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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...

The Foundling’s Daughter

The Foundling’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Ann Bennett
  • Location(s): India, Berkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930's/Present day

In 1934, Anna Foster, the young wife of a British Army Officer, privately harbouring pain and remorse, sets sail from Bombay on a fateful journey home, a letter from a charismatic stranger – orphanage superintendent, Reverend Ezra Burroughs –...

The Fountains of Silence

The Fountains of Silence
  • Author(s): Ruta Sepetys
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1957

Madrid, 1957. Tourists and foreign businessmen flood into Spain under the welcoming guise of sunshine and wine while Spanish citizens are gripped by a dark secret. Daniel Matheson, the son of an oil tycoon, hopes to connect with the...

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