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The Leopard’s Tail

The Leopard’s Tail
  • Author(s): Nicola Davies
  • Location(s): Armenia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

The sixth title in Nicola Davies’ Heroes of the Wild series is a mountain adventure based on a real conservation project to protect Caucasian leopards. Malik loves exploring the mountains near his village in Armenia, and he’s never forgotten...

The Less Dead

The Less Dead
  • Author(s): Denise Mina
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1980s

When Margo goes in search of her birth mother for the first time, she meets her aunt, Nikki, instead. Margo learns that her mother, Susan, was a sex worker murdered soon after Margo’s adoption. To this day, Susan’s killer...

The Less than perfect legend of Donna Creosote

The Less than perfect legend of Donna Creosote
  • Author(s): Dan Micklethwaite
  • Location(s): Huddersfield
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

“Donna Crick-Oakley walks on six inches of stories every day. She may live on the top floor of a tower block but she still pads her walls and floor with books to shut the real world further out. Or...

The Lesser Bohemians

The Lesser Bohemians
  • Author(s): Eimear McBride
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

One night an eighteen-year-old Irish girl, recently arrived in London to attend drama school, meets an older man – a well-regarded actor in his own right. While she is naive and thrilled by life in the big city, he...

The Letter Writer

The Letter Writer
  • Author(s): Dan Fesperman
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1940s

The first thing Woodrow Cain sees when he steps off the train in New York City on February 9, 1942, is smoke from an ocean liner in flames in the harbor. It’s the Normandie, and word on the street...

The Leveret

The Leveret
  • Author(s): Anna Goldreich
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Moving to the countryside is supposed to fix Clare and Phoebe’s relationship. A fresh start, a change of scenery, a chance to heal after the miscarriage of their baby girl. Instead, Phoebe feels suffocated. Back in the rural community...

The Leviathan

The Leviathan
  • Author(s): Rosie Andrews
  • Location(s): Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): Mid 17th Century

SHE IS AWAKE… Norfolk, 1643. With civil war tearing England apart, reluctant soldier Thomas Treadwater is summoned home by his sister, who accuses a new servant of improper conduct with their widowed father. By the time Thomas returns home,...

The Liars

The Liars
  • Author(s): Katherine Fleet
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

I thought I saw her today. Down by the water. It was her hair I noticed. Do you ever see her, Lex? Does she haunt you too? I haven’t been back to Eos since I first met my step-sister,...

The Liberation

The Liberation
  • Author(s): Kate Furnivall
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1945

The Liberation is set in Italy in 1945 as British and American troops attempt to bring order to the devastated country and Italy’s population fights to survive. Caterina Lombardi is desperate – her father is dead, her mother has...

The Liberation of Bella McCaa

The Liberation of Bella McCaa
  • Author(s): Catherine Aitken
  • Location(s): Broughty Ferry
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Bella McCaa is released from ten years as sole carer to a very demanding mother, she’s desperate to leave Dundee and pick up the threads of her once high-flying career in London. Fifty-two isn’t too late to start...

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