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The Weight of Water

The Weight of Water
  • Author(s): Anita Shreve
  • Location(s): New Hampshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 19th century and late 20th century

On Smuttynose Island, off the coast of New Hampshire, more than a century ago, two Norwegian immigrant women were brutally murdered. A third woman survived by hiding in a cave until dawn. In 1995, Jean, a photographer, is sent...

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
  • Author(s): Alan Garner
  • Location(s): Alderley
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): Various

A tale of Alderley When Colin and Susan are pursued by eerie creatures across Alderley Edge, they are saved by the Wizard. He takes them into the caves of Fundindelve, where he watches over the enchanted sleep of one...

The Well of Ice (Inishowen Mysteries)

The Well of Ice (Inishowen Mysteries)
  • Author(s): Andrea Carter
  • Location(s): Inishowen
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

December in Glendara, Inishowen, and solicitor Benedicta ‘Ben’ O’Keeffe is working flat out before the holidays. But on a trip to Dublin to visit her parents, she runs into Luke Kirby – the man who killed her sister –...

The Wet and the Dry

The Wet and the Dry
  • Author(s): Lawrence Osborne
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

‘I am taking a few months off to travel and wander, drinking my way across the Islamic world to see whether I can dry myself out, cure myself of a bout of alcoholic excess. It is a personal crisis,...

The Whale Rider

The Whale Rider
  • Author(s): Witi Ihimaera
  • Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
  • Genre(s): Magical Realism, Young Adult

A mystical story of Maori culture The birth of a daughter – Kahu – breaks the lineage of a Maori tribe. Rejected by her grandfather, Kahu develops the ability to communicate with whales, echoing those of the ancient Whale...

The Whaleboat House

The Whaleboat House
  • Author(s): Mark Mills
  • Location(s): Long Island
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1940s

Also released under the title -Amagansett. Rich and colourful evocation of Long Island in the 1940s. Life at sea, World War 2 and a small town life. The murder of a young, beautiful high society woman, Lillian Wallace, whose...

The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty

The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty
  • Author(s): Sebastian Barry
  • Location(s): County Sligo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

Following the end of the First World War, Eneas McNulty joins the British-led Royal Irish Constabulary. With all those around him becoming soldiers of a different kind, however, it proves to be the defining decision of his life when,...

The Whispering Land

The Whispering Land
  • Author(s): Gerald Durrell
  • Location(s): Argentina, Patagonia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Gerald Durrell and his wife are the proud owners of a small zoo on the island of Jersey. But there’s one thing that’s better than a small zoo – a bigger one! So Durrell heads off to South America...

The Whispering Trees

The Whispering Trees
  • Author(s): Anne Allan
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

“They call me a witch, Liv, and maybe I am, in a manner of speaking.” Olivia doesn’t believe in magic. No sensible person does. So why, when the family moves to Devon after her dad’s accident, does the hill...

The White Circle

The White Circle
  • Author(s): Oliver Bottini, Jamie Bulloch (Translator)
  • Location(s): Baden-Württemberg
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The final instalment of the acclaimed Black Forest Investigations brings the series to a shattering close. Louise Bonì, Chief Inspector of the Freiburg criminal police, gets intelligence from an informer that two guns have been bought from a Russian...

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