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Kiss Heaven Goodbye

Kiss Heaven Goodbye
  • Author(s): Tasmina Perry
  • Location(s): The Bahamas, World
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s onwards

From the sugar-white sands of the Bahamas to Australia’s Coral Sea: Sunday Times bestseller Tasmina Perry travels the world and turns up the heat in her most spectacular novel yet… On the luxurious private island of Angel Cay, four...

Knave of Diamonds

Knave of Diamonds
  • Author(s): Laurie R King
  • Location(s): Dublin, England, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes no.19 When Mary Russell was a child, she adored her Uncle Jake, the black sheep of the family. But she hasn’t heard from him in many years, until her ne’er-do-well relative presents himself at...

Known unto God

Known unto God
  • Author(s): Bob Bibby
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2 and Modern

In 1940 in war-ravaged Birmingham, Meredith Wilson, driving an ARP ambulance, comes to rescue survivors of a bombed war munitions factory. There she meets two brothers, Bert and Bill Ennis, in Reserved Occupations running the factory, and falls in...

Kosher Chinese

Kosher Chinese
  • Author(s): Michael Levy
  • Location(s): Guiyang
  • Genre(s): Travelogue

In September of 2005, the Peace Corps sent Michael Levy to teach English in the heart of China’s heartland. His hosts in the city of Guiyang found additional uses for him: resident expert on Judaism, romantic adviser, and provincial...

Kristin Lavransdatter Trilogy

Kristin Lavransdatter Trilogy
  • Author(s): Sigrid Undset
  • Location(s): Norway
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 14th Century

The books cover the life of Kristin from childhood to her death. All set in the superb landscape and manners of 14th Century Norway.

L’Auberge

L’Auberge
  • Author(s): Julia Stagg
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

The small commune of Fogas in the French Pyrenees has been thrown into turmoil by the revelation that the Auberge des Deux Vallées has been bought by an English couple and not by the Mayor’s brother-in-law as had been...

LA Confidential

LA Confidential
  • Author(s): James Ellroy
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Crime

An involved story, with a beautiful, unique style. Graphic and dark. A police brutality case provides Ed Exley with an opportunity to make a name for himself but by testifying against other police officers he makes enemies as well...

La Dolce Veto

La Dolce Veto
  • Author(s): Caitlin Alice Gilbert
  • Location(s): Umbria
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Rising star US Congresswoman Isabella Rhodes was supposed to be making history—not headlines. But when a devastating betrayal shatters her political career overnight, she flees to La Musa, a sleepy village in the heart of Umbria where the days...

La Rose

La Rose
  • Author(s): Louise Erdrich
  • Location(s): North Dakota
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1990s looking back

Late summer in North Dakota, 1999: Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of the property bordering his own. He shoots with easy confidence but only when he staggers closer does he realise he has killed his neighbour’s...

La’s Orchestra Saves the World

La’s Orchestra Saves the World
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2, 1950s

With a failed marriage behind her, La — short for Lavender — moves to the Suffolk countryside on the eve of the Second World War to nurse her broken heart. Lonely and at a loss, a friend encourages her...

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