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The Light Behind the Window

The Light Behind the Window
  • Author(s): Lucinda Riley
  • Location(s): Paris, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s, WW2

This novel is the same book as The Lavender Garden The present: Emilie de la Martiniéres has always fought against her aristocratic background, but after the death of her glamorous, distant mother, she finds herself alone in the world...

The Lighthearted Quest

The Lighthearted Quest
  • Author(s): Ann Bridge
  • Location(s): Morocco
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

When Julia undertook to find her cousin, Colin Munro, last heard of sailing a yacht off the north coast of Africa, the quest seemed lighthearted enough. But, before she had finished, she was involved with Moorish antique dealers, a...

The Lighthouse

The Lighthouse
  • Author(s): Alison Moore
  • Location(s): Germany, The Rhine
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The Lighthouse begins on a North Sea ferry, on whose blustery outer deck stands Futh, a middle-aged, recently separated man heading to Germany for a restorative walking holiday. Spending his first night in Hellhaus at a small, family-run hotel,...

The Lightkeeper’s Wife

The Lightkeeper’s Wife
  • Author(s): Karen Viggers
  • Location(s): Bruny Island, Tasmania
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Mary lives in Hobart, and is triggered into going to Bruny Island, where she once lived with her husband, the lighthouse keeper there. Her decision, in her dying days, prompts division within her own family, yet her trip has...

The Litigators

The Litigators
  • Author(s): John Grisham
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

David Zinc has it all: Big firm, big salary, life in the lawyer’s fast lane. Until the day he snaps and throws it all away. Leaving the world of corporate law far behind, he talks himself into a new...

The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap

The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap
  • Author(s): Wendy Welch
  • Location(s): Appalachian Mountains, Big Stone Gap
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Wendy Welch and her husband had always dreamed of owning a bookstore, so when they left high-octane jobs for a simpler life in an Appalachian coal town, they seized an unexpected opportunity to pursue their dream. The only problems?...

The Little Shadows

The Little Shadows
  • Author(s): Marina Endicott
  • Location(s): Alberta
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1910s

MARINA ENDICOTT PRESENTS THE THREE GRACEFUL AVERY GIRLS THE SISTER ACT TO TAKE VAUDEVILLE BY STORM STARRING: AURORA, CLOVER and BELLA As they set off on the road to fame and fortune, the Avery sisters join a cast of...

The Lodge

The Lodge
  • Author(s): Sue Watson
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Please – someone – help us. We’re at The Lodge, the snow is everywhere. We’re trapped. There was an argument last night… things got out of hand. Someone went missing in the middle of the night. We think they...

The London Train

The London Train
  • Author(s): Tessa Hadley
  • Location(s): Cardiff, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The London Train is a novel in two parts, separate but wound together around a single moment, examining in vivid detail two lives stretched between two cities. Paul lives in the Welsh countryside with his wife Elise, and their...

The Lonely Desert

The Lonely Desert
  • Author(s): Sarah Challis
  • Location(s): Mali
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Sometimes, the end of a journey is just the beginning… Emily and Clemmie’s lives changed for ever when they took their great aunt’s ashes to rest in a strange and exotic land. Clemmie stayed behind to begin a new...

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