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The Lacemakers of Glenmara

The Lacemakers of Glenmara
  • Author(s): Heather Barbieri
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

When Kate Robinson leaves her Seattle home to travel across Ireland, she is looking to escape: fleeing a broken relationship, a failing career in fashion and the crushing grief over her mother’s death. Her strict itinerary keeps her busy,...

The Ladies of the Secret Circus

The Ladies of the Secret Circus
  • Author(s): Constance Sayers
  • Location(s): Paris, Virginia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1924 and 2004

From the author of A Witch in Time comes a magical story spanning from Jazz Age Paris to modern-day America of family secrets, sacrifice, and lost love set against the backdrop of a mysterious circus. Perfect for fans of...

The Ladies’ Midnight Swimming Club

The Ladies’ Midnight Swimming Club
  • Author(s): Faith Hogan
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Elizabeth’s husband dies, leaving her with crippling debt, the only person she can turn to is her friend, Jo. Soon Jo has called in her daughter, Lucy, to help save Elizabeth from bankruptcy. Leaving her old life behind,...

The Lady and the Little Fox Fur

The Lady and the Little Fox Fur
  • Author(s): Violette Leduc
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Novella
  • Era(s): 20th Century

An old woman lives alone in a tiny attic flat in Paris, counting out coffee beans every morning beneath the roar of the overhead metro. Starving, she spends her days walking around the city, each step a bid for...

The Lady and the Unicorn

The Lady and the Unicorn
  • Author(s): Tracy Chevalier
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Second half 15th century

Nicolas des Innocents has been commissioned by the Parisian nobleman Jean Le Viste to design a series of large tapestries for his great hall (in real life, the famous Lady and the Unicorn cycle, now in Paris’s Musee National...

The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun

The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
  • Author(s): Sébastien Japrisot
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Moden

Dany Longo is blonde, beautiful — and thoroughly unpredictable. After doing a favour for her boss, she finds herself behind the wheel of his exquisite Thunderbird on a sun-kissed Parisian morning. On impulse she decides to head south. What...

The Lady in the Veil

The Lady in the Veil
  • Author(s): Leah Fleming
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1850 and 2012

‘I found the photograph album by chance when we were clearing out the old coach house. It must have been sitting on the garage shelf for years among all the other family rejects.’ When a woman finds a lost...

The Lady of the Camellias

The Lady of the Camellias
  • Author(s): Alexandre Dumas, Liesl Schillinger (Translator)
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century

The landmark novel that inspired Verdi’s opera La Traviata, in a sparkling new translation “One of the greatest love stories of all time,” according to Henry James, and the inspiration for Verdi’s opera La Traviata, the Oscar-winning musical Moulin Rouge!,...

The Lady of Zamalek

The Lady of Zamalek
  • Author(s): Ashraf El-Ashmawi, Peter Daniel (Translator)
  • Location(s): Egypt
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Spanning twentieth-century Egyptian history and opening with the true story of a prominent Cairo businessman’s murder, this rags-to-riches story wondrously combines real-life events with fiction, told by a “magical storyteller” It was in the spring of 1927 that Cairo’s...

The Lady Thief of Belgravia

The Lady Thief of Belgravia
  • Author(s): Allison Grey
  • Location(s): Belgravia, London
  • Genre(s): Cosy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1870s

A notorious thief joins up with Belgravia’s most eligible gentleman to steal for Queen and country… London, 1879. Della Rose scans the crowds until she finds her target. A well-dressed gentleman with a fine gold watch. Stealing it will...

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