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The Last Passenger

The Last Passenger
  • Author(s): Will Dean
  • Location(s): The Atlantic Ocean
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Caz Ripley, a cafe owner from a small, ordinary town, boards the RMS Atlantica with her boyfriend Pete and a thousand fellow passengers destined for New York. The next morning, she wakes to discover that everyone else on board...

The Last Thing He Told Me

The Last Thing He Told Me
  • Author(s): Laura Dave
  • Location(s): Sausalito, Texas
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

IT WAS THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME: PROTECT HER Before Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his new wife, Hannah: protect her. Hannah knows exactly who Owen needs her to protect – his teenage...

The Last Time I Saw Paris

The Last Time I Saw Paris
  • Author(s): Lynn Sheene
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 1930s/40s

Claire is living a privliged life of a socialite in Manhattan, married to Russell, lover of Laurent. Russell is a German sympathiser and after revelations, Claire flees to Paris and finds herself part of the Resistance Movement.

The Last Train to Scarborough

The Last Train to Scarborough
  • Author(s): Andrew Martin
  • Location(s): Scarborough
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Early 1900s

One night, in a private boarding house in Scarborough, a railwayman vanishes, leaving his belongings behind… It is the eve of the Great War, and Jim Stringer, railway detective, is uneasy about his next assignment. It’s not so much...

The Last Van Gogh

The Last Van Gogh
  • Author(s): Alyson Richman
  • Location(s): Auvers
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Turn of 20th Century

This is the story of Van Gogh in the last couple of months of his life, which he spent in Auvers, under the treatment of Dr Gachet, physician with questionable ethics. Marguerite is his daughter, who is inexorably drawn...

The Last Wife

The Last Wife
  • Author(s): Karen Hamilton
  • Location(s): New Forest
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Two women. A dying wish. And a web of lies that will bring their world crashing down. Nina and Marie were best friends-until Nina was diagnosed with a terminal illness. Before she died, Nina asked Marie to fulfill her...

The Late Greats

The Late Greats
  • Author(s): Nick Quantrill
  • Location(s): Hull
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Having been convinced by their manager, Kane Major, to put their acrimonious break-up behind them and launch a comeback, New Holland, Hull’s most successful band of the 1990s, is reforming. Allowing one privileged journalist to document the process. Joe...

The Late-Night News

The Late-Night News
  • Author(s): Petros Markaris
  • Location(s): Athens
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

This is the same book as Deadline in Athens. Costas Haritos, a CID chief in central Athens, is uncomfortably married, aggressive and pessimistic, and only manages to relax when he is at home reading his English dictionaries. A veteran...

The Lieutenant

The Lieutenant
  • Author(s): Kate Grenville
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 18th Century

The Lieutenant is the second book in a trilogy of novels by Kate Grenville about early Australia – the others are The Secret River (1) and Sarah Thornhill (3) Lieutenant Daniel Rooke sails into Sydney Cove with the First...

The Life Assistance Agency

The Life Assistance Agency
  • Author(s): Thomas Hocknell
  • Location(s): Prague, Europe, Krakow, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Various

Do you want to live forever? is THE question facing anyone pursuing immortality. But what happens when eternal life is disappointing, and everyone around you keeps dying? Ben Ferguson-Cripps, a struggling writer with a surname that gets more attention...

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