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Wife of the Gods

Wife of the Gods
  • Author(s): Kwei Quartey
  • Location(s): Accra, Ghana
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Introducing Detective Inspector Darko Dawson: dedicated family man, rebel in the office, ace in the field-and one of the most appealing sleuths to come along in years. When we first meet Dawson, he’s been ordered by his cantankerous boss...

Winners

Winners
  • Author(s): Danielle Steel
  • Location(s): Colorado
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

At just seventeen, Lily Thomas is already a ski champion training for the Olympics, her heart set on winning the gold. But in one moment, Lily’s future is changed forever – her hopes for Olympic triumph swept away in...

Winter at the Light

Winter at the Light
  • Author(s): Stephen B King
  • Location(s): Western Australia
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1950s

Forbes Lighthouse is a dangerous place. Twenty-year-old Molly McLaren agrees to tend the light when her father breaks his leg, so she leaves behind the city and her nursing career. Molly dreads the thought of three months as the...

Winter In Paradise

Winter In Paradise
  • Author(s): Elin Hilderbrand
  • Location(s): St John
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Irene Steele’s life is idyllic, until it is rocked by a late-night phone call that brings news of her husband’s sudden death. Even in the midst of her crippling grief, Irene cannot get one question out of her head:...

Winter King

Winter King
  • Author(s): Thomas Penn
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Turn of the 15th Century

It was 1501. England had been ravaged for decades by conspiracy, violence, murders, coups and counter-coups. Henry VII had clambered to the top of the heap – a fugitive with a flimsy claim to England’s crown who through luck,...

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
  • Author(s): Grady Hendrix
  • Location(s): Florida
  • Genre(s): Historical, Horror
  • Era(s): 1970

They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to the Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, give...

Women and Children First

Women and Children First
  • Author(s): Alina Grabowski
  • Location(s): Massachusetts
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A gripping literary puzzle that unwinds the private lives of ten women as they confront tragedy in a decaying town. Nashquitten, Massachusetts, is a coastal enclave that not even tourist season can revive, full of locals who have run...

Wonder Cruise

Wonder Cruise
  • Author(s): Ursula Bloom
  • Location(s): The Mediterranean
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

Ann Clements is thirty-five and single, and believes nothing exciting will ever happen to her. Then, she wins a large sum of money in a sweepstake and suddenly can dare to dream of a more adventurous life. She buys...

Woodcutters

Woodcutters
  • Author(s): Thomas Bernhard
  • Location(s): Vienna
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Over the course of a few hours, following a performance of Ibsen’s The Wild Duck, we are in the company of the Auersbergers, and our narrator, who never once leaves the relative comfort of his ‘wing-backed chair’ where he...

Working Wonders

Working Wonders
  • Author(s): Jenny Colgan
  • Location(s): Coventry
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Arthur Pendleton has led an unexciting life, working as a town planner and slowly realising that his life holds few surprises. Then he encounters the head of a team of management consultants, the beguiling and beautiful Gwyneth Morgan, a...

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