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The Forgiven

The Forgiven
  • Author(s): Lawrence Osborne
  • Location(s): Morocco
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

David and Jo Henniger, a doctor and children’s book author, in search of an escape from their less than happy lives in London, accept the invitation of their old friends Richard and Dally to attend their annual bacchanal at...

The Fortnight in September

The Fortnight in September
  • Author(s): R C Sheriff
  • Location(s): Bognor Regis
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

Domestic life at 22 Corunna Road in Dulwich, is exchanged for a train journey via Clapham Junction to the south coast,two weeks living in lodgings and going to the beach every day. This is the story of one family’s...

The Fortress

The Fortress
  • Author(s): Hugh Walpole
  • Location(s): The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1720-1930

The third in the Heries Chronicles….It had been the wish of her whole life to flee from all the Herries, but Walter Herries had challenged her, and she had taken up the challenge’. Judith Paris, now middle aged returns...

The Fox

The Fox
  • Author(s): Sólveig Pálsdóttir, Quentin Bates (Translator)
  • Location(s): East Iceland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Noir
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Hoping to put behind him tragedy in his professional life and to resolve the turmoil in his personal life, Reykjavík police officer Guðgeir Fransson has moved as far away from home as he can, marking time in a dead-end...

The Fox Wife

The Fox Wife
  • Author(s): Yangsze Choo
  • Location(s): China, Japan, Northeast (Manchuria)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1900s

Manchuria, 1908: A young woman is found frozen in the snow. Her death is clouded by rumours of foxes, believed to lure people into peril by transforming into beautiful women and men. Bao, a detective with a reputation for...

The Fragile Ones

The Fragile Ones
  • Author(s): Jennifer Chase
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When the bodies of eleven and twelve-year-old sisters, Tessa and Megan, are found at the bottom of a ravine—dressed in matching pastel summer outfits, their small bodies broken from the fall—Detective Katie Scott is called to one of the...

The Frangipani Hotel

The Frangipani Hotel
  • Author(s): Violet Kupersmith
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

A beautiful young woman appears fully dressed in an overflowing bathtub at the Frangipani Hotel in Hanoi. A jaded teenage girl in Houston befriends an older Vietnamese gentleman she discovers naked behind a dumpster. A trucker in Saigon is...

The French Gardener

The French Gardener
  • Author(s): Santa Montefiore
  • Location(s): Dorset
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Married couple, Miranda and David, move out of London into a beautiful country house with an idyllic garden. But reality turns out to be very different from their bucolic dream. Soon the latent unhappiness in the family begins to...

The French Postmistress

The French Postmistress
  • Author(s): Julia Stagg
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

When her post office burns down, postmistress Veronique starts lobbying for its replacement. But her fellow residents of the small commune of Fogas in the French Pyrenees are too preoccupied to rally to her cause. Mayor Serge Papon, overwhelmed...

The Friend Zone Experiment

The Friend Zone Experiment
  • Author(s): Zen Cho
  • Location(s): London, Singapore
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Present day

From the renowned, award-winning author Zen Cho comes a delightfully funny romance about family, class, and love in modern London. From the outside, Renee Goh’s life looks perfect. She’s thirty and beautiful, running a glamorous–and successful–fashion company in London,...

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