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Would I Lie to You?

Would I Lie to You?
  • Author(s): Aliya Ali-Afzal
  • Location(s): Wimbledon, The City of London
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Modern

At the school gates, Faiza fits in. It took a few years, but now the snobbish mothers who mistook her for the nanny treat her as one of their own. She’s learned to crack their subtle codes, speak their...

Wounded Knights: a Viv Fraser Mystery

Wounded Knights: a Viv Fraser Mystery
  • Author(s): V Clifford
  • Location(s): Doune, Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

There’s no code she can’t crack. But this latest gig is murder. Scottish security hacker Viv Fraser’s personal life has been pushed to the limit. Devastated by the loss of her recent lover, she takes a simple missing person’s...

Wounds of Armenia

Wounds of Armenia
  • Author(s): Abovian Khachatur
  • Location(s): Armenia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Earlier 1800s

The historical novel Wounds of Armenia (written in 1841, first published in 1858) was the first Armenian secular novel dedicated to the fate of the Armenian people and its struggle for liberation in the period of Russo-Persian war of...

Woven in the Mist

Woven in the Mist
  • Author(s): Carole Lehr Johnson
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Dual timeline set in 1603 and 1710

Two women, a century apart, face uncertain futures in the Scottish Highlands… Scotland 1710 Castle Deveron and its gardens form the borders of orphaned Muiriel “Muirie” Stewart’s world. Even with loving guardians, she exists between the family and the...

Wranglestone

Wranglestone
  • Author(s): Darren Charlton
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Post-apocalyptic

Winter was the only season every Lake-Lander feared… In a post-apocalyptic America, a community survives in a national park, surrounded by water that keeps the Dead at bay. But when winter comes, there’s nothing to stop them from crossing...

Wrapped in the Stars

Wrapped in the Stars
  • Author(s): Elena Mikalsen
  • Location(s): Bern
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Struggling with guilt over her sister’s death and the stress of her medical residency, Maya Radelis runs away to Scotland. A robin seems to lead her to an antique shop, where she finds a century-old engagement ring. But what...

Writers & Lovers

Writers & Lovers
  • Author(s): Lily King
  • Location(s): Cambridge (Massachusetts)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Casey has ended up back in Massachusetts after a devastating love affair. Her mother has just died and she is knocked sideways by grief and loneliness, moving between the restaurant where she waitresses for the Harvard elite and the...

Writing Love

Writing Love
  • Author(s): Khalil Sweileh
  • Location(s): Damascus
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Then, she looked at me assiduously, “What is it that you do exactly?” I replied, savoring my last sip of coffee, with all the sass of a gypsy, “A novelist.” How to write a novel? Where to find inspiration?...

Written in Black

Written in Black
  • Author(s): K H Lim
  • Location(s): Borneo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A darkly humorous coming-of-age novel set in Brunei on the island of Borneo, Written in Black offers a snapshot of a few days in the life of ten-year-old Jonathan Lee, attending the funeral of his Ah Kong, or grandfather,...

Written in the Stars

Written in the Stars
  • Author(s): Aisha Saeed
  • Location(s): Pakistan
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Naila’s conservative immigrant parents have always said the same thing: You may choose what you want to be when you grow up, but we will choose your husband. Dating, even a friendship with a boy, is forbidden. So when...

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