Recreation

New Titles Fiction August 2017 (arrived in July 2017)

Adventure

The dark isle, Clare Carson.
Final part of the Sam Coyle trilogy about growing up when your father was an undercover agent.
Dragon teeth, Michael Crichton.
The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate America's western territories even as lawless gold-rush towns begin to mark the landscape. In much of the country, it is still illegal to espouse evolution. Against this backdrop, two monomaniacal paleontologists pillage the Wild West, hunting for dinosaur fossils.
Aurore, Graham Hurley.
Continues the trilogy begun with "Finisterre" about the Allied and German intelligence services during wartime.
A fine retribution, Dewey Lambdin.
Latest in the Alan Lewrie naval adventure series.
Robert Ludlum's The Bourne initiative : the new Jason Bourne adventure, Eric Van Lustbader.
Amnesiac secret agent Jason Bourne joins forces with dubious enemies when the murder of a high-ranking Russian official triggers a retaliatory plot to steal the U.S. President's nuclear launch codes.
Enemy of the good, Matthew Palmer.
Katarina "Kate" Wallander is a second-generation Foreign Service officer, recently assigned to Kyrgyzstan. She's not there by chance. Kate is a Foreign Service brat who attended high school in the region; her uncle is the U.S. ambassador to the country, and he pulled a few strings to get her assigned to his mission.
Conflicts of interest, Terry Stiastny.
Former war correspondent is persuaded to return to Africa by a friend who then goes missing. Author is a former BBC reporter.
The powder of death, Julian Stockwin.
1261. Oxford, England. An envoy returns from the land of the Tartars to meet with an English scholar and share a deadly secret that touches on the future of Christianity itself. The two men vow that the knowledge of gunpowder must die with them as the consequences are otherwise too fatal to contemplate.
Exile, James Swallow.
A vicious Serbian gang whose profits come from fake nuclear weapons. A disgraced Russian general, with access to the real thing. A vengeful Somali warlord, with a cause for which he'd let the world burn. A jaded government agency, without the information to stop him. Only one man sees what's coming. And even he might not be able to prevent it.
Use of force, Brad Thor.
When the body of a high-value terrorist washes ashore after a severe storm across the Mediterranean Sea, Scot Harvath is tapped by the CIA to determine if the suspect was connected to months of rumors about a major attack.
The final hour, Tom Wood.
Agent Antonio Alvarez has been tracking a dangerous murderer for years, a nameless hitman responsible for numerous homicides. The Agency deflected him away from his search, but he didn't give up, piecing together clues and hearsay.

American Fiction

The idiot, Elif Batuman.
Turkish/American girl goes to Harvard to become a writer in this intriguing and sometimes funny tale.
The destroyers, Christopher Bollen.
Arriving on the Greek island of Patmos broke and humiliated, Ian Bledsoe is fleeing the emotional and financial fallout from his father's death. His childhood friend Charlie, rich, exuberant, and basking in the success of his new venture on the island, could be his last hope.
The chalk artist, Allegra Goodman.
Teenager is sucked in to the alternative reality of a gaming world to the despair of his mother.
A good country : a novel, Laleh Khadivi.
Teenage son of an Iranian family is happy with his life until the Boston bombings when he finds his skin colour and parental background make him an object of suspicion.
The optimist, Sophie Kipner.
Romcom about the coming of age of a hopeless romantic.
Before we sleep, Jeffrey Lent.
Intergenerational story of a Vermont family from World War II to the 1960s.
Woman no. 17, Edan Lepucki.
Tale of art, motherhood And intense female friendships as well as people behaving badly.
'Round midnight, Laura McBride.
Moving intertwined stories of four women in Las Vegas from 1960 to the 1990s and 2010.
McGlue, Ottessa Moshfegh.
They said I've done something wrong? And they've just left me down here to starve. Haven't had a drop in days more so. Salem, Massachusetts, 1851: McGlue is in the hold, still too drunk to be sure of his name or situation or orientation he may have killed a man. That man may have been his best friend. Now, McGlue wants one thing and one thing only: a drink. Because for McGlue, insufferable, terrifying memories accompany sobriety.
The lucky ones, Julianne Pachico.
Set mostly in lush, heady Colombia but even in a jungle-like New York City, they yoke together the fates of guerrilla soldiers, rich kids, rabbits, hostages, bourgeois expats, and drug dealers.
Fly me, Daniel Riley.
A nation on the verge of a new era - and a girl caught between her past and the ever-expanding present. The year is 1972, and the beaches of Los Angeles are the centre of the world. Dropping into the embers of the drug and surf scene is Suzy Whitman, who has tossed her newly minted Vassar degree aside to follow her older sister into open skies and the borderless adventures of stewardessing for Grand Pacific Airlines.
The light we lost, Jill Santopolo.
Publishers are pushing this romantic novel that has beern described as "One day" meets "Me before you."

Australian fiction

Ache, Eliza Henry-Jones.
Story of a family and a rural community recovering from a terrible bushfire.
Gravity well, Melanie Joosten.
Lotte is an astronomer who spends her nights peering into deep space rather than looking too closely at herself and her family.
Some tests, Wayne Macauley.
It begins with the normally healthy Beth aged-care worker, wife of David, mother of Lettie and Gem feeling vaguely off-colour. A locum sends her to Dr Yi for some tests. 'There are a few things here that aren't quite right,' says Dr Yi, 'and sometimes it is these little wrongnesses that can lead us to the bigger wrongs that matter.'
In two minds, Gordon Parker.
Dr Martin Homer is a GP with a naturally sunny disposition. Honourable, attentive and trusted by all of his patients, Martin has only ever loved one woman, his wife, Sarah. When his mother dies suddenly, Martin's comfortable life is thrown into complete disarray.
Down the Hume, Peter Polites.
A noir style novel abouy addicgtion and obsession from a talented Greek-Australian author.
The gulf, Anna Spargo-Ryan.
When her mother falls for a man she meets at the supermarket, a teenage girl senses danger.

British Fiction

Greatest hits, Laura Barnett.
Celebrated British folk singer who disappeared suddenly at the height of her fame is preparing a new album which will explain why.
The summer of impossible things, Rowan Coleman.
After her mother dies a young woman meets her mother as a young woman in 1977. Can she travel back to 1977 and save her mothert's life? Described as "The time traveller's wife" for a new generation.
Learning to speak American, Colette Dartford.
Having suffered in silence since the tragic death of their young daughter, Lola and Duncan Drummond's last chance to rediscover their love for one another lies in an anniversary holiday to the gorgeous Napa Valley.
My husband the stranger, Rebecca Done.
What would you do if your husband changed overnight and became a total stranger? Not a conventional love story.
Listening in : stories, Jenny Eclair
In this addictive short story collection, twenty-four very different women reach a pivotal moment in their lives.
The pleasure of Eliza Lynch, Anne Enright.
Beautiful Irishwoman Eliza Lynch became briefly, in the 1860s, the richest woman in the world. The book opens in Paris with Eliza in bed with Francisco Solano Lopez, heir to the untold wealth of Paraguay. The fruit of their congress will be extraordinary, and will send her across the Atlantic on the regal voyage to claim her glorious future in Ascuncion.
All the good things, Clare Fisher.
Beth, 21 is in prison for an unnamed crime. Her counsellor works to help her. There has been a lot of publishing buzz on this debut novel.
The woman who met her match, Fiona Gibson.
What if your first love came back on the scene 30 years later? After yet another disaster, Lorrie is calling time on online dating. She might be single in her forties, but she's got a good job, wonderful children and she's happy. This, Lorrie decides, is going to have to be enough.
An Italian holiday, Maeve Haran.
Springtime in glorious Southern Italy can go to your head. Especially if you are escaping an overbearing husband, the embarrassingly public loss of your company, an interfering mother who still tries to run your life or the pain of a husband's affair with a girl young enough to be his daughter.
Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine, Gail Honeyman.
Debut novel about a woman living a simple life that is always predictable and what happens when her world changes and she breaks out of routine.
Peculiar ground, Lucy Hughes-Hallett.
The well known biographer has turned her hand to fiction with this accomplished ensemble tale set on a single English estate through the ages
The music shop, Rachel Joyce.
From the author of "The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry" comes the tale of a journey through music which begins with a woman walking into a record shop in 1988.
Among the lemon trees, Nadia Marks.
Middle-agedf Englishwoman spends a summer on a small Aegean island where her husband was born and discovers letters that reveal family history.
A history of running away, Paula McGrath.
1982 and a young woman wants to box but Ireland at the time has made it illegal for girls.
Reservoir 13, Jon McGregor.
Midwinter in the early years of this century. A teenage girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills at the heart of England. The villagers are called up to join the search, fanning out across the moors as the police set up roadblocks and a crowd of news reporters descends on their usually quiet home.
Conversations with friends, Sally Rooney.
There's been a lot of anticipation in the publishing world for this tale of a 21 year old student and poet.
Phone, Will Self.
His latest highly original novel deals with being British, technology and the various wars of our time.
Party girls die in pearls : an Oxford girl mystery, Plum Sykes.
Ursula Flowerbutton, a studious country girl, arrives for her first term anticipating nothing more sinister than days spent poring over history books and, perhaps, an invitation to a ball. But when she discovers a ghastly crime, she is catapulted into a murder investigation.
Missing Fay, Adam Thorpe.
14 year old girl is missing from a Lincoln council estate. The story of her last days before the disappearance is interwoven with the lives of the locals.
Seven days in summer, Marcia Willett.
Busy mum of twins Liv is looking forward to a week at the Beach Hut in Devon, even if she feels that something's not right between her and Matt. She's sure he's just too busy at work to join them on their summer holiday, not that he wants time alone.

Fantasy

Rotherweird, Andrew Caldecott
The town of Rotherweird stands alone, there are no guidebooks, despite the fascinating and diverse architectural styles cramming the narrow streets, the avant garde science and offbeat customs.
The Librarians and the Mother Goose chase, Greg Cox.
For millennia, the Librarians have secretly protected the world by keeping watch over dangerous magical relics. Cataloging and safeguarding everything from Excalibur to Pandora's Box, they stand between humanity and those who would use the relics for evil.Stories can be powerful.
Wicked wonders, Ellen Klages.
A rebellious child identifies with Maleficent instead of Sleeping Beauty. Best friends Anna and Corry share one last morning on Earth. A solitary woman inherits a penny arcade haunted by a beautiful stranger.
The found and the lost : the collected novellas, Ursula K. Le Guin.
This book represents the first time that all of Le Guin novellas have been collected in a single volume. Featuring thirteen unforgettable stories, this literary treasure is easily one of the most anticipated collections of the year. In addition to more than 800 pages of extraordinary storytelling, this book also includes an introduction from the author.
Silver silence : a Psy-changeling Trinity novel, Nalini Singh.
Godblind, Anna Stephens.
A "grimdark" fantasy debut.
The silver tide, Jen Williams.
3rd in the "Copper promise" series.

Fiction from the rest of the World

Salt houses, Hala Alyan.
Family uprooted in the wake of Six Day War in 1967 is to settle in Kuwait. A fine debut novel about family and war.
The secret Paris cinema club, Nicolas Barreau.
Alain Bonnard, the owner of a small art cinema in Paris, is a dyed-in-the-wool nostalgic. In his Cinema Paradis there are no buckets of popcorn, no XXL colas, no Hollywood blockbusters. Alain holds firm to his principles of quality to show films that bring dreams to life, make people fall in love.
As she was discovering Tigony, Olympe Bhely-Quenum
Dorcas Keurleonan-Moricet is a brilliant white geophysicist posted on assignment in Africa. She falls in love with a young African man and begins an affair with him.
Jewish mothers never die, Natalie David-Weill
French author's tale where the mothers of the most famous Jewish men in recent history meet in heaven!
A spare life, Lidija Dimkovska
Zlata and Srebra are 12-year-old twins conjoined at the head. It is 1984 and they live in Skopje, which will one day be the capital of Macedonia but is currently a part of Yugoslavia. A Spare Life tells the story of their childhood, from their only friend Roze to their neighbor Bogdan, so poor that he one day must eat his pet rabbit. Treated as freaks and outcasts even by their own family the twins just want to be normal girls. But after an incident that almost destroys their bond as sisters, they fly to London,determined to be surgically separated.
The matrimonial flirtations of Emma Kaulfield, Anna Fishbeyn.
Comedy of conflicting manners, values, and customs, set against the backdrop of a Russian immigrant family's struggle to assimilate, their newfound love of capitalism, and their insistent push for their children's tangible success.
Margherita's recipes for love, Elisabetta Flumeri & Gabriella Giacometti.
Margherita is a spirited young woman with a passion for cooking. When her heart is broken in Rome, she returns to her hometown of Roccafitta, a small Tuscan village filled with lovable eccentrics and beautiful vineyards. She dreams of saving enough money to reopen her late mother's restaurant
Gravel heart, Abdulrazak Gurnah.
Moving from revolutionary Zanzibar in the 1960s to restless London in the 1990s, this is a powerful tale of betrayal and exile from a Booker shortlisted author.
When I hit you ; or, A portrait of the writer as a young wife, Meena Kandasamy.
From one of India's boldest and most badass young voices, When I Hit You is a dazzling and provocative novel of an abusive marriage.
The rider, Tim Krabbe
At the start of the 137-kilometre Tour de Mont Aigoual, Tim Krabbe glances up from his bike to assess the crowd of spectators. 'Non-racers,' he writes. 'The emptiness of those lives shocks me.' Immediate and gripping from the first page, we race with the author as he struggles up the hills and clings on during descents in the unforgiving French mountains
Rich people problems, Kevin Kwan.
The entire Shang-Young clan has convened from all corners of the globe to stake claim on the massive fortune of Su Yi, their matriarch. With each family member vying to inherit Tyersall Park a trophy estate on 64 prime acres in the heart of Singapore Nicholas Young's childhood home turns into a hotbed of speculation and sabotage.
In every moment we are still alive, Tom Malmquist
First novel, autobiographical, a huge success in Sweden, about a man whose pregnant girlfriend is rushed to hospital with severe flu, where it's discovered she has acute leukemia.
Pieces of happiness, Anne Ostby
Recently widowed woman invites four old friends to join her on a cocoa plantation in the South Pacfic.
Dogs at the perimeter, Madeleine Thien.
One starless night Janie's childhood was swept away by the terrors of the Khmer Rouge. Exiled from Phnom Penh, Janie and her family were forced to live out in the open: cold, hungry and under constant surveillance. Caught up in a political storm which brought starvation to millions, tore families apart and changed the world forever, Janie lost everyone she loved. Now, three decades later, Janie's life in Montreal is unravelling.Impressive Canadian novel.
Gold mountain blues, Ling Zhang
A heart-breaking family saga in the epic storytelling tradition of Wild Swans chronicling the lives of five generations of a Chinese family transformed by the promise of a better life in Canada.

Fiction Selector's Choice

This is 64, Joseph Connolly.
George is a fashion mad Beatles fan, selfish and cruel. Why his girlfriend Dorothy loves him is a mystery to her and to his best friend Sammy. When George callously chucks her he cannot anticipate that his life, post 1964, will never be the same. And forty-four years later, when George is sixty-four, rich and successful, his past will catch up with him and his family.
The lie of the land, Amanda Craig.
Couple unable to afford a divorce have to move from their Kilburn townhouse to a remote part of Devon.
Splash!, Stephen Glover.
Satirical tale about a drunken tabloid hack who uncovers the political corruption story of the century.
The ministry of utmost happiness, Arundhati Roy.
From the Booker winner (for "The god of small things:) comes a novel that takes in Old Delhi, the flash malls of the big cities, the valleys of Kashmire, war, peace and more.

Graphic novel

Jojo's bizarre adventure. Part 3, Stardust crusaders. 03, Hirohiko Araki
Moonshine. Vol. 1, Brian Azzarello
Get Jiro! Blood & sushi, Anthony Bourdain and Joel Rose
Astro City. Reflections, Kurt Busiek
Herman Melville's Moby Dick, Chabout
Black Panther. A nation under our feet. Book three, Ta-Nehisi Coates
Uncomfortably happily, Yeon-sik Hong
Atomic blonde, Antony Johnston
Roughneck, Jeff Lemire.
Triggerman, Walter Hill
Blame! 4, Tsutomu Nihei
Monster : the graphic novel, Jonathan Kellerman
Boundless, Jillian Tamaki.
Suicide Squad. Vol. 2, Going sane, Rob Williams, writer
Aliens. Defiance. Volume 1, Brian Wood

Historical

The Floating Theatre, Martha Conway.
Set in 1837 where a shy seamstress works on a flatoboat that sails the Ohio River.
The night brother, Rosie Garland.
Late 19th century Manchester where two siblings live a nocturnal life, The author is a poet, performer with a post punk band.
Isadora, Amelia Gray.
Using the scaffolding of Isadora Duncan's life and spirit, Amelia Gray delivers an incredibly imaginative portrait of the artist. In 1913, the restless world sat on the brink of unimaginable suffering.
For the winner, Emily Hauser.
Retelling of the Greek legend of Atalanta who teaches herself to hunt and fight, skills giving her a place on Jason and the Argonauts search for the Golden Fleece.
Anne Boleyn : a king's obsession, Alison Weir.
An unforgettable portrait of the ambitious woman whose fate we know all too well, but whose true motivations may surprise you.

Horror

Gwendy's button box, Stephen King and Richard Chizmar.
There are three ways up to Castle View from the town of Castle Rock: Route 117, Pleasant Road, and the Suicide Stairs. Every day in the summer of 1974, twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson has taken the stairs, which are held by strong, if time-rusted, iron bolts and zig-zag up the cliffside.
Dis mem ber : and other stories of mystery and suspense, Joyce Carol Oates.
The only child, Andrew Pyper.
As a forensic psychiatrist at New York's leading institution of its kind, Dr. Lily Dominick has evaluated the mental states of some of the country's most dangerous psychotics. But the strangely compelling client she interviewed today a man with no name, accused of the most twisted crime struck her as somehow different from the others.
To hell in a hand basket, Willow Rose.
Not every grandmotherly type bakes cookies. What's more frightening than finding out that the kindly old ladies living across the street from you are anything but?
The passenger, F.R. Tallis.
1941. A German submarine, U-330, patrols the stormy inhospitable waters of the North Atlantic. Something sinister is about to occur.

Mystery

Robert B. Parker's Little white lies, Ace Atkins.
Boston PI Spenser and right hand Hawk follow a con man's trail of smoke and mirrors in the latest entry of the iconic crime series.
The dark lake, Sarah Bailey.
A beautiful young teacher has been murdered, her body found in the lake, strewn with red roses. Local policewoman Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock pushes to be assigned to the case, concealing the fact that she knew the murdered woman in high school years before.
Desperate measures, Jo Bannister.
New case for Gabrielle Ash.
Mrs Pargeter's public relations : a Mrs Pargeter mystery, Simon Brett.
It is her characteristic generosity rather than her love of animals that finds Mrs Pargeter supporting her friend, Jasmine Angold, at a charity reception for PhiliPussies, whose worthy aim is to rehabilitate stray cats from the Greek island of Atmos into caring English homes.
A hiss before dying : a Mrs. Murphy mystery, Rita Mae Brown
Dangerous behavior, Nancy Bush.
Julia St. James Ford has washed up on a beach near her home in Seaside, Oregon, with no memory of how she got there or how her husband, Joe, died.
Cut to the bone, Alex Caan.
Ruby is a vlogger, a rising star of YouTube and a heroine to millions of teenage girls. And she's missing. She's an adult nothing to worry about, surely? Until the video's uploaded
The executioner, Chris Carter.
Inside a Los Angeles church, on the altar steps, lies the blood-soaked, decapitated body of a priest. Carefully positioned, legs stretched out, arms crossed over the chest, the most horrifying thing of all is that the priest's head has been replaced by that of a dog.
Diana's altar, Barbara Cleverly.
New case for Detective Joe Sandilands.
They all fall down, Tammy Cohen.
Hannah had a normal life a loving husband, a good job. Until she did something shocking. Now she's in a psychiatric clinic. It should be a safe place. But patients keep dying. The doctors say it's suicide. Hannah knows they're lying. Can she make anyone believe her before the killer strikes again?
The late show, Michael Connelly.
Los Angeles can be a dangerous city never more so than in the dead of night. Renee Ballard works the night shift at the LAPD in Hollywood, beginning many investigations but finishing none as each morning she turns her cases over to day shift detectives. A once up-and-coming detective, she's been given this beat as punishment after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor.
Everyone in their place : the summer of Commissario Ricciardi, Maurizio de Giovanni
Investigating the death of a duchess in 1931 Naples, Commissario Ricciardi is assisted by Brigadier Maione to connect the victim's demise to her associates in the Neapolitan privileged social circles and the local fascist elite.
The day of the dead : the autumn of Commissario Ricciardi, Maurizio de Giovanni
Believing that Matteo, a young boy from the streets of 1930s Naples, was murdered, Commissario Ricciardi must conduct his investigation in secret since his superiors are preparing for a state visit from Benito Mussolini.
Ultimatum, Anders de la Motte
David Sarac of the Stockholm Police Force's Intelligence Unit, weeks after his violent encounter with the enigmatic high-level informant, Janus, is recuperating from his gunshot wounds. While the hunt for the elusive Janus has ended, the secrets and lies linger.
Dangerous minds, Janet Evanovich.
Second in the Knight & Moon series.
Unsub, Meg Gardiner.
Psychological thriller inspired by the never-caught Zodiac Killer, about a young detective determined to apprehend the serial murderer who destroyed her family and terrorized a city twenty years earlier.
Rooted in evil, Ann Granger.
Carl Finch is a desperate man. Cut out of his stepfather's will, he is heavily in debt and unless he can persuade his stepsister Hattie to bail him out, he'll be in even more trouble. Hattie's husband Guy has never liked Carl and wants his wife's inheritance for his own use, so Hattie agrees to meet Carl in secret to discuss his predicament. Little does she realise that when she arrives at their meeting point in Crooked Man Wood she'll find Carl's dead body.
Electra, Kerry Greenwood.
In the aftermath of the fall of Troy, the rescue of captive Princess Cassandra, the extramarital affair of Queen Clytemnestra, and a secret held by the king's daughter Electra complicate Odysseus's return to Ithaca.
Where the dead lie, C.S. Harris.
Latest historical mystery featuring Sebastian St. Cyr.
Offline, Anne Holt
Latest in the Hanne Wilhelmsen series.
The silent corner, Dean Koontz.
"I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling words left behind by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, Jane, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered unless she does what all the grief, fear, confusion, and fury inside of her demands: find the truth, no matter what.
Farewell to dreams, CJ Lyons.
In the chaos of the ER, functioning without sleep is a prized skill. Until a dead nun speaks to Dr. Angela Rossi. 'Find the girl,' the nun commands, the words drilling into Angela's brain. The girl is real. The threat to her is deadly.
Take out, Margaret Maron.
Latest in the Sigrid Harald series.
Lost girls, Angela Marsons.
Two girls go missing. Only one will return. The couple that offers the highest amount will see their daughter again. The losing couple will not. Make no mistake. One child will die.
Bad blood, Brian McGilloway.
4th case for D.S. Lucy Black.
Fever, Deon Meyer
Nico Storm and his father drive across a desolate South Africa, constantly alert for feral dogs, motorcycle gangs, nuclear contamination. They are among the few survivors of a virus that has killed most of the world's population. Young as he is, Nico realises that his superb marksmanship and cool head mean he is destined to be his father's protector.
Fierce kingdom, Gin Phillips.
In a zoo near closing time a mother realises her child is in danger as a gunman is on the loose.
Hour of the cat, Peter Quinn.
A simple New York City homicide, indistinguishable from hundreds of others in 1938: a spinster nurse is killed in her apartment, a suspect is caught and convicted. Fintan Dunne, the P.I. lured into the case and coerced by conscience into unraveling the complex setup that has landed an innocent man on Death Row, will soon find this is a murder with tentacles that stretch far beyond the crime scene to Nazi Germany.
The last cut, Danielle Ramsay.
DS Harri Jacobs survived a horrific assault, with the scars to prove it. The worst one is the promise her attacker made: that he would return. Her transfer to Newcastle was meant to keep her safe. But then a murder case lands on her desk.
The bird tribunal, Agnes Ravatn
Two people in exile. Two secrets. As the past tightens its grip, there may be no escape. TV presenter Allis Hagtorn leaves her partner and her job to take voluntary exile in a remote house on an isolated fjord. But her new job as housekeeper and gardener is not all that it seems.
Two nights, Kathy Reichs.
Meet Sunday Night, a woman with physical and psychological scars, and a killer instinct. Sunnie has spent years running from her past, burying secrets and building a life in which she needs no one and feels nothing. But a girl has gone missing, lost in the chaos of a bomb explosion, and the family needs Sunnie's help.
Close to me, Amanda Reynolds.
Woman falls downstairs at home and wakes up in hospital wirth amnesia. What had happened the night she fell?
Sleeping in the ground, Peter Robinson.
New case for Inspector Banks.
The secrets she keeps, Michael Robotham.
Everyone has an idea of what their perfect life is. For Agatha, it's Meghan Shaughnessy's. These two women from vastly different backgrounds have one thing in common a dangerous secret that could destroy everything they hold dear. Both will risk everything to hide the truth.
The Ripper's shadow, Laura Joh Rowland.
Opens a new series of Victorian mysteries.
The language of solitude : a novel, Jan-Philipp Sendker
Set in Hong Kong, sequel to "Whispering shadows." a political thriller.
Persons unknown, Susie Steiner.
Manon Bradshaw is back. As dusk falls a young man staggers through a park, far from home, bleeding from a stab wound. He dies where he falls; cradled by a stranger, a woman's name on his lips in his last seconds of life.
Her nightly embrace, Adi Tantimedh.
Features Ravi Chandra Singh who works for an upmarket London private investigations agency.
Night of the lightbringer, Peter Tremayne.
Ireland, AD 671. On the eve of the pagan feast of Samhain, Brother Edulf and the warrior, Aidan, discover a man murdered in an unlit pyre in the heart of Cashel.
Herring in the smoke, L. C. Tyler.
Roger Norton Vane is dead. Twenty years ago he went for a walk in the Thai jungle with his partner, Tim MacDonald, and never returned. After years of wild speculation, fruitless searches and unconfirmed sightings, finally his death is to be made official and somebody will inherit his accumulated wealth.
The wages of sin, Kaite Welsh.
Sarah Gilchrist has fled from London to Edinburgh in disgrace and is determined to become a doctor, despite the misgivings of her family and society. As part of the University of Edinburgh's first intake of female medical students, Sarah comes up against resistance from lecturers, her male contemporaries, and perhaps worst of all her fellow women. First in new series.
The force, Don Winslow.
Crime thriller that follows a dirty cop who has stolen millions of dollars in drugs and cash over the years.
The frangipani tree mystery, Ovidia Yu.
Launches a new cosy crime series set in 1930s Singapore.

New Zealand Fiction

Black marks on the white page, Witi Ihimaera and Tina Makereti.
Stones move, whale bones rise out of the ground like cities, a man figures out how to raise seven daughters alone. Sometimes gods speak or we find ourselves in a not-too distant future. Here are the glorious, painful, sharp and funny 21st century stories of Maori and Pasifika writers from all over the world.
The new animals, Pip Adam.
Carla, Sharon and Duey have worked in fashion for longer than they care to remember, for them, there's nothing new under the sun. They're Generation X: tired, cynical and sick of being used. Tommy, Cal and Kurt are Millenials, they've come from nowhere, but with their monied families behind them they're ready to remake fashion
Marlborough man, Alan Carter.
Nick Chester is working as a sergeant for the Havelock police in the Marlborough Sound, at the top of NZ's South Island. If the river isn't flooded and the land hasn't slipped, it's paradise unless you are also hiding from a ruthless man with a grudge, in which case, remote beauty has its own kind of danger.
Iceland, Dominic Hoey.
Aspiring musician Zlata meets graffiti artist and part-time drug dealer Hamish at a party. Together, they start to get their lives on track - Zlata gets her record deal and album tour, and Hamish gets an exhibition of his art in Auckland, then in Tokyo. Then one of their group of friends kills someone, and everything starts to unravel as they deal (or not) with the aftermath.
The three deaths of Magdalene Lynton, Katherine Hayton.
Magdalene Lynton died forty years ago: a vivacious teenager who fell victim to an obscene, accidental drowning. The coroner's office issued a verdict of death by misadventure and filed her case. The farming commune she'd lived within, splintered apart. N.Z. crime tale.
See you in September, Charity Norman.
Having broken up with her boyfriend, Cassy accepts an invitation to stay in an idyllic farming collective. Overcome by the peace and beauty of the valley and swept up in the charisma of Justin, the community's leader, Cassy becomes convinced that she has to stay.
The Suicide Club, Sarah Quigley.
Three misfits - close to genius, close to the brink - come together in a desperate love triangle in this compelling novel.
Through the lonesome dark, Paddy Richardson.
For the men of the town, Blackball is the daily hardship of working the mine. For the women, it's dismal cottages with the piles of coal outside. Yet for Pansy, Otto and Clem, children of Blackball, it's the treasure of the creek and bush and the richness of the friendship which binds them together.

Romance

The Songbird sisters, Rachael Herron.
Edge of truth, Brynn Kelly.
Amber and Alice, Janette Paul.
The long gone girl of Starlight Bend, Erin Quinn.
Those pleasant girls, Lia Weston.

Saga

An uncommon woman, Nicole Alexander.
It's 1929, and the world is changing. Cars are no longer the privilege of the rich. Hemlines are rising. Movies are talking. And more and more women are entering the workforce. For Edwina Baker, however, life on her family's farm in Western Queensland offers little opportunity to be anything other than daughter, sister and, perhaps soon, wife. But Edwina wants more.
The dressmaker's secret, Charlotte Betts.
Italy, 1819. Emilia Barton and her mother Sarah live a nomadic existence, travelling from town to town as itinerant dressmakers to escape their past.
The Butlins girls, Elaine Everest.
Molly Missons hasn't had the best of times recently. Having lost her parents, now some dubious long-lost family have darkened her door attempting to steal her home and livelihood. After a horrendous ordeal, Molly applies for a job as a Butlin's Aunty.
The long, long trail : war at home, 1917, Cynthia Harord-Eagles.
In 1917 the Great War rages on, and for the Hunters, their friends and their servants the war is where they live now. David has returned from the Front a shadow of his former self; his sister Diana, newly married, copes with pregnancy alone, her husband at the Front. Aunt Laura, eager for challenge, goes to France with an ambulance; while Beattie struggles to manage war work and household.
The secret life of Winnie Cox, Sharon Maas.
Winnie Cox lives a privileged life of dances and dresses on her father's sugar cane plantation. Life is sweet in the kingdom of sugar and Winnie, along with her sister Johanna, have neither worries nor responsibilities; they are birds of paradise, protected from the poverty in the world around them. But everything can change in a heartbeat.
The sugar planter's daughter, Sharon Maas.
1912, British Guiana, South America: Winnie Cox is about to marry George Quint, the love of her life. Born into a life of luxury and privilege on her father's sugar plantation, Winnie has turned against her family by choosing to be with George a poor black postman from the slums.
The trip of a lifetime, Monica McInerney.
The wilful and eccentric Lola Quinlan is off on the trip of a lifetime, taking her beloved granddaughter and great-granddaughter with her.
The last secret of the Deverills, Santa Montefiore.
It is 1939 and peace has flourished since the Great War ended. But much has changed for the Deverill family and now a new generation is waiting in the wings.
Dark harvest, Amy Myers.
March 1915. Caroline Lilley's fiance, Reggie, is away at the Front and Caroline gives up her job and returns home at this request. Frustrated in her desire to help the war effort, she throws herself into saving the harvest by organising the village women and runs up against Reggie's mother, the formidable Lady Hunney.
The gingerbread girl, Sheila Newberry.
Ill and stuck in hospital at Christmas, seven year old Cora Kelly is excited to receive a visit from her mother, who brings her the gift of a gingerbread man. But little does Cora know that this will be the last time she sees her.
The duchess, Danielle Steel.
Angelique Latham has grown up at magnificent Belgrave Castle under the loving tutelage of her father, the Duke of Westerfield, after the death of her aristocratic French mother. But when he dies, her half-brothers brutally turn her out, denying her very existence.

Science fiction

Devil's due, Taylor Anderson.
12th in the Destroyermen series.
Xeelee : vengeance, Stephen Baxter.
Latest in the Xeelee series.
Forgotten worlds, D. Nolan Clark.
Second in the "Silence" series.
The day after Gettysburg, Robert Conroy and J.R. Dunn.
Another in his Alternate History series.
The space between the stars, Anne Corlett.
Woman on a distant planet survives a virus which kills her companions and she has to set off across a plague-ravaged universe to finf the man she once loved.
Shattered minds, Laura Lam.
Second in the "False hearts" series.
The gathering edge, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller.
Latest in the Liaden Universe series.
The asylum of Dr. Caligari, James Morrow.
It is the summer of 1914. As the world teeters on the brink of the Great War, a callow American painter, Francis Wyndham, arrives at a renowned European insane asylum, where he begins offering art therapy under the auspices of Alessandro Caligari sinister psychiatrist, maniacal artist, alleged sorcerer.
Azanian bridges, Nick Wood.
A tense SF thriller set in an alternative South Africa where apartheid still holds sway and the struggle for equality continues. Sibisuso, an AmaZulu unwittingly caught up in the conflict, and Martin, a white psychologist, find their fates entwined via a machine that might just change the world.

Western

The last confession of Rick O'Shea, Clyde Barker.
Kid Palomino: outlaws, Michael D. George.
Reluctant tin star, Dale Graham.
Blood red star, Shorty Gunn.
Way of the lawless, P. McCormac.