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The Lucky Country

The Lucky Country
  • Author(s): Rose M Cullen
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

The Glendon family seek a new home and fortune in The Lucky Country after Patrick’s farm in Ireland is bankrupted by a freak storm. Their journey traverses the epic landscape of Australia and their fate collides with a cast...

The Lucky Dress

The Lucky Dress
  • Author(s): Aimee Brown
  • Location(s): Oregon, Portland (Oregon)
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): 2017

We all have our lucky dress… an irresistibly hilarious rom-com! Emi Harrison hasn’t been feeling particularly lucky lately. Ever since her ex-fiancée, Jack Cabot, successfully shattered her heart into a million pieces. She’s managed to avoid him for a...

The Lucky Escape

The Lucky Escape
  • Author(s): Laura Jane Williams
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

ONE CANCELLED WEDDING When the day finally comes for Annie to marry Alexander, the last thing she expects is to be left standing at the altar. She was so sure he was Mr Right. Now, she has no idea...

The Lustful Youth of Rodrigo Borgia

The Lustful Youth of Rodrigo Borgia
  • Author(s): Elena Martignoni, Michela Martignoni
  • Location(s): Italy, Spain
  • Genre(s): Novella, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): renaissance

A sort of prequel to the television series “The Borgias”, here Rodrigo Borgia is a man in his youthful prime looking back on what has shaped him and with an eye toward his future. The story opens on a...

The Lycian Shore

The Lycian Shore
  • Author(s): Freya Stark
  • Location(s): Türkiye (Turkey)
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1950s

‘There are not so many places left where magic reigns without interruption and of all those I know, the coast of Lycia was the most magical.’ Lycia, on the southwestern coast of Turkey, is an ancient land steeped in...

The Lying Life of Adults

The Lying Life of Adults
  • Author(s): Elena Ferrante
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A powerful new novel set in a divided Naples by Elena Ferrante, the beloved best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend. Giovanna’s pretty face has changed: it’s turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful adolescent. But is she seeing...

The Lynmouth Stories

The Lynmouth Stories
  • Author(s): L V Hay
  • Location(s): Lynmouth
  • Genre(s): Children, Noir, Short Stories
  • Era(s): N/A

Beautiful places hide dark secrets …  Devon’s very own crime writer L.V Hay (The Other Twin, Do No Harm) brings forth three new short stories from her dark mind and poison pen: – For kidnapped Meg and her young son Danny, In...

The Machu Picchu Mystery (A Monstacademy Mystery)

The Machu Picchu Mystery (A Monstacademy Mystery)
  • Author(s): Matt Beighton, Amalia Rendon (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Peru
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

The fourth and most spooky Monstacademy mystery. The mountains are full of secrets… Trixie, Gloria and Colin are off on a trip to Peru to study ancient monsters. When they arrive and find that the children of the local...

The Mad Hatter Murders

The Mad Hatter Murders
  • Author(s): Marrisse Whittaker
  • Location(s): The North East (England)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present day

A British police detective’s latest case gets curiouser and curiouser in this hard-hitting novel by the author of The Devil’s Line. DSI Billie Wilde’s romantic relationship is intense—but it’s nothing compared to the pressure of her latest case, especially...

The Mad Women’s Ball

The Mad Women’s Ball
  • Author(s): Victoria Mas
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1885

‘Enter the danse of this little masterpiece and let yourself be dazzled. Assured of hitting the bestseller lists’ The Parisian; ‘Essential reading’ Cosmopolitan ‘A lovely, moving first novel, a cri de Coeur against the condition of women in this...

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