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Wide Open

Wide Open
  • Author(s): Nicola Barker
  • Location(s): Isle of Sheppey
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Wide Open is set on the Isle of Sheppey, “a strange place, flat and empty like the moon.” On the island is a nudist beach, a nature reserve, a wild boar farm and not much else. The landscape is...

Wide Sargasso Sea

Wide Sargasso Sea
  • Author(s): Jean Rhys
  • Location(s): Dominica, Jamaica
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1830s

A prequel to Jane Eyre, telling the story of the Creole heiress Antoinette, the “mad woman in the attic”. Born into the oppressive, colonialist society of Jamaica, white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn...

Widow for a Year

Widow for a Year
  • Author(s): John Irving
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s to 1990s

Widowland

Widowland
  • Author(s): C J Carey
  • Location(s): London, United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future, Dystopian
  • Era(s): 1953

To control the past, they edited history. To control the future, they edited literature. London, 1953, Coronation year – but not the Coronation of Elizabeth II. Thirteen years have passed since a Grand Alliance between Great Britain and Germany...

Wife

Wife
  • Author(s): Charlotte Mendelson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Romance, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): contemporary

Set in the world of London academia, both past and present, Wife by Charlotte Mendelson is heart-breaking and funny, profound and gripping, as it takes the reader from the end of a relationship to its beginning, and back again....

Wild and Distant Seas

Wild and Distant Seas
  • Author(s): Tara Karr Roberts
  • Location(s): Nantucket
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1849

A gorgeous debut, laced through with magic, following four generations of women as they seek to chart their own futures. Evangeline Hussey has made a home for herself on Nantucket, though she knows she is still an outsider to...

Wild Boy

Wild Boy
  • Author(s): Rob Lloyd Jones
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Victorian Era

A fiendishly pacy mystery-adventure story for 9+ readers, set in the seamy, smoggy underworld of Victorian London. BEHOLD THE SAVAGE SPECTACLE OF THE WILD BOY! London, 1841. A boy covered in hair, raised as a monster, condemned to life...

Wild Boy and the Black Terror

Wild Boy and the Black Terror
  • Author(s): Rob Lloyd Jones
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Victorian Era

The second in a series of pacy, mystery-adventure stories, set in the seamy, smoggy underworld of Victorian London. A new sensation grips London – a poisoner who strikes without a trace, leaving victims mad with terror … and then...

Wild Card

Wild Card
  • Author(s): Judy Murray
  • Location(s): Wimbledon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s never too late to follow your dreams… Twenty years ago, Abigail Patterson put her promising tennis career on hold to have her baby son, Robbie. But after a wild card entry to Wimbledon, she suddenly finds herself swept...

Wild Cities

Wild Cities
  • Author(s): Ben Lerwill, Harriet Hobday (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Multiple locations
  • Genre(s): Children, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): N/A

Picture a city. What do you see? Traffic and towering buildings? Or maybe you imagine something a little . . . wilder? These are the astonishing stories of the animals who are adapting to live in our urban world...

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