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Light Over Liskeard

Light Over Liskeard
  • Author(s): Louis de Bernières
  • Location(s): Cornwall, Liskeard
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Q wants a simpler and safer life. His work as a quantum cryptographer for the government has led him to believe a crisis is imminent for civilisation and he’s looking for somewhere to ride out what’s ahead. He buys...

Light Perpetual

Light Perpetual
  • Author(s): Francis Spufford
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1944 onwards

November 1944. A German rocket strikes London, and five young lives are atomised in an instant. November 1944. That rocket never lands. A single second in time is altered, and five young lives go on – to experience all...

Lighting the Sky

Lighting the Sky
  • Author(s): Katharine E Smith
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): present-day

“I LOVE this book. It flowed perfectly from beginning to end. I couldn’t put it down.” All is set to change for Alice and Sam as they expect their first child together. Just how they are going to fit...

Lightning Mary

Lightning Mary
  • Author(s): Anthea Simmons
  • Location(s): Dorset
  • Genre(s): Children, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 18th / 19th century

Winner of the middle grade STEAM Book Prize Ordinary is what most people are and I am not. I am not ordinary at all. I am a scientist. One stormy night, a group of villagers are struck by lightning....

Lily the Tiller

Lily the Tiller
  • Author(s): Deborah McKinlay
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Lily the Tiller is a nomadic gardener on the permanent lam from a bleak, abusive past. Scouring the lanes of South West England looking for temporary work, she pitches up at Motthoe, a now dilapidated, but once grand, country...

Lines Crossed

Lines Crossed
  • Author(s): Ian Robinson
  • Location(s): North London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

Renegade cop Sam Batford’s latest undercover assignment puts him between a rock and a hard place… An armed gang is robbing cash vans in North London, and DS Batford’s bosses want his help catching them red-handed. That’s not all...

Little Bee

Little Bee
  • Author(s): Chris Cleave
  • Location(s): Nigeria, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the author of the international bestseller Incendiary comes a haunting novel about the tenuous friendship that blooms between two disparate strangers—one an illegal Nigerian refugee, the other a recent widow from suburban London.

Little Boy Blue: DI Helen Grace 5

Little Boy Blue: DI Helen Grace 5
  • Author(s): M J Arlidge
  • Location(s): Southampton
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Called to a Southampton nightclub, Detective Inspector Helen Grace cuts the duct tape from the asphyxiated victim and discovers she knows him. A man from the double life she has concealed from her superiors, Helen is determined to find...

Little Disasters

Little Disasters
  • Author(s): Sarah Vaughan
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

You think you know her… But look a little closer She is a stay-at-home mother of three with boundless reserves of patience, energy and love. After being friends for a decade, this is how Liz sees Jess. Then one...

Little Monsters

Little Monsters
  • Author(s): Charles Lambert
  • Location(s): Derbyshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

When I was thirteen, my father killed my mother . . . How do you recover from something like that? Carol never quite does. Sent to live with her aunt, who barely tolerates her presence, Carol is grief-stricken and...

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