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The Line of Beauty

The Line of Beauty
  • Author(s): Alan Hollinghurst
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

CHELSEA. Nick Guest has just graduated from Oxford and starts rooming at his friend’s parents house. Gerald Fedden M.P, is the head of the household and mixes in the higher echelons of society. Nick is very taken with the...

The Line Tender

The Line Tender
  • Author(s): Kate Allen
  • Location(s): Cape Cod
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Wherever the sharks led, Lucy Everhart’s marine-biologist mother was sure to follow. In fact, she was on a boat far off the coast of Massachusetts, collecting shark data when she died suddenly. Lucy was seven. Since then Lucy and...

The Lines We Cross

The Lines We Cross
  • Author(s): Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Michael is drawn to his new classmate Mina, but they’re on opposite sides of an issue that’s tearing their town apart. His parents are part of an anti-immigration group, while her family have fled their besieged home in Afghanistan....

The Linnet Bird

The Linnet Bird
  • Author(s): Linda Holeman
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Raj India

In the claustrophobic, mannered world of British India, Linny Ingram seems the perfect society wife: pretty, gracious, subservient. But appearances can be deceptive. Linny Ingram was born Linny Gow, an orphan raised in the gray slums of Liverpool. Sold...

The Lion and the Jewel

The Lion and the Jewel
  • Author(s): Wole Soyinka
  • Location(s): Nigeria
  • Genre(s): Drama
  • Era(s): 2nd half 20th century

This is one of the best-known plays by Africa’s major dramatist, Wole Soyinka. It is set in the Yoruba vilage of Ilunjinle. The main characters are Sidi (the jewel), ‘a true village belle’ and Baroka (the Lion), the crafty...

The Lion Children

The Lion Children
  • Author(s): Angus McNeice
  • Location(s): Maun, Botswana
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): l995

Emily (16), Travers (10), Angus (9), Maisie (7) and Oakley (1) lived in an idyllic 300-year-old cottage in the Cotswolds. They attended the local school, watched TV and did all the things English middle-class children do. Then, in 1995,...

The Lion Conspiracy

The Lion Conspiracy
  • Author(s): Peter Hain
  • Location(s): Africa, England
  • Genre(s): Political, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

#3 The Conspiracy Series Peter Hain’s latest thriller is grounded in real-life experience, and endorsed by global conservationists. From South Africa to Zanzibar, from Kenya to Britain, activists are battling to save lion prides, today more threatened by extinction...

The Lion Hunter

The Lion Hunter
  • Author(s): Daniel Pembrey
  • Location(s): Tanzania
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Novella
  • Era(s): Modern

Andrew and Lavinia Riley are on their honeymoon at an African game lodge when they meet a Texan trophy hunter. Andrew, a journalist, senses a timely story about lion hunting, and engages a local guide to learn how the...

The Lion Women of Tehran

The Lion Women of Tehran
  • Author(s): Marjan Kamali
  • Location(s): Tehran
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s onwards

In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death of her father, forcing Ellie and her mother to move to a tiny home downtown. Lonely and bearing the brunt of her mother’s endless grievances, Ellie...

The Lion’s Den

The Lion’s Den
  • Author(s): Katherine St. John
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Dare to step on board The Lion’s Den? When Belle is invited by her old friend Summer on a luxurious girls’ getaway to the Mediterranean aboard her billionaire boyfriend’s yacht, the only answer is yes. But once aboard the...

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