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Promised Lands

Promised Lands
  • Author(s): Jane Rogers
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Turn of the 18th Century and Modern

Modern day Steven is writing the story of William Dawes, who is one of the first Englishmen to set foot on Australia. His mission is to set up an astrological observatory to study the skies in the southern hemisphere....

Queen of America

Queen of America
  • Author(s): Luis Alberto Urrea
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Turn of the 20th Century

After the bloody Tomochic rebellion, Teresita Urrea, beloved healer and ‘Saint of Cabora,’ flees with her father to Arizona. But their plans are derailed when she once again is claimed as the spiritual leader of the Mexican Revolution. Besieged...

Raising the Dead

Raising the Dead
  • Author(s): Phillip Finch
  • Location(s): Kalahari Desert
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

A true story of death and survival in the world’s most dangerous sport, cave diving. Two friends plunge 900 ft deep into the water of the Komali Springs in South Africa, to raise the body of a diver who...

Reckless Weekend

Reckless Weekend
  • Author(s): Eden Summers
  • Location(s): Las Vegas
  • Genre(s): Romance

In Vegas, a lot can happen in twenty-four hours. What do you get when you mix a rock band as hot as Reckless Beat, women strong enough to capture several of the bad boys’ hearts, and a bet that...

Red Sky in Morning

Red Sky in Morning
  • Author(s): Paul Lynch
  • Location(s): County Donegal, New Mexico
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1800s

Spring 1832: Donegal, north west Ireland. Coll Coyle wakes to a blood dawn and a day he does not want to face. The young father stands to lose everything on account of the cruel intentions of his landowner’s heedless...

Rewitched

Rewitched
  • Author(s): Lucy Jane Wood
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Paranormal
  • Era(s): Contemporary

With found family, a dash of romance and an uplifting message about self-love, Rewitched is a cosy autumnal fantasy that will leave readers spellbound. Belladonna Blackthorn hasn’t lost her magical spark, but she hasn’t seen it in a while...

Risky Business

Risky Business
  • Author(s): Nora Roberts
  • Location(s): Acapulco, Cozumel
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Cozumel had been home to Liz Palmer for ten years. She was settled, respected. Her Black Coral Dive Shop was the best on the island. She no longer missed Houston, or thought about the man who didn’t want her...

Rory Bean and the Reluctant Ghosts

Rory Bean and the Reluctant Ghosts
  • Author(s): Trudie Thomas, Caryn Schafer (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Pentrebach
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Rory’s parents own and run The Gruffydd Arms in a quiet village in South Wales. It is twelve-year-old Rory’s home, and he loves living in it. So, when a ‘for sale’ sign appears, Rory is devastated. Rory’s parents aren’t...

Rush of Blood

Rush of Blood
  • Author(s): Mark Billingham
  • Location(s): England, Florida
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Perfect strangers. A perfect holiday. The perfect murder… Three couples meet around the pool on their Florida holiday and become fast friends. But on their last night, their perfect holiday takes a tragic twist: the teenage daughter of another...

Sacred Hearts

Sacred Hearts
  • Author(s): Sarah Dunant
  • Location(s): Ferrara
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1570s

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