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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...

Ridley Road

Ridley Road
  • Author(s): Jo Bloom
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Soho. Summer, 1962. Twenty-year-old Vivien Epstein, a Jewish hairdresser from Manchester, arrives in London following the death of her father. Alone in the world, she is looking for Jack Fox, a man she had a brief but intense love...

River of Destiny

River of Destiny
  • Author(s): Barbara Erskine
  • Location(s): Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern/past

An Anglo Saxon burial ground that must not be disturbed. A Victorian tragedy of forbidden love. And an ancient curse whose power grows ever stronger… On the banks of the River Deben lies a set of barns dating back...

Rogue Herries

Rogue Herries
  • Author(s): Hugh Walpole
  • Location(s): The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1720-1930

Rogue Herries tells the story of the larger than life Francis Herries who uproots his family from Yorkshire and brings them to live in Borrowdale where their life is as dramatic as the landscape surrounding them. Proud, violent and...

Room 706

Room 706
  • Author(s): Ellie Levenson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Kate stretches her legs and turns on the TV while James washes away the traces of their morning. She watches in horror at the unfolding news: the hotel they are staying in has been taken under siege. She should...

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....

Sacred Hunger

Sacred Hunger
  • Author(s): Barry Unsworth
  • Location(s): England, West Africa
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1752-1765

Sacred Hunger races between gaudy mansions of the nouveau riche in the English countryside and the slave dealers abode in humid, hot West Africa. It concerns the entangled and conflicted fortunes of two cousins: Erasmus Kemp, the son of...

Sacrilege

Sacrilege
  • Author(s): S J Parris
  • Location(s): Canterbury, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1580s

Perfect for fans of C.J. Sansom and The Name of the Rose, the third historical thriller featuring Giordano Bruno, heretic, philosopher and spy. In the pursuit of power, nothing is sacred… Summer, 1584. The Protestant Prince William of Orange...

Salaam Brick Lane

Salaam Brick Lane
  • Author(s): Tarquin Hall
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

After ten years living abroad, Tarquin Hall wanted to return to his native London. Lured by his nostalgia for a leafy suburban childhood spent in south-west London, he returned with his Indian-born, American fiance in tow. But, priced out...

Salvation

Salvation
  • Author(s): Harriet Steel
  • Location(s): England, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Later 16th Century

The year is 1586. Tom Goodluck, lawyer’s clerk and aspiring playwright, is forced to leave his home in Salisbury when an enemy threatens to expose his affair with the wife of a wealthy merchant. At first his future in...

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