Recreation

New Titles Fiction December 2013 (arrived in November 2013)

Adventure

King and Maxwell, David Baldacci.
6th book in the Sean King and Michelle Maxwell series.
Mirage, Clive Cussler with Jack Du Brul.
1943 and a U.S. destroyer sails out of Philadelphia and vanishes. Years later it is investigated after having been thought a hoax.
Outlaw, Ted Dekker.
Story of a woman who is taken into slavery by a sophisticated stone age civilisation. Years later her son seeks her out.
The quest, Nelson DeMille.
DeMille rewrites his 1975 novel (about a Holy Grail quest) for a new audience.
Prayer, Philip Kerr.
Special Agent Gil Martins finds his world falling apart as a number of men die and it seems they've been killed by prayer!
Silencer, Andy McNab.
15th book in the Nick Stone series.
The tournament, Matthew Reilly.
Historical thriller, a tale of murder, passion and intrigue and a chess tournament in Constantinople.
Marina, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Gothic tale set in Barcelona where a mysterious woman and a young man journey into the dark underground of the city.
The emperor's elephant, Tim Severin.
Second in the series sees Saxon prince Sigwulf on a mission to locate rare animals.

American Fiction

Christmas bliss, Mary Kay Andrews.
A light and warm tale that celebrates, love, the holidays and antiques.
Southern Cross the dog, Bill Cheng.
An eight year old boy loses everything and is forced to grow up very fast when the Great Flood of 1927 devastates Mississippi.
Worst. Person. Ever, Douglas Coupland.
A misanthropic cameraman is off to shoot a reality TV show about real people getting off with each other. Sharp satire of some really awful people.
Actors anonymous, James Franco.
First novel from the movie star and director is all about acting and is framed by the 12-step programme.
Seven deadlies : a cautionary tale, Gigi Levangie
A witty and original tale set amidst the raunchy and moneyed world of Beverly Hills and narrated by a shrewd Mexican-American high school student.
We are water, Wally Lamb.
Anna Oh, a middle-age wife, mother and artist, divorces her husband after 27 years of marriage to marry Vivica, the Manhattan art dealer who orchestrated her professional success.
The two Hotel Francforts, David Leavitt.
1940 and Lisbon is Europe's only neutral port where two American couples are seeking passage to New York and the two males embark on an affair.
Doomed, Chuck Palahniuk.
Sequel to "Damned" picks up the story of Madison Spencer, the snarkiest dead girl in the universe, now trapped in purgatory. Outrageous tale from the "Fight Club" author.
Quiet dell, Jayne Anne Phillips.
In 1931, Emily Thornhill, one of the few women in the Chicago press, covers the murders of Asta Eicher and her three children in Quiet Dell, West Virginia. Obsessed with finding out what happened to this beautiful family, Emily allies herself with the man funding the investigation.
The sisters Weiss, Naomi Ragen.
1950s Brooklyn and two sisters grow up in a strict Orthodox family but one sister rebels, defies her parents and refuses an arranged marriage.
The lives of Stella Bain, Anita Shreve.
An epic tale set during World War I when a surgeon and his wife take in an American woman with shell shock.
The goldfinch, Donna Tartt.
A haunting (and long) odyssey through contemporary America from the author who only turns out a book a decade and has talent to burn.
A Nantucket Christmas, Nancy Thayer.
Christmas on the Massachusetts island of Nantucket in a story of family, love and festivities.
Goat mountain, David Vann.
An eleven-year-old boy is eager to make his first kill at his family's annual deer hunt. But all is not as it should be. His father discovers a poacher on the land, a 640-acre ranch in Northern California, and shows him to the boy through the scope of his rifle.

Australian fiction

Me & Rory Macbeath, Richard Beasley.
Adelaide, 1977. The year Elvis died. And the year twelve-year-old Jake Taylor meets Rory Macbeath. Until then, Jake's world was small, revolving around his street, his school, and the courthouse where his mum, Harry, was a barrister.
Happy Eva after, Chris Harrison.
Witty tale of a language teacher, his wife, an alluring Czech student and cryptic crosswords.
Eyrie, Tim Winton.
Story of a man who's lost his bearings in middle age and is now holed up in a flat at the top of a grim high-rise, looking down on the world he's fallen out of love with. He's cut himself off, until one day he runs into some neighbours: a woman he used to know when they were kids, and her introverted young boy.

British Fiction

Three brothers, Peter Ackroyd.
Follows three brothers, born on a post-war council estate in Camden Town, and their lives in London, a world of criminals, dodgy deals, big business, corrupt aristocrats and others, many with echoes of real life Londoners.
How to fall in love, Cecelia Ahern.
She has just two weeks. Two weeks to teach him how to fall in love with his own life. Adam Basil and Christine Rose are thrown together late one night, when Christine is crossing the Ha'penny Bridge in Dublin. Adam is there, poised, threatening to jump. Adam is desperate but Christine makes a crazy deal with him. His 35th birthday is looming and she bets him that before then she can show him life is worth living.
Lolito, Ben Brooks.
She's online. 'I booked a hotel,' I say. 'Near Marble Arch. "That sounds great, hon. I can't wait to see you." Yeah. Me too. "I'm vaguely nervous." 'Don't be.' Do be. I'm a child. Lolito is a love story about a fifteen year-old boy who meets a middle-aged woman on the internet.
If I could turn back time, Nicola Doherty.
Woman gets chance to turn back time and make different decisions about career and relationships.
A bright moon for fools, Jasper Gibson.
Harry Christmas: part Jim Royale, part Ignatius P. Reilly, part Oliver Reed, is on the run. Unable to cope with the death of his wife, bouncing from one bad decision to the next, a terrifying assault by the son of a woman he's conned makes up his mind to leave the country. A clever debut novel.
Perfect wives, Emma Hannigan.
When actress Jodi Ludlum returns home to Ireland to raise her young son in the leafy South Dublin village of Bakers Valley, she's determined to shield him from the media spotlight that has dogged her throughout her glittering career. Likeable and funny tale from Irish author.
Black sheep, Susan Hill.
Story of a family and their differing levels of acceptance of their lot in a small mining community.
The house we grew up in, Lisa Jewell.
Meet the Bird Family. All four children have an idyllic childhood: a picture-book cottage in a country village, a warm, cosy kitchen filled with love and laughter, sun-drenched afternoons in a rambling garden. But one Easter weekend a tragedy strikes the Bird family that is so devastating that, almost imperceptibly, it begins to tear them apart.
Unexploded, Alison MacLeod.
Brighton 1940 and rumours of expected enemy landing on Brighton's beaches as a German-Jewish prisoner in the enemy alien camp nearby and an ordinary English family find their lives irrevocably changed.
Hello and goodbye : twin epistles of gothic dread that will turn your world upside down, Patrick McCabe.
Two dark tales from two deceased narrators - bottled-lightning treats that will make you gasp, gurn, shiver and squirm.
Almost English, Charlotte Mendelson.
Delightful tale of a girl living in West London with her elderly Hungarian relatives and her English mother. She goes away to school but doesn't want to let others know how unhappy she is there.
The bookstore, Deborah Meyler.
Young woman in New York falls in love with a man who walks out on her and she ends up in a shabby 24-hour bookstore which she loves. Then her rich love returns.
The mistletoe bride & other haunting tales, Kate Mosse
Atmospheric collection of stories inspired by legends and folk tales from England and France.
Sense and sensibility, Joanna Trollope.
A modern retelling of the Jane Austen classic follows the Dashwood sisters Elinor, Marianne and Margaret as, after the death of their father, they must come to terms with the cruelties of life without the status of their country house, the protection of the family name or the comfort of an inheritance.
The woman in black : the sequel : angel of death, Martyn Waites.
Fully authorised sequel to Susan Hill's ghostly bestseller (and play and film) opens in 1940 when Eve, a teacher, is evacuated with a group of children to Eel Marsh House where sinister dangers await them.

Chinese titles

Fei cai gong zi, Cheng Yi zhu.
Da gong ci dian = The story of the small potatoes, Dai Bin zhu.
Fang dong, Ding Li zhu.
Si, nian nian bu wang, Jiuyehui zhu bian.
Tao wang zhe, Mengxi zhu.
Han ya jie, Shengyan zhu.
Bu xu liu guang ru meng lai, Su Zhenshu zhu.
Xue lang, Wei Xiaoyu zhu.
Qiao sheng, Wu Zhongquan.
Hua shu de yan jing, Zhao Haihong zhu.

Fiction from the rest of the World

Pig's foot, Carlos Acosta
Oscar Mandinga, great-grandchild of the founders of a small hamlet of wooden shacks and red earth deep in the Cuban hinterland, is a sardonic teller of tales, some taller than others, of slavery, revolution, family secrets, love and identity, spanning four generations.
The garden of burning sand, Corban Addison.
On a dark night in Lusaka, Zambia, an adolescent girl is brutally assaulted. In shock, she cannot speak. Her identity is a mystery. Where did she come from? Was the attack a random street crime or a premeditated act? The girl's case is taken up by Zoe Fleming, a human rights lawyer working in Africa. A betrayal in her own past gives the girl's plight a special resonance for Zoe, and she is determined to find the perpetrator and seek justice.
The lion seeker, Kenneth Bonert.
Grandson of Lithuanian migrants, the author, a South African, paints a portrait of his country's small Jewish community that doubles as the story of a mother-son relationship.
The story of a new name, Elena Ferrante
The story of two young women, Lila and Elena, growing up in Naples in the early 1960s.
Sabra zoo, Mischa Hiller.
During the summer of 1982, eighteen-year-old Ivan's parents are evacuated from Beirut. He chooses to stay behind and acts as an interpreter for international medical volunteers in a refugee camp. There he meets Eli, a Norwegian physiotherapist, and helps her treat Youssef, a camp orphan disabled by a cluster bomb. When the Israeli army enters Beirut and surrounds the camp, Eli and Youssef are trapped inside.
The yellow eyes of crocodiles, Katherine Pancol
Droll funny tale translated from the French and a big bestseller in Europe. Story of a woman whose husband runs off and whose sister seems to have the perfect life. When our heroine writes a novel which becomes a bestseller, her sister claims it, and the proceeds.

Graphic Novel

Solo : the deluxe edition, Tim Sale … et al.
Originally published in 2004, the 12-issue series Solo gave some of comics' greatest creators the chance to create stories set in the DC Universe and beyond.
No. 6. 3, Atsuko Asano ; manga by Hinoki Kino
For Shion, an elite student in technologically sophisticated city No. 6, life is carefully choreographed. School, study and occasional visits with his friend and classmate Safu are the order of the day. One fateful day, however, he takes a misstep, sheltering an injured boy from a typhoon.
Lucifer. Book two, Mike Carey,
In this second Lucifer, the Lightbringer is hard at work on a New Creation outside the bounds of any authority but his own, complete with a new pair of inhabitants for a new Garden of Eden.
The complete Don Quixote. [Volume 1-2], Miguel de Cervantes
More than 400 years ago, Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) sent his irrepressible optimist of a hero out to tilt at windmills and Don Quixote and his philosophical squire, Sancho Panza, still remain among the world's most popular and entertaining figures, as well as the archetypes for the tall, thin straight man and his short, stocky comic sidekick.
Hawkeye. [2], Little hits, Matt Fraction
Ace archer Clint Barton battles Superstorm Sandy, digital doomsday, dog detectives, lady problems, murder for money and more as Matt Fraction and David Aja continue their exciting, adventurous reinvention of the arrowed Avenger! Plus: the tracksuits are back, and they're aiming to kill!
Absolution. Volume 1, Christos Gage ; artwork, Roberto Viacava.
The encyclopedia of Early Earth : a graphic novel, Isabel Greenberg.
Contains many stories, big and small, about and pertaining to the following things: Gods, monsters, mad kings, wise old crones, shamans, medicine men, brothers and sisters, strife, mystery, bad science, worse geography, and did we already mention true love?
Gone to Amerikay, Derek McCulloch
Explores the history of Irish immigrants to New York City via three intertwined tales, from a woman raising a daughter alone in the Five Points slum of 1870, to a struggling artist drawn to the counterculture of 1960, to a billionaire searching for the secret of the music of his childhood in 2010.
Sleeping moon. Volume 2, Story and art by Kano Miyamoto
While investigating a curse that brings an early death to his family's direct male descendants, Akihiko experiences a time slip into the Meiji Period.
Knights of Sidonia. 5, Tsutomu Nihei
In his follow up from the hit Biomega series, Tsutomu Nihei tackles the world of hard science-fiction by creating a modern space comedy inspired by the genre hits from his youth.
Law of the desert born : a graphic novel, Louis L'Amour
Thunderbolts. Volume 2, Red scare, Daniel Way & Charles Soule

Japanese titles

Mayoiga, Adashino Rin.
Dāku gāden, Bradley Eden.
Ginkō shitenchō hashiru, Egami Gō.
Mugenbana, Higashino Keigo.
Chiisaki hana, Kajima Shōzō.
Oibessan to fushigi na boshi, Kitagawa Yasushi.
Hōei = Houei, Kitakata Kenzō.
Ketsuraku, Konno Bin.
Shōnen jūjigun, Minagawa Hiroko.
Kishima sensei no shizuka na sekai, Mori Hiroshi.
Aku to kamen no rūru, Nakamura Fuminori.
Uminariya gakudan sora o iku, Nonaka Tomoso.
Tōga no hito, Ōsawa Arimasa.
Daijōbu sankumi, Ototake Hirotada.
Hoteru rōyaru = Hotel Royal, Sakuragi Shino.
Sorairo baton, Sasō Yōko.
Tenshi no hōshū, Shinpo Yūichi.
Iyō, Yamada Muneki.
Saikai, Yokozeki Dai.

Korean titles

Dolaoji annǔn dari, Bae Sang-yǒl.
Allep'ǔ, P'aullo K'oellyo
Chǒngǔi Kongju : Han So-jin changp'yǒn sosǒl.
Chugǔl mank'ǔm ap'ǔjin ana : Hwang Hyǒn-jin changp'yǒn sosǒl.

Mystery

Behind the shattered glass, Tasha Alexander.
Anglemore Park is the ancestral home of Lady Emily Hargreaves' husband Colin. But the stately calm of country life is destroyed when their neighbour, the Marquess of Montagu, bursts through the French doors from the garden and falls down dead in front of the shocked gathering.
The lost ones, Ace Atkins.
When Army Ranger Quinn Colson, the new sheriff of Tebbehah County, is called out to investigate a child abuse case, what he finds is a horrifying scene of neglect, thirteen empty cribs, and a shoe box full of money. Janet and Ramon Torres seem to have skipped town - but Colson's sure they'll come back for the cash.
Fire and brimstone, Bateman.
A media billionaire's daughter disappears in Belfast in this tale of greed and violence in the city's underworld.
The strangling on the stage, Simon Brett.
Carole and Jude, the Fethering sleuths, are on the case when an accident - or a murder - occurs during rehearsals of a Shaw play.
The litter of the law, Rita Mae Brown
During an autumn scenic drive in rural Crozet, Virginia, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen and husband Fair discover the body of a murdered accountant lying in a cornfield. Rooting out the guilty murderer in the treacherous centre of a lucrative conspiracy requires Harry's farmer's wisdom along with the quick wits and extraordinary senses of Sneaky Pie, Pewter, and Tucker.
The treasure hunt, Andrea Camilleri
Inspector Montalbano is drawn into a strange treasure hunt set by an anonymous and sinister challenger. The latest in this top rated Italian crime series.
Inquest, Paul Carson.
Dublin, its coroner, his court and two suspicious deaths. The author is both a doctor and a writer.
Revenge, Martina Cole.
Michael Flynn is untouchable in a world of power, money and violence. He fights for what he wants and he takes it, whatever the cost. He learns the rules of the Life from the best and when his mentor, legendary Face Patrick Costello, is taken out, no one questions that Michael Flynn is his natural successor.
The gods of guilt, Michael Connelly.
Mickey Haller gets the text, "Call me ASAP 187," and the California penal code for murder immediately gets his attention. Murder cases have the highest stakes and the biggest paydays, and they always mean Haller has to be at the top of his game.
Dust, Patricia Cornwell.
After working on one of the worst mass killings in US history, Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta returns home to recover, but an unsettling call drives her straight back to work.
Art of deception, A.J. Cross.
Second outing for forensic psychologist and single mother Dr Kate Hanson has a mummified body found under the floor of a student house.
A dangerous deceit, Marjorie Eccles.
1927 and a man's remains are found in the grounds of a stately home. Sinister things are discovered that link back to the days of the Boer War.
A cruise to die for, Charlotte and Aaron Elkins.
Art restorer Alix London on her new case which involves murder on board a mega-yacht in the Greek Isles.
The tilted world, Tom Franklin, Beth Ann Fennelly.
The author of the brilliant "Crooked letter, crooked letter" teams up with his wife for this story of an orphaned baby, a prohibition agent and some very dark secrets in 1927 at the time of Mississippi floods.
Sycamore Row, John Grisham.
Jake Brigance has never met Seth Hubbard, or even heard of him, until the old man's suicide note names him attorney for his estate. The will is dynamite. Seth has left ninety percent of his vast, secret fortune to his housemaid. The vultures are circling even before the body is cold.
Hard going, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles.
A local philanthropist is murdered and Bill Slider and his team investigate.
Taken by the wind, Ellen Hart.
Private eye and restaurant owner Jane Lawless and the case of the missing teenagers.
Lie still, Julia Heaberlin.
New York couple make a new life in Texas where the well-off live gilded lives and a local matriarch goes missing.
The black life, Paul Johnston.
Rich jeweller contacts private eye Alex Mavros after spotting an uncle in the streets of Northern Greece. The uncle, however, was said to have perished in Auschwitz sixty years ago.
Ruthless, Jessie Keane.
Another gritty tale of crime and revenge from Jessie Keane. She thought she'd seen the back of the Delaneys. How wrong could she be? Annie Carter should have demanded to see their bodies lying on a slab in the morgue, but she really believed the Delaney twins were gone from her life for good. Now sinister things are happening.
Wrongful death, Lynda La Plante.
Six months after the body of Josh Reynolds, a London nightclub owner, was found and determined by police and coroner to be a suicide, DCS James Langton tasks DCI Anna Travis to review the case.
The stone boy, Sophie Loubière
Sinister tale, translated from the French, about an elderly lady who worries that a local child is being mistreated and begins a mission to save him.
Pagan spring, G.M. Malliet.
Max Tudor hosts a dinner to welcome a West End dramatist and his wife and ends up investigating the murder of one of the guests.
Three can keep a secret, Archer Mayor.
When an old gravesite exposes a coffin filled with rocks instead of the expected remains, and a retired state politician turns up dead, Joe Gunther and his team follow the evidence to an escaped mental patient who holds the key to solving both cases.
The strangler's honeymoon, Hakan Nesser
Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is approached by a priest who has learned terrible secrets. The priest is then killed and it seems likely that a serial killer is at large.
Fair and tender ladies, Chris Nickson.
1734. When a young country lad requests Constable Richard Nottingham's help in finding his sister who has run away to Leeds to seek her fortune, Nottingham is not optimistic. Such girls usually end up as prostitutes or worse. The following day, the young man is found dead, his throat slit.
Critical mass, Sara Paretsky.
When private eye V.I. Warshawski is called out to a derelict drug house in a rural town just south of Chicago, she discovers something she wasn't expecting: the mutilated corpse of a man, dumped in a cornfield.
Silent night, Robert B. Parker with Helen Brann.
Christmas in Boston and Spenser becomes involved with a charity which is being intimidated.
Cross my heart, James Patterson.
Alex Cross becomes the obsession of a genius of menace set on proving that he is the greatest mind in the history of crime.
The double, George Pelecanos.
Spero Lucas returns to retrieve a valuable painting and comes up against a violent career criminal.
Marbeck and the king-in-waiting, John Pilkington.
1603, Queen Elizabeth is dying and plotters are at work to advance their own ends.
The sound and the furry, Spencer Quinn.
Chet and Bernie, detective and canine partner, in the latest of this light comedy mystery series.
Saints of the shadow bible, Ian Rankin.
Rebus is back on the force, albeit with a demotion and a chip on his shoulder. A 30-year-old case is being reopened, and Rebus's team from back then is suspected of foul play.
Accused, Lisa Scottoline.
The all female firm of Rosato and Associates face their most challenging case yet - from a 13 year old prospective client whose sister was murdered six years ago.
Mortal bonds, Michael Sears.
Hired by the family of a disgraced investment banker who died in prison amid financial scandals, Jason Stafford races against time to find a fortune in missing funds only to see the people he contacts suffer suspicious and deadly accidents.
The alligator man, James Sheehan.
Defence attorney for a dodgy firm in Miami wants to clear his conscience by going out on his own to represent a man in an open and shut murder case.
Bear is broken, Lachlan Smith.
A top defence attorney is shot and his brother searches for the killer in the seedy underbelly of San Francisco.
Bella Wallis, Brian Thompson.
Described as Alexander McCall Smith meets Sarah Waters! Historical crime featuring the adventures of Victorian detective Bella Wallis.
Identical, Scott Turow.
Just as a politician is starting his run for Mayor of Kindle County his identical twin is released from prison for the murder of his girlfriend, a death now being reinvestigated.
The riot, Laura Wilson.
August 1958. London is hot and tired, and nowhere more so than Notting Hill, where DI Stratton has just been posted. Stratton's new manor is dirt poor and rife with racial tension. The end of the war saw a flood of Caribbean migrants. Now, a decade later, working-class Teddy Boys are showing mounting hostility towards their black neighbours. Excellent crime thriller with strong sense of time and place.
Aunty Lee's delights, Ovidia Yu.
Occasional sleuth and proprietor of Singapore's best-loved home cooking restaurant, feisty widow Rosie "Aunty" Lee helps rookie Police Commissioner Raja investigate the murder of one of her wealthy patrons by using her connections and uncanny ability to track down clues.

New Zealand Fiction

The coffee group, Mary-Jane Aggett & Annemarie Mirams.
The Coffee Group follows the hilarious antics of five women who band together after the birth of their children. They each have their secrets. Who is Clara's famous husband? What do Jackie and hooting owls have in common? What is the mysterious stain on Laura's carpet? Even the suave and irrepressible Kamal has a dodgy past that he wants hidden. Babies, buddies and bust-ups, from author sisters who've been there, done it and got the soggy t-shirt.
The mijo tree, Janet Frame ; illustrated by Deidre Copeland.
The Mijo Tree is a never-before published novella from New Zealand literary great, Janet Frame. It was written between 1956 and 1957 during Frame's time in Ibiza and has remained in the Hocken Library archive since 1970.
The score, Adrienne Jansen.
A grand piano crashes off a crane that's lifting it into a block of council flats. Rebuilding it is impossible. But for Stefan, piano restorer and illegal immigrant, it's the only way out of a heap of trouble. And for better or worse, a misfit bunch of tenants weighs in to help him. Everything depends on the wrecked piano and whether they can pull off its restoration. The Score is about messy lives, shaky pasts and even shakier futures.
The infinite air, Fiona Kidman.
Fictional interpretation of the life of the great Kiwi aviator Jean Batten who achieved considerable fame before disappearing to the Caribbean and later dieing in obscurity in Majorca.

Romance

Whose bed is it anyway?, Natalie Anderson.
Marriage made of secrets, Maya Blake.
The redemption of Rico D'Angelo, Michelle Douglas.
Snowbound with the soldier, Jennifer Faye.
Backstage with her ex, Louisa George.
Christmas magic in Heatherdale, Abigail Gordon.
Blame it on the champagne, Nina Harrington.
A façade to shatter, Lynn Raye Harris.
Chocolate cake for breakfast, Danielle Hawkins.
The divorce party, Jennifer Hayward.
The Christmas baby surprise, Shirley Jump.
The Greek's marriage bargain, Sharon Kendrick.
Last groom standing, Kimberly Lang.
A doctor's redemption, Marion Lennox.
The playboy of Puerto Banús, Carol Marinelli.
Two tiny heartbeats, Fiona McArthur.
Single dad's Christmas miracle, Susan Meier.
Never underestimate a Caffarelli, Melanie Milburne.
A hint of scandal, Tara Pammi.
The motherhood mix-up, Jennifer Taylor.
An enticing debt to pay, Annie West.

Saga & Historical

For a mother's sins, Diane Allen.
In 1870 railway workers and families work on a viaduct on the Leeds to Carlisle line and three different women will be bound together by tragedy.
Return to me, Lynn Austin.
After years in exile, Iddo and his grandson Zechariah follow God's leading home to Jerusalem, where they struggle to rebuild their lives and God's temple bringing to life the biblical books of Ezra and Nehemiah.
Girl of shadows, Deborah Challinor.
What had they done? What had she and Sarah and Friday done? 1830: Convict girls Friday Woolfe, Harriet Clarke and Sarah Morgan have been transported to Sydney from London. Sarah has been assigned to jeweller Adam Green, Harriet is a maid for the Barrett family, and Friday is working as a prostitute in a brothel.
Mrs. Poe, Lynn Cullen.
Story of a woman who becomes entangled in an affair with Edgar Allan Poe and also becomes the unwilling confidante of his much younger wife.
Fallen women, Sandra Dallas.
In 1885 a New York socialite hears of the death of her estranged younger sister and then discovers that the sister had gone astray in the seedy underbelly of Denver.
The clippie girls, Margaret Dickinson.
Rose and Myrtle Sylvester look up to their older sister, Peggy. She is the sensible, reliable one in the household of women headed by their grandmother, Grace Booth, and their mother, Mary Sylvester. When war is declared in 1939 they must face the hardships together and huge changes in their lives are inevitable.
The Spanish queen, Carolly Erickson.
The story of Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII's first wife and the mother of Mary 1.
The liar's daughter, Laurie Graham.
Young woman whose mother claims Lord Nelson was her lover tries to find out the truth about her father.
Fair Helen : a veritable account of 'Fair Helen of Kirkconnel Lea' scrieved by Harry Langton, Andrew Greig.
Scottish Borderlands in the 1590s and the story of the Border Ballad Fair Helen of Kirkconnel Lea, a tale of dark romance and adventure.
The phoenix, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles.
Latest in the Morland Dynasty, this one taking place in 1931.
Rebellious heart, Jody Hedlund.
1763 and minister's daughter wants an education denied her in the environment she inhabits.
Lighthouse Island, Paulette Jiles.
On a hot, dry day a four-year old girl named Raisa was taken out into a busy street by her parents and abandoned. As young Raisa is passed among orphanages and foster families, she is renamed Nadia Stepan and learns to don new personas as needed.
Lady of Milkweed Manor, Julie Klassen.
When Charlotte Lamb, a fallen vicar's daughter, tries to hide away in London's grim Milkweed Manor, she is mortified to find herself in the care of a former suitor whom her father long ago rejected as unsuitable, but both are determined with God's help to protect those they love.
The secret daughter of the Tsar, Jennifer Laam.
An alternate history of the Romanov family in which a secret fifth daughter - smuggled out of Russia before the Revolution - continues the royal lineage. Promising debut in historical fiction.
Shades of deceit, Mary Larkin.
Belfast in the 1920s and Louise is left to look after her siblings when her mother walks out and her father takes to drink.
The truth about you, Susan Lewis.
Lainey Hollingsworth is the anchor in her home. In addition to managing her husband's writing career, she oversees the daily operations of a chaotic family: a rebellious teenage daughter, a stepson who blames her for ruining his life, and an adoptive father afflicted with Alzheimer's. Lainey always had a volatile relationship with her mother, who never revealed the truth about Lainey's biological father, or the reason she fled Italy for England when Lainey was an infant.
Odysseus : the oath, Valerio Massimo Manfredi
Book 1 in a 2 volume series about war, courage and heroism, from a small rocky island in Greece to the fall of Troy.
Nostalgia, Dennis McFarland.
1864 and a 19 year old New Yorker joins the fighting and is abandoned by his comrades during the Wilderness Campaign. At a military hospital, Walt Whitman becomes his advocate.
The winter sea, Di Morrissey.
Escaping an unhappy marriage and an unsatisfactory job, Cassie Holloway moves to the little NSW coastal town of Whitby Point. Here she meets the Aquino family, whose fishing business was founded by their ancestor, Giuseppe, an immigrant Italian, some ninety years before.
The proposal, Tasmina Perry.
A glossy saga that moves from the dazzling days of the debutantes in 1950s London to glamorous modern Manhattan.
The miner's lady, Tracie Peterson.
When Chantel's sister falls in love with a sworn enemy in their 1890s iron-mining community, will Chantel's attempts to aid the couple result in a romance of her own?
The web and the wing, Teresa Raftery.
Set in the aftermath of World War I, a time of unrest and social change, opening on Armistice Day in a Lancashire village and ending at the mansion of an aristocrat, Christmas, 1930.
An untamed heart, Lauraine Snelling.
After the loss of her first love, is Ingeborg Strand willing to marry a stranger, however kind, for the promise of a new life in America?
Augustus, John Williams
By the author of Stoner, the surprise international bestseller. After the brutal murder of his great-uncle, Julius Caesar, Octavian, a shy and scholarly youth of nineteen, suddenly finds himself heir to the vast power of Rome. He is destined, despite vicious power struggles, bloody wars and family strife, to transform his realm and become the greatest ruler the western world has ever seen.

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror

Jupiter war : an owner novel, Neal Asher.
Concludes this high-octane space opera series.
The necromancer's house, Christopher Buehlman.
Andrew Blankenship and Anneke Zautke, companions in witchcraft and Alcoholics Anonymous, are pitted against Russian ogress Baba Yaga, whose son, Misha, falls prey to mischievous water sprite Nadia, a friend (of sorts) of Andrew.
The last dark, Stephen Donaldson.
The bestselling fantasy series from one of the biggest names in the genre comes to a conclusion. This is the final volume of the epic Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.
Reunion, Jennifer Fallon.
Ren of the Undivided and his half-Faerie companion Trasa must find a way to stop the Matrachai, who want to eliminate every magical race in existence. Only the Undivided hold the key to stopping them, and even the Faerie Brethren have turned to Ren for assistance.
1636 : the devil's opera, Eric Flint, David Carrico.
Latest in the Ring of Fire series has the citizens of Grantville, West Virginia, take on a murderous conspiracy in Magedburg, capital of the United States of Europe.
Heaven's fall, David S. Goyer and Michael Cassutt.
Conclusion to this near-future trilogy sees humanity facing its greatest challenge.
The Cusanus game, Wolfgang Jeschke
2052 and the world is collapsing after a nuclear disaster in Germany and a botanist is given a task that just might save humanity.
Doctor Sleep : a novel, Stephen King.
King says he wanted to know what happened to Danny Torrance, the boy at the heart of The Shining, after his terrible experience in the Overlook Hotel. The instantly riveting Doctor Sleep picks up the story of the now middle-aged Dan, working at a hospice in rural New Hampshire, and the very special twelve-year old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals.
Bastion, Mercedes Lackey.
Mags travels to the Bastion in search of who his parents were and a possible explanation about why he is being pursued by Valdemar's enemies in the fifth and final volume of this fantasy series.
The shadow lamp, Stephen R. Lawhead.
Latest in the fantasy Christian series, "Bright Empires."
The one-eyed man : a fugue, with winds and accompaniment, L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
A colony world, Stittata, is a planet that is the source of drugs that double the human life span but its ecological balance is fragile.
Drakenfeld, Mark Charan Newton.
First book in a new fantasy crime series, inspired by Ancient Rome.
Raising steam, Terry Pratchett.
Change is afoot in Ankh-Morpork. The Discworld's first steam engine has arrived, and once again Moist von Lipwig finds himself with a new and challenging job.
The wolves of midwinter, Anne Rice.
Continues from "The wolf gift" with the story of Reuben Golding, the transformed Man Wolf.
The heavens rise, Christopher Rice.
It's been a decade since the Delongpre family vanished near Bayou Rabineaux, and still no one can explain the events of that dark and sweltering night. No one except Niquette Delongpre, the survivor who ran away from the mangled stretch of guardrail on Highway 22 where the impossible occurred, and kept on running.
The path of anger, Antoine Rouaud
Fantasy thriller debut, translated from the French, in the "Game of Thrones" style. About a disillusioned warrior and an historian who is searching for the last emperor's sword.
Archangel's legion : a Guild Hunter novel, Nalini Singh.
Angels are falling from the sky in New York, struck down by a vicious, unknown force. Vampires are dying impossibly of disease. Guild hunter Elena Deveraux and the Archangel Raphael must discover the source of the wave of death before it engulfs their city and their people.
Two fronts, Harry Turtledove.
1942. The civil war in Spain drags on, even after General Franco's death. The United States, still neutral in Europe, fights the Japanese in the Pacific. Russia and Germany go toe-to-toe in Eastern Europe, yet while Hitler stares east, not everything behind him is going as well as he would like.