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The Water’s Daughter

The Water’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Michelle Lovric
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): timeless

An exquisitely imagined fantasy novel about a girl who can see history with her touch. Set on the canals of Venice, from an award-winning author, this is a perfect book for fans of Frances Hardinge and Jennifer Bell for...

The Wave

The Wave
  • Author(s): Virginia Moffatt
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A devastating tsunami is heading towards the Cornish coast. With no early warning and limited means of escape, many people won’t get away in time. While the terrifying reality of the news hits home, one young woman posts a...

The Waves of Helsinki

The Waves of Helsinki
  • Author(s): John Swallow
  • Location(s): Helsinki
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime
  • Era(s): Present Day

The Waves of Helsinki takes the reader back to Finland for a thrilling new crime adventure. This time, the story is based in Helsinki, the spectacular capital city of Finland. Jussi, is now a Detective-in-Training and becomes involved in...

The Waves Take You Home

The Waves Take You Home
  • Author(s): María Alejandra Barrios Vélez
  • Location(s): Colombia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In this heartfelt story about how the places we run from hold the answers to our deepest challenges, the death of her grandmother brings a young woman home, where she must face the past in order to become the...

The Wax Child

The Wax Child
  • Author(s): Olga Ravn, Martin Aitken (translator)
  • Location(s): Denmark
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, In Translation
  • Era(s): 17th Century

It was a black night in the year 1620 when Christenze Krukow made the wax child, when she melted down beeswax and set it in the image of a small human. For days, she carried it tucked beneath her...

The Waxwork Corpse

The Waxwork Corpse
  • Author(s): Simon Michael
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1965

A deadly crime has been dragged to the surface… London, 1965 Charles Holborne, maverick barrister, will never fit in at the Bar; he is too working-class, too Jewish and too dangerous. But that makes him the perfect outsider to...

The Way a River Went: Following the Volga Through the Heart of Russia

The Way a River Went: Following the Volga Through the Heart of Russia
  • Author(s): Thom Wheeler
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Thom Wheeler is not a man to be put off by the prospect of an uncharted, impractical or downright dangerous journey. Having accidentally introduced his old school friend Vicky to Dmitry, the Russian love of her life, at the...

The Way Home

The Way Home
  • Author(s): Amanda Prowse
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Lilly-Bob loves her home by the River Thames in the heart of London. Throughout her childhood, it echoed with music and her father’s love, and for seventy years it’s been her sanctuary through a life well lived. These days,...

The Way Life Should Be

The Way Life Should Be
  • Author(s): Christina Baker Kline
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Angela can feel the clock ticking. She is single in New York City, stuck in a job she doesn’t want and a life that seems to have, somehow, just happened. She inherited a flair for Italian cooking from her...

The Way Men Act

The Way Men Act
  • Author(s): Elinor Lipman
  • Location(s): Massachusetts
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Melinda is a florist. She doesn’t want to be. She never intended to come home to Harrow, Massachusetts and, if she did, she planned to be married with a great job, not single and designing her former classmates’ wedding...

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