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The Last Green Valley

The Last Green Valley
  • Author(s): Mark Sullivan
  • Location(s): Ukraine
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): World War II

From the author of the #1 bestseller Beneath a Scarlet Sky comes a new historical novel inspired by one family’s incredible story of daring, survival, and triumph. In late March 1944, as Stalin’s forces push into Ukraine, young Emil...

The Last Hawk

The Last Hawk
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Wein
  • Location(s): Germany
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2, 1940s

Nazi Germany is a dangerous place for a girl with a stammer – and although her father tries to keep her safe, Ingrid can’t help feeling like she’s let him down. But in the air, soaring high as she...

The Last Hour

The Last Hour
  • Author(s): Harry Sidebottom
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 100-200AD

For readers of Bernard Cornwell, Ben Kane, Simon Scarrow and Conn Iggulden, this is a thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat. A lone figure stands silhouetted atop the Mausoleum of Hadrian. Behind him, the...

The Last House Guest

The Last House Guest
  • Author(s): Megan Miranda
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Never overstay your welcome… Littleport, Maine is like two separate towns: a vacation paradise for wealthy holidaymakers and a simple harbour community for the residents who serve them. Friendships between locals and visitors are unheard of – but that’s...

The Last House on the Street

The Last House on the Street
  • Author(s): Diane Chamberlain
  • Location(s): North Carolina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1965 and 2010

1965. A young white female student becomes involved in the fight for civil rights in North Carolina, falling in love with one of her fellow activists, a Black man, in a time and place where an interracial relationship must...

The Last Hunt

The Last Hunt
  • Author(s): Deon Meyer
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

A cold case for Captain Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido of the Hawks elite police unit – not what they were looking for. And a difficult case, too. The body of Johnson Johnson, ex-cop, has been found beside a...

The Last Juror

The Last Juror
  • Author(s): John Grisham
  • Location(s): Mississippi
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

Never make an enemy of a murderer. In 1970, the Ford County Times went bankrupt – and to the surprise and dismay of many, was bought by 23-year-old college dropout Willie Traynor. The paper’s future was grim, until a...

The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon

The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon
  • Author(s): Richard Zimler
  • Location(s): Lisbon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 1500s

The year is 1506, and the streets of Lisbon are seething with fear and suspicion when Abraham Zarco is found dead, a naked girl at his side. Abraham was a renowned kabbalist, a practitioner of the arcane mysteries of...

The Last Kings of Sark

The Last Kings of Sark
  • Author(s): Rosa Rankin-Gee
  • Location(s): Sark
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jude is twenty-one when she flies in a private plane to Sark, a tiny carless Channel Island, the last place in Europe to abolish feudalism. She has been hired for the summer to give tuition to a rich local...

The Last Kiss Goodbye

The Last Kiss Goodbye
  • Author(s): Karen Robards
  • Location(s): North Carolina
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Dr. Charlotte “Charlie” Stone has dedicated her career as a psychiatrist to exploring the darkest territory of all: the hearts and minds of serial killers. It’s a job she’s uniquely suited for, thanks to the secret talent that gives...

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