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Long Way Home

Long Way Home
  • Author(s): Eva Dolan
  • Location(s): Peterborough
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

No witnesses, no fingerprints – only a positive ID of the victim as an immigrant with a long list of enemies. Detectives Zigic and Ferreira are called in from the Hate Crimes Unit to track the killer, and are...

Lord Jim

Lord Jim
  • Author(s): Joseph Conrad
  • Location(s): Indonesia
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Jim is young, ambitious and idealistic, keen to make his name in the world. But fate has other plans. Jim has been made First Mate on board the Patna, but when the she starts to flood in the middle...

Lords of the Atlas

Lords of the Atlas
  • Author(s): Gavin Maxwell
  • Location(s): Morocco
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): Late 19th and 20th Centuries

The greatest Moroccan travel book of all time, vital reading for the new upmarket Marrakesh tourism – one of the bibles of British twentieth-century Orientalism – by the author of A Ring of Bright Water – describes the extraordinary...

Los Angeles Noir

Los Angeles Noir
  • Author(s): Denise Hamilton
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

A collection of short stories set in and around LA under the editorship of Denis Hamilton

Losing Julia

Losing Julia
  • Author(s): Jonathan Hull
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Reflecting back to WW1

In a world torn apart by war, one man would search a lifetime to find what he once lost: a woman named Julia…. Patrick Delaney was just a boy when he marched off to war in 1918. But on...

Losing Kei

Losing Kei
  • Author(s): Suzanne Kamata
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Jill is reeling from a bad relationship, and she decides to depart for Japan for a fresh start. She falls in love with the culture, and Yusuke Yamashiro. Although she is American, they decide to marry and she soon...

Lost and Found in India

Lost and Found in India
  • Author(s): Braja Sorensen
  • Location(s): Mayapur
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Most books on India written by foreigners share one trait: the authors visit India, then leave. Sorensen moved in, set up house, became a resident in a village on the banks of the Ganges river, and eventually called India...

Lost Ground

Lost Ground
  • Author(s): Michiel Heyns
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Award-winning Michiel Heyns returns with a richly textured novel set in contemporary South Africa. The murder of a beautiful woman shatters the rural village peace of Alfredville, and her husband, the police station commander, is jailed as chief suspect....

Lost in Ibiza

Lost in Ibiza
  • Author(s): Rebecca Frayn
  • Location(s): Ibiza
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Environmental
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On her twenty-first birthday, environmental activist Alice learns that the man who has raised her is not her father after all. She is surprised to learn that her biological father, William, is a property developer based in Ibiza, where...

Lost in Shangri_La

Lost in Shangri_La
  • Author(s): Mitchell Zuckoff
  • Location(s): Indonesia
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Mid 1940s

Three months before the end of World War II, a U.S. Army plane flying over New Guinea crashed in uncharted mountains inhabited by a Stone Age tribe. Nineteen passengers and crew were killed and two were mortally wounded. But...

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