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The Last Days of the Romanov Dancers

The Last Days of the Romanov Dancers
  • Author(s): Kerri Turner
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1914

Petrograd, 1914. A country on a knife edge. The story of two people caught in the middle – with everything to lose… A stunning debut from a talented new Australian voice in historical fiction. Valentina Yershova’s position in the...

The Last Dress from Paris

The Last Dress from Paris
  • Author(s): Jade Beer
  • Location(s): London, Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2017 / 1952

Each Dior dress tells a story… London, 2017. When her beloved grandmother, Sylvie, sends her to Paris to retrieve a dress she wore decades before, Lucille sees the perfect opportunity to briefly escape the pressures of her own life....

The Last Empress

The Last Empress
  • Author(s): Anchee Min
  • Location(s): China
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): late 19th century

At the end of the nineteenth century China is rocked by foreign attacks and local rebellions. The only constant is the power wielded by one woman, Tzu Hsi, also known as Empress Orchid, who must face the perilous condition...

The Last Enchantments

The Last Enchantments
  • Author(s): Charles Finch
  • Location(s): Oxford
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

After graduating from Yale, William Baker, scion of an old line patrician family, goes to work in presidential politics. But when the campaign into which he’s poured his heart ends in disappointment, he decides to leave New York behind,...

The Last Encore

The Last Encore
  • Author(s): Rebecca Heath
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

It’s been eighteen years since the accidental explosion that killed The Cedrics Band lead singer Jonny Rake, and a special documentary is bringing the rest of the band back to play together for the first time. With Jonny’s daughter,...

The Last Executioner

The Last Executioner
  • Author(s): Chavoret Jaruboon
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1990s / early 21st century

Chavoret Jaruboon was personally responsible for executing 55 prison inmates in Thailand’s infamous prisons. As a boy, he wanted to be a teacher like his father, but his life changed when he chose one of the hardest jobs in...

The Last Ferry Out

The Last Ferry Out
  • Author(s): Andrea Bartz
  • Location(s): Gulf of Mexico
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Abby steps foot on Isla Colel, she isn’t sure what–if anything–she’ll find. She only knows that she needs to see the place where her fiancée, Eszter, died to try and make sense of the tragic accident. The island...

The Last Fiesta

The Last Fiesta
  • Author(s): Andy Rumbold
  • Location(s): Northern Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1995

It’s summer 1995 and Dan Willis is living in Santander, northern Spain, trying to get his life back on track, when he receives an unexpected call from an old school friend and Gulf War veteran, Billy Wyatt, who wants...

The Last Flight

The Last Flight
  • Author(s): Julie Clark
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Two flights. One last chance to disappear.Claire Cook has a perfect life. Married to the scion of a political dynasty, with a Manhattan townhouse and a staff of ten, her surroundings are elegant, her days flawlessly choreographed, and her...

The Last Flight of the Flamingo

The Last Flight of the Flamingo
  • Author(s): Mia Couto
  • Location(s): Mozambique
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

In Mozambique after the end of the civil war, local soldiers have been unaccountably blown up. When it begins to happen to UN peacekeepers, a high-level delegation visits the village of Tizangara to initiate an investigation. As the UN...

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