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London Calling

London Calling
  • Author(s): James Craig
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1980s, Modern

Can you win an election and cover up murder at the same time? When Inspector John Carlyle finds a body in a luxury London hotel room he begins a journey through the murky world of the British ruling classes...

London Fields

London Fields
  • Author(s): Martin Amis
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

London Noir

London Noir
  • Author(s): Cathi Unsworth
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Late 1900s

A series of short stories under the editorship of Cathi Unsworth, in the noir genre.

London Stories

London Stories
  • Author(s): Jerry White
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

London has the greatest literary tradition of any city in the world. Its roll-call of story-tellers includes cultural giants who changed the way the world thought about writing, like Shakespeare, Defoe and Dickens. But there has also been an...

Lonesome Point

Lonesome Point
  • Author(s): Ian Vasquez
  • Location(s): Belize, Florida
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern with flashbacks

Different as they are, the Varela brothers are bound by a decades-old secret surrounding the events of one long-ago night during their childhood back home in their native Belize. Today Patrick is the Miami-Dade County commissioner and a probable...

Long Time Lost

Long Time Lost
  • Author(s): Chris Ewan (C M Ewan)
  • Location(s): Europe, Isle of Man
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Nick Miller and his team provide a unique and highly illegal service, relocating at-risk individuals across Europe with new identities and new lives. Nick excels at what he does for a reason: he’s spent years living in the shadows...

Long Walk to Freedom

Long Walk to Freedom
  • Author(s): Nelson Mandela
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 20th Century

The famously taciturn South African president reveals much of himself in Long Walk to Freedom. A good deal of this autobiography was written secretly while Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years on Robben Island by South Africa’s apartheid regime....

Long Way Round

Long Way Round
  • Author(s): Charley Boorman, Ewan McGregor
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Early 21st Century

From London to New York, Ewan and Charley chased their shadows through Europe, the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Russia, across the Pacific to Alaska, then down through Canada and America. But as the miles slipped beneath the tyres of...

Look Who’s Back

Look Who’s Back
  • Author(s): Timur Vermes
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2011

Berlin, Summer 2011. Adolf Hitler wakes up on a patch of open ground, alive and well. Things have changed – no Eva Braun, no Nazi party, no war. Hitler barely recognises his beloved Fatherland, filled with immigrants and run...

Looking for Alaska

Looking for Alaska
  • Author(s): John Green
  • Location(s): Alabama
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern

A vivid, passionate and intensely moving novel from prize-winning author John Green. “In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla and on that thin-mooned night I could see little more than her silhouette, but...

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