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Kurt’s War – The Boy who knew too much

Kurt’s War – The Boy who knew too much
  • Author(s): David Canford
  • Location(s): England, Poland, Texas
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Twentieth century

Kurt is an English evacuee with a difference, his father is a Nazi. As Kurt grows into an adult and is forced to pretend that he is someone he isn’t for his own protection, can he survive in the...

Lady Mary

Lady Mary
  • Author(s): Lucy Worsley
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Tudor

By turns thrilling, dramatic and touching, this is the story of Henry the Eighth and Catherine of Aragon’s divorce as you’ve never heard it before – from the eyes of their daughter, Princess Mary. More than anything Mary just...

Lady of the Butterflies

Lady of the Butterflies
  • Author(s): Fiona Mountain
  • Location(s): Somerset
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Seventeenth Century

Born into a world seething with treachery and suspicion, Eleanor Goodricke grows up on the Somerset Levels just after the English Civil Wars, heiress to her late mother’s estates and daughter of a Puritan soldier who fears for his...

Lady’s Well

Lady’s Well
  • Author(s): LJ Ross
  • Location(s): Holystone
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

No. 20 in the DCI Ryan series THERE’S SOMETHING IN THE WATER… When the ancient waters of Lady’s Well in the rural village of Holystone begin to run red, it seems to be a nasty Hallowe’en prank and nothing...

Lainey’s Lot

Lainey’s Lot
  • Author(s): Lisa Tenzin-Dolma
  • Location(s): Bath
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern

When Lainey Morgan (aged 14 years and 8 months) bumps into gorgeous Kieran Kamau, it’s love at first sight for both of them. But Lainey’s eccentric mum, nicknamed the Word Magpie for her love of collecting words out of...

Lancashire: Exploring the Historic County that Made the Modern World

Lancashire: Exploring the Historic County that Made the Modern World
  • Author(s): Chris Moss
  • Location(s): Lancashire
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

Cotton, coal and canals. Trains, technology and television. Lancashire has shaped the modern world. Liverpool was once the world’s busiest port. Manchester powered the industrial revolution and became a symbol of global free trade. Blackpool invented the working-class seaside...

Lanny

Lanny
  • Author(s): Max Porter
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2019 Not far from London, there is a village. This village belongs to the people who live in it and to those who lived in it hundreds...

Lark

Lark
  • Author(s): Anthony McGowan
  • Location(s): North Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): N/A

Things are tense at home for Nicky and Kenny. Their mum’s coming to visit and it will be the first time they’ve seen her in years. A lot has changed since they were little and Nicky’s not so sure...

Larkinland

Larkinland
  • Author(s): Jonathan Tulloch
  • Location(s): Hull
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): 1950s

Arriving in 1950s Hull, Arthur Merryweather finds himself lodging with the landlady from hell, and falling in love with fellow librarian Niamh O’Leary. But just as their love threatens to bloom, the mystery of Mr Bleaney, the enigmatic insurance...

Last Bus to Woodstock

Last Bus to Woodstock
  • Author(s): Colin Dexter
  • Location(s): Oxford
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1970s

Inspector Morse and Lewis tackle their first crime.

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