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The Well and the Mine

The Well and the Mine
  • Author(s): Gin Phillips
  • Location(s): Alabama
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

A novel of warmth and true feeling, “The Well and the Mine” explores the value of community, charity, family, and hope that we can give each other during a time of hardship. In a small Alabama coal-mining town during...

The Western Wind

The Western Wind
  • Author(s): Samantha Harvey
  • Location(s): Somerset
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 15th Century

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 2019** 15th century Oakham, in Somerset; a tiny village cut off by a big river with no bridge. When a man is swept away by the river in the early hours of Shrove...

The Westing Game

The Westing Game
  • Author(s): Ellen Raskin
  • Location(s): Wisconsin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1970s

A bizarre chain of events begins when sixteen unlikely people gather for the reading of Samuel W. Westing’s will. And though no one knows why the eccentric, game-loving millionaire has chosen a virtual stranger—and a possible murderer—to inherit his...

The Whale Tattoo

The Whale Tattoo
  • Author(s): Jon Ransom
  • Location(s): Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a giant sperm whale washes up on the local beach and tells Joe Gunner that death will follow him wherever he goes. Joe knows that the place he needs to go is back home. Having stormed out two...

The Wharf Butcher

The Wharf Butcher
  • Author(s): Michael K Foster
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A serial killer is stalking Tyneside. But there is a pattern to his killings, his choice of victims, his method of slaughter. David Carlisle, a criminal profiler, is brought in to assist DCI Jack Mason with his task of...

The Wheel of Surya

The Wheel of Surya
  • Author(s): Jamila Gavin
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1947

A beautiful new edition of the first volume in the Surya Trilogy by Whitbread award-winning author Jamila Gavin. India, August 1947: Fleeing from their burnt-out village as civil war rages in the Punjab, Marvinder and Jaspal are separated from...

The Whiskey Bar Mystery

The Whiskey Bar Mystery
  • Author(s): David Pearson
  • Location(s): Connemara
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

A body behind the bar. A family torn apart. A pub where the spirits are as dark as the family’s secrets. Everyone in Westport knows the Lynch family. They own its most successful pub, the shoe shop next door,...

The Whiskey Rebels

The Whiskey Rebels
  • Author(s): David Liss
  • Location(s): Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early days of the USA

Ethan Saunders, once among General Washington’s most valued spies, now lives in disgrace, haunting the taverns of Philadelphia. An accusation of treason has long since cost him his reputation and his beloved fiancée, Cynthia Pearson, but at his most...

The Whisper of the River

The Whisper of the River
  • Author(s): Ferrol Sams
  • Location(s): Georgia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1938

Young for his class and small for his age, Porter Osborne, Jr., leaves his rural Georgia home in 1938 to meet the world at Willingham University, armed with the knowledge that he has been “Raised Right” in the best...

The Whispering House

The Whispering House
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Brooks
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Freya Lyell is struggling to move on from her sister Stella’s suicide five years ago. Visiting the bewitching Byrne Hall, only a few miles from the scene of the tragedy, she discovers a portrait of Stella – a portrait...

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