Adult Authors by last name W-X

Listed are books with the authors last name starting with W and X.

Alison Weir, H.G. Wells and Colson Whitehead

The Marriage Game - Alison Weir

Bestselling historian Alison Weir brings all her knowledge of Elizabeth I to vivid life in a novel of intrigue, sex, plots, mysteries and tragedies, amid all the colour and pageantry of the Tudor court.

The Island of Doctor Moreau - H.G. Wells

Prendick, a naturalist, is shipwrecked on the island retreat of notorious vivisector, Dr Moreau.

In a laboratory called the House of Pain, Moreau manufactures 'humanised' animals known as the Beast People, whom he controls through fear - until the terrifying day when one of his degraded victims turns against him.

The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead

Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. All the slaves lead a hellish existence, but Cora has it worse than most; she is an outcast even among her fellow Africans and she is approaching womanhood, where it is clear even greater pain awaits.

When Caesar, a slave recently arrived from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they take the perilous decision to escape to the North.