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The Lightness

The Lightness
  • Author(s): Emily Temple
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

‘Funny, whip-smart and transcendently wise about friendship, family, lust and love’ Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation and Weather ‘The Lightness could be the love child of Donna Tartt and Tana French’ Chloe Benjamin, author of The Immortalists...

The Lightning Tree

The Lightning Tree
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1980s

This is a story of two young people who fall in love – and then life gets in the way. Ursula is part dreamer, part radical in the making. Raised in a matriarchal household by a CND-loving activist, she...

The Lights of Pointe-Noire

The Lights of Pointe-Noire
  • Author(s): Alain Mabanckou
  • Location(s): Pointe Noire
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

Alain Mabanckou left Congo in 1989, at the age of twenty-two, not to return until a quarter of a century later. When at last he returns home to Pointe-Noire, a bustling port town on Congo’s south-eastern coast, he finds...

The Lights of Prague

The Lights of Prague
  • Author(s): Nicole Jarvis
  • Location(s): Prague
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): Gaslight era

For readers of VE Schwab and The Witcher, science and magic clash in atmospheric gaslight-era Prague. In the quiet streets of Prague all manner of otherworldly creatures lurk in the shadows. Unbeknownst to its citizens, their only hope against...

The Lights that Dance in the Night

The Lights that Dance in the Night
  • Author(s): Yuval Zommer
  • Location(s): Arctic
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

In this wonderfully festive picture book, Yuval Zommer imagines the Northern Lights’ fleeting journey from space to Earth and how they weave a special magic for the animals and people living in the frozen lands below.

The Limits of Pleasure

The Limits of Pleasure
  • Author(s): Daniel M Jaffe
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQ+
  • Era(s): 1990's

The Limits of Pleasure follows Dave Miller, a forty-year-old bearish gay man, living in Boston in an escalating skirmish to reconcile his Jewish and gay identities. A year after the death of his Holocaust-surviving grandmother, Dave leaves Boston for...

The Limits Of The World

The Limits Of The World
  • Author(s): Andrew Raymond Drennan
  • Location(s): Pyongyang
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2011

Pyongyang, North Korea, 2011. In a city full of lies one man seeks the truth. In Kim Jong-il s North Korea, Han, a lonely guide to foreign tourists, is rapidly ascending the party ranks and appears to be a...

The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection

The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Botswana
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The one where Mma Ramotswe meets her hero . . . Mma Ramotswe, normally a peaceful sleeper, finds her slumbers disturbed by dreams of a tall stranger – but she is not quite ready to learn what this vision...

The Lincoln Highway

The Lincoln Highway
  • Author(s): Amor Towles
  • Location(s): Nebraska
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1954

In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the work farm where he has just served a year for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family...

The Line Between Us

The Line Between Us
  • Author(s): Kate Dunn
  • Location(s): Welsh Borders
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1922-1940

Ifor is the gardener at Nanagalan, an ancient manor house situated in the Welsh Borders and Ella is the only daughter of the family who owns it. In 1939 Ifor enlists to fight and is one of a small...

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