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Sam Knight
The Premonitions BureauThe story of a strange experiment - a journey i...The story of a strange experiment - a journey into the oddest corners of 60s Britain and the outer edges of science and reason. Premonitions are impossible. But they come true all the time.You thin... -
Ariane Bankes
The Quality of Love : Twin Sisters at the Heart of the CenturyWhen her mother Celia Paget died, Ariane Bankes...When her mother Celia Paget died, Ariane Bankes inherited a battered trunk stuffed with letters and diaries belonging to Celia and her twin Mamaine. This correspondence charted the remarkable lives... -
Tess Gunty
The Rabbit HutchVacca Vale, Indiana: recently voted number 1 on...Vacca Vale, Indiana: recently voted number 1 on Newsweek's list of dying American cities. According to the developers, however, it's a city with a whole history of reinvention, one that 'buzzes wit... -
Theresa Breslin
The Rasputin DaggerRussia, 1916.Nina Ivanovna’s world is in turmoi...Russia, 1916.Nina Ivanovna’s world is in turmoil. Her only hope is to travel to St Petersburg, to escape the past and find a future.Stefan Kolodin is a medical student – young and idealistic, he wa... -
Philippe Sands
The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi FugitiveAs Governor of Galicia, SS Brigadefuhrer Otto F...As Governor of Galicia, SS Brigadefuhrer Otto Freiherr von Wachter presided over an authority on whose territory hundreds of thousands of Jews and Poles were killed, including the family of the aut... -
Sarah Thomas
The Raven's NestVisiting Iceland as an anthropologist and film-...Visiting Iceland as an anthropologist and film-maker in 2008, Sarah Thomas is spellbound by its otherworldly landscape. An immediate love for this country and for Bjarni, a man she meets there, tur... -
Rosemary Bythell
The Real Bride of LammermoorMany people consider The Bride of Lammermoor to...Many people consider The Bride of Lammermoor to be the best of Walter Scott's romantic novels despite its tragic circumstances. This is the true story of Janet Dalrymple who was the real Bride of B... -
Naoki Higashida , David Mitchell
The Reason I Jump: one boy's voice from the silence of autismWhat is it like to have autism? How can we know...What is it like to have autism? How can we know what a person - especially a child - with autism is thinking and feeling?This ground-breaking book, written by Naoki Higashida when he was only thirt... -
Maggie Gee
The Red ChildrenIt's the 2030s in Ramsgate and four people who ...It's the 2030s in Ramsgate and four people who don't look quite human are found sitting, naked, in the early spring sunlight on the quay of a quiet south coast resort. The locals are puzzled - the ... -
Tom Morgan-Jones
The Red DreadTHUMP THUMP. The Red Dread is on the loose and ...THUMP THUMP. The Red Dread is on the loose and Shrew and the other animals are afraid. From stolen nuts to missing rabbits, they whisper of the terrible actions of the Red Dread. As panic increases... -
Steve Brusatte
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to UsThe passing of the age of the dinosaurs allowed...The passing of the age of the dinosaurs allowed mammals to become ascendant. But mammals have a much deeper history. They – or, more precisely, we – originated around the same time as the dinosaurs... -
William Boyd
The RomanticSoldier. Farmer. Felon. Writer. Father. Lover. ...Soldier. Farmer. Felon. Writer. Father. Lover. One man, many lives. Born in 1799, Cashel Greville Ross experiences myriad lives: joyous and devastating, years of luck and unexpected loss. Moving fr...
