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The Volunteer

The Volunteer
  • Author(s): Jack Fairweather
  • Location(s): Auschwitz/Birkenau
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): WW2

In the Summer of 1940, after the Nazi occupation of Poland, an underground operative called Witold Pilecki accepted a mission to uncover the fate of thousands of people being interned at a new concentration camp on the border of...

The Vulcan and the Straits

The Vulcan and the Straits
  • Author(s): Patrick Larsimont
  • Location(s): Algeria, Malta, Sicily, Tunisia
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

Can Jox lead his squadron to victory…? Autumn, 1942 Fighter pilot, Jox McNabb has survived the desert and the second battle of El Alamein, but now No. 111 Squadron is heading into a fresh new storm. They embark on...

The Wailoa Waltz (Noelani Lee Mysteries Volume 6)

The Wailoa Waltz (Noelani Lee Mysteries Volume 6)
  • Author(s): Tom Bradley Jr
  • Location(s): Hawai'i
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

For Hawaiian PI Noelani Lee, a typical Wednesday morning begins like any other day. But a bizarre series of events propels her into a case rife with disjointed family dynamics, unsettled scores, and murder. It all starts when an...

The Waimea Two-Step (Noelani Lee Mysteries Volume 4)

The Waimea Two-Step (Noelani Lee Mysteries Volume 4)
  • Author(s): Tom Bradley Jr
  • Location(s): Hawai'i
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

An unexpected visit by her sister leads Hawaiian private eye Noelani Lee to investigate the unsolved murder of an environmental activist in the Big Island town of Waimea—in a case fraught with deep-seated mysteries and long-held grudges that could...

The Waiter

The Waiter
  • Author(s): Ajay Chowdhury
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Detective Kamil Rahman 1 Disgraced detective Kamil Rahman moves from Kolkata to London to start afresh as a waiter in an Indian restaurant. But the peace of his new life is soon shattered. The day Kamil caters an extravagant...

The Walking People

The Walking People
  • Author(s): Mary Beth Keane
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

Greta Cahill never believed she would leave her village in the west of Ireland until she found herself on a ship bound for New York, along with her sister Johanna and a boy named Michael Ward. Labeled a “softheaded...

The Wall

The Wall
  • Author(s): John Lanchester
  • Location(s): United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Dystopian, Fiction
  • Era(s): Near future p

*LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019* Kavanagh begins his life patrolling the Wall. If he’s lucky, if nothing goes wrong, he only has two years of this, 729 more nights. The best thing that can happen is that he...

The Wall

The Wall
  • Author(s): Douglas Jackson
  • Location(s): Cumbria, The North East (England)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): AD 400

AD 400. Rome and its Empire are failing . . . Veteran cavalry commander Marcus Flavius Victor sets out with his regiment to make what may be his final tour of the forts along Hadrian’s Wall. Through a combination...

The Wall Jumper

The Wall Jumper
  • Author(s): Peter Schneider
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s, 1960s

The Walled Garden

The Walled Garden
  • Author(s): Sarah Hardy
  • Location(s): Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1946

A luminous debut novel about love, the trauma of war and the miracle of human resilience, for readers of Anna Hope, Sadie Jones and Elizabeth Jane Howard. No one survives war unscathed. But even in the darkest days, seeds...

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