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The Forgotten Village

The Forgotten Village
  • Author(s): Lorna Cook
  • Location(s): Dorset
  • Genre(s): Romance, Historical, Suspense
  • Era(s): 1943 and 2018

1943: The world is at war, and the villagers of Tyneham are being asked to make one more sacrifice: to give their homes over to the British army. But on the eve of their departure, a terrible act will...

The Forrests

The Forrests
  • Author(s): Emily Perkins
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Auckland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

Dorothy Forrest is immersed in the sensory world around her; she lives in the flickering moment. From the age of seven, when her odd, disenfranchised family moves from New York City to the wide skies of Auckland, to the...

The Fort

The Fort
  • Author(s): Adrian Goldsworthy
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): AD 105

The Dacian kingdom and Rome are at peace, but no one thinks that it will last. Sent to command an isolated fort beyond the Danube, centurion Flavius Ferox can sense that war is coming, but also knows that enemies...

The Fortunate Pilgrim

The Fortunate Pilgrim
  • Author(s): Mario Puzo
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Before The Godfather and The Last Don, there was Puzo’s classic story about the loves, crimes and struggles confronted by one family of New York City immigrants living in Hell’s Kitchen. Fresh from the farms in Italy, Lucia Santa...

The Fortune Hotel: The Official Puzzle Book

The Fortune Hotel: The Official Puzzle Book
  • Author(s): The Fortune Hotel
  • Location(s): Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Puzzle
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Set foot on the white sands of the Caribbean and spend seven days solving a series of puzzles and challenges. With the gloss and glamour of The White Lotus and the skullduggery of Traitors, The Fortune Hotel: The Official...

The Fortune Men

The Fortune Men
  • Author(s): Nadifa Mohamed
  • Location(s): Cardiff
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

The story of a murder, a miscarriage of justice, and a man too innocent for his times . . . Mahmood Mattan is a fixture in Cardiff’s Tiger Bay, 1952, which bustles with Somali and West Indian sailors, Maltese...

The Fortune Teller of Kathmandu

The Fortune Teller of Kathmandu
  • Author(s): Ann Bennett
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar), Darjeeling, Kathmandu
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

A sweeping wartime tale of secrets and love, mystery and redemption, moving from the snow-capped Himalayas to the steamy heat of battle in the Burmese jungle. Perfect for fans of Dinah Jeffries, Victoria Hislop and Rosie Thomas. Hampshire, UK,...

The Forty Days of Musa Dagh

The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
  • Author(s): Franz Werfel
  • Location(s): Armenia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1915

‘Musa Dagh stood beyond the world. No storm would reach it, even if one should break’ It is 1915 and Gabriel has returned to his childhood home, an Armenian village on the slopes of Musa Dagh. But things are...

The Forty Rules of Love

The Forty Rules of Love
  • Author(s): Elif Shafak
  • Location(s): Türkiye (Turkey), Iraq, Massachusetts
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

“Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven’t loved enough…” Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant...

The Foundling

The Foundling
  • Author(s): Stacey Halls
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1750s

London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter Clara at London’s Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim the child she has never known. Dreading the worst, that Clara has died in care, Bess is astonished to be...

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