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The Witching Stone

The Witching Stone
  • Author(s): Danny Weston
  • Location(s): Lancashire
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): N/A

Beneath this stone lie the remains of Meg Shelton, alleged witch of Woodplumpton, buried in 1705. After a messy breakup with his girlfriend, Alfie needs to get away for a while – so he decides to spend the summer...

The Wolf Road

The Wolf Road
  • Author(s): Richard Lambert
  • Location(s): The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): N/A

When Lucas survives the car crash that kills his parents, one memory stays with him—of the wolf that caused the crash. And when he learns that a wild creature is killing livestock in the mountains, he knows it’s the...

The Woman And The Ape

The Woman And The Ape
  • Author(s): Peter Høeg
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The woman is Madelene, rich, beautiful and alcoholic; the ape, intelligent and illegally imported to London by Madelene’s husband Burden. Burden has plans, so does Madelene, and so, as it happens, does the ape. This most controversial of Høeg’s...

The Woman Who Ran

The Woman Who Ran
  • Author(s): Sam Baker
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

What is making Helen Graham so jumpy and evasive? Newly arrived in a tiny Yorkshire village, she finds the locals’ curiosity her worst nightmare. Looking over her shoulder every day, she tries to piece together her past before it...

The Women Who Wouldn’t Leave

The Women Who Wouldn’t Leave
  • Author(s): Victoria Scott
  • Location(s): Worcestershire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Two women. A community under threat. Can they save their home? In the peaceful Worcestershire village of Stonecastle, Matilda Reynolds lives a quiet, contented life with her animals for company. Then a fall lands her in hospital, and she...

The Wonderland Murders

The Wonderland Murders
  • Author(s): Millie Ravensworth
  • Location(s): Framlingham
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Present day

Penny returns to her home town of Framlingham when her grandma is ill and asks her to ruin her sewing shop. Her cousin Izzy is working there and they need to figure out their working relationship as well as...

The Word Is Murder

The Word Is Murder
  • Author(s): Anthony Horowitz
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper – the wealthy mother of a famous actor – enters a funeral parlor. She is there to plan her own service. Six hours later she is found dead, strangled with a...

The Worst Christmas Ever?

The Worst Christmas Ever?
  • Author(s): Rebecca Paulinyi
  • Location(s): South Devon
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Can the magic of the Christmas season be rediscovered in a small Devon town? When Shirley ‘Lee’ Jones returns home from an awful day at the office, the last thing she expects to find is her husband in bed...

The Wreck of the Zanzibar

The Wreck of the Zanzibar
  • Author(s): Michael Morpurgo
  • Location(s): Isles of Scilly
  • Genre(s): Children, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1907

A gripping children’s story from War Horse author and former Children’s Laureate Michael Morpurgo. “We all knew what was going to happen. We’d seen it before. A ship about to founder staggers before she falls. A huge wave broke...

The Wronged Daughter

The Wronged Daughter
  • Author(s): Mary Wood
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

The Wronged Daughter by Mary Wood is an emotional and moving novel that reunites old friends and heals old wounds. Mags has never forgotten the friendship she forged with Flora and Ella, two fellow nurses she served with at...

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