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The Exiled (Anna Fekete)

The Exiled (Anna Fekete)
  • Author(s): Kati Hiekkapelto
  • Location(s): Serbia
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Murder. Corruption. Dark secrets. A titanic wave of refugees. Can Anna solve a terrifying case that’s become personal? Anna Fekete returns to the Balkan village of her birth for a relaxing summer holiday. But when her purse is stolen...

The Expatriates

The Expatriates
  • Author(s): Janice Y K Lee
  • Location(s): Hong Kong
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Set in present-day Hong Kong, The Expatriates follows the lives of three women. An unspeakable tragedy leaves twenty-something Mercy with a crippling personal inertia, and Margaret, a mother of three, numb and unable to heal. In the same small expatriate community,...

The Fall of the Stone City

The Fall of the Stone City
  • Author(s): Ismail Kadare
  • Location(s): Gjirokaster
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

In September 1943, German soldiers advance on the ancient gates of Gjirokaster, Albania. It is the first step in a carefully planned invasion. But once at the mouth of the city, the troops are taken aback by a surprising...

The Falls

The Falls
  • Author(s): Ian Rankin
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

When a student vanishes in Edinburgh, there is pressure on Rebus to find her, particularly as she is the scion of a family of extremely rich bankers. Needless to say, this is more than just the case of a...

The Far Field

The Far Field
  • Author(s): Madhuri Vijay
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An elegant, epic debut novel that follows one young woman’s search for a lost figure from her childhood, a journey that takes her from Southern India to Kashmir and to the brink of a devastating political and personal reckoning....

The Far Side of the Sun

The Far Side of the Sun
  • Author(s): Kate Furnivall
  • Location(s): Nassau
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

Twenty-three-year-old Dodie Wyatt thought she had escaped her turbulent past – but one night her peace is shattered when she chooses to help a man she finds stabbed in an alleyway. On the other side of Nassau, wealthy diplomat’s...

The Fear Index

The Fear Index
  • Author(s): Robert Harris
  • Location(s): Geneva
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 6.5.2010 (British General Election day)

With his eighth novel, but only his second set in the present day (after “Ghost”), Robert Harris will surely notch up another international bestseller. Alex Hoffman, a Geneva-based scientist turned hedge-fund supremo, has the Midas touch. But when he...

The Fear: The Last Days of Robert Mugabe

The Fear: The Last Days of Robert Mugabe
  • Author(s): Peter Godwin
  • Location(s): Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2008

Peter Godwin travels to Zimbabwe after the 2008 elections in the hope that he will witness the Mugabe, but witnesses instead the more violence orchestrated by the regime. The increased terror is a result of the fact people dared...

The Fencing Master

The Fencing Master
  • Author(s): Arturo Pérez-Reverte
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1860s

Plots abound in the Madrid of 1868. Everyone is discussing them apart from the fencing master, Don Jaime, currently working on the Treatise on the Art of Fencing. Dark violence crosses his path when he is approached by a...

The Fever Tree

The Fever Tree
  • Author(s): Jennifer McVeigh
  • Location(s): England, South Africa
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1878

1880, South Africa – a land torn apart by greed… Frances Irvine, left penniless after her father’s sudden death, is forced to emigrate to the Cape. In this barren country, she meets two very different men – one driven...

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