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The Wild Before

The Wild Before
  • Author(s): Piers Torday
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Children, Cli-fi, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Can one hare alone change the world? The captivating animal adventure destined to be loved by readers of all ages. A stunning hardback edition from the bestselling, much-loved author, Piers Torday. One stormy, snowy night, a pure silver calf...

The Wild Beyond

The Wild Beyond
  • Author(s): Piers Torday
  • Location(s): United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Children, Mythology
  • Era(s): Modern

Book 3 in the Last Wild Trilogy FROM THE WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN CHILDREN’S FICTION PRIZE A thrilling animal adventure for fans of Roald Dahl, David Walliams and Katherine Rundell This is the story of a boy named Kester....

The Wild Birds

The Wild Birds
  • Author(s): Emily Strelow
  • Location(s): San Francisco, Oregon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1870s, 1940s and the present day

Cast adrift in 1870s San Francisco after the death of her mother, a girl named Olive disguises herself as a boy and works as a lighthouse keeper’s assistant on the Farallon Islands to escape the dangers of a world...

The Wild Laughter

The Wild Laughter
  • Author(s): Caoilinn Hughes
  • Location(s): County Roscommon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2008

Named a most anticipated title for 2020 by the Financial Times, The Irish Times and Rté. Hilarious, poignant and utterly fresh, The Wild Laughter cements Caoilinn Hughes’ position as one of Ireland’s most audacious, nuanced and insightful young writers....

The Wild One

The Wild One
  • Author(s): Janet Gover
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contempory

Can four wounded souls find love? Iraq war veteran Dan Mitchell once disobeyed an order – and it nearly destroyed him. Now a national park ranger in the Australian outback, he’s faced with another order he is unwilling to...

The Wild Silence

The Wild Silence
  • Author(s): Raynor Winn
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Nature holds the answers for Raynor and her husband Moth. After walking 630 miles homeless along The Salt Path, the windswept and wild English coastline now feels like their home. And despite Moth’s terminal diagnosis, against all medical odds,...

The Wild Swimmers

The Wild Swimmers
  • Author(s): William Shaw
  • Location(s): Folkestone, Kent
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(DS Alexandra Cupidi Book 5) If only Alexandra Cupidi had turned south instead of north, she would have found the dead woman. Instead it is her vulnerable daughter Zoë who stumbles across Mimi Greene’s lifeless body on the shoreline....

The Wilderness

The Wilderness
  • Author(s): Sarah Duguid
  • Location(s): West of Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2019

A beautifully observed, wry novel of the dislocation of family life and a marriage, and of loss and love, set on the western coast of Scotland. Once it was a family home. Now they are all at sea…. When...

The Wilderness

The Wilderness
  • Author(s): Angela Flournoy
  • Location(s): Los Angeles, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 2000s

An era-defining novel about five Black women over the course of their twenty-year friendship, as they move through the dizzying and sometimes precarious period between young adulthood and midlife–in the much-anticipated second book from National Book Award finalist Angela...

The Wilderness Between Us

The Wilderness Between Us
  • Author(s): Penny Haw
  • Location(s): Tsitsikamma National Park
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An award-winning finalist in the 2021 American Fiction Awards, The Wilderness Between Us is an extraordinary story about nature’s role in the renewal of the human spirit, the victory of compassion and the promise of a new start. It’s a page-turner...

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