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The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted

The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted
  • Author(s): Bridget Asher
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

‘Every good love story has another love hiding within it’ Brokenhearted and still mourning the loss of her husband, Heidi travels with Abbott, her obsessive-compulsive eight-year-old son, and Charlotte, her jaded sixteen-year-old niece, to the small village of Puyloubier...

The Quality of Mercy

The Quality of Mercy
  • Author(s): Barry Unsworth
  • Location(s): Durham
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1760s

This novel stands alone, but is a sequel to Sacred Hunger. The book picks up in the Spring of 1767 and interweaves several lives, in the coal fields and in Durham. It is the spring of 1767, two years...

The Quest (Egyptian Series 4)

The Quest (Egyptian Series 4)
  • Author(s): Wilbur Smith
  • Location(s): Egypt
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): Ancient Egypt BC

Wilbur Smith returns with the eagerly awaited sequel to his thrilling Egyptian series. Following on from River God, The Seventh Scroll and Warlock, The Quest continues the story of the Warlock, Taita, wise in the lore of the ancient Gods and a master...

The Quiet Ones

The Quiet Ones
  • Author(s): Betsy Reavley
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 21st century

Who am I? This is the question Josie asks herself when a mysterious letter arrives. Then a brutal killing turns her world upside down. In order to make sense of the present, Josie must revisit her dark past. Who...

The Rabbit Factor

The Rabbit Factor
  • Author(s): Antti Tuomainen, David Hackston (Translator)
  • Location(s): Helsinki
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Just one spreadsheet away from chaos… What makes life perfect? Insurance mathematician Henri Koskinen knows the answer because he calculates everything down to the very last decimal. And then, for the first time, Henri is faced with the incalculable....

The Reaper

The Reaper
  • Author(s): Steven Dunne
  • Location(s): Derby
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

A damaged detective. A case he’s trying to forget. A killer who won’t let him… Detective Inspector Damen Brook thinks he’s left his past behind him in London. But it seems a serial killer has followed him north… Brook’s...

The Red Coffin

The Red Coffin
  • Author(s): Sam Eastland
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1939

It is 1939. The world stands on the brink of Armageddon. In the Soviet Union, years of revolution, fear and persecution have left the country unprepared to face the onslaught of Nazi Germany. For the coming battles, Stalin has...

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

The Reluctant Fundamentalist
  • Author(s): Mohsin Hamid
  • Location(s): Lahore
  • Genre(s): Novella
  • Era(s): Modern

The setting is Anarkali a district in Lahore, Pakistan. The Reluctant Fundamentalist is Mohsin Hamid’s thrillingly provocative international bestseller,shortlisted for the Man Booker prize in 2007. ‘Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I...

The Reluctant Hero

The Reluctant Hero
  • Author(s): Michael Dobbs
  • Location(s): Kyrgyzstan
  • Genre(s): Thriller

Set in a fictional country, but essentially Kyrgyzstan. When Harry Jones discovers that former friend Zac Kravitz’s life is in danger, a debt of honour sends him on a perilous rescue mission to Kargistan, a mountainous and landlocked former...

The Reluctant Pirate

The Reluctant Pirate
  • Author(s): John Guy
  • Location(s): Somalia
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

This fast-paced thriller follows Abdi, a Somali boy brought up in the UK, as he is sucked into a pirate gang in Somalia. Tension builds as Islamic militias and the pirates fight over a ship held to ransom while...

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