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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, Kraków (Kraków), 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...

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...

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