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The Lost Vintage

The Lost Vintage
  • Author(s): Ann Mah
  • Location(s): Burgundy-Franche-Comté
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sweetbitter meets The Nightingale in this page-turning novel about a woman who returns to her family’s ancestral vineyard in Burgundy and unexpectedly uncovers a lost diary, an unknown relative, and a secret her family has been keeping since World...

The Lost Voices of Pompeii

The Lost Voices of Pompeii
  • Author(s): Dr Jess Venner
  • Location(s): Pompeii
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 70 AD

In 24 hours, Pompeii will vanish. The morning of the eruption was a day like any other. Julia Felix opens her tavern for another day of business, defying every convention that says a woman can’t succeed alone. Petrinus, newly...

The Lost Whale

The Lost Whale
  • Author(s): Hannah Gold
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Lost Whale is the enchanting second novel from the author of The Last Bear: the bestselling debut hardback of 2021 and The Times Children’s Book of the Week What if you could communicate with a whale? Rio has...

The Lost World of the Kalahari

The Lost World of the Kalahari
  • Author(s): Laurens Van Der Post
  • Location(s): Botswana
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1955

Laurens van der Post was fascinated and appalled at the fate of this remarkable people. Ostracised by all the changing face of African cultural life they retreated deep into the Kalahari desert. His fascinating attempt to capture their way...

The Lotus Shoes

The Lotus Shoes
  • Author(s): Jane Yang
  • Location(s): China
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1800s

THE CAPTIVATING, HEART-RENDING STORY OF TWO WOMEN IN 1800S CHINA Love and loss. Sisterhood and betrayal. Little Flower and Linjing’s fates are bound together. As a child, Little Flower is sold to Linjing’s wealthy family to become a muizai....

The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali

The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali
  • Author(s): Sabina Khan
  • Location(s): Bangladesh
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A timely and honest coming-of-age story that explores the complicated relationship between identity, culture, family, and love. Seventeen-year-old Rukhsana Ali tries her hardest to live up to her conservative Muslim parents’ expectations, but lately she’s finding that impossible to...

The Love Child

The Love Child
  • Author(s): Rachel Hore
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1910s

When nineteen-year-old Alice Copeman becomes pregnant, she is forced by her father and stepmother to give up the baby.  She simply cannot be allowed to bring shame upon her family. But all Alice can think about is the small, kitten-like...

The Love Goddess’ Cooking School

The Love Goddess’ Cooking School
  • Author(s): Melissa Senate
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Food and Drink, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

When Holly Maguire inherits “Camilla’s Cucinotta,” her late grandmother’s home-based Italian cooking school in Blue Crab Island, Maine, twelve of the sixteen students for the upcoming fall class drop out. After all, Holly isn’t a seventy-five-year-old Milanese love goddess,...

The Love Island Bookshop

The Love Island Bookshop
  • Author(s): Kate Frost
  • Location(s): The Maldives
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A dream job, two handsome men, one destructive act. Will Freya’s opportunity of a lifetime end in tears? When Freya leaves her publishing job in London to be a barefoot bookseller in the Maldives, it’s the push she needs...

The Love Position

The Love Position
  • Author(s): Evie Alexander
  • Location(s): British Virgin Islands, Corsham, England, Salisbury, Somerset
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Forbidden love has never looked so tempting… After making a ground-breaking discovery, archaeologist Sophia Hunter-Savage has her work stolen and her heart broken. She needs a safe place to lick her wounds, so retreats to her family home in...

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