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Who Will Catch Us As We Fall

Who Will Catch Us As We Fall
  • Author(s): Iman Verjee
  • Location(s): Nairobi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1995-2007

Growing up in the Nairobi of the 90s, a seething boiling pot of racial tension and conflicting cultural taboos, Leena and Jai are raised to believe in a Kenya full of possibility and potential. But as they come of...

Wild Fires

Wild Fires
  • Author(s): Sophie Jai
  • Location(s): Toronto, Trinidad and Tobago
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

The only things Cassandra knows about her family are the stories she’s heard in snatches over the years: about the aunt and cousin she never got to meet, about the man from the folded-up photograph in one of her...

Wild Swans

Wild Swans
  • Author(s): Jung Chan
  • Location(s): China
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Through the story of three generations of women in her own family – the grandmother given to the warlord as a concubine, the Communist mother and the daughter herself – Jung Chang reveals the epic history of China’s twentieth...

Wilderness

Wilderness
  • Author(s): Beverley Jones
  • Location(s): Grand Canyon, New York City (NYC), Utah, Yosemite
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Two weeks, 1,500 miles and three opportunities for her husband to save his own life. It isn’t about his survival – it’s about hers. Shattered by the discovery of her husband’s affair, Liv knows they need to leave the...

Winter Wonderland

Winter Wonderland
  • Author(s): Belinda Jones
  • Location(s): Montreal, Québec
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Imagine waking up in a snow globe. . . That’s how travel journalist Krista feels when she arrives in magical Quebec to report on Canada’s glittering Winter Carnival. Over ten sub-zero days Krista’s formerly frozen heart begins to melt...

Winter’s Bone

Winter’s Bone
  • Author(s): Daniel Woodrell
  • Location(s): The Ozarks
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The dark hills of the Ozarks give this novel a really edgy feel. Ree Dolly is the tough heroine, a teenager, her Father in and out of prison….her Father jumps bail and she sets out on a search for...

Witches

Witches
  • Author(s): Brenda Lozano, Heather Cleary (translator)
  • Location(s): Mexico
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘You can’t really know another woman until you know yourself.’ Weaving together two parallel narratives, this is the story of Feliciana, an indigenous curandera (healer), and of Zoë, a journalist: two women drawn together by the murder of Feliciana’s...

Wolves in the Dark (Varg Veum)

Wolves in the Dark (Varg Veum)
  • Author(s): Gunnar Staalesen
  • Location(s): Bergen
  • Genre(s): Noir, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Reeling from the death of his great love, Karin, Varg Veum’s life has descended into a self-destructive spiral of alcohol, lust, grief and blackouts. When traces of child pornography are found on his computer, he’s accused of being part...

Year of the Drought

Year of the Drought
  • Author(s): Roland Buti
  • Location(s): Canton Vaud
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1976

WINNER SWISS LITERATURE PRIZE WINNER PRIX DU PUBLIC DE LA R.T.S. WINNER Prix des Lectrices Edelweiss SHORTLISTED PRIX MÉDICIS It was the month of June, in the year 1976. I was thirteen. It was the start of the summer...

Year of Wonders

Year of Wonders
  • Author(s): Geraldine Brooks
  • Location(s): Derbyshire, Eyam
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1660s onwards

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ‘March’ and ‘People of the Book’. A young woman’s struggle to save her family and her soul during the extraordinary year of 1666, when plague suddenly struck a small Derbyshire village. In 1666,...

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