Recreation

New Titles Fiction January 2014 (arrived in December 2013)

Adventure

Solo, William Boyd.
1969. A veteran secret agent. A single mission. A licence to kill. James Bond returns. Boyd is the latest big name author to have a go at an Ian Fleming novel.
Command authority, Tom Clancy with Mark Greaney.
The master of the technothriller returns with his All-Star team. There's a new strong man in Russia but his rise to power is based on a dark secret hidden decades in the past. The clue to the mystery lies with a most unexpected source, President Jack Ryan.
The Maharajah's general, Paul Fraser Collard.
Tale of battle and adventure in a brutal land, where loyalty and courage are constantly challenged and the enemy is never far away. Jack Lark barely survived the Battle of the Alma. As the brutal fight raged, he discovered the true duty that came with the officer's commission he'd taken. In hospital, wounded, and with his stolen life left lying on the battlefield, he grasps a chance to prove himself a leader once more
Going dark, James W. Hall.
Florida private investigator Daniel Thorn is worried when he learns that his recently discovered son, Flynn Moss, has innocently become involved with Earth Liberation Front (ELF), a radical environmental group responsible for arson and considered a top terrorist threat by the FBI.
Rasputin's shadow, Raymond Khoury.
Adventure thriller/historical with Rasputin, trusted confidant of the Russian Tsar, blowing up a mine in The Urals and, years later, an FBI agent linking this to CIA mindcontrols and the search for a device which could have a devastating impact on the modern world.
Robert Ludlum's the Bourne retribution : a new Jason Bourne novel, Eric Van Lustbader.
When Director Yadin learns of a mysterious connection between Ouyang Jidan, a senior member of China's Politburo, and a recently deceased Mexican drug lord, he asks Jason Bourne to investigate.
Hunt the falcon, Don Mann with Ralph Pezzullo.
SEAL Team Six and Thomas Crocker are back hunting their most elusive adversary yet: The Falcon, an Iranian terrorist who has been stealing Libyan nuclear material.
The Loch Ness legacy, Boyd Morrison.
1827 During a research trip to Loch Ness, Scotland, a young Charles Darwin encounters a mysterious and terrifying creature that provides the spark for his evolutionary theory. 2013 Almost two hundred years later, and hundreds of miles away in Paris, the Eiffel Tower is under attack. It's all linked.
The prey, Tony Park.
South Africa and a group of illegal miners kidnap a worker from the mining company and the race is on to save the kidnapped man.
White fire, Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child.
Special Agent Pendergast takes on old money and even older secrets with literary help from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Caribbee, Julian Stockwin.
The latest Thomas Kydd story has Kyd on a dangerous game of espionage, seamanship and action to thwart danger to the Empire.

American Fiction

The first phone call from heaven, Mitch Albom.
The story of a small town on Lake Michigan that gets worldwide attention when its citizens start receiving phone calls from the afterlife. Is it the greatest miracle ever or a massive hoax? Sully Harding, a grief-stricken single father, is determined to find out.
Traveling sprinkler, Nicholson Baker.
An accomplished near 55-year old poet, Paul Chowder, tries his hand at songwriting, Quaker meetings, and tobacco experiments while he copes with turning 55 and his ex-girlfriend's new relationship with a local NPR radio host.
Once we were brothers, Ronald H. Balson.
Debut novel by Chicago attorney. A Grisham like tale about a young female lawyer and two boys from opposing sides in World War II who meet again sixty years later.
A permanent member of the family, Russell Banks.
A collection of twelve short works that portrays contemporary American family life visits morally complex themes in a fractured nation of inhabitants searching for connection and understanding.
The Paris architect, Charles Belfoure.
In 1942 Paris, an architect is asked to design a secret hiding place for a rich Jewish woman. Things turn out to go in a different way than was expected.
The Circle, Dave Eggers.
Young woman joins a California internet firm with an obvious resemblance to Google in this satire on how we live now.
The all-girl filling station's last reunion, Fannie Flagg.
Spanning decades, generations, and America in the 1940s and today, this novel is a fun-loving mystery about an Alabama woman today, and five women who in 1943 worked in a Phillips 66 gas station, during the WWII years. From the author of "Fried green tomatoes."
Reunion, Therese Fowler.
The envy of women across the country, successful and wealthy talk-show host Blue Reynolds is secretly lonely, but when an unexpected reunion with the love of her life, Mitch, gives Blue the opportunity to redeem her past, she seizes her chance at love.
Someone else's love story, Joshilyn Jackson.
A love story that begins with a holdup at a petrol station minimart where a young man stands between a gunman and a college student's three year old son.
Fifteen minutes, Karen Kingsbury.
Just as Zack Dylan is on the verge of winning it all on the popular TV show Fifteen Minutes, his choices lead him to the brink of personal disaster. Meanwhile, a former Fifteen Minutes winner is searching for meaning amidst her own private losses.
Want not, Jonathan Miles.
On Thanksgiving Day a freegan couple living off the grid in Manhattan, a once prominent linguist struggling with midlife, and a New Jersey debt-collection magnate with a second chance at getting things right randomly and briefly collide as the weight of their desires ultimately undoes each of them, leaving them to pick up the pieces from what's left behind. From the author of the much praised "Dear American Airlines."
Bellman & Black, Diane Setterfield.
Killing a bird with his slingshot as a boy, William Bellman grows up a wealthy family man unaware of how his act of childhood cruelty will have terrible consequences until a wrenching tragedy compels him to enter into a macabre bargain with a stranger in black. From the author of the bestseller "The thirteenth tale."
Bellagrand, Paullina Simons.
They gave up everything to be together, but love was just the beginning ? Italian immigrant Gina, independent, compassionate and strong, desperately wants a family. Boston blue-blood Harry, idealistic and political, wants to create a better world. Bound together by tormented passion, they rail, rage, and break each other's hearts, only to come face to face with a stark final choice that will forever determine their destiny.
Death of the black-haired girl, Robert Stone.
Strong tale of the effects of infidelity where a brilliant college student has an affair with her English advisor whose wife is expecting their first child.
The Supreme Macaroni Company, Adriana Trigiani.
When a secret about her business partner and lover is revealed during her family's celebration of The Feast of the Seven Fishes, Valentine Roncalli must make life-altering choices as she fights for everything she wants while sustaining her family's business and enjoying life to the fullest. Heartwarming tale of love and work set in New York and Italy.

Australian fiction

Golden boy : the Albert Speer story, Paula Astridge.
Albert Speer was one of the most brilliant and controversial men of the Twentieth Century. Although he was Adolf Hitler's favourite for many years, Speer refused to share in his suicide and was condemned to twenty years in Spandau Prison.
Don't know what you've got until it's gone, Gemma Crisp
A look inside the bitchy gossipy world of weekly magazine publishing.
The rumour mill, Roxy Jacenko.
Fashion week meltdown, client tantrums, motherhood and romance. The author is a well-known Aussie fashion PR person.
Poppy's dilemma, Karly Lane.
Poppy discovers her grandmother's diary and is drawn back to the country home where she finds romance.
The vale girl, Nelika McDonald.
Fourteen-year-old Sarah Vale has gone missing in the small town of Banville. She's the daughter of the town prostitute so no one seems particularly concerned. No one cares except Tommy Johns, who loves Sarah Vale with all the unadulterated, tentative passion of a teenage boy. A first novel that has had rave reviews.
A lifetime on clouds, Gerald Murnane
Adrian Sherd is a teenage boy in Melbourne of the 1950s the last years before television and the family car changed suburbia forever. Earnest and isolated, tormented by his hormones and his religious devotion, Adrian dreams of American film stars, and of marrying his sweetheart and fathering eleven children by her. A likeable touching and funny account of growing up in Australia.
No place like home, Caroline Overington.
A thought-provoking and heart-rending story, that reaches from the heart of Bondi to a small village in Tanzania. Shortly after 9:30 in the morning, a young man walks into Surf City, Bondi's newest shopping complex. He's wearing a dark grey hoodie and a bomb around his neck. Just a few minutes later he is locked in a shop on the upper floor. And trapped with him are four innocent bystanders.
Barracuda, Christos Tsiolkas.
From the author of "The slap" comes a tale of a boy's desperation to win Olympic gold.

British Fiction

The story : love, loss & the lives of women : 100 great short stories, Chosen by Victoria Hislop
100 short stories written by women, selected and introduced by one of the nation's favourite novelists.
Fractured, Dani Atkins.
Described as a "high concept" love story. About a woman who's given a second chance after an accident yet can't escape the memory of the different life before the accident.
Christmas at Rosie Hopkins' sweet shop, Jenny Colgan.
Standalone sequel with Rosie looking forward to Christmas when tragedy strikes at the heart of the community.
Jeeves and the wedding bells : a homage to P.G. Wodehouse, Sebastian Faulks.
Authorised by the Wodehouse estate, a tale of Jeeves and Wooster, chaos, cricket, cocktails and wedding bells. Reviews have been mixed.
All change, Elizabeth Jane Howard.
The Cazalet Chronicles continues into the 1950s in the fifth book in the series.
Summer at the lake, Erica James.
A glamour wedding at Lake Como where a woman watches her true love marry someone else.
A sixpenny song, Jennifer Johnston.
Annie is glad her domineering father is dead and shocked to discover he's left her the house she always hated and where her mother died.
The flavours of love, Dorothy Koomson.
Story of Saffron Mackleroy. 18 months ago her husband was murdered and the killer was never found, Saffron is now trying to deal with her grief as well as keep working to keep a roof over her family's heads and if that wasn't enough she is then called into her 14 year old daughters school to be dealt another hand of devastating news. Trying to deal with all of this alone is more than a little challenging and so the last thing she needs is letters from the killer. Can Saffron protect her family or have things gone too far?
A girl is a half-formed thing, Eimear McBride.
Debut novel which tells the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumour. A novel initially rejected by publishers that went on to become a major prizewinner with rave reviews.
The school inspector calls!, Gervase Phinn.
Head teacher Elizabeth Devine has her work cut out for her as secrets and revelations occur in the third book of the Little Village School series.
Clover's child, Amanda Prowse.
A story of love, lies and loss from the author of the bestseller "What have I done."
Marriage material, Sathnam Sanghera.
A push or kick of the door triggers something which is more grating car alarm than charming shop bell. To Arjan Banga, returning to the Black Country after the unexpected death of his father, his family's corner shop represents everything he has tried to leave behind - a lethargic pace of life, insular rituals and ways of thinking. Author is a prizewinning British journalist.
The crooked maid, Dan Vyleta.
A story of guilt and redemption in 1948 Vienna as people try to rebuild their lives in a ruined city.

Fantasy

S, Conceived by J.J. Abrams ; Written by Doug Dorst.
A young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story and by its mysterious author. She responds with notes of her own, leaving the book for the stranger, and so goes this extraordinary book. It's not like your average book but do give it a go. Abrams is the movie director and producer and Dorst is an American novelist and short story writer.
Harbinger, Philippa Ballantine.
Latest from the Kiwi fantasy writer.
Masks, E. C. Blake.
The launch of an epic fantasy series set in a remote land where music is a tangible resource manipulated by a select few.
Monsters of the Earth, David Drake.
Third in his Monsters of the Earth fantasy series.
The scarlet tides, David Hair.
YA fantasy writer's first adult novel has, war, magic and treachery in a similar vein to the work of George R.R. Martin and Robert Jordan.
Dead set, Richard Kadrey.
Eerie standalone fantasy in which a young girl is caught between the worlds of the living and the dead.
The language of dying, Sarah Pinborough.
"A beautiful story, honestly told" says Neil Gaiman of this tale of a woman sitting at her father's dying bedside.
She who waits, Daniel Polansky.
Low Town: the worst city in the 13 Lands. 3rd in series of crime/fantasy mix. Described as Tarantino meets the ghost of Tolkien (which would have really surprised Tolkien!)
Something more than night, Ian Tregillis.
A Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler-inspired murder mystery set in Thomas Aquinas's vision of Heaven. A noir detective story starring fallen angels, the heavenly choir, nightclub stigmatics, a priest with a dirty secret, a femme fatale, not to mention the Voice of God!
Possession, J.R. Ward.
When Cait Douglass resolves to get over her broken heart, throw off her inhibitions, and start really living, shes unprepared for the two sensual men who cross her path. Torn between them, she doesn't know which to choose or what kind of dire consequences could follow.
The winter warrior : a novel of medieval England, James Wilde.
The Battle of Hastings has been lost and the iron fist of William the Bastard has begun to squeeze the life out of England, but there is one who still stands against the foreign invasion - Hereward, The Winter Warrior.
The land across, Gene Wolfe.
American travel guide writer goes to small Eastern European country where he is detained. Mix of fantasy and thriller.

Graphic Novel

Batman Incorporated. Volume 2, Gotham's most wanted, Grant Morrison
Green Lantern. Rise of the third army, Geoff Johns
The universe is in shambles and the Guardians are the cause. Their mysterious Third Army has risen across the cosmos like a plague, destroying everything in its path and Hal Jordan and Sinestro are nowhere to be found. It is up to wrongfully accused Simon Baz to clear his name and become the hero that the Corps needs in order to get to the bottom of Hal and Sinestro's disappearance and the Rise of the Third Army!
Fatale. Book three, West of hell, Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips
The dark days of the Great Depression, ancient secrets of the Middle Ages, haunted plains of the old West, and bombed out ruins of World War Two. The third book of the hit series Fatale features four interlinked stories of horror and noir, each one a puzzle piece in the mystery of the Femme Fatale.
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 unwritten. Tommy Taylor and the ship that sank twice, Mike Carey
Tom Taylor has lived his life being mistaken for Tommy Taylor, the boy wizard from the world-famous series of novels penned by Tom's long-lost father Wilson. However, after a series of strange events start to parallel the lives of both Taylors--fictional and real--Tom realizes that he might be the character on page made flesh.
The amazing, enlightening and absolutely true adventures of Katherine Whaley, Kim Deitch
Story of a girl, born at the beginning of the 20th century. She grows up in a small river town in upstate New York. One day the mysterious Charles Varnay, an eccentric who dresses in the style of an 18th century dandy, comes to town, his sole companion a remarkably intelligent dog named Rousseau.
Robert Jordan's The wheel of time. The eye of the world. Volume 4, Robert Jordan ; adapted by Chuck Dixon
Robert Jordan's The wheel of time. The eye of the world. Volume three, Robert Jordan
Robert Jordan's The wheel of time. The eye of the world. Volume two, Robert Jordan ; adapted by Chuck Dixon ; artwork by Andie Tong
Avengers. Endless wartime, Warren Ellis,
The first in a series of all-new comic stories published directly in book form.
Tales of the Batman, Archie Goodwin
For the first time, the Batman stories from legendary comics writer Archie Goodwin are collected together.
Sankarea. 2, Mitsuru Hattori
Sankarea. 3, Mitsuru Hattori
Love and rockets : new stories. No. 6, The Hernandez Brothers.
Killer has discovered that her great-grandmother Maria (Luba's mother) starred in a late 1950s crime movie, and begins to delve into the details of her family's twisted history.
East of West. [1, The promise], Jonathan Hickman
This is the world. It is not the one we wanted, but it is the one we deserved. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse roam the Earth, signaling the End Times for humanity, and our best hope for life lies in death.
The Manhattan Projects. 3, Jonathan Hickman
What if the research and development department created to produce the first atomic bomb was a front for a series of other, more unusual, programs?
Attack on Titan. 6, Hajime Isayama
Attack on Titan. 7, Hajime Isayama
Attack on Titan. 8, Hajime Isayama
Lost cat, Jason
Both a playful take on the classic detective story, and a story about how difficult it is to find a sister spirit, someone you feel a real connection to - and what do you do if you lose that person?
The walking dead. Volume 19, March to war, Robert Kirkman
While Rick takes the group to the Kingdom, Negan takes the opportunity to start a war.
Fever moon : a graphic novel, Karen Marie Moning
In graphic novel format, follows MacKayla's rescue from the Fear Dorcha by the dreamy-eyed bartender, an event that prompts an extraordinary adventure for young sidhe-seer Dani.
Blue is the warmest color, Julie Maroh
Blue is the Warmest Color is a graphic novel about growing up, falling in love, and coming out. The film version did well at Cannes this year.
Red Lanterns. Volume 3, The second prophecy, Peter Milligan, Geoff Johns
The sacred blacksmith. 3, Kotaro Yamada ; story by Isao Miura
Batman, Incorporated. Volume 1, Demon Star, Grant Morrison
The battle between Batman Incorporated and Talia al Ghul's Leviathan comes to Gotham, putting Robin and Batman's son Damian in the crosshairs.
Demon love spell. 4, Mayu Shinjo
Demon love spell. 5, Mayu Shinjo
Sin titulo, Cameron Stewart.
Following the death of his grandfather, Alex Mackay discovers an enigmatic photograph of the old man smiling happily with an unknown and alluring young woman. Could his grandfather whom Alex remembers as a sad and broken soul, longing for death have been leading a double life?
Judge. 2, Yoshiki Tonogai
The second in the series where a group of strangers are kidnapped and have to decide who among them will live or die.

Horror

Innocence, Dean Koontz.
Supernatural thriller about a man who lives solitary beneath a city and makes his way into the city library where a meets a woman who is a loner like himself.
Johnny Alucard : anno Dracula 1976-1991, Kim Newman.
The latest in his clever horror fantasy "Anno Dracula" series. Set in 1976 where vampire reporter Kate Reed is on the set of Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula movie.

Mystery

The family way, Rhys Bowen.
Molly Murphy now Molly Sullivan is a year into her marriage, expecting her first child, and confined to the life of a housewife. She's restless and irritable in the enforced idleness of pregnancy and the heat of a New York summer in 1905. So when a trip to the post office brings a letter addressed to her old detective agency asking her to locate a missing Irish serving maid, Molly figures it couldn't hurt to at least ask around.
The discourtesy of death, William Brodrick.
Brother Anselm has to leave the sanctuary of Larkwood when an anonymous letter alerts him to a death that may have been murder.
Broken dolls, James Carol.
First in a series featuring a criminal profiler who is the son of a serial killer.
Silent kill, Peter Corris.
Politics, murder and sex push Cliff Hardy to the limit in his latest case.
Kill and tell, Adam Creed.
East End gangs and battling immigrants collide in an edgy thriller from a series that has been called London's answer to "The wire."
Never laugh as a hearse goes by, Elizabeth J. Duncan.
The fifth in this amiable Welsh series has spa owner and amateur sleuth Penny Brannigan investigating murder at a clerical conference in North Wales.
Takedown twenty, Janet Evanovich.
New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum knows better than to mess with family. But when powerful mobster Salvatore "Uncle Sunny" Sunucchi goes on the lam in Trenton, it's up to Stephanie to find him.
An old betrayal, Charles Finch.
Latest in this engaging Victorian mystery series is about a case of mistaken identity with Charles Lennox guarding the safety of Queen Victoria.
Nowhere nice, Rick Gavin.
Black comedy thriller set in Mississippi about lowlifes on the run and a wacky chase through the Mississippi Delta.
Gentleman formerly dressed, Sulari Gentill.
The latest in the series featuring Rowland Sinclair, a young artist and gentleman from a wealthy family, and reluctant amateur sleuth, in 1930s Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The case of the love commandos, Tarquin Hall.
4th outing for Delhi detective Vish Puri sees him navigating caste politics in a contemporary Romeo and Juliet type story.
The hunter and other stories, Dashiell Hammett
An anthology of eighteen short stories includes a number of previously unpublished pieces as well as early screen treatments for "On the Make" and "The Kiss-Off."
Spider woman's daughter, Anne Hillerman.
Navajo Nation Police Officer Bernadette Manualito witnesses the cold-blooded shooting of someone very close to her. With the victim fighting for his life, the entire squad and the local FBI office are hell-bent on catching the gunman. Bernie, too, wants in on the investigation, despite regulations forbidding eyewitness involvement. Author is the daughter of crime novelist Tony Hillerman.
Touching distance, Graham Hurley.
Three unrelated random killings may be the work of a sniper/serial killer terrorising the quiet Devon countryside.
The preacher, Sander Jakobsen.
Debut by a Danish writing duo. Tale of female detective and two murders which may be related.
Death of a nightingale, Lene Kaaberbol & Agnete Friis
Protecting the young daughter of an illegal immigrant who has escaped police custody in the aftermath of a brutal murder, Danish Red Cross nurse Nina Borg struggles with a belief in the woman's innocence as she learns more about her violent past.
Until death, Ali Knight.
Psychological crime story about a suffocating marriage with a manipulative husband. Described as a Hitchcockian suspense tale.
Tamarack County, William Kent Krueger.
Faced with a series of dark occurrences that are linked to a twenty-year-old murder, private investigator Cork O' Connor must stop a vengeful force before his family and friends pay the ultimate price.
Night train to Jamalpur, Andrew Martin.
India 1923 and a man is killed on the night mail train from Calcutta to Jamalpur as Detective Inspector Jim Stringer is asleep in the next compartment.
Taking the fall, A.P. McCoy.
Another jockey follows in Dick Francis's footsteps (or hoofprints) with the tale of a promising young rider whose difficult relationship with his trainer father leads to trouble.
Sins of the flesh, Colleen McCullough.
It's August 1969 in the sleepy college town of Holloman, Connecticut, and police Captain Carmine Delmonico is away on vacation. Back at home, first one, then two anonymous male corpses turn up emaciated and emasculated. Sergeant Delia Carstairs and Lieutenant Abe Goldberg connect the victims to four other bodies, and suddenly they realise Holloman has a psychopathic killer on the loose.
Hurt, Brian McGilloway.
Late December. A sixteen-year-old girl is found dead on a train line. Detective Sergeant Lucy Black is called to identify the body. The only clues to the dead teenager's last movements are stored in her mobile phone and on social media and it soon becomes clear that her 'friends' were not as trustworthy as she thought.
Eye contact, Fergus McNeill.
Robert Naysmith is a successful businessman playing a deadly game. He's a serial killer, but his motive isn't money, anger or sex. He doesn't even choose his victims. Each is selected randomly the first person to make eye contact after he begins 'the game' will be unlucky.
The stolen ones, Richard Montanari.
Destroyed by fire years ago, the infamous Philadelphia State Hospital was known as a warehouse for the criminally insane. But one man never left. By night Luther walks Philadelphia's backstreets, drawing to him the mad, the corrupt, the fallen. By day he roams the catacombs beneath the city, killing his prey.
Cockroaches, Jo Nesbo
Harry Hole's second case, only now translated into English.
The late scholar, Jill Paton Walsh.
New mystery features Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane set in an Oxford college in the 1950s.
Murder at Maddleskirk Abbey, Nicholas Rhea.
Constable Nick of Aidensfield and the case of the boy found in a crypt.
Watch your back, Karen Rose.
Homicide cop pregnant when her husband and son shot in a robbery. Years later she receives a letter from the man imprisoned for the crime.
The half-child, Angela Savage.
Expat private investigator Jayne Keeney is a fiesty thirty-something Aussie who has been living in Bangkok for many years. She has been hired to investigate the alleged suicide of a young Australian woman in a seedy Thai coastal town.
The good boy, Theresa Schwegel.
A thriller about a boy with a policeman father on the bad streets of New York.
The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon, Alexander McCall Smith.
Mma Ramotswe is asked to help a Beauty Salon proprietor who is being harassed by someone who wants her salon out of business.
Through the evil days, Julia Spencer-Fleming.
Latest case for Episcopal priest Clare Ferguson and her Police Chief husband.
The dark angel, Dominique Sylvain
Big bestseller in France. Two mismatched amateur sleuths - a female retired police commissioner and a masseuse/stripper - set out to track down a murder.

New Zealand Fiction

I'm working on a building, Pip Adam.
The near future and an exact replica of Dubai's tower - the world's tallest - is being built on the West Coast.
When this war is over, Elaine Blick.
Rhoda Pritchard, 19 years old, has moved from Bath to Salisbury, where she becomes a nurse in a small private psychiatric hospital. There are two men in Rhoda's life, Harold, a struggling artist, and Lawrence, a suave and handsome man. When Harold goes abroad to assist his missionary parents, friends advise Rhoda to forget him and take Lawrence who is available. Which one will she choose?
Jam sandwiches, Greg Fowler.
Abandoned at hospital as a new born when his mother discovered he had Down Syndrome; all but imprisoned in his bedroom by a resentful grandmother, Eddy Sullivan had every right to believe the world was a cruel and unforgiving place. But Eddy wasn't made that way. Using his solitary connection with the real world, his bedroom windows, Eddy not only manages to communicate with those about him, he touches them in ways they could never have imagined.
Between my father and the king : new and uncollected stories, Janet Frame.
This brand new collection of 28 short stories by Janet Frame spans the length of her career and contains some of the best she wrote. None of these stories has been published in a collection before, and more than half are published for the first time in Between My Father and the King.
Wake, Elizabeth Knox.
One spring morning a Tasman Bay settlement is overwhelmed by a strange mass insanity and a handful of people are cut off from the world and struggle to survive in eve more difficult circumstances.
Once a grunt, Mike Ledingham.
An offbeat collection of 10 short stories loosely based on Mike Ledingham's experiences in the NZ army (Infantry and SAS) and beyond.
The road from midnight, Wendyl Nissen.
The story of magazine editor Jane Cunningham who has it all: a gorgeous, younger celebrity husband, a glamorous, fulfilling career and a beautiful, healthy daughter. But on the overnight train from Paris to Venice her five-year-old daughter Charlotte, goes missing.
The wind city, Summer Wigmore.
Wellington. The wind city. New Zealand's home of art and culture, but darker forces, forgotten forces, are starting to reappear. Aotearoa's displaced iwi atua, the patupaiarehe, taniwha, and ponaturi of legend, have decided to make Wellington their home, and while some have come looking for love, others have arrived in search of blood. Fantasy Kiwi style.

Romance

Her firefighter under the mistletoe, Scarlet Wilson.
A Cadence Creek Christmas, Donna Alward.
How to resist temptation, Amy Andrews.
Christmas Eve delivery, Connie Cox.
A scandal in the headlines, Caitlin Crews.
What the bride didn't know, Kelly Hunter.
His until midnight, Nikki Logan.
Bundle of trouble, Fiona Lowe.
The consequences of that night, Jennie Lucas.
A little bit of holiday magic, Melissa McClone.
Never gamble with a Caffarelli, Melanie Milburne.
Million dollar Christmas proposal, Lucy Monroe.
The one she was warned about, Shoma Narayanan.
Mistletoe not required, Anne Oliver.
A touch of temptation, Tara Pammi.
Visconti's forgotten heir, Elizabeth Power.
A spear of summer grass, Deanna Raybourn.
Secrets of a powerful man, Chantelle Shaw.
Proposal at the Lazy S Ranch, Patricia Thayer.
Marry me under the mistletoe, Rebecca Winters.

Saga & Historical

Knights of the hawk, James Aitcheson.
Third in Conquest series sees Tancred travelling from East Anglia marshes into the wild north in search of his love Oswynn who's been captured by a Danish warlord.
The Boleyn deceit : a novel, Laura Andersen.
Sequel to "The Boleyn king" which imagines Anne Boleyn had a baby who became King.
The lost duchess, Jenny Barden.
Emme Fitfield has fallen about as far as a gentlewoman can. Once a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth, her only hope of surviving the scandal that threatens to engulf her is to escape England for a fresh start in the New World, where nobody has ever heard of the Duchess of Somerset.
Dancing in the moonlight, Rita Bradshaw.
Lucy Farrow has had a tough life looking after her brothers and sisters after their mother dies. She falls for the boy next door but his brother has other ideas.
All the things you are, Clemency Burton-Hill.
High flying journalist loses her job and her relationship, moves back in with her parents and takes steps to make a new life that will take her back to Jerusalem and conflict with her parents.
A loving family, Dilly Court.
When Stella's father is lost at sea she is forced to work as a kitchen maid in a country house far from her home, leaving her family behind in London's docklands.
The far side of the sun, Kate Furnivall.
With beautiful blue skies, sandy beaches and glorious sunshine, the Bahamas is a slice of heaven. But in 1943, the world is at war and even paradise isn't safe. Twenty-two-year-old Dodie Wyatt thought she had escaped her turbulent past, then one night her peace is shattered when she chooses to help a man she finds stabbed in an alleyway.
A mother's shame, Rosie Goodwin.
Story of a forbidding dark abbey named Hatters Hall where a young woman is called to care for the daughter of an influential land owner.
Hild, Nicola Griffith.
A lush sweeping historical novel about the rise of the most powerful woman of the Middle Ages.
A Liverpool song, Ruth Hamilton.
Letting go of the past to grasp the future... Andrew Sanderson, brilliant surgeon and renowned musician, is still grieving the death of his beloved wife Mary when his younger daughter turns up on the doorstep having left her wealthy and philandering husband. It's not long before the house is overrun with daughters, grandchildren, sons-in-law and a boisterous stray dog called Storm.
Stormbird, Conn Iggulden.
The first of his War of the Roses series has a frail Henry VI acceding the throne and marrying the indomitable Margaret of Anjou.
The English girl, Margaret Leroy.
17 year old girl leaves to study in Vienna and moves about in fashionable society then falls for a young Jewish doctor as war threatens.
Freud's mistress, Karen Mack & Jennifer Kaufman.
A tale inspired by the affair between Sigmund Freud and his sister-in-law depicts the struggles of Minna Bernays, an educated woman uninterested in conventional women's roles who becomes fascinated with her brother-in-law's pioneering theories.
Ace, king, knave, Maria McCann.
Two very different sisters are deceived and attempt to find the truth in a dangerous journey through the streets of 1760s London.
The tailor's girl, Fiona McIntosh.
A humble soldier, known only as 'Jones', wakes in hospital with no recollection of his past. The few fleeting fragments of memory he glimpses are horrifying moments from the battlefield at Ypres. His very identity becomes a puzzle he must solve. Then Eden Valentine comes gliding into his world, a stunning tailoress who has a dream of her own business in high fashion but whose duty to her family may never permit her to fulfil.
Elianne, Judy Nunn.
Story of wealth, power, privilege and betrayal on a grand sugar cane plantation in Queensland.
Birthright, T.K. Roxborogh.
Fleance, King of Scotland, has made a political marriage to Rachel, the sister of dead King Duncan. It may seem that happiness is not far around the corner with a royal baby expected, but things are far from peaceful in the realm. Sequel to "Bloodlines" from N.Z. historical author.
The blood crows, Simon Scarrow.
12th in the Cato series.
At break of day, Elizabeth Speller.
1913 and four young men look forward to lives full of possibility and three years later three are on the battlefield of The Somme.
The new countess, Fay Weldon.
1903 and the Dilberne family are expecting royal guests for a shooting weekend. Third in the "Love and inheritance" series.

Science Fiction

Greybeard, Brian Aldiss.
Ecological disaster has left the English countryside a wasteland. Humanity faces extinction, unless Greybeard and his wife Martha are successful in their quest for the scarcest and most precious of resources: human children.
Mars, Inc. : the billionaire's club, Ben Bova.
Hugo winner returns to his most popular subject, the quest for Mars.
The arrows of time, Greg Egan.
The final volume of the Orthogonal trilogy, with the crew of the Peerless spaceship having been in flight for six generations.
Starhawk, Jack McDevitt.
Interstellar pilot Priscilla Hutchins gets her pilot's licence and becomes involved in a life and death struggle in a world adrift between the stars.
Star wars. Kenobi, John Jackson Miller.
As tensions escalate on Tatooine between the farmers and a tribe of Sand People led by a ruthless war chief, Ben finds himself drawn into the fight, endangering the very mission that brought him to the desert planet.
The suicide exhibition, Justin Richards.
1940 and the German war machine has awoken an ancient threat and the war for Europe has begun. A genre-bending sf thriller.
Limit, Frank Schatzing
Epic sf thriller in which the depletion of Earth's fossil fuel forces humanity to tap new sources of energy on the moon.