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What the Body Remembers

What the Body Remembers
  • Author(s): Shauna Singh Baldwin
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1947

Out of the rich culture of India and the brutal drama of the 1947 Partition comes this lush and eloquent debut novel about two women married to the same man. Roop is a young girl whose mother has died...

What the Body Remembers

What the Body Remembers
  • Author(s): Shauna Singh Baldwin
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Out of the rich culture of India and the brutal drama of the 1947 Partition comes this lush and eloquent debut novel about two women married to the same man. Roop is a young girl whose mother has died...

What the Clocks Know

What the Clocks Know
  • Author(s): Rumer Haven
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Paranormal
  • Era(s): Modern / Victorian

Twenty-six-year-old Margot sets out on a journey of self-discovery – she dumps her New York boyfriend, quits her Chicago job, and crashes at her friend’s flat in London. Rather than find herself, though, she only feels more lost. An...

What the Focaccia

What the Focaccia
  • Author(s): Ginger Jones
  • Location(s): Tuscany
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

scape to Italy with the brand-new romcom from the author of You Had Me at Halloumi When Ramona’s dream to launch a size-inclusive fashion line comes crashing down she decides it is time for a bold change. Realising there...

What the Nights Tells the Day

What the Nights Tells the Day
  • Author(s): Hector Bianciotti
  • Location(s): Argentina
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

Compared to Conrad, Nabokov, and Beckett by Octavio Paz, Argentine-born Hector Bianciotti is one of the leading literary figures in his adopted homeland of France. What the Night Tells the Day, his first novel to be translated into English,...

What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim: A Midlife Misadventure on Spain’s Camino de Santiago

What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim: A Midlife Misadventure on Spain’s Camino de Santiago
  • Author(s): Jane Christmas
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): early 2000s

To celebrate her 50th birthday and face the challenges of mid-life, Jane Christmas joins 14 women to hike the Camino de Santiago de Compostela. Despite a psychic’s warning of catfights, death, and a sexy, fair-haired man, Christmas soldiers on....

What the Tide Brings Back

What the Tide Brings Back
  • Author(s): Rob Starr
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jesse is drawn to the sea off Brighton Beach. Having newly joined a local sea swimming club he has at last found a way to clear his head from the nightmares that have terrorised him since birth. But what...

What Was Lost

What Was Lost
  • Author(s): Jean Levy
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Present

Sarah has no memories. She just knows she was found, near death, on a beach miles from her London home. Now she is part of a medical experiment to see whether her past can be retrieved. But bad things...

What We Become

What We Become
  • Author(s): Reece Willis
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Present Day

She was everything he could have wanted. From the moment she came into his life, she captured his heart and turned his world upside down. Now that she’s gone, he can’t live without her. Desperate for resolution, Ben follows...

What We Can Know

What We Can Know
  • Author(s): Ian McEwan
  • Location(s): United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future

In a world submerged by rising seas, What We Can Know spans the past, present and future to ask profound questions about who we are and where we are going. 2014: A great poem is read aloud and never...

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