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A Killing Smile

A Killing Smile
  • Author(s): Christopher G Moore
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Late 1990s

A Killing Smile is a simple but deep story about the aftermath of events following the death of a successful Los Angeles attorney’s wife. Lost, confused, and angry, Lawrence Baring, Esq. goes to Bangkok and confronts Tuttle–the man his...

A Kiss from Maddalena

A Kiss from Maddalena
  • Author(s): Christopher Castellani
  • Location(s): Italy
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

It is 1943 and Santa Cecilia has become a village of women. All the young men are away at war, and for Vito Leone, time is short. A few months shy of the draft, he has begun to woo...

A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar

A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar
  • Author(s): Suzanne Joinson
  • Location(s): Kashi (Kashgar), London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s and Modern

It is 1923 and Evangeline English, keen lady cyclist, arrives with her sister Lizzie at the ancient Silk Route city of Kashgar to help establish a Christian mission. Lizzie is in thrall to their forceful and unyielding leader Millicent,...

A Lake District Christmas Murder

A Lake District Christmas Murder
  • Author(s): Rebecca Tope
  • Location(s): Glenridding, The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(Lake District Mysteries Book 14) As Christmas draws nearer, Simmy Henderson is invited to a party in Glenridding at the heart of the Lake District. However, the festivities are overshadowed by two alarming discoveries: a man’s body in the...

A Land More Kind than Home

A Land More Kind than Home
  • Author(s): Wiley Cash
  • Location(s): North Carolina
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction

One Sunday nine-year-old Jess Hall watches in horror as his autistic brother is smothered during a healing service in the mountains of North Carolina. Wiley Cash uses this haunting image – inspired by a horrific true event – to...

A Land of Two Halves

A Land of Two Halves
  • Author(s): Joe Bennett
  • Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Recent

This book is a collection of writing, which first comprised a newspaper column. Not a guidebook but a guide to New Zealand, informing of the people and the country.

A Land Remembered

A Land Remembered
  • Author(s): Patrick D Smith
  • Location(s): Florida
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): mid 1800s onwards

A Land Remembered has been ranked #1 Best Florida Book eight times in annual polls conducted by Florida Monthly Magazine. In this, Florida’s favorite novel, Patrick Smith tells of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family battling the...

A Late Dinner

A Late Dinner
  • Author(s): Paul Richardson
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Food and Drink
  • Era(s): Modern

This is more than just a book about food. It is a cultural journey, a travel memoir, a look at the national psyche, generally informative and interesting look at Spain the place of food within society.

A Lesser Dependency

A Lesser Dependency
  • Author(s): Peter Benson
  • Location(s): Diego Garcia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

In 1971 the inhabitants of Diego Garcia, a small island in the middle of the Indian Ocean, a place too small to find on a map and one of the last paradisical outposts of the Empire, were suddenly evicted...

A Light Still Burns

A Light Still Burns
  • Author(s): Selim Özdoğan, Ayça Türkoğlu (Translator), Katy Derbyshire (Translator)
  • Location(s): Bremen, Germany, Türkiye (Turkey)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

No. 3 in the Anatolian Trilogy There are three ways to face life: put up with it, fight or flee.’After eight years in Turkey, Gül leaves her native Anatolia and returns to Germany. Reunited with her husband Fuat, she...

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