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The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
A comedic memoir about fandom, fame, and other embarrassments from the life of a New York Times bestseller What happens when a childhood hobby grows into a lifelong career? The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist, Adrian Tomine’s funniest and...
- Location(s): Central California
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Wealthy heiress Saoirse Towers vanished during her eighteenth birthday gala four decades ago. Now her remains have finally been found under Cliffhaven, the aristocratic family’s mansion high atop the windswept Central Coast of California. But the mystery only deepens…for...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Lost Whale is the enchanting second novel from the author of The Last Bear: the bestselling debut hardback of 2021 and The Times Children’s Book of the Week What if you could communicate with a whale? Rio has...
- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Fiction, Satire
- Era(s): 1940s
Subtitled An Anglo-American Tragedy, Evelyn Waugh’s The Loved One is a witty satirical novel on artistic integrity and the British expat community in Hollywood. The more startling for the economy of its prose and plot, this novel’s story, set...
- Location(s): Southern California
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 1950s
Shelly fells as if she’s living in a fantasyland. She’s spending the school year in southern California, where flowers bloom in November, oranges grow on trees, and lawns are mowed in winter. When the star of the basketball team...
- Location(s): Los Angeles, Nebraska
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Sabine—twenty years a magician’s assistant to her handsome, charming husband—is suddenly a widow. In the wake of his death, she finds he has left a final trick; a false identity and a family allegedly lost in a tragic accident...
- Location(s): Malibu
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Escape to Malibu this summer with the Queen of the Beach Reads Investigative reporter Lara Stone is on holiday. Her LA-based boyfriend Alex has use of a postcard-perfect beach retreat in Malibu and has promised her two weeks of...
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Earlier 20th Century
‘His name remains one of the most important and recognisable in the crime fiction genre. Hammett set the standard for much of the work that would follow’ Independent Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track...
- Location(s): San Francisco, Kentucky
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences, plus six years, at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility. Outside is the world from which she has been permanently severed: the San...
- Location(s): Carmel, California
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Contemporary
What if the Lift driver who finds your cheating boyfriend’s phone holds the directions to true love? ‘Who are you and why do you have my boyfriend’s phone?’ ‘He left it in my car. You must be the blonde...
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