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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...

The Winemakers

The Winemakers
  • Author(s): Jan Moran
  • Location(s): California, Tuscany
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A young woman A family secret A devastating truth that could destroy the man she loves Many years ago, the Rosetta family s hard-won dreams of staking their claim in the vineyards of California came to fruition. Now high-spirited,...

The Winner

The Winner
  • Author(s): Teddy Wayne
  • Location(s): Massachusetts
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Conor is a recent graduate from a law school no one has heard of. Without any job prospects and needing to support his chronically ill mother, he takes a summer job teaching tennis at the affluent gated community of...

The Winners

The Winners
  • Author(s): Fredrik Backman
  • Location(s): Northern Sweden
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

‘It’s often said that winners write history, but there are no winners here’ This is a small story about big questions. It’s a story about family, community, life. It starts with a storm – and a death. But how...

The Winter Belle

The Winter Belle
  • Author(s): Dilly Court
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th century

Escape into the world of Dilly Court with this unforgettable, festive historical drama, from the bestselling author of five million copies. Available to pre-order now As snowflakes carpet London’s cobbled streets, can Kitty protect her loved ones? When her...

The Winter Job

The Winter Job
  • Author(s): Antti Tuomainen
  • Location(s): Helsinki
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour, Suspense
  • Era(s): 1980s

A darkly humorous and warmly touching suspense novel about friendship, love and death, The Winter Job flies a hundred and twenty kilometres an hour straight into the darkest heart of a Finnish winter night. Helsinki, 1982. Recently divorced postal...

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