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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...

London Under

London Under
  • Author(s): Peter Ackroyd
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

London Under is an atmospheric, imaginative introduction to everything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheatres to Victorian sewers, gang hideouts and modern Underground stations. This book tunnels down through the geological layers, meeting...

London: The Biography

London: The Biography
  • Author(s): Peter Ackroyd
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): Various

London, seen as a living organism, Ackroyd charts the ups and downs of this city, the people, the quirks, the history – and there is soooo much to tell. A real background setter for this capital of capital cities.

Long Way Home

Long Way Home
  • Author(s): Eva Dolan
  • Location(s): Peterborough
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

No witnesses, no fingerprints – only a positive ID of the victim as an immigrant with a long list of enemies. Detectives Zigic and Ferreira are called in from the Hate Crimes Unit to track the killer, and are...

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