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Love’s Awakening

Love’s Awakening
  • Author(s): Laura Frantz
  • Location(s): Pittsburgh
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Early 1800s

The Ballantynes are in dispute with their neighbours and this is devastating for one of their daughters. She is focussed on a love match with a young man who has to free himself from a violent legacy.

Love’s Hurdles

Love’s Hurdles
  • Author(s): Emma Lee-Potter
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Novella
  • Era(s): 2012 (Olympics)

Mimi Carter is the youngest member of the British showjumping team for London 2012. Fiercely competitive and a brilliant rider, she’s desperate to win an Olympic gold medal in front of her home crowd. But as injury threatens and...

Love, Revenge and Buttered Scones

Love, Revenge and Buttered Scones
  • Author(s): Bobbie Darbyshire
  • Location(s): Inverness-shire
  • Era(s): 2000

An innocent meeting of a reading group sparks a series of bizarre events. Three troubled people, driven by loneliness, vanity and revenge, hurl themselves on Inverness public library to find that nothing is as they expect. Henry, Peter and...

Loving Geordie

Loving Geordie
  • Author(s): Andrea Badenoch
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

It is August 1960 and Glue Terrace, overlooking the River Tyne, is due to be demolished. All that remains is the abandoned rubbish of former lives. The residents themselves have already been shifted.In the midst of this desolation lives...

Lowbridge

Lowbridge
  • Author(s): Lucy Campbell
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1987 /2018

A missing girl. Decades of silence. A secret too big to bury. 1987: It’s late summer and a time of change when a 17-year-old girl leaves the local shopping centre in the sleepy town of Lowbridge and is never...

Lucia on Holiday

Lucia on Holiday
  • Author(s): Guy Fraser-Sampson
  • Location(s): Italian Lakes
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s/30s

She’s back! When arch-snob Emmeline Lucas (known universally as Lucia) makes some money on the stockmarket, the wheels are set in motion for a new adventure – and this time, her ambitions are larger than ever. But eternal rival...

Lucy in the Sky

Lucy in the Sky
  • Author(s): Paige Toon
  • Location(s): London, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Lucy is heading back to Australia for her best friend’s wedding when she gets a text from her boyfriend’s phone from someone saying they have just slept with him. She is just about to take off, trapped for many...

Ma Polinski’s Pockets

Ma Polinski’s Pockets
  • Author(s): Sara Sheridan
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Intrigue, adventure and a stack load of cash Rachel White, a young archaeologist, is left a mysterious legacy of £8 million by an old lady she met in Edinburgh when she was a child. Setting off to discover why,...

Madam

Madam
  • Author(s): Phoebe Wynne
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

For 150 years, Caldonbrae Hall has loomed high above the Scottish cliffs as a beacon of excellence in the ancestral castle of Lord William Hope. A boarding school for girls, it promises that its pupils will emerge ‘resilient and...

Maestra

Maestra
  • Author(s): L S Hilton
  • Location(s): Geneva, London, Paris, Rome, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Erotica, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

By day, Judith Rashleigh is a put-upon assistant at a London auction house. By night she’s a hostess in one of the capital’s unsavoury bars. Desperate to make something of herself, Judith knows she has to play the game....

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