- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1990s
Inspector Kurt Wallander returns in the second of Henning Mankell’s award-winning, internationally-bestselling detective novels, this time to investigate the execution-style killing of a Swedish housewife. The local police focus on a determined stalker who’s suddenly nowhere to be found,...
- Location(s): Papua New Guinea
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
A young woman journeys deep into the untamed jungle, wrestling with love and loss, trauma and healing, faith and redemption. Marika Vecera, an accomplished war reporter, has dedicated her life to helping the world’s oppressed and forgotten. When not...
- Location(s): Mongolia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The story begins with the arrival of triplets, born to a woman who has given birth three times previously, and buried each child shortly thereafter. This time the delivery goes well. That same night a family of five suffocates...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1666
Shortlisted for the Historical Association Young Quills Award 2021. London, 1666. After the sudden death of her father, thirteen-year-old Lizzie Hopper and her mother must take over THE WHITE PHOENIX – the family bookshop in the shadow of St...
- Location(s): Borneo
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 1800s
In 1838, James Brooke arrived in Sarawak with a schooner and less than thirty men. He came to trade, but ended up ruling the country. ‘The White Rajah’ tells his story. From Amazon: When charismatic adventurer James Brooke travels to...
- Location(s): Mexico
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Various
They are separating, she and her husband, after two decades together. This fact is new. Only really a fact for a few weeks or so. Before that it was a possibility – one potential outcome among many. But now...
- Location(s): Varanasi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
THE WHITE SHADOWS, the forlorn child widows in Banaras, Brinda and Debi, fight a valiant battle against the acrimonious oddities of the society they are ostracised from and their own desires. Sia and Uday visit Banaras, the most ancient...
- Location(s): Kyrgyzstan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
Deserted by his parents, a young boy finds himself alone in the often grotesque world or relatives who do not want to raise him. As daily events become more and more intolerable, the boy clings to the legends and...
- Location(s): Baghdad
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2003
The White Zone is a story of two cousins, Shiite Nouri and half Sunni Talib, and their lives in the aftermath of the Iraq war. Marsden gives a ten-year-old-eye view of sectarian strife and the life in and around...
The Whitechapel Full Moon Society
- Location(s): Whitechapel, London
- Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 19th Century
Set in Victorian London during Jack the Ripper’s reign of terror, this gripping, original novel is perfect for fans of V. E. Schwab, Dana Schwartz, and Sarah Penner. When Caroline Foster arrives at the Whitechapel Full Moon Society in...
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