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THE FAMILY MAN

THE FAMILY MAN
  • Author(s): Anna Willett
  • Location(s): Western Australia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

Utterly gripping crime fiction… A householder who is clearing out the loft comes across a carefully concealed box containing a video camera. When he plugs it in, unsure due to its age that it will even play, what he...

The Family Upstairs

The Family Upstairs
  • Author(s): Lisa Jewell
  • Location(s): Chelsea
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In a large house in London’s fashionable Chelsea, a baby is awake in her cot. Well-fed and cared for, she is happily waiting for someone to pick her up. In the kitchen lie three decomposing corpses. Close to them...

The Famished Road

The Famished Road
  • Author(s): Ben Okri
  • Location(s): Nigeria
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The narrator, Azaro, is an abiku, a spirit child, who in the Yoruba tradition of Nigeria exists between life and death. He is born into a world of poverty, ignorance and injustice, but Azaro awakens with a smile on...

The Fantastic Book of Everybody’s Secrets

The Fantastic Book of Everybody’s Secrets
  • Author(s): Sophie Hannah
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Everybody has their secrets, and in Sophie Hannah’s fantastic stories the curtains positively twitch with them. Who, for instance, is the hooded figure hiding in the bushes outside a young man’s house? Why does the same stranger keep appearing...

The Far Cry

The Far Cry
  • Author(s): Emma Smith
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

This ‘savage comedy with a vicious streak’ (Elizabeth Bowen in “The Tatler” in 1949) describes the ‘second passage to India’ of ‘Teresa, whose elderly, willful father drags her off to spare her from the clutches of her mother…I can...

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...

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