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The Little Stranger

The Little Stranger
  • Author(s): Sarah Waters
  • Location(s): Warwickshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century

In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline,...

The Living Reed

The Living Reed
  • Author(s): Pearl S Buck
  • Location(s): South Korea
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 19th / Early 20th Centuries

Buck portrays Korean culture decades ago and historical facts, such as the Japanese invasion, all through the eyes of a family – unforgettable

The Lollipop Man

The Lollipop Man
  • Author(s): Daniel Sellers
  • Location(s): West Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1990s

When a young girl is snatched from a West Yorkshire town there are eerie similarities with a cold case from many years earlier. It can’t be the same killer, can it? Yorkshire, 1994. Eighteen-year-old Adrian Brown spends his days...

The London Bookshop Affair

The London Bookshop Affair
  • Author(s): Louise Fein
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1962 / 1942

A Novel of the Cold War Two courageous women. One astonishing secret. A world on the brink of war. London, 1962: The world is teetering on the brink of nuclear war but life must go on. Celia Duchesne longs...

The Lonely Hearts Travel Club (Destination Chile)

The Lonely Hearts Travel Club (Destination Chile)
  • Author(s): Katy Colins
  • Location(s): Chile
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Welcome to Paradise Georgia has just been offered the opportunity of a lifetime! She’ll be starring in a TV adventure travel show that will put her and Ben’s business well and truly on the map. But Georgia’s not quite...

The Loney

The Loney
  • Author(s): Andrew Michael Hurley
  • Location(s): Lancashire, Morecambe
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Horror
  • Era(s): Modern

If it had another name, I never knew, but the locals called it the Loney – that strange nowhere between the Wyre and the Lune where Hanny and I went every Easter time with Mummer, Farther, Mr and Mrs...

The Long Call

The Long Call
  • Author(s): Ann Cleeves
  • Location(s): North Devon
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

In North Devon, where the rivers Taw and Torridge converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father’s funeral takes place. The day Matthew turned his back on the strict evangelical community...

The Long Delirious Burning Blue

The Long Delirious Burning Blue
  • Author(s): Sharon Blackie
  • Location(s): Arizona, Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘You and me against the world, you used to sing. In the days before it became you and me against each other.‘ Cat Munro – who has never taken a day off in her working life – quits her...

The Long Fall

The Long Fall
  • Author(s): Julia Crouch
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1980s and modern

Greece, 1980   Emma takes part in a shattering, violent event. An event to which she is anything but an innocent bystander. She is only eighteen, but this marks her fall from innocence. It will haunt her for the...

The Long Way Home

The Long Way Home
  • Author(s): Karen McQuestion
  • Location(s): North America
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

This novel is about four women who go on a road trip from Wisconsin to Las Vegas. They are pretty much strangers, having bereavement in common, range in age from 20’s – 70’s, and have very different personalities.

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