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Last Days in Cleaver Square

Last Days in Cleaver Square
  • Author(s): Patrick McGrath
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s looking back to the 1930s

It is 1975 and an old man, Francis McNulty, a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, is beset with sightings in his garden of his old nemesis, General Franco. The general is in fact in Spain, on his deathbed,...

LAST MAN ALIVE

LAST MAN ALIVE
  • Author(s): John Dean
  • Location(s): North Pennines
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

It is lonely on the hills, alive or dead… On the trail of a missing man whom he suspects of having dementia and being at grave risk, DCI Jack Harris makes a terrible discovery. In a tent, nestled within...

Last One at the Party

Last One at the Party
  • Author(s): Bethany Clift
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): The near future

THE END OF EVERYTHING WAS HER BEGINNING It’s December 2023 and the world as we know it has ended. The human race has been wiped out by a virus called 6DM (‘Six Days Maximum’ – the longest you’ve got...

Last Twilight in Paris

Last Twilight in Paris
  • Author(s): Pam Jenoff
  • Location(s): Paris, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s looking back

A Parisian department store, a mysterious necklace and a woman’s quest to unlock a decade-old mystery are at the center of this riveting novel of love and survival, from New York Times bestselling author Pam Jenoff London, 1953. Louise is still adjusting to...

Late in the Day

Late in the Day
  • Author(s): Tessa Hadley
  • Location(s): Hampstead
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The lives of two close-knit couples are irrevocably changed by an untimely death in this Sunday Times bestselling novel Alex and Christine and Zach and Lydia have been inseparable since their twenties. From student house-shares and grubby pubs to...

Late Life Adventures in London and Beyond

Late Life Adventures in London and Beyond
  • Author(s): Annemarie Rawson
  • Location(s): London, Europe, United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2018

At sixty years of age and with wanderlust still coursing through her veins, Annemarie uproots her husband, Steve, once again. This time, they move to London, willing to work but eager to see and do as much as they...

Latent Damage

Latent Damage
  • Author(s): Ian Robinson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2020

It has been a busy year in a London murder squad, and Met detectives DI Nash and DS Moretti are hoping for some down-time when a fatal knife attack occurs. A respected figure in London’s Islamic community is the...

Laying Out The Bones

Laying Out The Bones
  • Author(s): Kate Webb
  • Location(s): Wiltshire
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural, Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

No. 2 DI Lockyer Series A long, hot summer in Wiltshire is broken by a sudden downpour. Flash floods bring something sinister to the surface – a human skeleton. When forensic testing matches the bones to a man named...

Leaving George

Leaving George
  • Author(s): Diane M Dickson
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She made a carefully planned getaway that she thought left no trace… After twenty years of hell, Pauline decides to leave her abusive husband. Her escape has been meticulously planned so that he will not be able to find...

Lessons

Lessons
  • Author(s): Ian McEwan
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines’s life is turned upside down. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miriam Cornell,...

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