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We Trade Our Night for Someone Else’s Day

We Trade Our Night for Someone Else’s Day
  • Author(s): Ivana Bodrozic, Ellen Elias-Bursac (Translator)
  • Location(s): Vukovar
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The city of Vukovar, situated on Croatia’s easternmost periphery, across the Danube River from Serbia, was the site of some of the worst violence in the wars that rocked ex-Yugoslavia in the early ’90s. It is referred to only...

We Want So Much To Be Ourselves

We Want So Much To Be Ourselves
  • Author(s): Stephen O'Connor
  • Location(s): Vienna
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

A German psychoanalyst, his Jewish wife, and their young daughter are swept up in the rising tide of fascism Günter Zeitz, psychoanalyst-in-training and the son of a Catholic country doctor, and Josine Rosen, Sigmund Freud’s patient and the daughter...

We Went to the Woods

We Went to the Woods
  • Author(s): Caite Dolan-Leach
  • Location(s): New York State
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense
  • Era(s): Modern

Certain that society is on the verge of economic and environmental collapse, five disillusioned twenty-somethings make a bold decision: They gather in upstate New York to transform an abandoned farm, once the site of a turn-of-the-century socialist commune, into...

We Were Never Here

We Were Never Here
  • Author(s): Andrea Bartz
  • Location(s): Wisconsin, Chile
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

REESE WITHERSPOON’S NEW BOOK CLUB PICK August 2021 On holiday in Chile with her best friend Kristen, Emily is having the time of her life.Until one night, she finds their hotel suite covered in blood.Kristen claims a backpacker attacked...

We Were Sisters

We Were Sisters
  • Author(s): Wendy Clarke
  • Location(s): Sussex Downs
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Kelly is struggling after the birth of her third child. One day, she finds a locket in her baby’s pushchair. It was the one her foster-sister Freya had been wearing when she died. The find brings back haunting memories...

We Were Soldiers Once…and Young

We Were Soldiers Once…and Young
  • Author(s): Joseph L Galloway, Harold G Moore
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1965

We Were the Lucky Ones

We Were the Lucky Ones
  • Author(s): Georgia Hunter
  • Location(s): Poland, World
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s onwards

Inspired by one family’s extraordinary wartime story, for anyone enthralled by The Tattooist of Auschwitz `EXTRAORDINARILY MOVING’ PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 1939. Three generations of the Kurc family strive to live normal lives despite the growing hardships they face as Jews....

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
  • Author(s): Philip Gourevitch
  • Location(s): Rwanda
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1995

All at once, as it seemed, something we could have only imagined was upon us – and we could still only imagine it. This is what fascinates me most in existence: the peculiar necessity of imagining what is, in...

We Would Have Told Each Other Everything

We Would Have Told Each Other Everything
  • Author(s): Judith Hermann, Katy Derbyshire (Translator)
  • Location(s): Germany
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In a series of three interconnected stories, Judith Hermann weaves together themes of psychology and friendship, unconventional childhoods, summers on the North German seashore and the act of writing itself. This is a literary narrative reflecting on when life...

We Would Never Tell

We Would Never Tell
  • Author(s): Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau
  • Location(s): Cannes
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Gowns. Champagne. Murder. Hollywood, but make it French, for twelve days straight, as the red carpet rolls out to the riviera for the Cannes Film Festival. The most famous people are all here to celebrate themselves, while the rest...

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