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Women of the Silk

Women of the Silk
  • Author(s): Gail Tsukiyama
  • Location(s): China
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1926

In “Women of the Silk” Gail Tsukiyama takes her readers back to rural China in 1926, where a group of women forge a sisterhood amidst the reeling machines that reverberate and clamor in a vast silk factory from dawn...

Wondering, the Way is Made

Wondering, the Way is Made
  • Author(s): Luke F D Marsden
  • Location(s): Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Peru
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future, Travelogue

In a pre-apocalyptic near future, against a backdrop of a faltering global civilization and a living planet in slow-motion death throes, a young, free-spirited couple, Joss and Tina, decide to quit the programme and go on a voyage of...

Worth

Worth
  • Author(s): Jon Canter
  • Location(s): Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Richard and Sarah meet in London, fall in love and, after some complications, marry. To escape the rat-race – and their ex-partners – they decide to move to the countryside, and buy a cottage in the pretty Suffolk village...

Wrapped Up In You

Wrapped Up In You
  • Author(s): Carole Matthews
  • Location(s): Maasai Mara
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

A Christmas fling, or has Janie found the real thing? Thirty-something hairdresser Janie Johnson’s single status is a constant source of gossip for her friends and clients. So after too many nights in with her cat, a blind date...

Yasmine

Yasmine
  • Author(s): Eli Amir
  • Location(s): Jerusalem, Middle East
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Late 1960s

Jerusalem 1967: Everyone is reeling from the aftermath of the 6-Day War. The Palestinians are stunned and cannot comprehend their losses, whilst the Israelis are waking up to a new political reality – and their new responsibilities. Surprisingly for...

You Are Awful (But I Like You)

You Are Awful (But I Like You)
  • Author(s): Tim Moore
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Moore sets off to travel to the worst places in Britain, in one of the worst cars we have produced (the R Reg. Maestro called Craig), listening to the worst music, staying and eating in the worst places….such is...

You Are Dead (Roy Grace)

You Are Dead (Roy Grace)
  • Author(s): Peter James
  • Location(s): Brighton, Hove
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The last words Jamie Ball hears from his fiancée, Logan Somerville, are in a terrified mobile phone call. She has just driven into the underground car park beneath the block of flats where they live in Brighton. Then she...

You Are Not Alone

You Are Not Alone
  • Author(s): Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen
  • Location(s): Cuanza Sul Province, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

From Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, the authors of the top ten bestseller The Wife Between Us and An Anonymous Girl, comes You Are Not Alone – a gripping novel about a group of women who appear to have...

You Can’t See Me

You Can’t See Me
  • Author(s): Eva Björg Ægisdóttir
  • Location(s): Snæfellsnes Peninsula
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The twisty, breathtaking prequel to the international bestselling Forbidden Iceland series… The wealthy, powerful Snæberg clan has gathered for a family reunion at a futuristic hotel set amongst the dark lava flows of Iceland’s remote Snæfellsnes peninsula. Petra Snæberg,...

You Die Next

You Die Next
  • Author(s): Stephanie Marland
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a group of urban explorers stumble across a murderer’s kill room in a derelict film studio, terror strikes. And when one of the group is found dead, the team realise – they’re being hunted. DI Dominic Bell is...

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