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Whispers of a Secret God

Whispers of a Secret God
  • Author(s): Robert Dunn
  • Location(s): Mali
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Whispers of a Secret God chronicles a clash of three sub-Saharan cultures battling for dominance in a tangle of drought, famine, and land rights. Slavery and dislocation have exacted a heavy toll, reshuffling ancient social boundaries and challenging long-held...

Whistleblower

Whistleblower
  • Author(s): Owen Mullen
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2017

When a medical whistleblower goes missing, private investigator Charlie Cameron agrees to take on the case. Gavin Law exposed a tragic case of medical malpractice but now he’s missing. It’s just another case for Glasgow PI, Charlie Cameron, until...

White and Red Cherries

White and Red Cherries
  • Author(s): Tanja Tuma
  • Location(s): Slovenia
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Like many other countries in Europe, Slovenia suffered severe consequences during and after WWII. Many historians claim that WWII was the continuation of WWI, which had ravaged Slovenia and, in consequence, divided its territories and citizens. Before WWI, Slovenia...

White as Snow

White as Snow
  • Author(s): Lilja Sigurdardottir, Quentin Bates
  • Location(s): Iceland, Reykjavik
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Book 3: Áróra Investigation Series On a snowy winter morning, an abandoned shipping container is discovered near Reykjavík. Inside are the bodies of five young women – one of them barely alive. As Icelandic Police detective Daníel struggles to...

White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings

White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings
  • Author(s): Iain Sinclair
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1880s, Modern

In this unusual novel, lain Sinclair draws a powerful portrait of London’s criminal character by mingling secrets of the modern city with menacing personas from its Victorian age. A clan of profiteering book dealers becomes obsessed with the 1888...

White Dolphin

White Dolphin
  • Author(s): Gill Lewis
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘The white dolphin is a sign that Mum’s out there . . .’ When they first meet, Kara and Felix can’t stand each other. But on discovering an injured dolphin calf on the beach they know they must work...

White Fang

White Fang
  • Author(s): Jack London
  • Location(s): Yukon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1890s

‘Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on…‘ Set in the frozen forests of the Yukon Territory, Canada, during the Klondike Gold Rush of the 1890s, ‘White Fang’ tells the story of a young wolf-dog’s journey...

White Heat

White Heat
  • Author(s): Brenda Novak
  • Location(s): Arizona
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Modern

A dangerous cult has recently taken over the desert ghost town of Paradise, Arizona. Members worship at the feet—and in the bed—of its charismatic leader, Ethan Wycliff, and obey his orders blindly. They’ve already tried to murder one woman...

White Highlands

White Highlands
  • Location(s): Kenya
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Kenya, 1952, a colony on the edge. Settlers drink sundowners on the veranda but the servants can’t be trusted. Beyond manicured lawns, in the dark of the forest, freedom is stirring. Johnny Seymour has seen too much war and...

White Houses

White Houses
  • Author(s): Amy Bloom
  • Location(s): United States (USA), Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

In 1933, President Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt took up residence in the White House. With them went the celebrated journalist Lorena Hickok – Hick to friends – a straight-talking reporter from South Dakota, whose passionate relationship with the idealistic,...

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