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La’s Orchestra Saves the World

La’s Orchestra Saves the World
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2, 1950s

With a failed marriage behind her, La — short for Lavender — moves to the Suffolk countryside on the eve of the Second World War to nurse her broken heart. Lonely and at a loss, a friend encourages her...

Lady of the English

Lady of the English
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Chadwick
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 12th Century

Two very different women . . . Linked by destiny and a power struggle for the English crown. Empress Matilda, daughter of Henry I, is determined to win back her crown from Stephen, the usurper king, against all odds...

Last Dance in Havana

Last Dance in Havana
  • Author(s): Rosanna Ley
  • Location(s): Bristol, Havana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s and 2012

Cuba, 1958. Elisa is only sixteen years old when she meets Duardo and she knows he’s the love of her life from the moment they first dance the rumba together in downtown Havana. But Duardo is a rebel, determined to...

Last Train from Liguria

Last Train from Liguria
  • Author(s): Christine Dwyer Hickey
  • Location(s): Dublin, Liguria, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s and 1990s

From the bestselling Irish novelist, here comes a sweeping tale of consequences that spans from the 1930s to the 1990s. “Last Train from Liguria” takes us on a journey from claustrophobic Dublin and the tense formality of London, to...

Lavender Road

Lavender Road
  • Author(s): Helen Carey
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early WW2, 1939/40

BATTERSEA: London at war – set in 1939 and 1940, Lavender Road follows the entwined lives of the women who live in one South London street during World War 2. Lavender Road boasts a pawnbroker, a pub, two rows...

Leave No Trace

Leave No Trace
  • Author(s): Jo Callaghan
  • Location(s): Nuneaton, Warwickshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

DCS Kat Frank and AIDE Lock return in the provocative new thriller from the Sunday Timesbestselling author of In the Blink of an Eye. ‘A smart, agile, immaculately plotted and moving thriller that is unswervingly gripping and scary, and at...

Lights Out for the Territory

Lights Out for the Territory
  • Author(s): Iain Sinclair
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Walking the streets of London, Iain Sinclair traces nine routes across the territory of the capital. Connecting people and places, redrawing boundaries both ancient and modern, reading obscure signs and finding hidden patterns, Sinclair creates a fluid snapshot of...

Little Exiles

Little Exiles
  • Author(s): Robert Dinsdale
  • Location(s): Australia, England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century

Jon Heather, proud to be nearly nine, keeps a vigil at the end of his lane. Determined not to be beaten by the cold he stands and waits for his Father. It is Christmas Eve, 1948. Christmas, a time...

Little Sister

Little Sister
  • Author(s): Isabel Ashdown
  • Location(s): Isle of Wight
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After sixteen years apart sisters Jessica and Emily are reunited. With the past now behind them, the warmth they once shared quickly returns and before long Jess has moved into Emily’scomfortable island home. Life couldn’t be better. But when...

London Calling

London Calling
  • Author(s): Sara Sheridan
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1950s

Book set in 1952, London. When eighteen-year-old debutante Rose Bellamy Gore goes missing in a seedy Soho jazz club the prime suspect is young sax player, Lindon Claremont. Lindon hightails it to Brighton to seek the help of his...

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