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While the Gods were sleeping

While the Gods were sleeping
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Enslin
  • Location(s): Nepal
  • Era(s): Modern

Love and marriage brought American anthropologist Elizabeth Enslin to a world she never planned to make her own: a life among Brahman in-laws in a remote village in the plains of Nepal. As she faced the challenges of married...

Whirlwind

Whirlwind
  • Author(s): James Clavell
  • Location(s): Tehran
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1979

“Whirlwind” is the story of three weeks in Tehran in February 1979: three weeks of fanaticism, passion, self-sacrifice and heartbreak. Caught between the revolutionaries and the forces of international intrigue is a team of professional pilots. They are ordered...

Whisper of the Seals

Whisper of the Seals
  • Author(s): Roxanne Bouchard, David Warriner (translator)
  • Location(s): The Gaspé Peninsula
  • Genre(s): Thriller, In Translation

There’s only one thing more deadly than the storm… Fisheries officer Simone Lord is transferred to Quebec’s remote Magdalen Islands for the winter, and at the last minute ordered to go aboard a trawler braving a winter storm for...

Whispering Tides

Whispering Tides
  • Author(s): Guido Mattioni
  • Location(s): Savannah
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

When his beloved wife Nina suddenly dies – after 23 years of life together – Alberto Landi understands he has to leave Milan Italy, where he has always lived and worked. He leaves his friends, colleagues, a good job...

Whispers Underground

Whispers Underground
  • Author(s): Ben Aaronovitch
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): Modern

This book follow on from Rivers of London and Moon over Soho. Peter Grant is learning magic fast. And its just as well – he’s already had run ins with the deadly supernatural children of the Thames and a...

White Crocodile

White Crocodile
  • Author(s): K T Medina
  • Location(s): Battambang
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Second half 20th century

When emotionally damaged mine-clearer Tess Hardy travels to Cambodia to find out the truth behind her ex-husband’s death, she doesn’t know much about the country or its beliefs. On arrival, she finds that teenage mothers are going missing, while...

White Dog Fell from the Sky

White Dog Fell from the Sky
  • Author(s): Eleanor Morse
  • Location(s): Gaborone
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Botswana, 1976. Isaac Muthethe thinks that he is dead. Forced to flee his country after witnessing a friend murdered by white members of the South African Defense Force, he finds himself, for the first time, in a country without...

White Heat

White Heat
  • Author(s): M J McGrath
  • Location(s): Arctic
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

This is set in the frozen wastes of the Canadian Arctic, and is an aborbing crime thriller. The central character is Edie Kiglatuk, an tiny Inuit woman with a determination that is stunning, as she investigates a murder.

White Nights (Shetland Quartet 2)

White Nights (Shetland Quartet 2)
  • Author(s): Ann Cleeves
  • Location(s): Shetland Islands
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

When Shetland detective Jimmy Perez finds a body in a hut used by fishermen it seems to be a straightforward case of suicide. He recognizes the victim – a stranger with amnesia who had disrupted a local party the...

Whitstable

Whitstable
  • Author(s): Stephen Volk
  • Location(s): Whitstable
  • Genre(s): Novella
  • Era(s): 1971

1971. A middle-aged man, wracked with grief, walks along the beach at Whitstable in Kent… A boy approaches him and, taking him for the famous vampire-hunter Doctor Van Helsing from the Hammer movies, asks for his help. Because he...

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