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Weyward

Weyward
  • Author(s): Emilia Hart
  • Location(s): Cumbria
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Horror
  • Era(s): Contemporary

They tried to cage us. But a Weyward woman belongs to the wild. We cannot be tamed. In 2019, Kate flees an abusive relationship in London for Crows Beck, a remote Cumbrian village. Her destination is Weyward Cottage, inherited...

Whale Fall

Whale Fall
  • Author(s): Elizabeth O'Connor
  • Location(s): Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

It is 1938 and on an island off the coast of Wales, Manod is trying to imagine her future. Her choices are stark: she must either stay and look after her father’s house, in the wild landscape that drove...

What A Waste: Rubbish, Recycling, and Protecting Our Planet

What A Waste: Rubbish, Recycling, and Protecting Our Planet
  • Author(s): Jess French, Aleesha Nandhra (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

In this informative book on recycling for children, you will find everything you need to know about our environment. The good, the bad, and the incredibly innovative. From pollution and litter to renewable energy and plastic recycling. This educational...

What a Wonderful World

What a Wonderful World
  • Author(s): Leisa Stewart-Sharpe
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

From the author of the BBC’s children’s book Blue Planet II, this book takes you on a breathtaking tour of our planet – from towering mountaintops, through grasslands, jungles, rivers, deserts, polar wildernesses and into the blue ocean –...

What Alice Forgot

What Alice Forgot
  • Author(s): Liane Moriarty
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): late 20th century

Alice Love is twenty-nine, crazy about her husband, and pregnant with her first child. So imagine Alice’s surprise when she comes to on the floor of a gym and is whisked off to the hospital where she discovers the...

What Beauty There Is

What Beauty There Is
  • Author(s): Cory Anderson
  • Location(s): Idaho
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): N/A

Perfect for fans of Patrick Ness, Meg Rosoff and Daniel Woodrell, What Beauty There Is is an unforgettable debut novel that is as compulsive as it is beautiful, and unflinchingly explores the power of determination, survival and love. When...

What Becomes of the Broken Hearted

What Becomes of the Broken Hearted
  • Author(s): Lisa Hobman
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

‘Heartwarming and uplifting’ Heidi Swain Poignant and uplifting, this is a story to remind hopeless romantics that you never know when true love might strike… Perfect for fans of Lucy Diamond, Heidi Swain, Laura Kemp and Holly Martin. Cassie...

What Belongs to You

What Belongs to You
  • Author(s): Garth Greenwell
  • Location(s): Sofia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher walks down a staircase beneath Sofia’s National Palace of Culture, looking for sex. Among the stalls of a public bathroom he encounters Mitko, a charismatic young hustler. He returns to...

What Comes After

What Comes After
  • Author(s): Joanne Tompkins
  • Location(s): Washington State
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After the shocking death of two teenage boys tears apart a community in the Pacific Northwest, a mysterious pregnant girl emerges out of the woods and into the lives of those same boys’ families–a moving and hopeful novel about...

What Doesn’t Kill Us

What Doesn’t Kill Us
  • Author(s): Ajay Close
  • Location(s): Leeds
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Later 1970s

A killer stalks the streets of Leeds, a city in England’s industrial north. Every man is a suspect. Every woman is at risk. But in a house on Cleopatra Street, women are fighting back.   It’s the eve of...

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