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Feldman in Love

Feldman in Love
  • Author(s): Stephen Chance
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): mid 20th century

McCarthyite witchhunts, the Rosenberg trial, the Korean War. This is the backdrop to the combative friendship between two creatives; Morton Feldman and Philip Guston. Feldman, musical pioneer with a genius often derided in his lifetime, left a remarkable sonic...

Fifty Fifty

Fifty Fifty
  • Author(s): Steve Cavanagh
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Two sisters on trial for murder. Both accuse each other. Who do YOU believe? Alexandra Avellino has just found her father’s mutilated body, and needs the police right away. She believes her sister killed him, and that she is...

Five Stories

Five Stories
  • Author(s): Ellen Weinstein
  • Location(s): Lower East Side
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Five children, from five different cultures and in five different decades, grow up in the same building on the Lower East Side of New York City. Jenny Epstein and her family arrive on a steamship from Russia in the 1910s....

Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London

Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London
  • Author(s): Lauren Elkin
  • Location(s): Paris, London, New York City (NYC), Tokyo, Venice
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Flâneuse , noun, from the French. Feminine form of flâneur , an idler, a dawdling observer, usually found in cities. That is an imaginary definition.’ If the word flâneur conjures up visions of Baudelaire, boulevards and bohemia – then...

Flat Earth

Flat Earth
  • Author(s): Anika Jade Levy
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Avery is flailing financially and emotionally. Struggling with graduate school and the collection of cultural reports she is supposed to be writing, she dates older men for money, and others for the oblivion their egos offer. In desperation, she...

Following Frankenstein

Following Frankenstein
  • Author(s): Catherine Bruton
  • Location(s): Arctic, New York City (NYC), United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

A brilliantly-conceived and hugely imaginative ‘sequel’ to Mary Shelley’s masterpiece, Following Frankenstein is a hugely exciting and beautifully-written historical adventure, perfect for 9-12 year olds. Sometimes I was jealous of the monster of Frankenstein. I grew up believing my...

Forbidden Birth

Forbidden Birth
  • Author(s): William Rubin
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present Day

“Deep breaths filled my lungs as I purged the anxiety and fear that clawed at me from within.” Who was the serial killer… and why were our vics all missing the same body part?” Doctor Christopher Ravello is driven...

Fortune Favors the Dead

Fortune Favors the Dead
  • Author(s): Stephen Spotswood
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

The first in the brilliant new Pentecost and Parker series, FORTUNE FAVOURS THE DEAD is a hugely entertaining murder mystery set in 1940s New York City. New York, 1946. Lillian Pentecost is the most successful private detective in the...

Fourteen Days

Fourteen Days
  • Author(s): Margaret Atwood (Editor)
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2020

Set in a New York apartment building, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive novel with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of neighbours has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice – from...

Fox Hunter

Fox Hunter
  • Author(s): Zoë Sharp
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The dead man had not gone quietly… There was a time when I would have given everything I owned to be the one responsible for that.’ Charlie Fox will never forget the men who put a brutal end to...

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