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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...

What We Did In The Storm

What We Did In The Storm
  • Author(s): Tina Baker
  • Location(s): Tresco
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On the beautiful and windswept island of Tresco, two worlds live side by side. The wealthy visitors come by helicopter to stay at their lavish time-share properties. The estate staff travel by boat, and work all hours to keep...

What We Left Behind

What We Left Behind
  • Author(s): Luisa A Jones
  • Location(s): South Wales
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

Dodie Fitznorton’s quiet life is shattered when five East End children are evacuated to Plas Norton. Amidst the upheaval, she finds an unexpected ally in their enigmatic American teacher, Patrick Winter. While falling for him is easy, trusting him...

What Will People Think?

What Will People Think?
  • Author(s): Vedashree Khambete-Sharma
  • Location(s): India, Vile Parle
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ila has her pride. And she’s about to discover just how much trouble that can be… It’s 1976 and in the Vile Parle suburb of Mumbai, bastion of the Maharashtrian middle-class, Ila Bendre’s mother is determined to get her...

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