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The Last Hours in Paris

The Last Hours in Paris
  • Author(s): Ruth Druart
  • Location(s): Paris, Brittany
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2 onwards

Words are power. They can bring you down, lift you up, make your heart soar, make you fall in love. Or make you hate.’ Paris 1944. Elise Chevalier knows what it is to hate. Her fiance, a young French...

The Last Judgement

The Last Judgement
  • Author(s): Iain Pears
  • Location(s): England, Paris, Rome
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Paris can do strange things to a man’s mind… like making him agree to an apparently harmless favour of escorting a picture to Rome. ‘The Death of Socrates’ is a particularly nondescript piece, so art dealer Jonathan Argyll can...

The Last Night

The Last Night
  • Author(s): Cesca Major
  • Location(s): Devon, Lynmouth
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern and 1952

In a quiet coastal village, Irina spends her days restoring furniture, passing the time in peace and hiding away from the world. A family secret, long held and never discussed, casts a dark shadow and Irina chooses to withdraw...

The Last Nude

The Last Nude
  • Author(s): Ellis Avery
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s onwards

THIS sizzling historical fiction is about a woman who modelled for a famous bisexual artist (Tamara de Lempicka) in 1920s Paris and fell madly in love with her. In 1927, the Jewish-Italian Rafaela Fano was travelling with her Grandmother,...

The Last of the Smoking Bartenders

The Last of the Smoking Bartenders
  • Author(s): C J Howell
  • Location(s): Arizona
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The Last of the Smoking Bartenders follows a drifter traversing the Arizona desert, leaving behind a path of destruction. Tom believes he is a secret agent deep undercover racing to stop terrorists from blowing up the Hoover Dam. Forced...

The Last Pilot

The Last Pilot
  • Author(s): Benjamin Johncock
  • Location(s): California, Houston, Mojave Desert
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Set against the backdrop of one of the most emotionally charged periods in American history, The Last Pilot begins in the bone-dry Mojave Desert during the late 1940s, where US Air Force test pilots are racing to break the sound barrier....

The Last Place You Look

The Last Place You Look
  • Author(s): Nikki Smith
  • Location(s): Hoedspruit, Oxshott
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller, Destination Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Leo thought he knew his wife. Until she disappeared. Leo Kennedy has it all: money, looks, the perfect marriage and luxury homes in the UK and South Africa. But when his wife Addison goes missing, his immaculate life detonates....

The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire

The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire
  • Author(s): C M Mayo
  • Location(s): Mexico
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century

The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire is a sweeping historical novel of Mexico during the short, tragic, at times surreal, reign of Emperor Maximilian and his court.

The Last Stage

The Last Stage
  • Author(s): Louise Voss
  • Location(s): Surrey
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern and 1980s/90s

At the peak of her career as lead singer of a legendary 1980s indie band, Meredith Vincent was driven off the international stage by a horrific incident. Now living a quiet existence in a cottage on the grounds of...

The Last Storytellers

The Last Storytellers
  • Author(s): Richard Hamilton
  • Location(s): Marrakech
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

Marrakech is the heart and lifeblood of Morocco’s ancient storytelling tradition. For nearly a thousand years, storytellers have gathered in the Jemaa el Fna, the legendary square of the city, to recount ancient folktales and fables to rapt audiences....

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