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The Last Visitor

The Last Visitor
  • Author(s): Martin Griffin
  • Location(s): Ilhas Desertas, The Atlantic Ocean
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

Five-hundred kilometres from land in the middle of Atlantic Ocean lies Navigaceo, a tiny island hastily deserted fifty years ago and uninhabited ever since. Until now. Tess Macfarlane is part of the very first return expedition and, as a...

The Law of the Heart

The Law of the Heart
  • Author(s): Boris Starling
  • Location(s): North Korea, Pyongyang
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Their love is against the laws of a merciless state―but the heart has its own power. For rollercoaster designer Theo, living on the edge is just part of the job. He’s used to wandering the world perfecting thrills, his...

The Lazarus Solution

The Lazarus Solution
  • Author(s): Kjell Ola Dahl, Don Bartlett (translator)
  • Location(s): Sweden, Norway
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Historical, In Translation
  • Era(s): WW2

Summer, 1943. Daniel Berkåk, who works as a courier for the Press and Military Office in Sweden, is killed on his last cross-border mission to Norway. Demobbed sailor Kai Fredly escapes from occupied Norway into Sweden, but finds that...

The Lemon Tree Hotel

The Lemon Tree Hotel
  • Author(s): Rosanna Ley
  • Location(s): Vernazza, Cinque Terre
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 2011

In the beautiful village of Vernazza, the Mazzone family have transformed an old convent overlooking the glamorous Italian Riviera into the elegant Lemon Tree Hotel. For Chiara, her daughter Elene and her granddaughter Isabella, the running of their hotel...

The Librarian of Auschwitz

The Librarian of Auschwitz
  • Author(s): Antonio Iturbe
  • Location(s): Auschwitz/Birkenau
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

‘It wasn’t an extensive library. In fact, it consisted of eight books and some of them were in poor condition. But they were books. In this incredibly dark place, they were a reminder of less sombre times, when words...

The Lieutenant’s Nurse

The Lieutenant’s Nurse
  • Author(s): Sara Ackerman
  • Location(s): Hawai'i
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): World War II

“An emotional and heartfelt tale of love and courage.” —Chanel Cleeton, bestselling author of the Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick Next Year in Havana November, 1941. She’s never even seen the ocean before, but Eva Cassidy has her reasons...

The Lily Garden

The Lily Garden
  • Author(s): Barbara Josselsohn
  • Location(s): Chicago, Adirondacks
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She held the letter that she had found in the garden, and noticed the distinctive curls of her father’s handwriting etched on the worn paper. Her life had already been turned upside down by one family secret, would his...

The Lip

The Lip
  • Author(s): Charlie Carroll
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Away from the hotels and holiday lets, there is an unseen side of Cornwall, where the shifting uncertainties of the future breed resentment and mistrust. Melody Janie is hidden. She lives alone in a caravan in Bones Break: a...

The Living and the Rest

The Living and the Rest
  • Author(s): José Eduardo Agualusa, Daniel Hahn (translator)
  • Location(s): Mozambique
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Daniel lives with artist Moira on her native Island of Mozambique. They are awaiting the birth of their child, while also organising the island’s first literary festival. But as soon as the first festival guests arrive, the coast is...

The Long, Long Afternoon

The Long, Long Afternoon
  • Author(s): Inga Vesper
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1950s

The sunniest places hold the darkest secrets . . . A stunning 1950s set debut mystery brimming with atmosphere and perfect for fans of Tangerine, Small Pleasures and Mad Men. Yesterday, I kissed my husband for the last time...

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