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Last Man in Tower

Last Man in Tower
  • Author(s): Aravind Adiga
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

21st Century Mumbai is a city of new money and soaring real estate, and property kingpin Dharmen Shah has grand plans for its future. His offer to buy and tear down a weathered tower block, making way for luxury...

Last Request

Last Request
  • Author(s): Liz Mistry
  • Location(s): Bradford
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Detective Nikki Parekh, Book 1 When human remains are discovered under Bradford’s derelict Odeon car park, DS Nikita Parekh and her team are immediately called to the scene. Distracted by keeping her young nephew out of trouble, Nikki is...

Last Voyage of the Valentina

Last Voyage of the Valentina
  • Author(s): Santa Montefiore
  • Location(s): Amalfi Coast, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2 and 1970s

An eccentric aristocrat is savagely murdered in his Italian palazzo at the end of WW2. Twenty years later, this unsolved crime touches the life of Alba, a hedonistic girl who lives on a houseboat in Sixties Chelsea. Between these...

Laura’s Handmade Life

Laura’s Handmade Life
  • Author(s): Amanda Addison
  • Location(s): Norfolk, Norwich
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Laura Lovegrove is leaving behind her seamless life in London. Architect husband Adi has been relocated to rural Norfolk, a far cry from ultra-urban Ealing. Though Laura knew village life would be different, she didn’t foresee a pokey cottage,...

Lázár

Lázár
  • Author(s): Nelio Biedermann, Jamie Bulloch (Translator)
  • Location(s): Hungary
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, In Translation
  • Era(s): 20th Century

The snow of the dying century still lay on the edge of the dark forest when Lajos von Lázár, the translucent child with water-blue eyes, first glimpsed the man he would believe to be his father for his whole...

Le Colonial

Le Colonial
  • Author(s): Kien Nguyen
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1770s

Voyaging to 1774 Annam, the exotic south China region that came to be known as Vietnam, three missionaries find their dreams of colonial glory dissolving in their discoveries of the area’s sophisticated culture and violent instability.

Le Divorce

Le Divorce
  • Author(s): Diane Johnson
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Set in Paris, LE DIVORCE is an alluring and elegant comedy of love and divorce French-style. Isabel Walker, a young, not-so-innocent, American abroad, arrives in Paris to find that her sister’s French husband (‘the frog prince’) has just walked...

Leap the Wild Water

Leap the Wild Water
  • Author(s): Jenny Lloyd
  • Location(s): Wales
  • Era(s): Early 19th Century

Megan Jones tries to carve a life of her own, in a community where women are neither equal nor free. Her brother, Morgan, is a man in torment: his Mam has died and he is now desperate to make...

Let’s Kill Uncle

Let’s Kill Uncle
  • Author(s): Rohan O'Grady
  • Location(s): Canada
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller

When recently-orphaned Barnaby Gaunt is sent to stay with his uncle on a beautiful remote island off the coast of Canada, he is all set to have the perfect summer holiday. Except for one small problem: his uncle is...

Letter from Prague

Letter from Prague
  • Author(s): Sue Gee
  • Location(s): Prague
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1960s, 1990s

During the summer of 1968, Harriet is working in London and meets and falls in love with Karel, a Czech student. But he returns home at the time of the Russian invasion. Now, 20 years on, Harriet takes her...

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