- Location(s): Lublin
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Earlier 20th Century
Elya is the lad with the vision, and Elya has the map. Ziv and Kiva aren’t so sure. The water may run out before they find the Village of Lakes. The food may run out before the flaky crescent...
Lucia: A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon
- Location(s): Paris, Venice, Vienna
- Genre(s): Biography, Historical
- Era(s): Early 19th century
In 1787, Lucia, the beautiful sixteen-year-old daughter of a prominent Venetian statesman, is married off to Alvise Mocenigo, scion of one of the most powerful Venetian families. But their life as a golden couple will be suddenly transformed when...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Nineteenth-century
London, 1871: Lucie Dumas of Lyon has accepted a stipend from her former lover and his wife, on condition that she never returns to France; she will never see her young son again. As the money proves inadequate, Lucie...
- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Contemporary
Lucie Yi has tried love – it didn’t work. She’s decided that finding Mr Right is a myth, and that finding Mr Right-enough-to-have-children-with is the next best option. So when she meets easy-going Collin Read on a platonic co-parenting...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction, Espionage, Historical
- Era(s): 1942
Spies, military secrets, and a personal crusade for freedom… Rome, 1942. Cordelia Olivieri is a young, determined hotel owner desperate to escape Mussolini’s racial persecution. But as Fascist leaders gather in Rome, Cordelia is suddenly surrounded by the world’s most ruthless...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 18th century and late 20th century
Complex, beautiful, suspenseful, Lucifer’s Shadow was David Hewson’s tantalising and rewarding novel first novel set in Italy, now republished with a new introduction by the author. Previously republished in some markets as The Cemetery of Secrets. When Daniel Forster,...
- Location(s): The Atlantic Ocean
- Genre(s): Young Adult, Fiction
- Era(s): 1912
Valora Luck has two things: a ticket for the biggest and most luxurious ocean liner in the world, and a dream of leaving England behind and making a life for herself as a circus performer in New York. Much...
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Stories tucked away on every floor. No. 10 Luckenbooth Close is an archetypal Edinburgh tenement. The devil’s daughter rows to the shores of Leith in a coffin. The year is 1910 and she has been sent to a tenement...
- Location(s): Cambodia, Vermont
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Biography
- Era(s): Late 1970s onwards
A sequel to the best-selling memoir First They Killed My Father, written by a spokesperson for the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, describes her family’s experiences of relocation from war-torn Cambodia and assimilation in Vermont, a transition marked by...
- Location(s): Taiwan, Michigan
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1994 onwards
In a true story of family ties, journalist Mei-Ling Hopgood, one of the first wave of Asian adoptees to arrive in America, comes face to face with her past when her Chinese birth family suddenly requests a reunion after...
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