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The Last Knight

The Last Knight
  • Author(s): Candice Proctor
  • Location(s): Brittany
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1189

Spirited Attica d’Alerion will do anything to protect her beloved brother from danger. To warn him of a political betrayal that could lead to war, Attica disguises herself as a young courtier and bravely rides into the arms of...

The Last Leopard

The Last Leopard
  • Author(s): Lauren St John
  • Location(s): Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Children, Fiction
  • Era(s): timeless

Martine is looking forward to the holidays and riding Jemmy, her white giraffe, until an accident sends her and Ben on a journey to the Matobo Hills wilderness in Zimbabwe. It is a lawless land, where nothing is as...

The Last Lesson of Mrs de Souza

The Last Lesson of Mrs de Souza
  • Author(s): Cyril Wong
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The stunning first novel from award-winning poet Cyril Wong, The Last Lesson of Mrs de Souza is an exceptional examination of the power of choice and the unreliability of memory. One last time and on her birthday, Rose de...

The Last Letter from Sicily

The Last Letter from Sicily
  • Author(s): Lindsay Marie Morris
  • Location(s): Sicily, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Sicily, 1939. Seventeen-year-old Concetta has just received life-changing news: her family is leaving their sun-drenched Sicilian village and moving to America. Desperate to stay with her secret love Gaetano—a fisherman’s son her father would never accept—Concetta spends one last...

The Last Library

The Last Library
  • Author(s): Freya Sampson
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

You can tell a lot about a person from the library books they borrow Library assistant June knows a lot about the regulars at Chalcot Library, yet they know very little about her. When her mum – the beloved...

The Last Lifeboat

The Last Lifeboat
  • Author(s): Hazel Gaynor
  • Location(s): England, The Atlantic Ocean
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

September 1940. In the immediate aftermath of a U-boat attack on an evacuee ship, one lifeboat of terrified survivors endures a fierce storm in the North Atlantic. June 1940. Three months earlier, two very different women – Alice King,...

The Last London

The Last London
  • Author(s): Iain Sinclair
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Iain Sinclair has been documenting the peculiar magic of the river-city that absorbs and obsesses him for most of his adult life. In The Last London, he strikes out on a series of solitary walks and collaborative expeditions to...

The Last MacKlenna

The Last MacKlenna
  • Author(s): Katherine Lowry Logan
  • Location(s): Scotland, Kentucky, Napa Valley
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): early 21st century

A multi-layered international romance that will keep you on the edge of your seat. A cat and mouse game between two corporate jet-setters that will take you from Scotland, to Kentucky, to California and back again. Meredith Montgomery, the...

The Last Mandarin

The Last Mandarin
  • Author(s): Louise Penny, Melissa Fung
  • Location(s): China, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When security and fire alarms go off simultaneously all around the world, setting off a panic, the signal is traced back to China. As world leaders scramble to respond, mother and daughter Vivien and Alice Li are called to...

The Last Masterpiece

The Last Masterpiece
  • Author(s): Laura Morelli
  • Location(s): Italy
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

In the summer of 1943, Eva Brunner is taking photographs of Nazi-looted art hidden inside the salt mines of the Austrian hinterland. Across the ocean in Connecticut, Josephine Evans is working as a humble typist at the Yale Art...

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