feuding families whose lives are interlinked by the changing fortunes of postcolonial Sri Lanka. Moving back and forth between London and Sri Lanka, the novel brings to life Prins Ducal and his...

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