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Letters from Malta

Letters from Malta
  • Author(s): Mary Rensten
  • Location(s): Malta
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1985

When Jane Thornfield finds an envelope hidden in her mother’s bedroom drawer it heralds the beginning of a journey of discovery. Long buried family secrets are unearthed and Jane is forced to question her very identity. Jane’s search for...

Lies That Blind

Lies That Blind
  • Author(s): E S Alexander
  • Location(s): Penang
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1788

1788, Penang, Malaya: A young man desperate to prove himself becomes enmeshed in the web of deceit woven by an ambitious adventurer whose double-dealing imperils the island’s inhabitants. Malaya, 1788: Aspiring journalist Jim Lloyd jeopardises his future in ways...

Light Falling on Bamboo

Light Falling on Bamboo
  • Author(s): Lawrence Scott
  • Location(s): Trinidad and Tobago
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 1800s

Trinidad, 1865. Michel Jean Cazabon returns home to be at his beloved mother s deathbed. Life on the island seems very different after the freedoms of post-Revolutionary Paris, where his paintings have hung in the Louvre. Despite the Emancipation...

Light Love Rituals: Bulgarian Myths, Legends, and Folklore

Light Love Rituals: Bulgarian Myths, Legends, and Folklore
  • Author(s): Ronesa Aveela
  • Location(s): Bulgaria
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

• Discover Ancient Bulgarian Myths, Legends, Folklore, and Mythology • Meet Heroes from Greek Mythology with Thracian Origins • Enjoy Diverse, Delicious Modern and Traditional Bulgarian Recipes A book for children and adults from 8 to 108 who would...

Lights Out for the Territory

Lights Out for the Territory
  • Author(s): Iain Sinclair
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Walking the streets of London, Iain Sinclair traces nine routes across the territory of the capital. Connecting people and places, redrawing boundaries both ancient and modern, reading obscure signs and finding hidden patterns, Sinclair creates a fluid snapshot of...

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...

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