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The Forgotten Seamstress

The Forgotten Seamstress
  • Author(s): Liz Trenow
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1914

A stunning novel set in the Edwardian era about a seamstress working at Buckingham Palace. Full of drama, betrayal and addictive real-life detail – The Forgotten Seamstress by Liz Trenow is perfect for fans of Kate Morton and Joanne...

The Fort

The Fort
  • Author(s): Bernard Cornwell
  • Location(s): Massachusetts
  • Genre(s): Historical

The story is set principally about the Americans attempting to dislodge a British incursion at Majabigwaduce, Massachusetts, Summer 1779. Seven hundred and fifty British soldiers and three small ships of the Royal Navy. Their orders: to build a fort...

The Fortress of Solitude

The Fortress of Solitude
  • Author(s): Jonathan Lethem
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century

Dean Street, Brooklyn. When Abraham and Rachel Ebdus arrive there in the early 1970s, they are among the first whites to venture into a mainly black neighborhood that is just beginning to be called Boerum Hill.

The Fours Seasons

The Fours Seasons
  • Author(s): Laurel Corona
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 18th Century

Chiaretta and Maddalena are as different as night and day. They were abandoned at birth outside the steps of the Ospedale della Pieta, Venice’s world-famous foundling hospital and musical academy. Rebellious Chiaretta develops into a dazzling singer, soon becoming...

The French House

The French House
  • Author(s): Nick Alexander
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

CC is trapped by a job she no longer loves in an unfriendly city. So when her new boyfriend decides it’s time to sell up and move to the South of France, she decides in seconds to change her...

The French Lieutenant’s Woman

The French Lieutenant’s Woman
  • Author(s): John Fowles
  • Location(s): Exeter, Lyme Regis
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Mid 1800s

Sarah Woodruff is the woman of the title, the French Lieutenant’s Woman, also known as the “Tragedy”. She lives in the coastal town of Lyme Regis, as a disgraced woman, supposedly abandoned by a French naval officer named Varguennes,...

The Fury

The Fury
  • Author(s): Alex Michaelides
  • Location(s): The Cyclades
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

There were seven of us in all, trapped on the island.One of us was a murderer . . .’ On a small private Greek island, former movie star Lana Farrar – an old friend – invites a select group...

The Gannet has Landed

The Gannet has Landed
  • Author(s): Peter Kerr
  • Location(s): Mallorca
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The story follows Scottish would-be-vet, Doogie O’Mara as he takes up a position with a UK tour operator based on the island. Fiction as real life….

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
  • Author(s): Girogio Bassani
  • Location(s): Ferrara
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1930s

This is a haunting, elegiac novel which captures the mood and atmosphere of Italy (and in particular Ferrara) in the last summers of the thirties, focusing on an aristocratic Jewish family moving imperceptibly towards its doom. Vittorio De Sica...

The Getaway

The Getaway
  • Author(s): Ross Armstrong
  • Location(s): Aegean Sea
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One private island. Seven guests. One killer… The perfect holiday. The perfect murder. The perfect beach read… Get away from your problems. Multimillionaire Robert Rathwell and his entourage arrive at their private Greek island. White sand, turquoise water, the...

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