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Virgin and Child

Virgin and Child
  • Author(s): Maggie Hamand
  • Location(s): County Cork, Rome, Vatican City
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Present Day

‘A surprisingly realistic and robust exploration of the church’s view on femininity, abortion, the body, love and more… clever and intriguing’ – The Irish Times In Virgin & Child, acclaimed novelist, Maggie Hamand tackles issues of abortion, sexuality, gender,...

Virtuoso

Virtuoso
  • Author(s): Yelena Moskovich
  • Location(s): Prague, Paris, Wisconsin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s/90s

1980s Prague. For Jana, childhood means ration queues and the smell of boiled potatoes on the grey winter air. But just before Jana’s seventh birthday, a new family moves in to their building: a bird-eyed mamka in a fox-fur...

Visitation

Visitation
  • Author(s): Jenny Erpenbeck
  • Location(s): Brandenburg
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary and historical

By the side of a lake in Brandenburg, a young architect builds the house of his dreams – a summerhouse with wrought-iron balconies, stained-glass windows the colour of jewels, and a bedroom with a hidden closet, all set within...

Visitation Street

Visitation Street
  • Author(s): Ivy Pochoda
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

As the hot summer rolls on in Red Hook, Brooklyn, bored and listless fifteen-year-olds June and Val are looking for some fun. Forget the boys, the bottles, the coded whistles, Val wants to take a raft out onto the...

Vital Signs

Vital Signs
  • Author(s): Candy Denman
  • Location(s): Hastings
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): present

A forensic physician fuels political uproar when she sticks to her findings When bodies of immigrants begin to wash up on a Hastings beach, no one would envy police doctor Callie Hughes’ sad job of checking for vital signs...

Vivaldi’s Virgins

Vivaldi’s Virgins
  • Author(s): Barbara Quick
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 18th Century

Vladivostok Circus

Vladivostok Circus
  • Author(s): Elisa Shua Dusapin, Aneesa Abbas Higgins (Translator)
  • Location(s): Vladivostok
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Nathalie arrives at the circus in Vladivostok, Russia, fresh out of art college in Geneva. She is there to design the costumes for a trio of artists who are due to perform one of the most dangerous acts of...

Vodka-Flavored Tears

Vodka-Flavored Tears
  • Author(s): Timothy J Hillegonds
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs

Vodka-Flavored Tears is a memoir told through twenty-six stories about growing up on the South Side of Chicago and trying to navigate through the stormy waters of childhood, adolescence, and the author’s early twenties. It’s a book about taking...

Voices

Voices
  • Author(s): Glynn Burridge
  • Location(s): Seychelles
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Now in its 3rd edition, complete with fresh design and extra stories, the evergreen ‘Voices’ collection of Seychelles short stories by Glynn Burridge describes the strange secrets, realities and fantasies of life on Seychelles’ Outer Islands where the author...

Voices From The Dead

Voices From The Dead
  • Author(s): Tony Bassett
  • Location(s): West Midlands
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

A murdered beauty influencer. A buried secret waiting to surface. A killer who’s already one step ahead. In the picturesque Warwickshire town of Queensbridge, a retired nurse escapes to her hotel room looking for peace from the chaos of...

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