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The Kindness of Enemies

The Kindness of Enemies
  • Author(s): Leila Aboulela
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

It’s 2010 and Natasha, a half Russian, half Sudanese professor of history, is researching the life of Imam Shamil, the 19th century Muslim leader who led the anti-Russian resistance in the Caucasian War. When shy, single Natasha discovers that...

The King’s Fool

The King’s Fool
  • Author(s): Mahi Binebine
  • Location(s): Marrakech
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Sidi is dying. In the last days of this all-powerful tyrant, his faithful court fool takes stock of the decades he has spent in the king’s service. For the many years have left certain indelible wounds. During his service,...

The Kommandant’s Girl

The Kommandant’s Girl
  • Author(s): Pam Jenoff
  • Location(s): Kraków (Kraków)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1939

This work discusses hope, struggle and defiance in the face of overwhelming odds. This is a compelling tale of love and courage in dangerous and desperate times. ‘Krakow, the City of Kings, was no longer mine. I had become...

The Lacemakers of Glenmara

The Lacemakers of Glenmara
  • Author(s): Heather Barbieri
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

When Kate Robinson leaves her Seattle home to travel across Ireland, she is looking to escape: fleeing a broken relationship, a failing career in fashion and the crushing grief over her mother’s death. Her strict itinerary keeps her busy,...

The Lacuna

The Lacuna
  • Author(s): Barbara Kingsolver
  • Location(s): Mexico, North Carolina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

The Lacuna is the heartbreaking story of a man’s search for safety of a man torn beween the warm heart of Mexico and the cold embrace of 1950s McCarthyite America. Born in the U.S. and reared in Mexico, Harrison...

The Ladies’ Paradise

The Ladies’ Paradise
  • Author(s): Emile Zola
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Later 19th Century

Encapsulating, with luxurious detail, the phenomenon of consumer society, obsessed with image, fashion and instant gratification. The Ladies’Paradise depicts the growth of capitalism through the workings of a new economic entity, the department store. The novel centres around the...

The Lady in the Palazzo

The Lady in the Palazzo
  • Author(s): Marlena de Blasi
  • Location(s): Orvieto
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

This is the same book as “An Umbrian Love Story: Coming home to Via del Duomo”. A couple in love and a barrle full of eccentric characters. It is a great story of integrating into rather conservative Italian life...

The Land of Green Plums

The Land of Green Plums
  • Author(s): Herta Mueller (Herta Müller)
  • Location(s): Romania
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 20th century

Set in Romania at the height of Ceausescu’s reign of terror, The Land of Green Plums tells the story of a group of young people who leave the impoverished province for the city in search of better prospects and...

The Lantern

The Lantern
  • Author(s): Deborah Lawrenson
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

When Eve falls for the secretive, charming Dom, their whirlwind relationship leads them to purchase Les Genevriers, an abandoned house in a rural hamlet in the south of France. As the beautiful Provence summer turns to autumn, Eve finds...

The Last 10 Seconds

The Last 10 Seconds
  • Author(s): Simon Kernick
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Sean Egan, undercover cop and DI Tina Boyd are the main protagonists. Egan’s job is to infiltrate a top London gang and Boyd’s job is to bring a serial killer to justice.

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