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Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights
  • Author(s): Emily Brontë
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine’s father. After Mr Earnshaw’s death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine’s brother Hindley and...

WWOOFing North and South

WWOOFing North and South
  • Author(s): Margaret Halliday
  • Location(s): Scotland, New Zealand (Aotearoa)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2002-2009

WWOOFing North and South describes the author’s time as a WWOOFer in New Zealand and Scotland. She travels widely encountering an eclectic mix of people and animals. She gets butted by a billy goat, chased by geese, mobbed by...

Wyld Dreamers

Wyld Dreamers
  • Author(s): Pamela Holmes
  • Location(s): Somerset
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): End of 20th Century

In the summer of 1972, a group of friends is invited to Somerset to help photographer Seymour Stratton renovate a dilapidated cottage on Wyld Farm. Over the next year the group come to regard the farm as offering them...

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  • Author(s): Angela Chadwick
  • Location(s): Petersfield
  • Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQ+
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Rosie and Jules discover a ground-breaking clinical trial that enables two women to have a female baby, they jump at the chance to make history. Fear-mongering politicians and right-wing movements are quick to latch on to the controversies...

Yalo: A Novel

Yalo: A Novel
  • Author(s): Elias Khoury
  • Location(s): Lebanon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Award-winning author Elias Khoury’s latest novel is a searing look at truth and memory, love and trancendence, told through the contradictory confessions of a young Lebanese prisoner During the Lebanese civil war in the 1980s, a young man is...

Yankee Girl

Yankee Girl
  • Author(s): Mary Ann Rodman
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1964

It’s 1964 and Alice has moved to Mississippi from Chicago with her family. Nicknamed `Yankee Girl’ and taunted by the in-crowd at school, Alice soon discovers the other new girl Valerie – one of the school’s first black students...

Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass

Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass
  • Author(s): Meg Medina
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

In Meg Medina’s compelling novel, a Latina teen is targeted by a bully at her new school – and must discover resources she never knew she had. One morning before school, some girl tells Piddy Sanchez that Yaqui Delgado...

Yasmeena’s Choice: A True Story of War, Rape, Courage and Survival

Yasmeena’s Choice: A True Story of War, Rape, Courage and Survival
  • Author(s): Jean Sasson
  • Location(s): Kuwait
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): Gulf War

This is the true story of Yasmeena, a bright and beautiful young Lebanese woman who was imprisoned in Kuwait during the first Gulf War. Yasmeena’s shocking journey is a tale of the madness of war, of the sexual brutality...

Year 1 – Fur Babies in France: From Wage Slaves to Living the Dream

Year 1 – Fur Babies in France: From Wage Slaves to Living the Dream
  • Author(s): Jacqueline Lambert
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Current

“Laugh out loud funny & a great travel guide.” * Have you ever thought of giving up work and heading off into the sunset with surf boards on your roof? If you answer ‘Yes’ – or you just like...

Year of No Rain

Year of No Rain
  • Author(s): Alice Mead
  • Location(s): The Sudan, South Sudan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1999

In the dry spring of 1999, eleven-year-old Stephen Majok watches as his friend Wol joins a circle of dancers. Wol is celebrating – only fourteen, he is engaged to Stephen’s sister. Wol wants to marry because he might join...

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