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Last Summer in the City

Last Summer in the City
  • Author(s): Gianfranco Calligarich, Howard Curtis (Translator)
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1960s

A cult classic of Italian literature published in English for the first time, with a foreword by André Acimen, author of Call Me By Your Name In the late 1960s, Leo Gazzara left his family in Milan and moved...

Last Train from Liguria

Last Train from Liguria
  • Author(s): Christine Dwyer Hickey
  • Location(s): Dublin, Liguria, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s and 1990s

From the bestselling Irish novelist, here comes a sweeping tale of consequences that spans from the 1930s to the 1990s. “Last Train from Liguria” takes us on a journey from claustrophobic Dublin and the tense formality of London, to...

Last Train to Helsingor

Last Train to Helsingor
  • Author(s): Heidi Amsinck
  • Location(s): Denmark, Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Crime, Noir
  • Era(s): Modern

“Copenhagen is a mysterious city where strange and sinister things often happen. Menacing and at times darkly humorous there are echoes of Roald Dahl and Daphne du Maurier in these stories, many of which have been specially commissioned for...

Laundry Man

Laundry Man
  • Author(s): Jake Needham
  • Location(s): Hong Kong, Bangkok, Manila
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Welcome to Bangkok. Bribery, corruption, money laundering and murder. They re not out to get you it s just how they do business. Once a high-flying international lawyer and renowned expert on global money laundering, the urbane and straight-shooting...

Lavender Road

Lavender Road
  • Author(s): Helen Carey
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early WW2, 1939/40

BATTERSEA: London at war – set in 1939 and 1940, Lavender Road follows the entwined lives of the women who live in one South London street during World War 2. Lavender Road boasts a pawnbroker, a pub, two rows...

Learning to Fly: A Season with the Peregrine Falcon

Learning to Fly: A Season with the Peregrine Falcon
  • Author(s): P H Liotta
  • Location(s): Adirondacks
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1970s

Naturalist and U.S. Air Force pilot P.H. Liotta spent an unforgettable season in the Adirondacks attempting to bridge the chasm between man and nature by teaching orphaned falcons to fly. And he found that in mastering flight, falcons, like...

Learning to Lose

Learning to Lose
  • Author(s): David Trueba
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 2000s

Sylvia turns 16 and is involved with in a car accident. Behind the wheel of the other car is a young football player from Argentina. The capricious meeting sets in motion a life that takes unexpected directions. Murder and...

Learning to Speak American

Learning to Speak American
  • Author(s): Colette Dartford
  • Location(s): California, Napa Valley
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Having suffered in silence since the tragic death of their young daughter, Lola and Duncan Drummond’s last chance to rediscover their love for one another lies in an anniversary holiday to the gorgeous Napa Valley. Unable to talk about...

Leave No Trace

Leave No Trace
  • Author(s): Jo Callaghan
  • Location(s): Nuneaton, Warwickshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

DCS Kat Frank and AIDE Lock return in the provocative new thriller from the Sunday Timesbestselling author of In the Blink of an Eye. ‘A smart, agile, immaculately plotted and moving thriller that is unswervingly gripping and scary, and at...

Leaves

Leaves
  • Author(s): Michael Baron
  • Location(s): Connecticut
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Welcome to Oldham, CT, a small town rich in Colonial heritage while being utterly contemporary. Situated along the Connecticut River Valley, Oldham bursts with color every fall, as the leaves on its trees evolve into an unmatched palette of...

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