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The Loved One

The Loved One
  • Author(s): Evelyn Waugh
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Satire
  • Era(s): 1940s

Subtitled An Anglo-American Tragedy, Evelyn Waugh’s The Loved One is a witty satirical novel on artistic integrity and the British expat community in Hollywood. The more startling for the economy of its prose and plot, this novel’s story, set...

The Lover

The Lover
  • Author(s): Marguerite Duras
  • Location(s): Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): pre WW2

Set in the prewar Indochina of Marguerite Duras’s childhood, this is the haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her Chinese lover. In spare yet luminous prose, Duras evokes life on the margins of...

The Lover

The Lover
  • Author(s): Helene Flood, Alison McCullough (Translator)
  • Location(s): Oslo
  • Genre(s): Thriller, In Translation
  • Era(s): contemporary

Is it worse to deceive to your husband or the police? Rikke is lying to them both. But how many lies can she get away with? When her upstairs neighbour Jørgen is found murdered, she’s questioned alongside her husband....

The Lovers of Algeria

The Lovers of Algeria
  • Author(s): Anouar Benmalek
  • Location(s): Algiers
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s to 1990s

The Loving Cup: A Novel of Cornwall 1813-1815 (Poldark Book 10)

The Loving Cup: A Novel of Cornwall 1813-1815 (Poldark Book 10)
  • Author(s): Winston Graham
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1813

Cornwall 1813. A silver cup lies half-forgotten in a dank cave, amongst a pile of stolen goods. Yet the tiny vessel and its inscription Amor gignit amorem haunts the lives of the still-feuding Poldark and Warleggan families, as Ross,...

The Luckiest Girl

The Luckiest Girl
  • Author(s): Beverly Cleary
  • Location(s): Southern California
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1950s

Shelly fells as if she’s living in a fantasyland. She’s spending the school year in southern California, where flowers bloom in November, oranges grow on trees, and lawns are mowed in winter. When the star of the basketball team...

The Luckiest Lady in London

The Luckiest Lady in London
  • Author(s): Sherry Thomas
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Victorian (late 19th century)

Felix Rivendale, the Marquess of Wrenworth, is The Ideal Gentleman, a man all men want to be and all women want to possess. Felix himself almost believes this golden image. But underneath is a damaged soul soothed only by...

The Lucky Country

The Lucky Country
  • Author(s): Rose M Cullen
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

The Glendon family seek a new home and fortune in The Lucky Country after Patrick’s farm in Ireland is bankrupted by a freak storm. Their journey traverses the epic landscape of Australia and their fate collides with a cast...

The Lucky Dress

The Lucky Dress
  • Author(s): Aimee Brown
  • Location(s): Oregon, Portland (Oregon)
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): 2017

We all have our lucky dress… an irresistibly hilarious rom-com! Emi Harrison hasn’t been feeling particularly lucky lately. Ever since her ex-fiancée, Jack Cabot, successfully shattered her heart into a million pieces. She’s managed to avoid him for a...

The Lucky Escape

The Lucky Escape
  • Author(s): Laura Jane Williams
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

ONE CANCELLED WEDDING When the day finally comes for Annie to marry Alexander, the last thing she expects is to be left standing at the altar. She was so sure he was Mr Right. Now, she has no idea...

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