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Last Call, Cairo

Last Call, Cairo
  • Author(s): Julie Tulba
  • Location(s): Egypt
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Across 20th century

Three strangers whose paths will cross on a trip to Egypt are unaware of the shared connections they hold. These unite them from times past to a sinister future. Egypt, 1913 Alexandra Garis dreamed of something different, something tied...

Last Chance in Paris

Last Chance in Paris
  • Author(s): Lynda Marron
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When her husband suggests a romantic break, Claire feels obliged to say yes but immediately regrets it. After the tragedy they’ve been through, how can one weekend in Paris save their marriage? Claire and Ronan aren’t the only people...

Last Christmas

Last Christmas
  • Author(s): Greg Wise, Emma Thompson
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

The perfect gift book, featuring the writing of Meryl Streep, Bill Bailey, Emilia Clarke, Olivia Colman, Caitlin Moran, Richard Ayoade, Emily Watson and others, to coincide with the upcoming movie Last Christmas, starring Emma Thompson, Emilia Clarke and Henry...

Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of World War I

Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of World War I
  • Author(s): Heather Webb, Hazel Gaynor
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW1

August 1914. England is at war. As Evie Elliott watches her brother, Will, and his best friend, Thomas Harding, depart for the front, she believes—as everyone does—that it will be over by Christmas, when the trio plan to celebrate...

Last Days in Cleaver Square

Last Days in Cleaver Square
  • Author(s): Patrick McGrath
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s looking back to the 1930s

It is 1975 and an old man, Francis McNulty, a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, is beset with sightings in his garden of his old nemesis, General Franco. The general is in fact in Spain, on his deathbed,...

Last Evenings with Teresa

Last Evenings with Teresa
  • Author(s): Juan Marsé, Nick Caistor (translator)
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, In Translation
  • Era(s): 1950s

A REDISCOVERED POST-WAR LOVE STORY FROM ONE OF SPAIN’S MOST ACCLAIMED AUTHORS. 1950s Barcelona. A rebellious daughter of a wealthy family meets an ambitious rogue at a party. Teresa was born with every advantage in life – beautiful, rich,...

Last First Kiss at the Village Church

Last First Kiss at the Village Church
  • Author(s): Margaret Amatt
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): contemporary

Love thy neighbour… Music-loving Kristi Buchanan dresses like a rockstar and dreams of being an artist, but her reality is much less glam – she’s a single mum in her late thirties… and a church cleaner. Her love-life is...

Last Friend Alive

Last Friend Alive
  • Author(s): Caro Carver
  • Location(s): The Maldives
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller, Destination Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

THE BEST OF FRIENDS CAN MAKE THE WORST OF ENEMIES. Best friends Darcy, Camilla and Kate have just landed in the Maldives for a luxury holiday. They can’t wait for ten days of scorching sun, crystal-clear waters and white-sand...

Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar

Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar
  • Author(s): Syl Cheney-Coker
  • Location(s): Sierra Leone
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1800

In a chimerical world of illusion and truth, fired by a language that challenges the imagination, this book tells the story of a Sierra Leone-like country, from the time of the freed black American slaves who returned to Africa.

Last Kiss In Tiananmen Square

Last Kiss In Tiananmen Square
  • Author(s): Lisa Zhang Wharton
  • Location(s): Beijing (Peking)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1989

“Last Kiss in Tiananmen Square” is a novel based on the 1989 Tiananmen Square Pro-democracy movement. The novel follows a young woman, Baiyun, a junior in college, trying to reconcile her upbringing while in the midst of the rising...

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