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Victory (11)

Victory (11)
  • Author(s): Julian Stockwin
  • Location(s): England, France, The Atlantic Ocean
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1805

`Stockwin continues to display his talents in transporting his audience from the 21st century to the chaotic worlds of Kydd, Renzi, and their imperiled homeland.’ – Historical Novels Review

Waiting for Wednesday (Frieda Klein 3)

Waiting for Wednesday (Frieda Klein 3)
  • Author(s): Nicci French
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Ruth Lennox, beloved mother of three, is found by her daughter in a pool of her own blood. Who would want to murder an ordinary housewife? And why? Psychotherapist Frieda Klein finds she has an unusually personal connection with...

Washington Square

Washington Square
  • Author(s): Henry James
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Second half 1800s

A beautiful book set in old patrician New York, this is the story of a Father and his daughter Catherine – she is courted by Morris Townsend, who is seemingly after her wealth. After her father’s death, he courts...

Water Lily

Water Lily
  • Author(s): Susanna Jones
  • Location(s): Shanghai, Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Runa is a young Japanese woman who teaches in a high school and has an affair with one of her pupils. Rather than face the consequences, she flees to Shanghai, where she hopes to meet a friend. Ralph is...

We All Fall Down

We All Fall Down
  • Author(s): Michael Harvey
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

When a light bulb falls in a subway tunnel, it releases a pathogen that could kill millions. While the mayor postures, people begin to die, especially on the city’s grim west side. Hospitals become morgues. L trains are converted...

We Are Together Because

We Are Together Because
  • Author(s): Kerry Andrew
  • Location(s): Var
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Dystopian, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Luke, Connor, Thea and Violet spend their first holiday together alone in their father’s house in the south of France. The boys don’t really know him, and they don’t really know their half-sisters, either. Luke, the most easy going...

We need New Names

We need New Names
  • Author(s): NoViolet Bulawayo
  • Location(s): United States (USA), Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s/Modern

‘To play the country-game, we have to choose a country. Everybody wants to be the USA and Britain and Canada and Australia and Switzerland and them. Nobody wants to be rags of countries like Congo, like Somalia, like Iraq,...

We The Animals

We The Animals
  • Author(s): Justin Torres
  • Location(s): New York State
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

What it is to be a boy! Adventures each and every day, with endless rough and tumble in the cause of rebellion. Our mixed-race narrator is growing up in New York state with an abusive father, unpredictable mother and...

Welcome to Hell: One Man’s Fight for Life Inside the Bangkok Hilton

Welcome to Hell: One Man’s Fight for Life Inside the Bangkok Hilton
  • Author(s): Colin Martin
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Family man Colin Martin runs into trouble and the upshot is – jail in Bangkok, where he has to face a corrupt legal system and mistreatment of inmates. A truly scary and rivetting read.

Went to London, Took the Dog

Went to London, Took the Dog
  • Author(s): Nina Stibbe
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2022/23

Twenty years after leaving London, Nina Stibbe is back in town with her dog, Peggy. Together they take up lodging in the house of writer Deborah (Debby) Moggach in Camden for ‘a year-long sabbatical’. It’s a break from married...

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