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When Blood Runs Cold

When Blood Runs Cold
  • Author(s): Daniella Bernett
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

If the answer is a lie…The truth is murder Journalist Emmeline Kirby is reeling from the recent discovery that her parents were murdered while on assignment when she was five. She flirts with danger as she sets off on...

When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge

When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge
  • Author(s): Chanrithy Him
  • Location(s): Cambodia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1975-1979

In the Cambodian proverb, “when broken glass floats” is the time when evil triumphs over good. That time began in 1975, when the Khmer Rouge took power in Cambodia and the Him family began their trek through the hell...

When Every Road Whispers My Name

When Every Road Whispers My Name
  • Author(s): Maria Vano
  • Location(s): United States (USA), England, Greece, Hungary, Morocco, Spain
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2000-2021

One middle-aged woman with no money, three suitcases, a big dream, and a desire to see it all, sets out to live her best solo life. Calling on memories from her teen years when she lived in Rome, Italy,...

When Fishes Flew: The Story of Elena’s War

When Fishes Flew: The Story of Elena’s War
  • Author(s): Michael Morpurgo
  • Location(s): Ithaka (Ithaca)
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): WW2

This first new novel in two years from the Nation’s Favourite Storyteller is a sweeping story of love and rescue – an unforgettable journey to the Greek island of Ithaca, and back in time to World War Two… Australian-Greek...

When Heaven and Earth Changed Places

When Heaven and Earth Changed Places
  • Author(s): Le Ly Hayslip
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

It is said that in war heaven and earth change places not once, but many times. When Heaven and Earth Changed Places is the haunting memoir of a girl on the verge of womanhood in a world turned upside...

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
  • Author(s): Judith Kerr
  • Location(s): Germany
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction, Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1930s

This semi-autobiographical and unforgettable story, of a Jewish family fleeing from Germany before the start of the Second World War, now reissued with its original cover illustration in this very special edition. Michael Morpurgo called When Hitler Stole Pink...

When Hoopoes Go To Heaven

When Hoopoes Go To Heaven
  • Author(s): Gaile Parkin
  • Location(s): Swaziland (Eswatini)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ten-year-old Benedict is feeling happy. His family’s new home in Swaziland has the most beautiful garden in the whole entire world, teeming with insects, frogs and his favourite cinnamon-coloured birds. Here, crouched in the cool shade of the lucky-bean...

When I Sing, Mountains Dance

When I Sing, Mountains Dance
  • Author(s): Irene Solà, Mara Faye Lethem (Translator)
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees (Catalonia)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

When Domenec – mountain-dweller, father, poet, dreamer – dies suddenly, struck by lightning, he leaves behind two small children, Mia and Hilari, to grow up wild among the looming summits of the Pyrenees and the ghosts of the Spanish...

When I Wake Up

When I Wake Up
  • Author(s): Jessica Jarlvi
  • Location(s): Sweden
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Anna, a much-loved teacher and mother of two, is left savagely beaten and in a coma, a police investigation is launched. News of the attack sends shock waves through her family and their small Swedish community. Anna seems...

When I was Alice

When I was Alice
  • Author(s): Jennifer Murgia
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery, Time Slip
  • Era(s): 1953 and present day.

Grace Brighton climbs up the top of the Hollywood Sign in Los Angeles to make an important wish but instead falls and, rendered unconscious, wakes up in 1953 where everyone believes that she is emerging film star, Alice Montgomery....

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