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Weep for the Dead

Weep for the Dead
  • Author(s): Tom Becket
  • Location(s): Bordeaux, South West France, The Gironde Estuary
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

CORRUPTION, BETRAYAL, MURDER and REDEMPTION as Capitaine Celestine Courbet fights for justice against those closest to her; the Bordeaux Police Force; and the ruthless, deadly Vietnamese mob. The story races from the backstreets and ancient cemetery of old Bordeaux...

Weep Not, Child

Weep Not, Child
  • Author(s): Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
  • Location(s): Kenya
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Weep Not, Child is a moving novel about the effects of the Mau Mau uprising on the lives of ordinary men and women, and on one family in particular. Two brothers, Njoroge and Kamau, stand on a garbage heap...

Weep Not, Refugee

Weep Not, Refugee
  • Author(s): Marie-Thérèse Toyi
  • Location(s): Burundi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The book is a novel on the problems of refugees from Burundi. Kigeme, a Burundian secondary school girl, must flee to Wirodi for her safety, due to the outbreak of the Hutu- Tutsi war in Burundi. On her way...

Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe

Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe
  • Author(s): Katja Hoyer
  • Location(s): Weimar
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1919-1939

From bestselling historian Katja Hoyer comes a gripping story of life during the rise and reign of Hitler through the eyes of the people of Weimar *One of the most anticipated books of 2026 according to the Sunday Times,...

Welcome Me to the Kingdom

Welcome Me to the Kingdom
  • Author(s): Mai Nardone
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

Bangkok, 1980. As the decades pass, figures fall in and out of the relentless city: Pea and Nam, who arrive in search of a better life; a Thai Elvis impersonator and his only daughter, Pinky; Benz, Tintin and Big,...

Welcome to Glorious Tuga

Welcome to Glorious Tuga
  • Author(s): Francesca Segal
  • Location(s): South Atlantic Ocean
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sail to the tropical paradise where secrets don’t stay hidden for long … Zoologist Charlotte Walker has taken up a fellowship on the tiny, remote island of Tuga de Oro to study the endangered gold coin tortoises in the...

Welcome to Lagos

Welcome to Lagos
  • Author(s): Chibundu Onuzo
  • Location(s): Nigeria, Lagos
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When army officer Chike Ameobi is ordered to kill innocent civilians, he knows it is time to desert his post. As he travels toward Lagos with Yemi, his junior officer, and into the heart of a political scandal involving...

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...

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