Recreation

Fiction New Titles July 2011 (arrived in June)

ADVENTURE

The Mayan prophecy, Steve Alten.
Firs tin a series about an archaeologist investigating the Mayan calendar and running into danger and intrigue.
The Jefferson key, Steve Berry.
Cotton Malone battles a group of families whose influence dates back to U.S. Constitution and who seek to crack a code devised by Thomas Jefferson himself in their quest for power.
A time for patriots, Dale Brown.
When the nation's economy collapses and thousands of Americans turn against their own government, Patrick McLanahan must enlist the aid of his son and fellow citizens to hunt down terrorists any way they can.
The kingdom, Clive Cussler with Grant Blackwood.
Sam and Remi Fargo, treasure hunters, on a journey through Tibet, Nepal, China, Siberia and Italy, hunting for a missing investigator
Carte Blanche, Jeffery Deaver.
Deaver is the latest big name, after Sebastian Faulks, to have a go at the James Bond franchise.
The priest's graveyard, Ted Dekker.
Christian suspense tale of a hunt for one powerful man who stands in the way of avenging angels.
The thieves of darkness, Richard Doetsch.
Michael St Pierre thinks he has left his criminal days behind him, when he learns that his best friend is being held in a brutal desert prison. Breaking into jail for the first time in his career, Michael discovers that his new girlfriend is also connected to the case.
Robert Ludlum's The Bourne dominion : a new Jason Bourne novel, Eric Van Lustbader.
Jason Bourne returns to find his trusted friend has turned into a deadly enemy. The latest in the tales that started with Ludlum who died back in 2001.
The wreckage, Michael Robotham.
Baghdad banks are being bombed, an ex-cop in London has his briefcase stolen and a leading financier vanishes in this tale of international finance and other crimes.
Ruler of the world, Alex Rutherford.
The story of the third great Moghul Emperor, Akbar, leader of a huge dynasty which contained the seeds of his own destruction.
The final storm, Jeff Shaara.
The final in his impressive series about World War II in the Pacific, this one centreing on the flight of the Enola Gay.
The hawks of London, Grant Sutherland.
Second in the Decipherer's Chronicles, following "The cobras of Calcutta," has trusted agent Alistair Douglas on the trail of dangerous consiprators in 1760s London.
One rough man, Brad Taylor.
They call it the Taskforce. Their existence is as essential as it is illegal. Commissioned at the highest level of the U.S. government, protected from the prying eyes of Congress and the media. Built around the top operators from across the clandestine, intelligence, and special forces landscape and designed to operate outside the bounds of U.S. law.
Sanctus, Simon Toyne.
Apocalyptic conspiracy thriller about a closed order of monks who guard secrets that, if revealed, will threaten the world!

American Fiction

Another dawn, Kathryn Cushman.
A omwna returns unwillingly to help look after her father but ius forced to confront the result of some of her choices in this new faith based novel.
The first husband, Laura Dave.
Her happiness shattered by her movie director boyfriend's announcement that he intends to reconnect with a woman from his past, travel columnist Annie Adams impulsively marries a charming chef and attempts to restart her life in rural Massachusetts.
Centuries of June, Keith Donohue.
Set in the bathroom of an old house just before dawn on a night in June, a black comedy about a man who is trying to explain how he ended up on the floor with a hole in his head. A crazy inventive mix of psychological mystery, ghost story and madcap comedy.
I'll never get out of this world alive, Steve Earle.
Wracked by guilt and addiction ten years after administering a fatal morphine overdose to Hank Williams, Doc Ebersole performs illegal medical services in the red-light district of San Antonio before meeting a young Mexican immigrant who seems to heal others with her touch. The debut novel by the musician and linked in with his new CD of the same name.
Miles to go, Richard Paul Evans.
Second in the inspirational "The walk" series about an executive who loses everything and embarks on a walk across America.
Faith, Jennifer Haigh.
Sheila McGann is estranged from her complicated family. But when her older brother, pastor of a large suburban parish, finds himself at the centre of a child abuse scandal, Sheila returns to Boston, ready to fight for him. Oprah.com gave this a big recommendation on their Summer Reading list.
The sweetness of tears, Nafisa Haji.
Born into an evangelical Christian family, Jo embarks on a journey to the MIddle East and meets some previously unknown relations whose fate is tied to her. Well reviewed novel that has been described as the next "Three cups of tea" - the only difference is that this is a novel.
Witches on the road tonight, Sheri Holman.
Fear, guilt and mysticism in Depression-era Appalachia through to New York today as a boy grows up with his mother who is dogged by rumours of witchcraft.
The fine art of insincerity, Angela Hunt.
Three grown Southern sisters have ten marriages between them and more loom on the horizon when Ginger, the eldest, wonders if she's the only one who hasn't inherited what their family calls the Grandma Gene: the tendency to like the casualness of courtship better than the intimacy of marriage.
Silver sparrow, Tayari Jones.
1970s/1980s African American society in Atlanta is the backdropfor the tale of a man's deception, an illicit second marriage and a first family that he keep
Don't breathe a word, Jennifer McMahon.
Family secrets and fairy lore create a shifting reality in this novel about the disappearance of a 12-year-old girl who longed to become Queen of the Fairies. Fifteen years after Lisa goes missing, her younger brother, Sam, gets a strange phone call that leads him and his girlfriend, Phoebe, to discover a book, supposedly written by the King of the Fairies, that Lisa used as her bible to cross over, and which prompts Sam and Phoebe to meet up with Sam's cousin, Evie, to see if they can figure out what happened to Lisa.
To be sung underwater, Tom McNeal.
Small town U.S. where a passionate woman loves a steady dependable man. He, however, is not going to leave and she is. Years later she returns to see if she had made a big mistake.
When Tito loved Clara, Jon Michaud.
Through brains and determination, librarian Clara Lugo has long since slipped the bonds of her confining Dominican neighbourhood in the northern reaches of Manhattan. Now she tries to live a settled professional life with her American husband and son in the suburbs of New Jersey--often thwarted by her constellation of relatives who don't understand her gringa ways.
The butterfly's daughter, Mary Alice Monroe.
Four very different women embark on a transforming journey that follows the migrating monarch butterflies across America to Mexico.
The tragedy of Arthur, Arthur Phillips.
When their long-imprisoned con-artist father reaches the end of his life, Arthur and his twin sister become the owners of an undiscovered play by William Shakespeare that their father wants published, a final request that represents either a great literary gift or their father's last great heist. A clever literary romp.
Vaclav & Lena, Haley Tanner.
A touching debut set in New York's Russian émigré community where schoolboy Vaclav aspires to be a magician with classmate Lean as his assistant. When she is taken away suddenly he is bereft until years later they meet again.

Australian fiction

The indignities, Graeme Aitken.
Sequel to his Vanity Fierce Fierce, where a gay Sydneyite goes to some lengths to bypass his landmark 30th birthday, only to have the cosy life he took for granted unravel completely.
Shooting the fox, Marion Halligan.
Excellent collection of short stories on love and loss, sex and death, food and gardening.
Last summer, Kylie Ladd.
When a popular cricket player dies, his death affects the lives of his teammates in this tale of love, loss and friendship in an Aussie suburb.
The voyagers : a love story, Mardi McConnochie.
In 1943, Stead arrives in Sydney Harbour hoping to spend his shore leave with Marina, a woman with whom he shared three magical days before the war. She is gone, missing for almostg five years, and he retraces her steps across the world to find her.
Bright and distant shores, Dominic Smith.
Chicago, 1897. An obsessive collector and insurance magnate commissions the world's tallest building. Determined to compete with Marshall Field's recent donation of $1 million to found the Field Museum, the tycoon funds a private collecting voyage into the Pacific.

British Fiction

Cold light, Jenn Ashworth.
A mix of social observation and black comedy. The story of three 14 year old girls and a volatile combination of jealousy and lies that ends in a terrible tragedy in a small town in the North of England.
The death of Eli Gold, David Baddiel.
In a New York hospital a well known writer is dying surrounded by his family from his five marriages as well as his fourth wife's fundamentalist Mormon brother. A sharp black comedy with some thriller overtones from the well known English comedian.
The girl in the polka dot dress, Beryl Bainbridge.
Rose, a child of postwar Britain, sets off for America in 1968 with a one way ticket to search for the elusive Doctor Wheeler, oracle and guru.
City of Bohane, Kevin Barry.
Set in 2054 in the fictional West Ireland city of Bohane, a novel teeming with miscreants and malcontents. The city itself is a wonderful creation full of idiosyncratic nooks and alleyways and memorable subdivisions such as Smoketown (where the drinking and whoring takes place), The Big Nothin? (which is, well, nothing really, The Back Trace (which is almost respectable) and the Northside Rises (populated by those who live in the tower blocks).
The afterparty, Leo Benedictus.
A satire on the crazy world of celebrity culture where, one night everythign changes for nerdy Michael, a Fleet Street worker ant, when he agrees to take his boss's invitation to an A-list party at a London club. I
Smut : two unseemly stories, Alan Bennett.
Two stories from the master of short fiction about respectable people with secret lives behind the lace curtains. Funny and rude and not for the
The lovers of Pound Hill, Mavis Cheek.
Archaeologist Molly Bonner arrives in a small village to research The Gnome, a huge fertility symbol on the side of Pound Hill. A wacky eccentric comedy from this very funny writer.
The forgotten waltz, Anne Enright.
In Terenure, a pleasant suburb of Dublin, in the winter of 2009, it has snowed. Gina Moynihan, girl about town, recalls the trail of lust and happenstance that brought her to fall for 'the love of her life', Sean Vallely. Another brilliant realistic nobel by the author of the Booker winning novel "The gathering."
The last gift, Abdulrazak Gurnah.
Sixtyish Abbas suffwers a diabetes-induced collapse in his Norwich home where he lives with his wife. His British born adult children return home to deal with the situation. A perceptive and involving exploration of the immigrant experience in modern Britain.
The proof of love, Catherine Hall.
In the long hot summer of 1976, a young Cambridge mathematician arrives at a remote Lake District farm to work. Not accepted by the remote community initially, he finds himself slowly drawn in to their lives.
Gillespie and I, Jane Harris.
As she sits in her Bloomsbury home, with her two birds for company, elderly Harriet Baxter sets out to relate the story of her acquaintance, nearly four decades previously, with Ned Gillespie, a talented artist whose career was damaged by a notorious criminal trial.
Long time, no see, Dermot Healy.
Lyrical novel by the Irish poet and dramatist about Mr Psyche, recent school leaver who hangs out with people years his senior and has to deal with his Uncle Joe. In The Guardian Annie Proulx said it was "a grand read."
The last four things, Paul Hoffman.
Second in series featuring Thomas Cale, a boy trying to survive in a barren terrifying land.
The making of us, Lisa Jewell.
About three siblings, unknown to each other but all fathered by the same donor who is now dying in a hospice. The way the three come together makes for an involving and touching read.
Foster, Claire Keegan.
A small girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm in rural Ireland, without knowing when she will return home. In the strangers' house, she finds a warmth and affection she has not known before and slowly begins to blossom in their care. And then a secret is revealed and suddenly, she realizes how fragile her idyll is.
The coincidence engine, Sam Leith.
Droll crazy first novel about a chase across an imaginatively conceived America featuring a young Cambridge post graduate student and members of the Directorate of the Extremely Improbable. If you liked the works of Douglas Adams, give this one a go.
The missing marriage, Sarah May.
Love, money, marriage and pseudocide on the north-east coast of England. Childhood sweethearts, Bryan and Laura Deane have been seemingly happily married for just over fifteen years. Their friends and family believe that if the Deanes are happy, there is such a thing as true love. Only the Deanes aren't happy. The tides of debt are rising, and the only remaining road to salvation is a life insurance pay off and when Bryan goes missing at sea it looks like a scam might be pulled off to rescue the family.
French secrets, Roisin McAuley.
Romantic feelgood tale about a group of characters drawn to a French village in the winegrowing area.
The last kestrel, Jill McGivering.
Two strong women. Two cultures. One unifying cause: survival. Ellen Thomas, experienced war correspondent, returns to Afghanistan's dangerous Helmand Province on assignment, keen to find the murderer of her friend and translator, Jalil.
The love and death of Caterina, Andrew Nicoll.
Latin America's most famous novelist has writer's block then he meets Caterina, a young and beautiful fan, and he pursues her until things turn sinister. Allan Massie in The Scotsman loved the book and said "the narrative is compelling, but what most distinguishes this novel is the assurance of tone, the depth of understanding and the range of the author's sympathies."
The strange fate of Kitty Easton, Elizabeth Speller.
A young man comes to stay at a country house in a village where most of the men died during World War I. He uncovers secrets connected with a young servant girl who went missing.
Wish you were here, Graham Swift.
In 2006 Jack Luxton receives the news that his soldier brother, not seen for years, has been killed in Iraq.
Before I go to sleep, S.J Watson.
Unusual novel, a sort of thriller about a woman (who narrates) who has forgets everything every time she goes to sleep and has to reconstruct every day before she pieces together her life.
Bed, David Whitehouse.
Intriguing debut by a journalist. The story of a disgruntled 25 year old who deciced to go to bed - forever! The consequences for his family over three decades are chronicled by his younger brother.

Fiction from the rest of the World

The good Muslim, Tahmima Anam.
Second novel from the author of the prize winning "A golden age." Set in 1984 when, after seven years away, a woman returns to her family home in Dhaka to find much has changed and her brother has become a strict religious leader and wants to make his sister examine what it means to be a good Muslim.
The free world, David Bezmozgis.
Canadian author's tragi-comic tale of a Soviet Jewish family in 1978 waiting to find out if they can find a home in some other country.
The sly company of people who care, Rahul Bhattacharya.
A 26 year old cricket journalist decides to leave India and spend a year in Guyana where, beguiled by this exotic country, he meets a mysterious woman.
Children and fire, Ursula Hegi.
Protecting her beloved students from the devastating world outside of their 1934 Berlin classroom, Thekla Koppen sacrifices some of her personal freedoms to retain her teaching position until activities within Hitler's early regime test her moral courage.
Hector and the secrets of love, Francois Lelord
Sequel to "Hector and the search for happiness" has one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies employing Hector to track down their brilliant scientist, Professor Cormorant, who has disappeared abroad with the secret of a modern-day love potion. Leaving behind his troubled relationship with girlfriend Clara, Hector's adventure takes him to the Far East and into the arms of beautiful Vayla, forcing our hero to think deeply about what love really is/means.
Twice born, Margaret Mazzantini
An internationally bestselling, acutely moving story set amidst the atrocities of the Bosnian war and written by a leading Italian author. The film version has been announced and starts soon with Penelope Cruz and Emile Hirsch in the leading roles.
The falafel king is dead, Sara Shilo.
The town has lost its famed falafel king, but the Dadon family have also lost a father and husband. Living with the daily threat of Katyusha missiles from neighbouring Lebanon, and struggling to survive amid the rubble of their lives, Simona and her three children each find their own way of coping with their grief, their fear, and their hopes.
The dubious slavation of Jack V., Jacques Strauss.
South Africa 1989 and the 11 year old son of an Afrikaans father and English mother growing up in a Johannesburg suburb has his life changed by the arrival of the teenage son of their maid.
The colour of tea, Hannah Tunnicliffe.
Author was born here, lived in Australia, London, Europe and China and now Canada. Her novel is about a couple who move to macau and she, depressed by her infertility, opens a café specialising in macarons. A tale of love, marriage and food.
Underground time, Delphine de Vigan
Likeable and quirky tale, translated from the French, about two Parisians leading separate lives but destined to meet.

MYSTERY

Mourning Gloria, Susan Wittig Albert.
After a woman is killed in an arson-homicide, Jessica Nelson, an intern-reporter at the local paper, is assigned to cover the story. When Jessica disappears, China Bayles is determined to find her, before she becomes a headline herself.
A drop of the hard stuff, Lawrence Block.
After a childhood friend is shot down while attempting to atone for past sins, Scudder is drawn into a murder investigation that threatens to upset his path toward recovery--and get him killed in the process.
Where the bodies are buried, Chris Brookmyre.
Aspiring actress Jasmine is working for her uncle's private investigation business when the uncle goes missing and Jasmine has to investigate in a world of Glasgow gang enforcers and civic and police corruption.
Breaking silence, Linda Castillo.
Third thriller featuring Chief of Police Kate Burkholder. Set on a sleepy Amish farm where three people are found drowned in a hog pit and foul play is
The rose of the world, Alys Clare.
The latest in the Hawkenlye mysteries, tales of crime in medieval times.
Guilt by association, Marcia Clark.
A Deputy DA specializing in high-profile cases, Rachel Knight is addicted to her work and fiercely loyal to her friends. But when her colleague Jake is found dead in a seedy Los Angeles hotel room next to the body of a teenage male prostitute, Rachel realizes she might not know those around her as well as she thinks.Author is famous for being the head prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson trial.
Whispering death, Garry Disher.
The latest Challis and Destry novel from the excellent Aussie crimje writer has murder in the small town of Waterloo in Victoria.
The worst thing, Aaron Elkins.
For Bryan Bennett, designing hostage negotiation programs is the perfect job--as long as he keeps a safe, theoretical distance. What he can't do is deal directly with kidnappers or their victims, as a result of his own abduction and imprisonment as a small boy. Thirty-some years later, intense nightmares still plague his sleep, and a fear of enclosed spaces prevents him from attempting to travel.
Splinter, Sebastian Fitzek
Bestseller in Germany, a psychological thriller about a man who fears a clinic may be using him as a guinea pig to test removing people's traumatic memories.
Inspector Singh investigates : a deadly Cambodian crime spree, Shamini Flint.
Inspector Singh is in Cambodia on the war crimes tribunal when a key member of the tribunal is murdered.
Blue Monday, Nicci French.
The abduction of a small child creates a huge police hunt. Psychotherapist Frieda Klein has a patient whose dreams seem to be an image of the child.
Dead man's grip, Peter James.
A fatal traffic accident occurs and the drivers of two vehicles involved are found murdered and now the other driver is in danger from the same deadly
White death, Tobias Jones.
Castagnetti, bee-keeping Italian private eye, is hired by a businessman who is being harassed and threatened. Eventually things turn deadly as arson is used as intimidation.
The dead of summer, Mari Jungstedt
Set on the tiny Swedish island of Gotland where Inspector Anders Knutas is on holiday when the body of a young jogger is found on the beach.
The girl who disappeared twice, Andrea Kane.
When they are hired by veteran family court judge Hope Willis to find her missing daughter, Forensic Investigators--a team of renegade investigators comprised of a behavorist, a techno-wizard, an intuitive, and a former Navy SEAL--must race against time to bring Krissy back alive.
Blood line, Lynda La Plante.
D.I. Anna Travis is given an assignment that may be a missing person case of a full blown murder investigation.
Blood on the line, Edward Marston.
1855 and Inspector Robert Colbeck learns that a notorious con man and murderer has escaped and is using the complex web of railways to stalk further
Trader of secrets, Steve Martini.
While in Paris to find a former NASA employee whose name has been found on papers left in his nemesis's apartment, defence attorney Paul Madriani stumbles upon a plot to harness the destructive forces of nature using stolen technology.
Frozen Charlotte, Priscilla Masters.
Set in the nedieval town of Shrewsbury where the discovery of a mummified baby leads coroner Martha Gunn to investigate.
The devil amongst the lawyers, Sharyn McCrumb.
In the wake of a sensationalized 1934 trial involving an Appalachian Virginia teacher's alleged murder of her tyrant father, novice journalist Carl Jennings is denounced by a greedy media determined to portray the defendant as a backwards mountain girl.
White heat, M.J. McGrath.
On Craig Island, a vast landscape of ice north of the Arctic Circle, three travellers are hunting duck. Among them is expert Inuit hunter and guide, Edie Kiglatuk; a woman born of this harsh, beautiful terrain. The two men are tourists, experiencing Arctic life in the raw, but when one of the men is shot dead in mysterious circumstances, the local Council of Elders in the tiny settlement of Autisaq is keen to dismiss it as an accident.
The cleansing flames, R. N. Morris.
Easter 1872 and a body is found in St. Petersburg's Winter Canal, gioving magistrate Porfiry Petrovich a new and dangerous case.
No hearts, no roses, Colin Murray.
Introducing laid back amateur sleuth Tony Gerard who, ten years after the end of World WarII, gets a call to find a man who disappeared in 1945.
Sixkill, Robert B. Parker.
Parker may be dead but the books keep coming. This one is billed as the last Spenser novel and has him asked to investigate a murder accusation facing a bad boy movie star.
Prophecy, S.J. Parris.
Historical mystery in which Giordano Bruno discovers a nasty plot, occult activities and murder at the court of Queen Elizabeth I.
Private London, James Patterson & Mark Pearson.
The latest from the writing machine! The London branch of the world's most technologically advanced investigation agency is on the case when a university student is kidnapped for the second time.
The devil's light, Richard North Patterson.
Sidelined after a colleague's blunder, CIA agent Brooke Chandler envisions a way to halt an Al Qaeda plot to set off a massive nuclear explosion and begins a race against time that returns him to Lebanon, where nothing is quite as it seems.
Ashes of the earth, Eliot Pattison.
Thirty years after a global holocaust the colony of Carthage struggles to build a new world and one survivor tries to get through the remnants of the colony he founded. A mix of mystery and dystopian fiction.
Acceptable loss, Anne Perry.
The 17th novel in her Inspector William Monk series set in Victorian England.
An uncertain place, Fred Vargas
Commissaire Adamsberg is in London for a conference when a macabre discovery outside Highgate Cemetery - a pile of shoes containing severed feet - give him a new case to investigate.
A lesson in secrets, Jacqueline Winspear.
Maisie Dobbs' first assignment for the British Secret Service takes her undercover to Cambridge as a professor, and leads to the investigation of a murderous web of activities being conducted by the up-and-coming Nazi party.
The Warsaw anagrams, Richard Zimler.
1940 and Jewish citizens are enclosed in a Polish ghetto. An elderly psychiatrist loses his young nephew as children are lured to their deaths. Sinister historical thriller.

ROMANCE

The man behind the badge, Sharon Archer.
The beautiful widow, Helen Brooks.
Ranchers twins, mum needed, Barbara Hannay.
Her moment in the spotlight, Nina Harrington.
Strangers in the desert, Lynn Raye Harris.
The love lottery, Shirley Jump.
Too proud to be bought, Sharon Kendrick.
The doctor's damsel in distress, Janice Lynn.
Riches to rags bride, Myrna MacKenzie.
Her little secret, Carol Marinelli.
Sex, gossip and rock & roll, Nicola Marsh.
A night with consequences, Margaret Mayo.
Second chance baby, Susan Meier.
The baby project, Susan Meier.
The taming of Dr Alex Draycott, y Joanna Neil.
A dark Sicilian secret, Jane Porter.
Sins of the past, Elizabeth Power.
Cupcakes and killer heels, Heidi Rice.
Chasing fire, Nora Roberts.
The ultimate risk, Chantelle Shaw.
Prince of scandal, Annie West.
In want of a wife?, Cathy Williams.

Saga & Historical

Fame, Tilly Bagshawe.
Hot celebrity movie star may be destroyed on social media while a top movie producer is in trouble and a movie hunk is about to get the role of his career. Glossy read for the Jackie Collins reader.
Caleb's crossing, Geraldine Brooks.
Story based on a piece of little known history about Caleb, a young man who, in 1665, became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard.
The beauty chorus, Kate Lord Brown.
Three women from different backgrounds deal with life in Britain during World War II.
The lady of Bolton Hill : a novel, Elizabeth Camden.
Historical romance debut nvoel set in the high society world of 19th century Baltimore.
The book of Rachael, Leslie Cannold.
Ambitious first novel that traces the life of Jesus Christ's younger sister in a patriachal society and her pursuit of the craft of midwifery as well as falling in love with Judas Iscariot.
Labels, H.C. Carlton.
Slick and glossy yarn about three woman at the top of the fashion world from the 1960s to the 1970s.
The maid, Kimberly Cutter.
The story of Joan of Arc and a portrait of the real young woman behind the legend.
The bride's house, Sandra Dallas.
The story of a beautiful Victorian house under construction in 1880s Georgetwown where 17 year olf Nealie dreams of living one day. Her future is ultimately the house's future, tracked through three generations of strong women.
That liverpool girl, Ruth Hamilton.
Three generations of strong, determined women and the war that threatens to tear them apart.
The silent governess, Julie Klassen.
Fleeing her home after believing herself guilty of a crime, Olivia Keene stumbles upon the grand estate of Lord Bradley, who gives her a post to confine her lest she reveal a dark secret of his.
A hope undaunted, Julie Lessman.
As the 1920s draw to a close, smart and feisty Katie O'Connor is looking for a husband. But it won't be easy to choose between her good-looking, well- connected, and wealthy boyfriend Jake and the man she swore to despise forever.
A passion denied, Julie Lessman.
Has Elizabeth fallen in love with a man who cannot love her back? She suddenly wants more from the man who has been her friend since childhood. Will his shocking secrets push her away-- or will God's love help them find redemption?
A passion most pure, Julie Lessman.
She's found the love of her life. Unfortunately, he loves her sister. When Collin's affections shift, it threatens to tear the proper Boston family apart. Can this be part of God's plan for their lives? Faith based historical romance.
A passion redeemed, Julie Lessman.
Graced with physical beauty, though shallow of heart, Charity O'Connor is a woman who knows what she wants. She sets her sights on the cantankerous Mitch Dennehy, editor at the Irish Times, who has unwittingly stolen her heart.
No turning back, Susan Lewis.
Eva Montgomery is at the peak of her career when she is viciously attacked by a stalker. She lives her life under an immaculate facde but the past will not let her go.
The second duchess, Elizabeth Loupas.
In a city-state known for magnificence, where love affairs and conspiracies play out amidst brilliant painters, poets and musicians, the powerful and ambitious Alfonso d'Este, duke of Ferrara, takes a new bride. Half of Europe is certain he murdered his first wife, Lucrezia, the luminous child of the Medici.
An unlikely suitor, Nancy Moser.
When dressmaker Lucy Scarpelli befriends socialite Rowena Langdon, she visits the Langdon mansion in Newport, Rhode Island, and falls for a high-society man, while Rowena struggles with her upcoming arranged marriage.
Heart of gold, Fiona Palmer.
Catherine-Jean Wishart - or CJ as she prefers - is a hardworking young country girl with a heart of gold but a tough and challenging life. She works long, strenuous days in the male-dominated world of the shearing sheds, but at home things are even harder.
The family farm, Fiona Palmer.
Isabelle Simpson longs to take over the family farm, but her ailing father is locked in a tragedy of the past and won't give her the chance she deserves. The stand-off between them threatens to tear the family apart. Izzy decides to break free and make a new start for herself - even though that means leaving behind the handsome Will Timmins and all her mixed emotions about him.
Doc : a novel, Mary Doria Russell.
The great legend of the American frontier, Doc Holliday, and his mistress Kate take centre stage in this story of the American West as it really was.
A moment in the sun, John Sayles.
A large (968 pages!) kaleidoscopic novel with a large cast of characters - some real, some fictional - in America at the turn of the last century. A big ambitious novel from the leading film director and writer.
The coming of the king, M. C. Scott.
The latest in the series - following "Rome: the Emperor's spy" - is set in 65 A.D. and Sebastos Pentera, spy to the Emperor Nero, is hunting Saulos, who has pledged to destroy a whole Roman province.
Twelfth prophecy, Bodie & Brock Thoene.
The latest in the A.D. Chronicles deals with the story of a Samaritan woman in the First Century A.D.
Tides of war, Stella Tillyard.
Fiction debut by the notable historian (author of books such as "Aristocrats"). Set in Regency London and Spain during the Peninsular War (1812-1815) and following the lives of Harriet and her soldier husband.

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror

Star Wars, fate of the Jedi. Conviction, Aaron Allston.
While Luke and Ben Skywalker continue their exploration of the mystery known as Abeloth with their unlikely Sith allies, the galaxy is abuzz with the trial of former Jedi Knight Tahiri Veila.
The key to creation, Kevin J. Anderson.
The third volume in the Terra Incognita fantasy series.
Outpost, Adam Baker.
First novel. On a derlict oil platform in the Arctic Ocean a skeleton crew wants for a supply ship but the world has been ravaged by a global pandemic and the crew are marooned and something nasty is lurking out there.
The white luck warrior, R. Scott Bakker.
Second volume in the Aspect-Emperor fantasy series.
The rogue, Trudi Canavan.
Second in the Traitor Spy trilogy, a fantasy from an Australian writer.
The scar-crow men, Mark Chadbourn.
Second in the "Swords of Albion" trilogy which mixes swashbuckling adventure, authentic historical fiction and supernatural fantasy excitement.
Leviathan wakes, James S. A. Corey.
Launches a new space opera series in which Jim Holden captains an ice-hauler ship running between the rings of Saturn and the Asteroid Belt when he comes across a derelcit space ship.
The devil's diadem, Sara Douglass.
A foolish monk stole the Devil's favourite diadem, and the Devil wants it back. The author, who has been ill, said she intended to put everything she could into this fantasy novel.
Hit list, Laurell K. Hamilton.
The latest tale featuring Anita Blake, vampire hutner.
Queen of kings, Maria Dahvana Headley.
Fantasy/historical debut that imagines that Cleopatra didn't die and became immortal and is now a blood-craving shapeshifter. First in a planned
Graveminder, Melissa Marr.
The first adult novel by this Young Adult author is about the living and the dead in a small town and The Graveminder is someone who is employed to keep down the dead!
Savage city, Sophia McDougall.
A richly imagined fantasy that deals with a world in which Rome never fell and magnetic railways span the globe.
Embassytown, China Mieville.
On a distant planet in the distant future, humans and aliens coexist cautiously then a new group of humans arrive. Intriguing tale from the award winning British fantasy writer.
The ritual, Adam Nevill.
Horror story about four friends who venture into the Arctic Circle and come across an old habitation that was once used for pagan sacrifices.
Shadow chaser, Alexey Pehov
Second in the "Chronicles of Siala" series by Russia's bestselling fantasy writer.
The shadow of the soul, Sarah Pinborough.
Second in horror series, "Dog-faced gods," following a detective investigating why young people in London are killing themselves.
Property of a lady, Sarah Rayne.
Eerie tale of an English village which was shut off in the 1950s for weapons testing. THeir history of dark secrets was closed off to the rest of the world and sixty years later those secrets are uncovered.
The hot gate, John Ringo.
Tyler Vernon and his troops aboard the gigantic battle station "Troy" face a desperate battle with the forces of galactic tyranny in the third episode of the "Troy Rising" series.
Mind storm, K.M. Ruiz.
An interesting debut, first in a projected series, with appeal to fans of military science fiction and set 250 years after nuclear was has almost devastated the earth.
Wonder, Robert J. Sawyer.
The internet has become a sentient being in the third part of this intriguing science fiction trilogy.
Shadow raiders, Margaret Weis & Robert Krammes.
The known world floats upon the Breath of God, a thick gas similar to Earth's oceans, with land masses accessible by airship. Book one of a new fantasy series called "Dragon Brigade."
Son of heaven, David Wingrove.
Introduces Chung Kuo with a futuristic tale set two decades after western civilisation has collapsed and a resurgent China seeks to abolish the last through enforced order.