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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...

The Winter of Our Discontent

The Winter of Our Discontent
  • Author(s): John Steinbeck
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): mid 20th century

Ethan Allen Hawley has lost the acquisitive spirit of his wealthy and enterprising forebears, a long line of proud New England sea captains and Pilgrims. Scarred by failure, Ethan works as a grocery clerk in a store his family...

The Winter Palace: A Novel of Catherine the Great

The Winter Palace: A Novel of Catherine the Great
  • Author(s): Eva Stachniak
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 18th century

From award-winning author Eva Stachniak comes this passionate novel that illuminates, as only fiction can, the early life of one of history’s boldest women. The Winter Palace tells the epic story of Catherine the Great’s improbable rise to power—...

The Winter Queen

The Winter Queen
  • Author(s): Boris Akunin
  • Location(s): Moscow
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Late 19th Century

It’s strange that there’s no contemporary crime fiction coming out of Putin’s Russia, but Boris Akunin makes up for that with his intricate, allusive Erast Fandorin books, set at the turn of the last century.

The Winter Rose

The Winter Rose
  • Author(s): Jennifer Donnelly
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

It is 1900 and the dangerous streets of East London are no place for a well-bred woman. But India Selwyn Jones is headstrong: she has trained as one of a new breed, a woman doctor, and is determined to...

The Winter Soldier

The Winter Soldier
  • Author(s): Daniel Mason
  • Location(s): Austria, Russia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW1

Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War One explodes across Europe. Enraptured by romantic tales of battlefield surgery, he enlists, expecting a position at a well-organized field hospital. But when he arrives, at a commandeered...

The Winter Walk

The Winter Walk
  • Author(s): Loretta Outwater Cox
  • Location(s): Alaska
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1892

Alaska Native Literature Award Winner The tragic yet triumphant story of a young mother’s winter journey to the Bering Sea coast with her two young children. This powerful narrative will haunt readers. Advanced in pregnancy and now newly widowed,...

The Winter Warriors

The Winter Warriors
  • Author(s): Nick Caistor (translator), Olivier Norek
  • Location(s): Finland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

When the Soviet Union invaded Finland in November 1939, they were not expecting the Finns to fight back – much less to prevail. Olivier Norek’s riveting, heart-pounding, epic historical thriller is a story of barely imaginable courage, astonishing resilience,...

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