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Lockdown

Lockdown
  • Author(s): Peter May
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Horror
  • Era(s): Modern

‘They said that twenty-five percent of the population would catch the flu. Between seventy and eighty percent of them would die. He had been directly exposed to it, and the odds weren’t good.’ A CITY IN QUARANTINE London, the...

London Belongs to Us

London Belongs to Us
  • Author(s): Sarra Manning
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Twelve hours, two boys, one girl . . . and a whole lot of hairspray. Seventeen-year-old Sunny’s always been a little bit of a pushover. But when she’s sent a picture of her boyfriend kissing another girl, she knows...

London, With Love

London, With Love
  • Author(s): Sarra Manning
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Turn of the 21st Century

London. Nine million people. Two hundred and seventy tube stations. Every day, thousands of chance encounters, first dates, goodbyes and happy ever afters. And for twenty years it’s been where one man and one woman can never get their...

Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria

Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria
  • Author(s): Noo Saro-Wiwa
  • Location(s): Nigeria
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Noo Saro-Wiwa was brought up in England, but every summer she was dragged back to Nigeria – a country she viewed as an annoying parallel universe where she had to relinquish all her creature comforts and sense of individuality....

Losing Venice

Losing Venice
  • Author(s): Scott Stavrou
  • Location(s): Venice, Hydra, Prague
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Surrounded by beauty, can you learn to live beautifully? Travel marketing executive Mark Vandermar leads an itinerant life. Elsewhere is where he calls home, so it’s no surprise when he’s called to Venice to help craft the Venice Tourism...

Lost Angels

Lost Angels
  • Author(s): Stacy Green
  • Location(s): Stillwater, Minnesota
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On her hands and knees, Nikki moved to the other side of the body. She couldn’t stop her fingers from trembling as she brushed the dark hair off the victim’s face. She couldn’t look away. “I know her…” When...

Lost in the Spanish Quarter

Lost in the Spanish Quarter
  • Author(s): Heddi Goodrich
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Told with intimacy and ferocity and set in the passionate and crumbling Spanish Quarter of Naples, comes a poignant tale of first love – of a place, of a person – where languages and cultures collide while dreams soar...

Love Among the Recipes

Love Among the Recipes
  • Author(s): Carol M Cram
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2017

Paris may be for lovers, but cookbook author Genna McGraw is definitely not looking for love. She’s looking for escape and she’s looking for a good runny Brie to pair with a smooth Bordeaux. Where better than Paris? In...

Love and Gelato

Love and Gelato
  • Author(s): Jenna Evans Welch
  • Location(s): Tuscany
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A summer in Italy turns into a road trip across Tuscany in this sweeping debut novel filled with romance, mystery, and adventure. Lina is spending the summer in Tuscany, but she isn t in the mood for Italy s...

Love and War in the Appenines

Love and War in the Appenines
  • Author(s): Eric Newby
  • Location(s): The Appenines
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): WW2

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