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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...

Wild City

Wild City
  • Author(s): Ben Hoare, Lucy Rose (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Take an unforgettable tour around the world to meet the creatures that share our city spaces – from bears to bats, penguins to opossums – and learn about how they have adapted and thrived in this gorgeously illustrated gift...

Wild Coast: Travels on South America’s Untamed Edge

Wild Coast: Travels on South America’s Untamed Edge
  • Author(s): John Gimlette
  • Location(s): Guyana
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2012 Between the Orinoco and the Amazon lies a fabulous forested land, barely explored. Much of Guyana seldom sees sunlight, and new species are often tumbling out of the dark trees. Shunned by...

Wild Dark Shore

Wild Dark Shore
  • Author(s): Charlotte McConaghy
  • Location(s): Antarctica
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A rising storm on the horizon. Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world’s largest...

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