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The Far Pavilions

The Far Pavilions
  • Author(s): M M Kaye
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th Century

The Far Pavilions is the story of an English man – Ashton Pelham-Martyn – brought up as a Hindu. It is the story of his passionate, but dangerous love for Juli, an Indian princess. It is the story of...

The Farm

The Farm
  • Author(s): Hector Abad
  • Location(s): Colombia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When the Angel family’s beloved home in the Antioquian wilderness falls into danger, they manage to defend it against the guerrillas and, later, the paramilitaries – but at a high price. After their parents’ death, Pilar, Eva and Tono...

The Farm

The Farm
  • Author(s): Joanne Ramos
  • Location(s): The Hudson Valley
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Life is a lucrative business, as long as you play by the rules. Ambitious businesswoman Mae Yu runs Golden Oaks – a luxury retreat transforming the fertility industry. There, women get the very best of everything: organic meals, fitness...

The Farm at the Edge of the World

The Farm at the Edge of the World
  • Author(s): Sarah Vaughan
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day and 1943-4

A timeslip story about love, loss and forgiveness. Three generations of women; a secret to atone for; all played out on a stretch of north Cornish coast. 1939, and Will and Alice are evacuated to a granite farm in...

The Farmer Needs a Wife

The Farmer Needs a Wife
  • Author(s): Janet Gover
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Helen Woodley, editor of Australia’s top magazine, had no idea how successful her new column would be. Who knew that if the country’s lovelorn farmers were profiled each week, readers would queue up to date them? Get ready to...

The Farmyard Mystery

The Farmyard Mystery
  • Author(s): David Pearson
  • Location(s): Connemara
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

A man and his son are found dead in the small hours in front of their remote farmhouse. They have been stabbed. DI Martin O’Shea and DS Deirdre Maguire attend, but the motive for the killings elude them. Why...

The Farther Shore

The Farther Shore
  • Author(s): Matthew Eck
  • Location(s): Somalia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Narrated by a young soldier caught in the deadly fog of war, Eck’s first novel is a harrowing exploration of contemporary warfare. “What brought you here?” is the question asked of Eck’s young narrator, Joshua Stantz, from the army’s...

The Fascination

The Fascination
  • Author(s): Essie Fox
  • Location(s): Buckinghamshire, Herefordshire, London
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): !9th Century

Victorian England. A world of rural fairgrounds and glamorous London theatres. A world of dark secrets and deadly obsessions… Twin sisters Keziah and Tilly Lovell are identical in every way, except that Tilly hasn’t grown a single inch since...

The Fastest Boy in the World

The Fastest Boy in the World
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Laird
  • Location(s): Ethiopia
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Eleven-year-old Solomon loves to run! The great athletes of the Ethiopian national team are his heroes and he dreams that one day he will be a gold-medal-winning athlete like them, in spite of his ragged shorts and bare feet....

The Fat Man from La Paz

The Fat Man from La Paz
  • Author(s): Rosario Santos (Editor)
  • Location(s): Bolivia
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Later 20th/21st Century

The twenty stories collected in this volume offer not only a comprehensive look at the variety and invention of Bolivian literature, but also provide more information about the heart and soul of Bolivia than a warehouse full of news...

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