Recreation

Fiction New Titles November 2012 (arrived in October)

Adventure

Rock Creek Park, Simon Conway.
Murder in Washington D.C. is linked to a secretive research facility funded by Defence Department in this action thriller that takes place all across the U.S.
Deadly trust, J.J. Cooper.
Former army interrogator Jay Ryan is enjoying the quiet life after leaving the military far behind, or so he thinks. He's quickly thrust back into the thick of things when a disgruntled scientist, backed by the Australian security industry, develops a weapon of mass destruction - a hybrid strain of Anthrax to be used to create panic in a population apathetic to crime prevention.
The lost library, A.M. Dean.
First novel in DA Vinci Code style tale with the secrets of the Library of Alexandria being revealed.
A sea of troubles, David Donachie.
John Pearce has an urgent commission and is aboard HMS Agamemnon impressing Lord Horatio Nelson with his manoeuvres.
Crowbone, Robert Low.
The long awaited return to Robert Low's Oathsworn series Island of Mann, 979AD. Fifth in the series.
The two deaths of Pluto, Don Stephens.
In 1985 a hastily assembled army surveillance team is deployed against "mercenaries" intent on creating havoc in the south of England. In 2010 there is a reunion for many of those who took part, with consequences none of them could have foreseen. Thriller by New Zealand author.
The last Caesar, Henry Venmore-Rowland.
Debut historical adventure that retells the little known story of the brutal time in Roman history that became known as The Year of the Four Emperors.

American Fiction

This is how you lose her, Junot Diaz.
Presents a collection of stories that explores the heartbreak and radiance of love as it is shaped by passion, betrayal, and the echoes of intimacy.
The round house, Louise Erdrich.
Continues the trilogy that began with "The plague of doves," telling the story of an Ojibwe woman who's ruthlessly attacked one day in 1988. Highly praised novel that has been likened to a Native American version of "To kill a mockingbird."
Love Anthony, Lisa Genova.
Two women meet by accident on a Nantucket beach and are drawn into a friendship. Olivia is a young mother whose eight-year-old severely autistic son has recently died. She comes to the island in a trial separation to try and make sense of the tragedy of her Anthony's short life. Beth, a stay-at-home mother of three, is also recently separated after discovering her husband's long-term infidelity.
The homeless bishop, Joseph F. Girzone.
An accomplished young cleric, Carlo Brunini chooses to live as a homeless beggar so he can understand why Jesus so loved the poor.
In sunlight and in shadow, Mark Helprin.
Wealthy New Yorker in 1947 encounters an aspiring actress who's engaged to an older man. Their romance is followed against a backdrop of Broadway and Long Island.
May we be forgiven, A.M. Homes.
Feeling overshadowed by his more successful younger brother, Harold is shocked by his brother's violent act that irrevocably changes their lives, placing Harold in the role of father figure to his brother's adolescent children and caregiver to his aging parents.
Goldberg variations, Susan Isaacs.
A septuagenarian business owner evaluates her grandchildren as possible successors to her multi-million-dollar beauty empire, including New York movie studio editor Daisy, womanising sports PR representative Matt, and religious Legal Aid lawyer Raquel.
Big Ray, Michael Kimball.
The story of Big Ray, overweight ruin of a father, and his son coming to terms with his death and his own life.
The red book, Deborah Copaken Kogan.
A tale of what life is like for women today, described as a modern version of Mary McCarthy's classic "The group". Vanity Fair says it's destined to be a classic.
The rose petal beach, Dorothy Koomson.
When her husband is accused of a crime, his wife is unsure what to to do until a stranger arrives with truths that will change lives.
Finding Casey, Jo-Ann Mapson.
Preparing for the birth of an unexpected baby, forty-one-year-old Santa Fe newlywed Glory Vigil spends time with her adopted college-age daughter, Juniper, who has fallen in love and who is haunted by memories of a sister who disappeared years earlier.
The life of objects, Susanna Moore.
Drawn by a mysterious countess into the Berlin household of an aristocratic couple, Beatrice, a young Irish Protestant lace maker, is introduced to the highly rarified world of affluence and art collecting on the eve of World War II.
A mind of winter, Shira Nayman.
Oscar is an Englishman with a mysterious past who presides over a sprawling mansion on Long Island's North Shore filled with glamorous guests. Unusual novel set in America, Shanghai and London.
Children of liberty, Paullina Simons.
Three girls take a trip across America in 1981 where they meet a woman who sucks them into her treacherous world.

Australian fiction

Lola Bensky, Lily Brett.
The world of Lola from the Swinging Sixties London is seen through the world of music and contemporary culture. Draws on aspects of the author's life.
Darkness on the edge of town, Jessie Cole.
Fortyish man and his teenage daughter find their lives turned upside down when a stranger crashes her car outside their home. Intriguing and gripping first novel.
The happiness show, Catherine Deveny.
First novel by Aussie comedian, the story of a 38 year old woman with a happy life, kids, good relationship and job, and what happens when she meets an old flame from ten years ago.
Mad men, bad girls and the Guerilla Knitters Institute : a novel, Maggie Groff.
Quirky and often very funny story of a journalist investigating a cult on the Gold Coast.
Pilgrimage, Jacinta Halloran.
At forty-nine, Celeste has long renounced the religion of her childhood. Yet she finds herself reluctantly accompanying her mother and sister to a pilgrimage site in Romania, where her devout mother seeks a miracle a cure for her terminal illness. As Celeste tries to come to terms with her mother's impending decline, she realises she has to confront the unspoken conflicts buried in the foundations of her family.
Like a house on fire, Cate Kennedy.
Collection of short stories on everyday life by Aussie author looks at domestic life - birth, marriage and death and all that falls in between.
Morgan's law, Karly Lane.
When Sarah Murphy returns to Australia she desperately needs a break from her high-powered London life and though mystified by her grandmother's dying wish for her ashes to be scattered under 'the wishing tree' on the banks of the Negallan River, she sets out to do just that.
Blueprints for a barbed-wire canoe, Wayne Macauley.
Bram and his fellow residents are drawn by a dream: the promise of a freeway leading to a new suburb north of the city. The houses are built, but the freeway never comes. One by one, the dreamers leave, until only a small, hardcore group is left - but they are still determined.
The tower mill, James Moloney.
Set in 1971 when the South African Rugby team came to Australia and 1988 when an inquiry into police corruption makes people confront their values.
Happy Valley, Patrick White
Originally published in 1939, Happy Valley is set in a small country town in the Snowy Mountains. Based on Patrick White's own experiences in the early 1930s as a jackaroo at Bolaro, near Adaminaby in south-eastern New South Wales, Happy Valley paints a portrait of a community in a desolate landscape.
Farming ghosts, Jena Woodhouse.
On a Queensland farm in the aftermath of World War II, Harry Vance's dream becomes his daughter-in-law's nightmare.

British Fiction

The merde factor, Stephen Clarke.
Englishman abroad lives the Parisian dream but then bankruptcy looms in the latest light-hearted entry in the "Merde" series.
England's Lane, Joseph Connolly.
Jim and Milly. Stan and Jane. Jonathan and Fiona. Winter, 1959. Three married couples: each living in England's Lane, each with an only child, and each attending to family and their livelihoods: the ironmonger, the sweetshop and the butcher. Each of them hiding their lies, coping in the only way they know how.
Last dance at the wrecker's ball, Robert Douglas.
Glasgow 1971 and the old way of life in Dalbeattie Street, Maryhill, is under threat but the inhabitants won't let it beat them.
A possible life : a novel in five parts, Sebastian Faulks.
Story of the chaos created by divided loyalties through the tale of a teacher working for the French Resistance, to an Italian girl growing up in 2029, to a boy sent to a workhouse in 1859.
A love letter from a stray moon, Jay Griffiths.
Portrait of the artist Frida Kahlo, her devastating accident and her love for Diego Rivera that is also a celebration of the spirit of poetry and the art of rebellion.
Just like proper grown-ups, Christina Hopkinson.
Fulfilling the promise of her excellent debut novel, "The pile at the bottom of the stairs," comes the tale of a determinedly single forty-something who announces - to the shock of her four best friends - that she's pregnant.
Mrs Queen takes the train, William Kuhn.
A whimsical comedy about what happens when Queen Elizabeth herself decides to go AWOL along with five people from the royal household and three others.
Why men lie, Linden MacIntyre.
Longing, love and loss in middle age as history professor Effie Gillis begins a relationship with a mysterious man from her past.
Noughties, Ben Masters.
An interesting debut novel about Eliot - master of literary theory, classic poetry and postmodern fiction - about to be hurled into adult life whether he likes it or not.
With love at Christmas, Carole Matthews.
Can the imperfect family really have the perfect Christmas? Juliet Joyce adores Christmas. She loves the presents, the tree, the turkey, the tinsel, everything. Already the festive spirit is upon her, which is just as well as this Christmas things are starting to get out of hand. Feelgood family tale.
The forgiven : a novel, Lawrence Osborne.
A gripping tale of a British couple who hit and kill a young Moroccan and cover up the crime and what happens when these over privileged people find that they can't easily be forgiven.

Fiction from the rest of the World

The hottest dishes of the Tartar cuisine, Alina Bronsky
Rosa's schemes to abort her daughter Sulfia's fetus after learning of the pregnancy, take her granddaughter Aminat after the baby's birth, and move the family out of the Soviet Union eventually lead to tragedy. Interesting novel translated from the German.
The origins of love, Kishwar Desai.
Strong story of the value of life and how women and children are exploited in the multi-million dollar world of surrogacy.
The elephant keepers' children, Peter Hoeg
Peter and Tilte are trying to find their parents who are unlikely con-artists: a pastor and an organist known for fabricating miracles to impress their congregation.
In praise of hatred, Khaled Khalifa
Syrian author who spent thirteen years working on this, his third novel, which is about how the lives of one family are affected by the battle between the Syrian government and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Flowers of Baghdad, Bruce Lyman.
Two different men in Baghdad supporting their families in occupied Iraq are the focus of this powerful and moving story that presents us with the Iraq War on a personal everyday level.
A winter's night, Valerio Massimo Manfredi.
The story of the Brunis, a family of farmers from the Italian Padan plain who have worked the land since time immemorial, and the homeless multitudes, travellers, and tinkers roaming Europe during the hardscrabble nineteen twenties and thirties.
Silent house, Orhan Pamuk.
Awaiting the arrival of her grandchildren in her home outside Istanbul, bed-ridden widow Fatma shares memories and grievances with her late husband's illegitimate son until his cousin, a right-wing nationalist, involves the family in the Turkish military coup of 1980.
In the shadow of the banyan, Vaddey Ratner.
Struggle for survival in Khmer Rouge-era Cambodia through the story of one girl and her family. Strong autobiographical debut
Summer lies, Bernhard Schlink.
A collection of stories about love - the betrayals, hidden truths, jealousy, desire, hope and happiness.

Mystery

The guilty one, Lisa Ballantyne.
Lawyer becomes involved in the case of a child who is accused of murder.
Hiss and hers, M.C. Beaton.
Agatha Raisin falls in love again, this time with the local gardener, then he's found dead in a compost heap.
Robert B. Parker's Fool me twice : a Jesse Stone mystery, Michael Brandman.
Hollywood movie company comes to Paradise, Massachusetts, and the leading lady has a jealous husband and a death threat. Jesse Stone investigates.
The corpse on the court, Simon Brett.
The genteel game of Real Tennis takes a murderous twist in the new Fethering mystery.
Low pressure, Sandra Brown.
Bellamy Lyston Price was only 12 years old when her older sister Susan was killed on a stormy Memorial Day. Bellamy's fear of storms is a legacy of the tornado that destroyed the crime scene as well as her memory of one vital fact that still eludes her. Now, 18 years later, Bellamy has written a novel based on Susan's murder.
Frozen heat, Richard Castle.
NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat is on a case connected to the unsolved murder of her own mother.
Babylon, Camilla Ceder
Popular Scandinavian crime writer with a tale of jealousy, greed and stolen artefacts that begins with a double murder in a university town.
The life, Martina Cole.
More rough stuff among the crime families of the East End.
The bone bed, Patricia Cornwell.
In Alberta a famous paleontologist disappears from a dinosaur dig site and it will become Kay Scarpetta's next case.
Safe house, Chris Ewan.
Man wakes in hospital after a motorbike crash to find the woman he claims was with him doesn't exist.
Frankie's letter, Dolores Gordon-Smith.
"There's a spy in England. Frankie's letter. Read Frankie's letter." These were the last words said by a dying man to Anthony Brooke in Kiel, the heart of Imperial Germany, during the height of World War One.
More than meets the eye, J.M. Gregson.
A shocking murder in a garden paradise marks the start of a difficult new case for Lambert and Hook.
Rest for the wicked, Ellen Hart.
Receiving an urgent message from hospitalised partner Andy Nolan's nephew, who is killed minutes later, restaurateur and private investigator Jane Lawless embarks on a solo quest to identify the culprit and the victim's link to other killings.
Salvation of a saint, Keigo Higashino
From the author of the international bestseller "The devotion of Suspect X" comes another featuring Detective Galileo, physics professor, investigating an seemingly impossible murder.
Sleep no more, Iris Johansen.
Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is asked by her mother to find a missing woman and finds the woman is her half sister and both of them could be in danger.
Invisible murder, Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis
Red Cross nurse Nina Borg risks her marriage to assist her friend Peter at a camp of mysteriously ill Roma refugee children whose circumstances prove more complicated and dangerous than originally believed.
Nightrise, Jim Kelly.
Journalist Philip Dryden is shocked to be informed by the police that his father has been killed in a car accident, his body incinerated in a fireball of burning petrol. It's impossible, because Dryden's father drowned during the fenland floods of 1977, thirty-five years before.
Live by night, Dennis Lehane.
Set in the 'Roaring Twenties' in Boston, Florida and Cuba with the son of an honest Boston cop working his way up the Boardwalk Empire world of organised crime.
The jewels of paradise, Donna Leon.
Standalone novel (i.e. not Brunetti) set in Venice where the works of a baroque composer have been discovered. A clever mix of music, intrigue, greed and history.
The cutting season, Attica Locke.
When the dead body of a young woman is found on the grounds of Belle Vie, the estate's manager, Caren Gray, launches her own investigation into Belle Vie's history, which leads her to a centuries old mystery involving the plantation's slave quarters and her own past.
All my enemies, Barry Maitland.
DS Kathy Kolla and DCI Brock from Serious Crime Division are on a new murder case with a theatrical background.
The shadow girls, Henning Mankell.
Early novel from the creator of Wallander is about a Swedish literary author who is pressured to write a crime novel investigating the shadowy world of immigrants in Sweden.
Smoke alarm, Priscilla Masters.
A deadly fire reunites coroner Martha Gunn with Detective Inspector Alex Randall when firemen are called to an intense blaze at the Grange in Melverley, they find the bodies of Christie Barton, her daughter, Adelaide, and father-in-law, William, along with evidence that suggests the fire was started deliberately.
Paradise city, Archer Mayor.
When the murder of an elderly woman in Boston is tied to a string of unrelated burglaries across the state of Vermont, Joe Gunther tries to discover who is purchasing the stolen objects in the "Paradise City" of Northampton, Massachusetts.
The taste of Wormwood, Keith McCarthy.
Chief Inspector Beverley Wharton has to work out two murders in Gloucester in the latest of these forensic mysteries.
Father confessor, Russel D. McLean.
DC Ernie Bright is dead. A good cop gone bad? Not everyone believes that one of Tayside Constabulary's longest serving detectives was leading a double life.
7 days, Deon Meyer.
Third tale of South African detective Benny Griessel.
Protection, G.J. Moffat.
Could you spot a killer? Logan Finch's life depends on his ability to do just that. He's a bodyguard whose clients rely on his talent to head off trouble before it even starts. Now he's got his toughest job yet protecting American serial killer Chase Black who has been released from prison on a technicality.
Assassin, Tara Moss.
Former model turned forensic psychologist and private eye is missing presumed dead, a powerful family having hired a killer but she's still around and out for justice.
Come the fear, Chris Nickson.
Richard Nottingham's latest case - set in 1733 - has a body found in an empty house and an investigation that is linked to both the criminal underworld and the wealthy merchant class.
Eclipse, Hilary Norman.
Black Hole, the serial killer who's been terrorizing Florida, and who earned that name by blowing out victims' eyes with a Colt pistol has just landed on Detective Sam Becket's patch in Miami Beach.
NYPD Red, James Patterson & Marshall Karp.
NYPD is put on high alert when Hollywood stars descend on NYC for a film festival and a famous producer is poisoned at a power breakfast.
Private Oz, James Patterson and Michael White.
James Patterson's bestselling Private series sees the world's most exclusive detective agency open a new office in Australia!
The blood of crows, Caro Ramsay.
Scottish mystery where crimes happening in Glasgow have their origins in unsolved cases back in 1996.
The incense game, Laura Joh Rowland.
When the shogun's carefully regulated court is thrown into chaos by a massive earthquake in 1703 Japan, Sano Ichiro investigates the poisoning murders of a nobleman's daughters to prevent the regime's takeover.
Mad River, John Sandford.
The latest Virgil Flowers case. Three teenagers go on a crime spree in rural Minnesota and Flowers joins the growing number of cops trying to track them down.
The Collini case, Ferdinand von Schirach
Bestseller in Germany, a fascinating courtroom drama about the case of a murderer with no motive.
The house on Queen Anne's Gate, Alex Scott.
Rice Leaman arrives in a cold and snowy London from New Zealand to take the stand as a witness to a minor crime. He is asked by the judge to lie and identify a stranger seated in the defendant's stand as the offender.
Death in Sardinia, Marco Vichi.
Florence, 1965. A man is found murdered, a pair of scissors stuck through his throat. Only one thing is known about him - he was a loan shark, who ruined and blackmailed the vulnerable men and women who would come to him for help. Inspector Bordelli prepares to launch a murder investigation.
Severe clear, Stuart Woods.
The latest Stone Barrington tale has him at the opening of a grand hotel on the grounds of the mansion belonging to his late wife. Terrorists, however, are out to stop the gala event.

New Zealand Fiction

Payback, Fez McLeod as told to David Harris.
Meet Todd Black. His happy childhood ended the day his parents were murdered by home invaders. Handed from one miserable foster home to the next, Todd's life was bad enough, but his suffering was nothing compared to the physical and sexual abuse that drove his sister to suicide.
Risk, C.K. Stead.
Recently divorced Kiwi Sam returns to London in 2003 to take up a top banking job and make contact with a grown up daughter. Then his comfortable world starts to unravel.

Romance

The Valtieri baby, Caroline Anderson.
When only diamonds will do, Lindsay Armstrong.
Just one last night, Helen Brooks.
The best mistake of her life, Aimee Carson.
The price of retribution, Sara Craven.
Bella's impossible boss, Michelle Douglas.
Her motherhood wish, Anne Fraser.
Unlocking her innocence, Lynne Graham.
Once a playboy, Kate Hardy.
The husband she never knew, Kate Hewitt.
Return of the last McKenna, Shirley Jump.
The couple behind the headlines, Lucy King.
Santiago's command, Kim Lawrence.
Slow dance with the sheriff, Nikki Logan.
Challenging the nurse's rules, Janice Lynn.
A Fool's Gold Christmas, Susan Mallery.
The tycoon's secret daughter, Susan Meier.
His reputation precedes him, Carole Mortimer.
The Greek's acquisition, Chantelle Shaw.
A bond between strangers, Scarlet Wilson.
She's so over him, Joss Wood.
A season for tending, Cindy Woodsmall.
First book in the Amish Vines and Orchards series.

Russian titles

Po tu storonu neba : Put na iug, Mikhail Akhmanov.
Brida, Paulo Koel'o.
Smotritel piramid, Vasilii Golovachev.
Posol v zapretnuiu zonu, Evgenii Guliakovskii.
Planeta smertnoi teni, Aleksei Kalugin.
Taina bogov, Bernar Verber

Saga & Historical

The splintered kingdom, James Aitcheson.
Sequel to "Sworn sword" where Tancred is now a lord as a reward for his services in battle.
Friends and rivals, Tilly Bagshawe.
Kat fears she is past her prime. Her philandering husband, Ivan, who she still loves passionately after twenty years of marriage, leaves her for a younger woman. Devastated, there is only one person left who Kat trusts. Kendall is sure she has it all. But underneath her tough exterior she hides a vulnerability she is helplessly struggling with an unrequited love.
San Miguel, T. Coraghessan Boyle.
The lives of three women on turn-of-the-20th-century San Miguel are shaped by ambition and circumstance, including the wife of a Civil War veteran who hopes to recover her health, her rebellious aspiring actress daughter and a librarian who wonders if the island's peace will endure in the face of looming war.
Poseidon's spear, Christian Cameron.
Third instalment in epic story of Arimnestos deals with the continuation of "the long war" between the Greeks and the Persians.
1356, Bernard Cornwell.
Go with God and Fight Like the Devil. A fascinating hero and the pursuit of a sword with mythical power - in this new Cornwell novel, which culminates at the Battle of Poitiers in 1356.
The unfaithful queen, Carolly Erickson.
The story of Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII.
Winter of the world, Ken Follett.
Follows "Fall of giants" in the Century series.
Lighthouse Bay, Kimberley Freeman.
1901: Isabella Winterbourne has suffered the worst loss a woman can know. She can no longer bear her husband nor his oppressive upper-class family. On a voyage between London and Sydney to accompany a priceless gift to the Australian parliament, Isabella is the sole survivor of a shipwreck off the sun-drenched Queensland coast.
White truffles in winter, N. M. Kelby.
The world of the great French chef Auguste Escoffier through his food and restaurant fame as well as his love for two women, Sarah Bernhardt and poet Delphine Daffis.
The turning point, Judith Lennox.
A gripping novel of passion, intrigue and ambition, set against the backdrop of 1950s Britain in the popular tradition of Kate Morton.
Jane : the woman who loved Tarzan, Robin Maxwell.
Reimagines the classic story of Tarzan from Jane's perspective, following the only woman student in Cambridge's medical programme as she travels the world to prove the theories of Darwin and finds love with an extraordinary man in the jungles of West Africa.
The secret keeper, Kate Morton.
1959 and a teenage girl spies on her mother talking to an unknown man before witnessing a terrible crime. 2011 and the girl is now a notable actress and she goes back to the world of her childhood.
John Saturnall's feast, Lawrence Norfolk.
Set in 17th century England and weaving fact and fiction as it follows John, an orphan, who works his way up from the kitchens to the great house of an aristocrat whose daughter he falls for. Impressive and well reviewed novel that was said to be 12 years in the writing.
The phoenix song, John Sinclair.
Set in mid 20th century China where a young violin prodigy grows up under differing influences. Impressive first novel.
Love for a soldier, Mary Jane Staples.
France 1918 and a German General's rebellious daughter is planning to elope when she meets a young English pilot and helps him escape with the German army in pursuit.
Merivel a man of his time, Rose Tremain.
Robert Merivel, courtier to Charles II is no longer a young man — but off he goes to France in search of the Sun King and to Switzerland in pursuit of a handsome woman.

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror

Let the old dreams die, John Ajvide Lindqvist
A new collection of short stories from the Swedish master of the macabre, featuring a brief sequel to Let the Right One In.
Clockwork angels, Kevin J. Anderson
A novel based on the album "Clockwork Angels" by the rock band Rush follows a young man on a quest through a world of lost cities, pirates, anarchists, and a watchmaker who imposes precision on all aspects of daily life.
Zero point : an owner novel, Neal Asher
Second part of the Owner space opera trilogy (following "The departure").
The hydrogen sonata, Iain M. Banks.
The latest in the SF Culture series.
Between two fires, Christopher Buehlman.
In 1348, after a young girl left orphaned by the Black Death predicts a coming apocalypse, Thomas, a disgraced knight, finds himself in the middle of a second war on heaven as angels fight demons.
Dark currents : agent of Hel, Jacqueline Carey.
First in a fantasy series featuring Daisy Johanssen, a woman caught between the normal and paranormal worlds, enforcing order in both.
Dark storm, Christine Feehan.
Latest in the Carpathian series.
1635 : the papal stakes, Eric Flint, Charles E. Gannon.
Latest in the Ring of Fire series set in Rome with Borgia conniving, papal assassins, power politics and other mayhem.
Bad glass, Richard E. Gropp.
The military locks down the city of Spokane and images on the internet spread panic. Dark fantasy debut.
Mage's blood, David Hair.
Book 1 of the Moontide Quartet, the first adult fantasy novel from a Wellington author.
Thieftaker, D.B. Jackson.
In a magical parallel universe on the eve of the Revolutionary War, young thieftaker Ethan Kaille faces an unknown conjurer of enormous power when a prominent family hires him to recover a necklace worn by their murdered daughter.
Stormdancer, Jay Kristoff.
The first in the Lotus War series: a Japanese style dystopian steampunk fantasy featuring a young girl sent with her warrior father to capture a griffin for the Shogun.
The white forest, Adam McOmber.
Unusual, haunting and very original debut about a young woman in Victorian England whose unusual abilities of seeing help her infiltrate a mysterious secret society.
Tropic of Skorpeo, Michael Morrissey.
N.Z. fantasy. A princess due to be married to an elderly Duke, a reckless young prince, kidnapping by Amazons, invading armies, and more madness.
The fractal prince, Hannu Rajaniemi.
Second in the Quantum Thief series.
Jack Glass : a Golden Age story, Adam Roberts.
Golden Age SF meets Golden Age Crime in a story of three murders committed by a character who we know did it but we don't know how.
Archangel's storm, Nalini Singh.
New Zealand's top selling international fantasy author returns with another tale of the deadly and enchanting world where angels rule and vampires serve.
Rapture, J. R. Ward.
Fourth novel in the Fallen Angels series.
Midst toil and tribulation, David Weber.
When the Republic of Siddermark is threatened by wars triggered by the Charis kingdom's declaration of independence from the Church of God Awaiting, Vicar Clytahn, King Cayleb, Queen Sharleyan and Merlin Arthawes struggle to prevent widespread starvation while protecting their people from violent attacks.
The blinding knife, Brent Weeks.
The second novel in the "Lightbringer" fantasy series.
This book is full of spiders : seriously, dude, don't touch it, David Wong.
Sequel to "John dies at the end" as revived John and co-star David battle a raging zombie anxiety even if zombies may not be Out There but something sinister is!