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Welcome to Nowhere

Welcome to Nowhere
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Laird
  • Location(s): Syria
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): contemporary

Welcome to Nowhere is a powerful and beautifully written story about the life of one family caught up in civil war by the award-winning author Elizabeth Laird, shortlisted for the Scottish Teen Book Award and winner of the UKLA...

Welcome to our Hillbrow

Welcome to our Hillbrow
  • Author(s): Phaswane Mpe
  • Location(s): Hillbrow
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Recent

Welcome To Our Hillbrow is an exhilarating and disturbing ride through the chaotic and hyper-real zone of Hillbrow – microcosm of all that is contradictory, alluring and painful in the changing South African psyche. Everything is there: the shattered...

Welcome to the Family

Welcome to the Family
  • Author(s): Kate Gray
  • Location(s): Tuscany
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Rosie Riley is nervously excited about meeting the Fraser family. She’s head-over-heels for her boyfriend Theo and she hopes that spending a fortnight with the Frasers at their luxury Tuscan villa is a good sign of where their relationship...

Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!

Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!
  • Author(s): Fannie Flagg
  • Location(s): Alabama
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! is the funny, serious, and compelling new novel by Fannie Flagg, author of the beloved Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (and prize-winning co-writer of the classic movie). Once again, Flagg’s...

Welcome to Trashland

Welcome to Trashland
  • Author(s): Steve Cole, Oriol Vidal (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Ghana
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A search for treasure reveals the toxic consequences of modern life in this thrilling adventure set against the backdrop of the world’s largest e-waste dump. Theo lives and works in Agbogbloshie in Ghana, a vast dumping ground for the...

Well-Behaved Indian Women

Well-Behaved Indian Women
  • Author(s): Saumya Dave
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Simran Mehta has always felt harshly judged by her mother, Nandini, especially when it comes to her little “writing hobby.” But when a charismatic and highly respected journalist careens into Simran’s life, she begins to question not only her...

Welsh Folk Tales

Welsh Folk Tales
  • Author(s): Peter Stevenson
  • Location(s): Wales
  • Genre(s): Short Stories, Fantasy, Magical Realism
  • Era(s): Medieval to Modern

This book, a selection of folk tales, true tales, tall tales, myths, gossip, legends and memories, celebrates and honours unique Welsh stories. Some are well known, others from forgotten manuscripts or out-of-print volumes, and some are contemporary oral tales....

Weltanschauung

Weltanschauung
  • Author(s): Vikki Patis
  • Location(s): Hertfordshire, Plymouth
  • Genre(s): Horror, Short Stories
  • Era(s): 2016

The harbinger, the oddball, the remaining twin… Weltanschauung seeks to open your eyes to different stories, set in different worlds and at different times, but with the same theme in mind: to make you question your worldview. This collection...

Wench

Wench
  • Author(s): Dolen Perkins-Valdez
  • Location(s): Ohio
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): pre American Civil War

Dolen Perkins-Valdez’s enchanting and unforgettable novel, based on little-known fact, combines the narrative allure of Cane River by Lalita Tademy and the moral complexities of Edward P. Jones’s The Known World as it tells the story of four black...

West

West
  • Author(s): Carys Davies
  • Location(s): Kentucky, Pennsylvania
  • Genre(s): Novella
  • Era(s): 19th Century

When Cy Bellman, American settler and widowed father of Bess, reads in the newspaper that huge ancient bones have been discovered in a Kentucky swamp, he leaves his small Pennsylvania farm and young daughter to find out if the...

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