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The Lord’s Tusks

The Lord’s Tusks
  • Author(s): Jeffrey Ulin
  • Location(s): Kenya
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1960s

Big game hunter Richard Keeton unexpectedly finds himself in line to inherit a British Lordship, but with the family’s wealth in tatters Richard cannot afford the lifestyle commensurate with his pending title. Hell-bent on restoring riches, Richard realizes he...

The Lost Continent

The Lost Continent
  • Author(s): Bill Bryson
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

‘I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to’ And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn’t hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England, he returned to the...

The Lost Daughter of India

The Lost Daughter of India
  • Author(s): Sharon Maas
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

One woman. One impossible choice. Her daughter or her happiness … When Caroline meets Kamal the attraction is instant. He’s enchanting, charismatic and she can’t wait to set up a new life with him in India. Both their families are against the union...

The Lost Garden

The Lost Garden
  • Author(s): Helen Humphreys
  • Location(s): Devon, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

It’s Spring 1941 and London is being destroyed by the Blitz. Gwen Davis, a young horticulturist, leaves the city for the Devon countryside. In charge of a troop of Land Girls, her job is to rebuild the grounds of...

The Lost Lover

The Lost Lover
  • Author(s): Karen Swan
  • Location(s): Paris, St Kilda
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Turn of the 1930s

(The Wild Isle Series, 3) An epic, sweeping historical novel of second chances and lovers reunited . . . Flora MacQueen has always dreamt of more than life on the small Scottish island of St Kilda. So, when she...

The Lover of No Fixed Abode

The Lover of No Fixed Abode
  • Author(s): Carlo Frutterro, Franco Lucentini, Gregory Dowling (translator)
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): 1980s

It begins with a troubling encounter on a flight to Venice. She is a Roman aristocrat and art dealer on the search for undervalued paintings and he a mysterious tour guide. She is invited to cosmopolitan parties by Venetian...

The Lovers’ Guide to Rome

The Lovers’ Guide to Rome
  • Author(s): Mark Lamprell
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

This is the place where passions are aroused, senses inflamed, and lovers fall into each other’s arms. It all appears to unfold like magic – but I will tell you what really happens. Rome – glorious, eternal, intoxicating. Could...

The Low Road

The Low Road
  • Author(s): Katharine Quarmby
  • Location(s): London, New South Wales, Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1800-1830

Norfolk, 1813. In the quiet Waveney Valley, the body of a woman – Mary Tyrell – is staked through the heart after her death by suicide. She had been under arrest for the suspected murder of her newborn child....

The Luminaries

The Luminaries
  • Author(s): Eleanor Catton
  • Location(s): Hokitika
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 1800s

It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of...

The Magdalene Mystery

The Magdalene Mystery
  • Author(s): Christine Sunderland
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Thriller

Ten years ago a gunman opened fire in a parking lot, killing her parents. No one ever found out why. But a trip to Rome might reveal the truth. Thirty-year-old Kelly Roberts receives a mysterious envelope from her late...

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