- Location(s): Mexico City
- Genre(s): Fiction, Horror, In Translation
- Era(s): Contemporary
Winner PEN Translates Award (UK) Recovering from an unspecified accident, the narrator of Loop finds herself in waiting rooms of different kinds: airport departure lounges, doctors’ surgeries, and above all at home, awaiting the return of her boyfriend, who has travelled...
- Location(s): Extremadura
- Genre(s): Fiction, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Lord of All the Dead is a courageous journey into Javier Cercas’ family history and that of a country collapsing from a fratricidal war. The author revisits Ibahernando, his parents’ village in southern Spain, to research the life of...
- Location(s): St Thomas, Mojave Desert
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s
In the Mojave Desert, at the southern end of the isolated Moapa Valley, sat the town of St. Thomas, Nevada. A small community that thrived despite scorching temperatures and scarce water, St. Thomas was home to hardy railroad workers,...
- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Young Adult
- Era(s): Ancient Greece
From the No.1 New York Times bestselling author of THE DARKEST MINDS comes a high-octane story of power, destiny and redemption. A lifetime ago, Lore Perseous left behind the brutal, opulent world of the Agon families – ancient Greek...
- Location(s): Exmoor, Devon
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Later 17th Century
Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor is a novel by English author Richard Doddridge Blackmore, published in 1869. It is a romance based on a group of historical characters and set in the late 17th century in Devon and...
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
- Location(s): Ghana
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary, Various
In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman journeys along a slave route in Ghana, following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast. She retraces the history of the Atlantic slave trade from the fifteenth to the...