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The Foreshadowing

The Foreshadowing
  • Author(s): Marcus Sedgwick
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1915, WWI

Sasha can see the future. But can she use her power to save her brothers and change their destiny? A stunning World War One anniversary edition of the mesmerising novel from award-winning author, Marcus Sedgwick. It is 1915, WWI....

The Forest of Moon and Sword

The Forest of Moon and Sword
  • Author(s): Amy Raphael, August Ro (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): England, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Children, Fiction
  • Era(s): N/A

Twelve-year-old Art lives in a small village in Scotland. Her mother has always made potions that cure the sick, but now the townspeople say she is a witch. One cloudless night, Art’s mother is arrested and taken to England....

The Forgotten Crown

The Forgotten Crown
  • Author(s): James Haddell
  • Location(s): London, Glastonbury
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

“The time is now at hand for the Hallows of Arthur to be gathered. For unity not division; for love not war; for creation not destruction; for grace not law.” Tia Trevelyan’s quest to uncover the secrets of her...

The Forgotten Daughter

The Forgotten Daughter
  • Author(s): Mary Wood
  • Location(s): England, Belgium
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

The Forgotten Daughter by Mary Wood is the gripping first book in The Girls Who Went To War series. From a tender age, Flora felt unloved and unwanted by her parents, but she finds safety in the arms of...

The Forgotten Letters of Esther Durrant

The Forgotten Letters of Esther Durrant
  • Author(s): Kayte Nunn
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s onwards

An abandoned woman… 1951. Esther Durrant, a young mother, is committed to an asylum by her husband. Run by a pioneering psychiatrist, the hospital is at first Esther’s prison – but can captivity lead to freedom? A forbidden love…...

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 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 Four

The Four
  • Author(s): Ellie Keel
  • Location(s): North Devon
  • Genre(s): Noir, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

We were always The Four. From our very first day at High Realms. The four scholarship pupils. Outsiders in a world of power and privilege. It would have made our lives a lot easier if Marta had simply pushed...

The Four Swans: A Novel of Cornwall 1795-1797 (Poldark Book 6)

The Four Swans: A Novel of Cornwall 1795-1797 (Poldark Book 6)
  • Author(s): Winston Graham
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1790s

Cornwall 1795-1797. Although Ross Poldark – now something of a war hero – seems secure in his hard-won prosperity, a new dilemma faces him in the sudden infatuation of a young naval officer for his wife Demelza. All four...

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