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The Little House By The Sea

The Little House By The Sea
  • Author(s): Tracy Rees
  • Location(s): South Wales, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Bluebells bob in the salty sea wind and the cottage gate swings open to reveal the inky-blue cove. It’s exactly how Kitty always pictured it… except in her head, she wasn’t standing here alone. Kitty Roberts spends her days...

The Little I Knew

The Little I Knew
  • Author(s): Chiara Valerio, Ailsa Wood (Translator)
  • Location(s): Scauri
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

Shortlisted for the Premio Strega In Scauri, an end of the line seaside town forty miles or so from Rome, Vittoria dies unexpectedly in her bath. Whilst the townsfolk meet the event with sad but respectful southern Italian silence,...

The Little Italian Bakery

The Little Italian Bakery
  • Author(s): Valentina Cebeni
  • Location(s): The Mediterranean, Italy
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Food and Drink, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back to WW2

The scent of freshly baked biscuits, lemon and aniseed reminds Elettra of her mother’s kitchen. But her mother is in a coma, and the family bakery is failing. Elettra is distraught; she has many unanswered questions about her mother’s...

The Little Porto Book Club

The Little Porto Book Club
  • Author(s): Rebecca Raisin
  • Location(s): Oporto (Porto)
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Introvert and self-described whodunnit enthusiast Viviane has never much believed in living life outside of the pages of a book. But when her interfering mother insists that Viviane needs some friends who aren’t fictional, she decides to head into...

The Little Red Chairs

The Little Red Chairs
  • Author(s): Edna O'Brien
  • Location(s): Balkans, Ireland, London, The Hague (Den Haag)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s and 2000s

When a man who calls himself a faith healer arrives in a small, west-coast Irish village, the community is soon under the spell of this charismatic stranger from the Balkans. One woman in particular, Fidelma McBride, becomes enthralled in...

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...

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