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Waiting for Sunrise

Waiting for Sunrise
  • Author(s): William Boyd
  • Location(s): France, Geneva, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1910s

Vienna, 1913. It is a fine day in August when Lysander Rief, a young English actor, walks through the city to his first appointment with the eminent psychiatrist Dr Bensimon. Sitting in the waiting room he is anxiously pondering...

Wake Up Dead

Wake Up Dead
  • Author(s): Roger Smith
  • Location(s): Cape Town
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

3 Lives intersect in Cape Town, South Africa. Roxy Palmer needs to escape a bad marriage and some bad decisions…Billy Afrika, cold blooded killer, is looking for payment and redemption, Piper is looking for hid ture love.

Waking Lions

Waking Lions
  • Author(s): Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
  • Location(s): Beersheba
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Dr Eitan Green is a good man. He saves lives. Then, speeding along a deserted moonlit road in his SUV after an exhausting hospital shift, he hits someone. Seeing that the man, an African migrant, is beyond help, he...

Waking Up in Dublin

Waking Up in Dublin
  • Author(s): Mic Moroney
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Ireland’s music has known few better times, with bands like U2 and the Pogues adopting a global yet somehow parochial presence. But there’s more to the country than multimedia stage shows and stumbling drunkards with bad teeth. Mic Moroney,...

Walking Home from Mongolia

Walking Home from Mongolia
  • Author(s): Rob Lilwall
  • Location(s): China
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Starting in the Gobi desert in winter, adventurer Rob Lilwall sets out on an extraordinary six month journey, walking 3,000 miles across China. Along the way he and cameraman Leon brave the toxic insides of China’s longest road tunnel,...

Walking in Berlin

Walking in Berlin
  • Author(s): Franz Hessel
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

Franz Hessel was an observer par excellence of the increasingly hectic metropolis that was Berlin in the late 1920s. In Walking in Berlin, originally published in Germany in 1929, he captures the rhythm of Weimar-era Berlin, recording evidence of...

Walking in Pimlico

Walking in Pimlico
  • Author(s): Ann Featherstone
  • Location(s): England, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): Late 1800s

To ‘walk in Pimlico’ is, according to the Penguin Dictionary of Historical Slang, the colloquial expression ‘to be handsomely dressed’.Comedian, clog dancer, comic vocalist, actor and all-round funny fellow Corney Sage is treading the boards at the Constellation in...

Wallflower

Wallflower
  • Author(s): Holly-Jane Rahlens
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1989

Wallflower is four hours in the life of Molly Lenzfeld, sixteen-year-old New Yorker in Berlin. It’s Thanksgiving Day 1989, two weeks after the fall of the Wall. Molly, the daughter of a German-Jewish mother who fled the Nazis in...

Wanderers

Wanderers
  • Author(s): Edward Belfar
  • Location(s): Baltimore, Kenya, Rome
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

A collection of short stories that focus exquisitely on humanity.

Wanting

Wanting
  • Author(s): Richard Flanagan
  • Location(s): Flinders Island
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1830s onward

It is 1839, a preacher is looking after a small group of Aborigines, who have come from Tasmania, formerly Van Diemen’s Land.the Aborigines have all been guided into taking up”Western” notions, from dress to food. He is appalled by...

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