The Loneliest Tree in the World: An English Family in Seychelles
- Location(s): Seychelles
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
This is the final volume in the English Family in Seychelles series, following the fortunes of Martin and Joanna Varley and their four children, who have packed up their troubles and left the UK for a new life in...
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
- Location(s): East India, Mexico, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Sonia and Sunny first glimpse each other on an overnight train, they are immediately captivated, yet also embarrassed by the fact that their grandparents had once tried to matchmake them, a clumsy meddling that only served to drive...
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
A comedic memoir about fandom, fame, and other embarrassments from the life of a New York Times bestseller What happens when a childhood hobby grows into a lifelong career? The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist, Adrian Tomine’s funniest and...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Latter half 20th Century
When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by this most shameful of experiences, she began to explore the lonely city by way of art....
- Location(s): Barcelona
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A night porter in a sleazy Barcelona hotel, the only thing the 40-year-old Antonio Castro has going for him is his resemblance to Frank Sinatra. Thinking he has nothing to lose, Antonio joins a lonely hearts club and into...
The Lonely Hearts Travel Club (Destination Thailand
- Location(s): Thailand
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Mderner
Instead of slipping on her something borrowed and tripping up the aisle to wedded bliss, Georgia spends her big day crying into a warm Sex-on-the-Beach, wondering where it all went wrong. Forced to make a bucket list of her...
The Long Day Wanes: A Malayan Trilogy
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): post WW2
A sweetly satiric look at the twilight days of colonialism. Set in postwar Malaya at the time when people and governments alike are bemused and dazzled by the turmoil of independence, this three-part novel is rich in hilarious comedy...
- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 1950s
Glasgow, 1957. It is a December night and William Watt is desperate. His family has been murdered and he needs to find out who killed them. He arrives at a bar to meet Peter Manuel, who claims he can...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Time Slip, RomCom
- Era(s): Contemporary
They’re the last two guys she ever thought she’d be stuck with. On repeat. When Nina Moss’s once-in-a-lifetime work trip to Australia is rudely interrupted by her oh-so-perfect coworker and arch-nemesis, Callum Bang, she’s furious. But then she sees...
The Long Night of White Chickens
- Location(s): Guatemala
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1980s
Raised in a Boston suburb by his aristocratic Guatemalan mother, Roger Graetz enters into an obsessive relationship with Flor, the young Guatemalan sent by Roger’s grandmother to live with him and his mother. Clever, beautiful For attends Wellesley...
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