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The Waiter

The Waiter
  • Author(s): Kwan Ann Tan
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): Future

London, in a not-too-distant future.The city is being swallowed into the ground, the rich are still getting richer, and Waiters do the jobs you don’t have time for. They queue for your concert tickets, stay in for your deliveries...

The Wall

The Wall
  • Author(s): Douglas Jackson
  • Location(s): Cumbria, The North East (England)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): AD 400

AD 400. Rome and its Empire are failing . . . Veteran cavalry commander Marcus Flavius Victor sets out with his regiment to make what may be his final tour of the forts along Hadrian’s Wall. Through a combination...

The Walled Garden

The Walled Garden
  • Author(s): Sarah Hardy
  • Location(s): Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1946

A luminous debut novel about love, the trauma of war and the miracle of human resilience, for readers of Anna Hope, Sadie Jones and Elizabeth Jane Howard. No one survives war unscathed. But even in the darkest days, seeds...

The Walls Came Down

The Walls Came Down
  • Author(s): Ewa Dodd
  • Location(s): Warsaw, Chicago, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

A young boy goes missing during a workers’ strike in 1980s Communist Poland, unravelling a chain of events which will touch people across decades and continents. Joanna, a young journalist in Warsaw, is still looking for her brother, who’s...

The Walrus Mutterer

The Walrus Mutterer
  • Author(s): Mandy Haggith
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Celtic Times

Northern Britain, Iron Age. Rian, a carefree young woman and promising apprentice healer, is enslaved by a spiteful trader and forced aboard a vessel to embark on a perilous sea voyage. They are in search of the fabled hunter...

The Wanderers

The Wanderers
  • Author(s): Tim Pears
  • Location(s): Devon, Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Pre-WW1

The beautiful, questing second novel in Tim Pears’ acclaimed West Country trilogy 1912. Leo is on a journey. Aged thirteen and banished from the secluded farm of his childhood, he travels through Devon, grazing on berries and sleeping in...

The War Pianist

The War Pianist
  • Author(s): Mandy Robotham
  • Location(s): London, Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

Two cities. Two spies. Which woman survives? Pianist: NOUN. Informal. A person who operates or controls a radio transmitter – often in code. July, 1940 Blitz-ridden London: Marnie Fern’s life is torn apart when her grandfather is killed in...

The War Widow

The War Widow
  • Author(s): Lorna Gray
  • Location(s): Wales, Aberystwyth, Cheltenham, Cirencester
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): post-WWII

The echoes of war live long in the mind… Wales, 1947 Injured and terrified after an attempted abduction, desperation drives artist Kate Ward to the idyllic scene of her ex-husband’s recent suicide. Labelled a hysterical, grieving divorcée, no one...

The War Widows

The War Widows
  • Author(s): Leah Fleming
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

When you lose everything you love, you need a friend… Nothing ever happens in sleepy Grimbleton. Until two strangers – both claiming to be the fiancée of a dead soldier – arrive in town. Susan prides herself on her...

The Wartime Nursery

The Wartime Nursery
  • Author(s): Lizzie Page
  • Location(s): Fincham
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Norfolk, 1940. In the dark days of the war, Emmeline’s nursery is the only thing giving mothers hope. But how long can she keep that hope alive? An inspiring and emotional story of love and strength in the darkest...

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