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Like A Sword Wound

Like A Sword Wound
  • Author(s): Ahmet Altan
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th / 20th Centuries

Altan’s Ottoman Quartet spans the fifty years between the final decades of the 19th century and the post-WWI rise of Ataturk as both unchallenged leader and visionary reformer of the new Turkey. The four books tell the stories of...

Like Clockwork

Like Clockwork
  • Author(s): Margie Orford
  • Location(s): Cape Town
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Time is running out…A killer who won’t stop. An investigator who won’t give up. When a beautiful young woman is found murdered on Cape Town’s Seapoint promenade, police profiler Dr Clare Hart is drawn into the web of a...

Like Water for Chocolate

Like Water for Chocolate
  • Author(s): Laura Esquivel
  • Location(s): Mexico, Coahuila
  • Genre(s): Food and Drink, Romance
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

The number one bestseller in Mexico and America for almost two years, and subsequently a bestseller around the world, Like Water For Chocolate is a romantic, poignant tale, touched with moments of magic, graphic earthiness, bittersweet wit – and...

Lilacs in the Dust Bowl

Lilacs in the Dust Bowl
  • Author(s): Diana Stevan
  • Location(s): Winnipeg
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

A family saga, set during the Great Depression, when hope and opportunity clashed for all who tried to make a living off the land. Based on the true story of her grandmother’s trials, Diana Stevan continues the amazing tale...

Little Criminals

Little Criminals
  • Author(s): Gene Kerrigan
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Justin and Angela Kennedy have money, love, children and a limitless future. Jo-Jo Mackendrick is a pillar of Dublin gangland society: a man determined that nothing will endanger his hard-earned supremacy. Into their lives come Frankie Crowe, an ambitious...

Little Culinary Triumphs

Little Culinary Triumphs
  • Author(s): Pascal Pujol
  • Location(s): Montmartre
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Sandrine Cordier works in an office, but her daily routine is in no way as dull. Sandrine is a volcanic woman, full of ideas and energy, and a world-class cook who wants to open her own restaurant. An opportunity...

Little Exiles

Little Exiles
  • Author(s): Robert Dinsdale
  • Location(s): Australia, England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century

Jon Heather, proud to be nearly nine, keeps a vigil at the end of his lane. Determined not to be beaten by the cold he stands and waits for his Father. It is Christmas Eve, 1948. Christmas, a time...

Little House in the Big Woods

Little House in the Big Woods
  • Author(s): Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Location(s): Wisconsin
  • Genre(s): Children, Historical
  • Era(s): 1870s

Inside the little house in the big woods live the Ingalls family: Ma, Pa, Mary, Laura and baby Carrie. Outside the little house are the wild animals: the bears and the bees. the deer and the wolves. This is...

Little Lies

Little Lies
  • Author(s): Liane Moriarty
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The same book as BIG LITTLE LIES Jane hasn’t lived anywhere longer than six months since her son was born five years ago. She keeps moving in an attempt to escape her past. Now the idyllic seaside town of...

Little Princes

Little Princes
  • Author(s): Conor Grennan
  • Location(s): Nepal
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2000s

Grennan gives up his job and sets off to travel the globe. He settles down to work in the Little Princes Home in Nepal. It is not what it seems and is a centre for child trafficking. And he...

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