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Lone Buffalo

Lone Buffalo
  • Author(s): C J C Whitehouse
  • Location(s): Laos
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century

Lone Buffalo is a fictionalised account of the life of a man who was born in the wrong place at the wrong time – northeastern Laos in the autumn of 1969. With the Secret War building to its climax,...

Lone Buffalo: conquering adversity in Laos, the land the West forgot

Lone Buffalo: conquering adversity in Laos, the land the West forgot
  • Author(s): C J C Whitehouse
  • Location(s): Laos
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1969

Lone Buffalo is a fictionalised account of the life of a man who was born in the wrong place at the wrong time – northeastern Laos in the autumn of 1969. With the Secret War building to its climax,...

Lone Rider

Lone Rider
  • Author(s): Elspeth Beard
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1980s

In 1982, at the age of just twenty-three and halfway through her architecture studies, Elspeth Beard left her family and friends in London and set off on a 35,000-mile solo adventure around the world on her 1974 BMW R60/6....

Lone Wolf in Jerusalem

Lone Wolf in Jerusalem
  • Author(s): Ehud Diskin
  • Location(s): Israel
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): post WW2

After losing his family to Hitler’s “final solution,” young David Gabinski leads a courageous group of Jewish resistance fighters against the Nazis. When the war is over, he travels to the Land of Israel to fight a new battle....

Lonely Castle in the Mirror

Lonely Castle in the Mirror
  • Author(s): Mizuki Tsujimura
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Magical Realism, Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): Contemporary

How can you save your friend’s life if she doesn’t want to be rescued? In a tranquil neighbourhood of Tokyo, seven teenagers wake to find their bedroom mirrors are shining. At a single touch, they are pulled from their...

Lonely House

Lonely House
  • Author(s): James Collins
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Horror
  • Era(s): Present day

Drover and Pete are two hopeful drifters looking for a better life. Desperate for food, they break into an isolated house deep in a forest. There they accidentally shoot an old man just as the rest of his family...

Lonesome Dove

Lonesome Dove
  • Author(s): Larry McMurtry
  • Location(s): Texas
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1870s

It begins in the office of The Hat Creek Cattle Company of the Rio Grande. It ends as a journey into the heart of every adventurer who ever lived . . . From the author of The Last Picture...

Long Bright River

Long Bright River
  • Author(s): Liz Moore
  • Location(s): Philadelphia
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Set against the opioid crisis in Philadelphia and a string of mysterious murders, this gripping suspense novel is also an unflinching, moving story of sisters, addiction, and the formidable ties between place, history, family, and fate. In a city...

Long Distance Love

Long Distance Love
  • Author(s): AnneMarie Brear
  • Location(s): Australia, Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): contemporary

Can one delicious summer affair be enough to keep them together? Fleur Stanthorpe, an Australian, arrives in Whitby, England to live out a dream after surviving cancer. She’s to open a bookshop cafe? and experience the English way of...

Long Island

Long Island
  • Author(s): Colm Tóibín
  • Location(s): Enniscorthy, Long Island
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

The sequel to Brooklyn. A man with an Irish accent knocks on Eilis Fiorello’s door on Long Island and in that moment everything changes. Eilis and Tony have built a secure, happy life here since leaving Brooklyn – perhaps...

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