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What Happens at Christmas

What Happens at Christmas
  • Author(s): Evonne Wareham
  • Location(s): Brecon Beacons, London
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Kidnapped for Christmas? Best-selling author Andrew Vitruvius knows that any publicity is good publicity. His agent tells him that often, so it must be true. In the run-up to Christmas, she excels herself – talking him into the craziest...

What Red Was

What Red Was
  • Author(s): Rosie Price
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Kate Quaile,’ he said. ‘I like your name.’ Kate frowned. ‘How do you know my name?’ Throughout their four years at university, Kate and Max are inseparable. For him, she breaks her solitude; for her, he leaves his busy...

What the Clocks Know

What the Clocks Know
  • Author(s): Rumer Haven
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Paranormal
  • Era(s): Modern / Victorian

Twenty-six-year-old Margot sets out on a journey of self-discovery – she dumps her New York boyfriend, quits her Chicago job, and crashes at her friend’s flat in London. Rather than find herself, though, she only feels more lost. An...

What Was Lost

What Was Lost
  • Author(s): Jean Levy
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Present

Sarah has no memories. She just knows she was found, near death, on a beach miles from her London home. Now she is part of a medical experiment to see whether her past can be retrieved. But bad things...

Whatever happened to Harold Absalon

Whatever happened to Harold Absalon
  • Author(s): Simon Okotie
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Harold Absalon, the Mayor’s Transport Advisor, has gone missing. Down-at-heel detective Marguerite is trying to find him. Aware that his every action is being monitored by those reading the novel, Marguerite’s mind and world is at constant risk of...

When Blood Runs Cold

When Blood Runs Cold
  • Author(s): Daniella Bernett
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

If the answer is a lie…The truth is murder Journalist Emmeline Kirby is reeling from the recent discovery that her parents were murdered while on assignment when she was five. She flirts with danger as she sets off on...

When Secrets Set Sail

When Secrets Set Sail
  • Author(s): Sita Brahmachari
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Secrets from the past are the keys to the future…if two children can find them. Bold adventure, timely themes and breath-taking writing from award-winning author, Sita Brahmachari. Usha is devastated when her grandmother Kali Ma passes away. Then straight-talking...

When We Meet Again

When We Meet Again
  • Author(s): Caroline Beecham
  • Location(s): London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

An emotionally compelling tale of love and mystery set in the publishing world of World War II London, When We Meet Again tells the story of a mother searching for her stolen child, and illustrates the unbreakable bonds among...

When We Were Orphans

When We Were Orphans
  • Author(s): Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Location(s): Shanghai, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

England, the 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country’s most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him: the mysterious disappearance of his parents, in old Shanghai, when he was...

When We Were Rich

When We Were Rich
  • Author(s): Tim Lott
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 2000s

Millennium Eve and six people gather on a London rooftop. Recently married, Frankie Blue watches with his wife, Veronica, as the sky above the Thames explodes into a kaleidoscope of light. His childhood companion, Colin, ineptly flirts with Roxy,...

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