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Light of the Moon

Light of the Moon
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Buchan
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

Evelyn St John has been parachuted into France to link up with the Resistance. Paul von Hoch’s brief, as a member of the German Intelligence, is to track down enemy spies. Suddenly the battle lines shift between patriotism and...

Light Over Liskeard

Light Over Liskeard
  • Author(s): Louis de Bernières
  • Location(s): Cornwall, Liskeard
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Q wants a simpler and safer life. His work as a quantum cryptographer for the government has led him to believe a crisis is imminent for civilisation and he’s looking for somewhere to ride out what’s ahead. He buys...

Light Perpetual

Light Perpetual
  • Author(s): Francis Spufford
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1944 onwards

November 1944. A German rocket strikes London, and five young lives are atomised in an instant. November 1944. That rocket never lands. A single second in time is altered, and five young lives go on – to experience all...

Lighting the Sky

Lighting the Sky
  • Author(s): Katharine E Smith
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): present-day

“I LOVE this book. It flowed perfectly from beginning to end. I couldn’t put it down.” All is set to change for Alice and Sam as they expect their first child together. Just how they are going to fit...

Lightning Mary

Lightning Mary
  • Author(s): Anthea Simmons
  • Location(s): Dorset
  • Genre(s): Children, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 18th / 19th century

Winner of the middle grade STEAM Book Prize Ordinary is what most people are and I am not. I am not ordinary at all. I am a scientist. One stormy night, a group of villagers are struck by lightning....

Lightning Men

Lightning Men
  • Author(s): Thomas Mullen
  • Location(s): Atlanta
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1950s

Atlanta, 1950. Crime divides, the fight unites. Officer Denny Rakestraw and ‘Negro Officers’ Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith face the Klan, gangs and family warfare in a rapidly changing Atlanta. Black families – including Smith’s sister and brother-in-law –...

Lightseekers

Lightseekers
  • Author(s): Femi Kayode
  • Location(s): Nigeria
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When three young students are brutally murdered in a Nigerian university town, their killings – and their killers – are caught on social media. The world knows who murdered them; what no one knows is why. As the legal...

Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation

Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation
  • Author(s): Yossi Klein Halevi
  • Location(s): Israel
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1967 onwards

In Like Dreamers, acclaimed journalist Yossi Klein Halevi interweaves the stories of a group of 1967 paratroopers who reunited Jerusalem, tracing the history of Israel and the divergent ideologies shaping it from the Six-Day War to the present. Following...

Like Family

Like Family
  • Author(s): Erin White
  • Location(s): New York State
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What if everything you wanted is no longer enough? Meeting for an autumnal swim in an idyllic pond, Caroline’s friend Ruth tells her about a family secret that has recently been exposed. Caroline was looking forward to a celebration...

Like Mother, Like Daughter

Like Mother, Like Daughter
  • Author(s): Elle Croft
  • Location(s): Adelaide
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

‘Utterly absorbing and thought-provoking’ Caz Frear ‘What a premise, and packed with suspense’ Victoria Selman ‘A dark, delicious triumph’ Niki Mackay If what they said was true, then the grotesque and the monstrous ran in her blood. It was...

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