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The Wind Child

The Wind Child
  • Author(s): Gabriela Houston
  • Location(s): Eastern Europe
  • Genre(s): Fantasy

Featuring a colourful Slavic cast of tempestuous gods and frightening monsters, this is a story about friendship, and how far you would go – and what you would sacrifice – to avoid saying goodbye to someone you love. No...

The Wind from the East

The Wind from the East
  • Author(s): Almudena Grandes
  • Location(s): Andalusia (Andalucía), Madrid
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Internationally celebrated author Almudena Grandes has produced her finest work yet with The Wind from the East, a blend of two narratives set alternately in Madrid and an Andalusian town by the sea. Sara Gómes Morales,given up at birth...

The Wind Knows My Name

The Wind Knows My Name
  • Author(s): Isabel Allende
  • Location(s): Vienna, Arizona
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1938, 1919

Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is five years old when his father disappears during Kristallnacht – the night their family loses everything. As her child’s safety seems ever harder to guarantee, Samuel’s mother secures a spot for him on the...

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
  • Author(s): Haruki Murakami
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

His wife is growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada’s vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading,...

The Winding Road to Portugal: 20 Men From 11 Countries Share Their Stories

The Winding Road to Portugal: 20 Men From 11 Countries Share Their Stories
  • Author(s): Louise Ross
  • Location(s): Portugal
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

How do men navigate life at a time fraught with great uncertainty and rapid change, working and moving country to country, on their own or with a family? Is their path easy, because they’re men, fortuned with greater liberties...

The Winds From Further West

The Winds From Further West
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, The Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Often a small and seemingly insignificant event can change the course of our lives. Not long after starting a new job, Neil meets Chrissie. Romance soon blossoms and together they move to a lavish flat in Edinburgh. Everything seems...

The Winds of Change

The Winds of Change
  • Author(s): Joan Fallon
  • Location(s): Andalusia (Andalucía)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 20th century

The Winds of Change is a story of love, loyalty and betrayal on the eve of the Spanish Civil War, when the country is political turmoil with strikes and demonstrations, unemployment is high and the people are starving. In...

The Windsor Knot

The Windsor Knot
  • Author(s): S J Bennett
  • Location(s): Windsor
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

The morning after a dinner party at Windsor Castle, eighty-nine-year-old Queen Elizabeth is shocked to discover that one of her guests has been found murdered in his room, with a rope around his neck. When the police begin to...

The Wine-Dark Sea

The Wine-Dark Sea
  • Author(s): Zurab Karumidze
  • Location(s): Georgia (Asia)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

A Faust for the post-Soviet era, Peter Zhghenti is a writer and a translator, living in Georgia and dealing with his own Mephistopheles in the form of Writing itself. Bargaining for his soul, and by extension the soul of...

The Wine-Dark Sea

The Wine-Dark Sea
  • Author(s): Victoria Hislop
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century

Beloved, bestselling author Victoria Hislop explores the turbulence of the post-war era in Greece in this unforgettable and riveting new novel that will delight those fans who cherish The Island and The Figurine. During three years of brutal civil...

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