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Wakenhyrst

Wakenhyrst
  • Author(s): Michelle Paver
  • Location(s): Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): Historical

By the bestselling author of Dark Matter and Thin Air, an outstanding new piece of story-telling, a tale of mystery and imagination laced with terror. It is a masterwork in the modern gothic tradition that ranges from Mary Shelley...

Walker

Walker
  • Author(s): Jane Alexander
  • Location(s): Exmoor
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Hidden temples have always protected the Earth. But now they are dying. Concrete is spreading over the valleys, pollution hangs heavy over the cities: greed is consuming the world. One last hope remains. Kitnor, a remote valley, could be...

Walking Apart

Walking Apart
  • Author(s): Catherine Finch
  • Location(s): Lancashire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Set in Lancashire’s beautiful Ribble Valley, Walking Apart explores a couple’s complex relationship as they plan for retirement. David’s business sold a year ago. He can’t wait to spend more time with his wife – after all, her high-powered...

Walking Pepys’s London

Walking Pepys’s London
  • Author(s): Jacky Colliss Harvey
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Literary Travel
  • Era(s): Modern/17th Century

Samuel Pepys walked round London for miles. The 21/2 miles to Whitehall from his house near the Tower of London was accomplished on an almost daily basis, and so many of his professional conversations took place whilst walking that...

Walking Wounded

Walking Wounded
  • Author(s): Anna Franklin Osborne
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Born at the end of the First World War, a young girl struggles to find her own identity in her big family and is pushed into a stormy marriage through a terrible misunderstanding from which her pride refuses to...

Wandering Souls

Wandering Souls
  • Author(s): Cecile Pin
  • Location(s): England, South East Asia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

An extraordinary, original and heartbreaking debut novel about the bonds that connect people even when separated by seas or death itself, from a thrilling new voice. There are the goodbyes and then the fishing out of the bodies –...

Want to Know a Secret?

Want to Know a Secret?
  • Author(s): Sue Moorcroft
  • Location(s): Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Money, love and family. Which matters most? When Diane Jenner’s husband is hurt in a helicopter crash, she discovers a secret that changes her life. And it’s all about money, the kind of money the Jenners have never had....

War Girl

War Girl
  • Author(s): Leah Fleming
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1926

With war looming, she must find a safe place to call home… England, 1926 Eight-year-old Mirren has grown up in the shadow of the Great War. When a tragic accident leaves her orphaned, she is sent to live with...

Warleggan: A Novel of 1792-1793 (Poldark Book 4)

Warleggan: A Novel of 1792-1793 (Poldark Book 4)
  • Author(s): Winston Graham
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 18th Century

Cornwall 1792. Ross plunges into a highly speculative mining venture which threatens not only his family’s financial security but also his turbulent marriage to Demelza. When Ross and Elizabeth’s old attraction rekindles itself, Demelza retaliates by becoming dangerously involved...

Warlight

Warlight
  • Author(s): Michael Ondaatje
  • Location(s): London, Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century (second half)

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 London, 1945. The capital is still reeling from the war. 14-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister Rachel are abandoned by their parents who leave the country on business, and are left in...

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