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The Field

The Field
  • Author(s): Robert Seethaler
  • Location(s): Germany
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

If the dead could speak, what would they say to the living? From their graves in the field, the oldest part of Paulstadt’s cemetery, the town’s late inhabitants tell stories from their lives. Some recall just a moment, perhaps...

The Final Problem

The Final Problem
  • Author(s): Arturo Peréz-Reverte, Frances Riddle (Translator)
  • Location(s): Greek Islands
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 1960s

To catch a killer, one must act the part. Arriving on the Greek island of Utakos, ageing actor Ormond Basil hopes only for a holiday and perhaps finally to shed the mantle of his most famous role: world-renowned sleuth,...

The Final Round (DI Jim Garibaldi #1)

The Final Round (DI Jim Garibaldi #1)
  • Author(s): Bernard O'Keeffe
  • Location(s): Barnes, London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Introducing Detective DI Garibaldi, a country-music loving, self-educated detective, and the only cop in the Metropolitan Police who can’t drive a car. On the morning after Boat Race Day, a man’s body is found in a nature reserve beside...

The Final Warning

The Final Warning
  • Author(s): Peter Isdell-Carpenter
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Final Warning is an arresting and timely contemporary thriller from a master story-teller. Steeped in conspiracy, diverse characters and an incredibly deft knowledge of American consciousness, it is at times disturbing, at others heart-warming, at times light-hearted and...

The First Act of Summer

The First Act of Summer
  • Author(s): Joanna Glen
  • Location(s): Mudeford Spit
  • Genre(s): Historical, Coming of Age, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s to 2022

As children, Hester and Elias were inseparable. Every year, their families would spend the summer together at their beach huts on a wild and windswept sandbank, where the two of them never left each other’s side. But childhood friendships...

The First Blast of the Trumpet

The First Blast of the Trumpet
  • Author(s): Marie MacPherson
  • Location(s): East Lothian, Edinburgh, Fife
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 16th Century

Hailes Castle, 1511. Midnight on a doom-laden Hallowe’en and Elisabeth Hepburn, feisty daughter of the Earl of Bothwell, makes a wish – to wed her lover, the poet David Lindsay. But her uncle has other plans. To safeguard the...

The First Time I Said Goodbye

The First Time I Said Goodbye
  • Author(s): Claire Allan
  • Location(s): Derry (Londonderry)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 1959 and 2010

Would you hold on tighter if you knew you were saying goodbye forever? In 1959, factory girl Stella Hegarty finds herself falling unexpectedly for the charms of a handsome US marine based in Derry.Caught up in a whirlwind of...

The First Time I Saw Your Face

The First Time I Saw Your Face
  • Author(s): Hazel Osmond
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Jennifer had it all. Until a terrible accident took almost everything. When she moves back home, with her interfering ex right on the doorstep, the future doesn’t look that bright. Until she meets Mack. Sexy, dishevelled and just a...

The Flame Tree

The Flame Tree
  • Author(s): Keith Dahlberg
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Turn of 21st Century

Returning to Burma to teach for a month, Dr. George Daniels and his wife had not expected to get involved in a war. But a renegade colonel disrupts the balance of power between the military dictatorship and the insurgent...

The Flame Trees Of Thika

The Flame Trees Of Thika
  • Author(s): Elspeth Huxley
  • Location(s): Kenya
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

When Elspeth Huxley’s pioneer father buys a remote plot of land in Kenya, the family sets off to discover their new home: five hundred acres of Kenyan scrubland, infested with ticks and white ants, and quavering with heat. What...

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