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Legionary: Gods & Emperors (Legionary 5)

Legionary: Gods & Emperors (Legionary 5)
  • Author(s): Gordon Doherty
  • Location(s): Bulgaria, France, Germany, Istanbul (Constantinople), Türkiye (Turkey)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late Antiquity, Late Roman Empire

A tale of adventure and military brotherhood in the legions of Rome The fate of the East rests on the edge of a sword as the legions and the Goths march to war… 378 AD: Fritigern’s Gothic horde tightens...

Legionary: The Blood Road (Legionary 7)

Legionary: The Blood Road (Legionary 7)
  • Author(s): Gordon Doherty
  • Location(s): Bulgaria, France, Germany, Istanbul (Constantinople), Türkiye (Turkey)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late Antiquity, Late Roman Empire

A tale of adventure and military brotherhood in the legions of Rome 381 AD: The Gothic War draws to a brutal climax, and the victor’s name will be written in blood… The great struggle between the Eastern Roman Empire...

Legionary: The Scourge of Thracia (Legionary 4)

Legionary: The Scourge of Thracia (Legionary 4)
  • Author(s): Gordon Doherty
  • Location(s): Bulgaria, France, Germany, Istanbul (Constantinople), Serbia, Türkiye (Turkey)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Late Antiquity, Late Roman Empire

A tale of adventure and military brotherhood in the legions of Rome The legions are in tatters, and the Gothic hordes are gathering beyond the mountains . . . 377 AD: Thracia’s legions are few and broken in the...

Leopold’s Assassin

Leopold’s Assassin
  • Author(s): J R Rogers
  • Location(s): Brussels, Dinard, Guyana, Lima, Paris, Recife, St Malo
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Suspense
  • Era(s): 1902

1902 – It is a cold and rainy Saturday morning the 15th of November in Brussels, Belgium. Gennaro Cataldo, an Italian anarchist, has traveled incognito to Brussels from London and Paris. In the Belgian capital he plans to assassinate...

Les Miserables

Les Miserables
  • Author(s): Victor Hugo
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century

‘He was no longer Jean Valjean, but No. 24601’ Victor Hugo’s tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become...

Let Me Tell You About The Man I knew

Let Me Tell You About The Man I knew
  • Author(s): Susan Fletcher
  • Location(s): Saint-Rémy-de-Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1880s

Provence, May 1889. The hospital of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole is home to the mentally ill. An old monastery, it sits at the foot of Les Alpilles mountains among wheat fields, herbs and olive groves. For years, the fragile have come here and...

Let Us Be True

Let Us Be True
  • Author(s): Alex Christofi
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1958

Paris, 1958. Ralf is alone, filling his days with glasses of red wine at Jacques’ bar, waiting for life to happen to him. Then, one night, Elsa – bold, enigmatic, unpredictable – whirls into Jacques’ bar and into Ralf’s...

Libby and the Parisian Puzzle

Libby and the Parisian Puzzle
  • Author(s): Jo Clarke, Becka Moor (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Mystery-lover Libby is excited but nervous when she’s sent to live with her aunt while her mother is working abroad. Aunt Agatha is the headmistress of an extraordinary travelling school that moves from country to country. Libby joins it...

Liberté

Liberté
  • Author(s): Gita Trelease
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 18th century, French Revolution

Liberté by Gita Trelease is the spell-binding sequel to the bestselling Enchanteé. Magic. Betrayal. Sacrifice. Camille Durbonne gambled everything she had to keep herself and her sister safe. But as the people of Paris starve and mobs riot, safety...

Liberty’s Fire

Liberty’s Fire
  • Author(s): Lydia Syson
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1870s

Paris, 1871. Four young people will rewrite their destinies. Paris is in revolt. After months of siege at the hands of the Prussians, a wind of change is blowing through the city, bringing with it murmurs of a new...

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