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Wanderland

Wanderland
  • Author(s): Jini Reddy
  • Location(s): United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Nature, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE Alone on a remote mountaintop one dark night, a woman hears a mysterious voice. Propelled by the memory and after years of dreaming about it, Jini Reddy dares to delve into the ‘wanderlands’ of...

Want

Want
  • Author(s): Lynn Steger Strong
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Grappling with motherhood, economic anxiety, rage, and the limits of language, Want is a fiercely personal novel that vibrates with anger, insight, and love. Elizabeth is tired. Years after coming to New York to try to build a life,...

Want

Want
  • Author(s): Cindy Pon
  • Location(s): Taipei
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Fantasy, Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): Dystopian

Set in a near-future Taipei plagued by pollution, a group of teens risk everything to save their city in this thrilling novel from critically acclaimed author Cindy Pon. Jason Zhou survives in a divided society where the elite use...

Want to Know a Secret?

Want to Know a Secret?
  • Author(s): Sue Moorcroft
  • Location(s): Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Money, love and family. Which matters most? When Diane Jenner’s husband is hurt in a helicopter crash, she discovers a secret that changes her life. And it’s all about money, the kind of money the Jenners have never had....

Wanted in Paradise

Wanted in Paradise
  • Author(s): Kate Ashenden
  • Location(s): The Maldives
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Romance
  • Era(s): Current day

Wanted in Paradise, a hot romantic suspense novel filled with the… …drama of forbidden love …tension of a love triangle …glamour of wealthy men …type of action and adventure that holds your interest! Set in the beauty of the...

War and Millie McGonigle

War and Millie McGonigle
  • Author(s): Karen Cushman
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1941, WW2

The Newbery Award-winning author of Catherine, Called Birdy and The Midwife’s Apprentice tells a heartfelt and humorous story of WWII on the homefront. Millie McGonigle lives in sunny California, where her days are filled with beach and surf. It...

War and Peace

War and Peace
  • Author(s): Leo Tolstoy
  • Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1800s

At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon’s army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever....

War and Turpentine

War and Turpentine
  • Author(s): Stefan Hertmans
  • Location(s): Belgium
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW1 onwards

Shortly before his death, Stefan Hertmans’ grandfather Urbain Martien gave his grandson a set of notebooks containing the detailed memories of his life. He grew up in poverty around 1900, the son of a struggling church painter who died...

War Brothers

War Brothers
  • Author(s): Sharon McKay
  • Location(s): Uganda
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
  • Era(s): post 1987

Sharon McKay sets her new novel in Uganda, where Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has, since 1987, abducted up to 30,000 children from their villages and homes for use as soldiers and slaves. It is in these nightmarish...

War Doctor

War Doctor
  • Author(s): David Nott
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

For more than twenty-five years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job as a general and vascular surgeon with the NHS to volunteer in some of the world’s most dangerous war zones. From Sarajevo under siege in...

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