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Fairytale of New York

Fairytale of New York
  • Author(s): Miranda Dickinson
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Are happy-ever-afters made in Manhattan? Find out in this gorgeous debut, perfect for cold winter nights. Once upon a time an English girl went to New York to live out her very own fairytale… Florist Rosie Duncan’s life couldn’t...

Falling

Falling
  • Author(s): T J Newman
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

You just boarded a flight to New York. There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard. What you don’t know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot’s family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone on your plane...

Fates and Furies

Fates and Furies
  • Author(s): Lauren Groff
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

AMAZON.COM’s 2015 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER BARACK OBAMA’S BOOK OF THE YEAR A FINALIST FOR THE 2015 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD Every story has two sides....

Fight Club

Fight Club
  • Author(s): Chuck Palahniuk
  • Location(s): Wilmington
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded for as long as they have to. Then they...

Final Passage

Final Passage
  • Author(s): Timothy Frost
  • Location(s): St Lucia, The Atlantic Ocean
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

When Martin Lancaster was eighteen, his father was tragically lost at sea during a transatlantic yacht race. Twenty-five years later, Martin discovers hidden logbooks in his mother’s attic, and vows to find out the truth. His quest takes him...

Fire Sale

Fire Sale
  • Author(s): Sara Paretsky
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

South Chicago, an area with struggling families and lack of resources.V I Warschawski gets cajoled into coaching her old school’s basketball team. A parent asks to see her and then changes her mind – missing teenagers, exploding factory, a...

First Impressions

First Impressions
  • Author(s): Charlie Lovett
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A novel about old books, young love and Jane Austen written by a former antiquarian bookseller. Book lover and Jane Austen enthusiast Sophie Collingwood has barely started her new job at an antiquarian bookshop in London when two different...

First Lie Wins

First Lie Wins
  • Author(s): Ashley Elston
  • Location(s): Louisiana, The American South
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Everything she is about to tell them is a lie… Evie Porter has everything a girl could want: a doting boyfriend, a house with a picket fence, a fun group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn’t exist....

Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight

Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight
  • Author(s): Riku Onda, Alison Watts (translator)
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): In Translation, Fiction, Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The WSJ commented: “Part psychological thriller, part murder mystery-it is audacious in conception and brilliant in execution.” The Globe and Mail said the book was “emerging as one of the most praised novels of the year.” Set in a...

From a Persian Tea House

From a Persian Tea House
  • Author(s): Michael Carroll
  • Location(s): Iran
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1950s

Drawn to the exoticism and mystery of names on a map of Iran – Isfahan, Shiraz, Meshed, Kerman, Khorassan – Michael Carroll embarked on a journey that took him through the heart of the country from the Taurus mountains...

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