Recreation

New Titles Fiction June 2018 (arrived in May 2018)

ADVENTURE

The fallen, David Baldacci.
Amos Decker and his journalist friend Alex Jamison are visiting the home of Alex's sister in Barronville, a small town in western Pennsylvania that has been hit hard economically. When Decker is out on the rear deck of the house talking with Alex's niece, a precocious eight-year-old, he notices flickering lights and then a spark of flame in the window of the house across the way. When he goes to investigate he finds two dead bodies inside and it's not clear how either man died.
Overkill, Ted Bell.
On a ski vacation in the Swiss Alps high above St. Moritz, Alex Hawke and his young son, Alexei, are thrust into danger when the tram carrying them to the top of the mountain bursts into flame, separating the two. Before he can reach Alexei, the boy is snatched from the burning cable car by unknown assailants in a helicopter.
Desert oath, Oliver Bowden.
Egypt, 70BC, a merciless killer stalks the land. His mission: to find and destroy the last members of an ancient order, the Medjay to eradicate the bloodline.
A café on the Nile, Bartle Bull.
It is 1935 in East Africa. Mussolini's armies are streaming by the hundreds of thousands through Suez on a march to Ethiopia. In the desert the Italian Air Force, equipped with bombs and poison gas, prepares for invasion. Abyssinia sits on the edge of a nightmare that will alter modern history, while safaris in the African highlands cater to the excesses of the wealthy and disenchanted.
The devil's oasis, Bartle Bull.
It is 1942, and civilization as the world knows it teeters on its edge. Nazi Germany stands at the height of its power. In North Africa the brilliant General Rommel's panzers threaten the Suez Canal, the oil fields of the Middle East, and the trade route to Asia. To win Egypt, though, Rommel must first take the port of Tobruk and destroy the British fortress of Bir Hakeim. There, against the massive force of Rommel's Afrika Korps, a young English hussar named Wellington Rider fights beside the French Foreign Legion.
The White Rhino Hotel, Bartle Bull
The Great War has ended, tragically for many, but for some, Africa holds the prospect of vast estates, fabulous wealth, and limitless opportunity in this powerful, wonderfully crafted novel of the natural and human perils that await pioneers in a promised land.
Traitor: a thriller, Jonathan de Shalit; translated by Steven Cohen.
A young Israeli man offers state secrets to the American government, but his contact there is actually a Russian mole who brings him into the fold of the KGB. Years later, there's a rumour that there's a spy at the highest levels of the Israeli government, and an international manhunt begins.
The dark clouds shining, David Downing.
London, 1921: Ex-Secret Service spy Jack McColl is in prison serving time for assaulting a cop. McColl has been embittered by the Great War; he feels betrayed by the country that had sent so many young men to die needlessly. He can't stomach spying for the British Empire anymore. He's also heartbroken.
Zero sum: a John Rain novel, Barry Eisler.
Returning to Tokyo in 1982 after a decade of mercenary work in the Philippines, a young John Rain learns that the killing business is now controlled by Victor, a half-Russian, half-Japanese sociopath who has ruthlessly eliminated all potential challengers.
The saint of wolves and butchers, Alex Grecian.
Travis Roan and his dog Bear are hunters: they travel the world pursuing evildoers in order to bring them to justice. They have now come to Kansas on the trail of Rudolph Bormann, a Nazi doctor and concentration camp administrator who snuck into the US under the name Rudy Goodman in the 1950s and has at last been identified.
The hunger, Alma Katsu.
After having travelled west for weeks, the party of pioneers comes to a crossroads. It is time for their leader, George Donner, to make a choice. They face two diverging paths which lead to the same destination. One is well-documented, the other untested, but rumoured to be shorter. Donner's decision will shape the lives of everyone travelling with him.
Killer intent, Tony Kent.
Britain's elite security forces seem powerless when an audacious attempt is made to assassinate a former US president in London. This becomes the spark which ignites a chain reaction of explosive events that will see old political sympathies rekindled and personal loyalties betrayed.
The first family, Michael Palmer and Daniel Palmer.
President Geoffrey Hilliard and his family live in the ever-present glare of the political limelight, with relentless scrutiny of their daily lives. The White House is not an easy place to grow up, so when the President's son Cam, a sixteen-year-old chess champion, experiences extreme fatigue, moodiness, and an uncharacteristic violent outburst, doctors are quick to dismiss his troubles as teen angst.
Scarecrow, Matthew Reilly.
Fifteen names. There are 15 targets, the finest warriors in the world - commandos, spies, terrorists. And they must all be dead by 12 noon, today The price on their heads: almost $20 million each. Among the names on the target list, one stands out. An enigmatic Marine name Shane Schofield, call-sign: SCARECROW. And so Schofield is plunged into a headlong race around the world, pursued by a fearsome collection of international bounty hunters - including the 'Black Knight', a notoriously ruthless hunter who seems intent on eliminating only Schofield. – back cover.
Bone music: a burning girl thriller, Christopher Rice.
Charlotte Rowe spent the first seven years of her life in the hands of the only parents she knew; a pair of serial killers who murdered her mother and tried to shape Charlotte in their own twisted image. If only the nightmare had ended when she was rescued.
Retribution, Anthony Riches.
Victory is in sight for Kivilaz and his Batavi army. The Roman army clings desperately to its remaining fortresses along the Rhine, its legions riven by dissent and mutiny, and once-loyal allies of Rome are beginning to imagine the unimaginable: freedom from the rulers who have dominated them since the time of Caesar.
The frozen hours: a novel of the Korean War, Jeff Shaara.
"June, 1950: the North Korean army, a formidable force backed by Soviet arms and training, invades South Korea, with the intent of uniting the country under Communist rule. In response, the United States mobilizes a force to defend the overmatched South Korean troops. But the US is no better equipped than their allies.
The oracle year: a novel, Charles Soule.
Knowledge is power. So when an unassuming Manhattan bassist named Will Dando awakens from a dream one morning with 108 predictions about the future in his head, he rapidly finds himself the most powerful man in the world.

FANTASY

The tangled lands, Paolo Bacigalupi & Tobias Buckell.
Khaim clings to life. Flooded with refugees and slowly starving, the last city of a once-great empire is surrounded by a choking thicket of toxic bramble. This is a world poisoned by magic. Every time a spell is cast, the bramble advances, sprouting in tilled fields and roof beams, thrusting up from between cobblestones and bursting forth from sacks of powdered spice.
Lake Silence: the world of the Others, Anne Bishop.
Human laws do not apply in the territory controlled by the Others; vampires, shape-shifters, and even deadlier paranormal beings. And this is a fact that humans should never, ever forget.
Amberlough, Lara Elena Donnelly.
Welcome to Amberlough City, the illustrious but corrupt cosmopolitan beacon of Gedda. The radical One State Party–nicknamed the Ospies–is gaining popular support to unite Gedda's four municipal governments under an ironclad, socially conservative vision. Not everyone agrees with the Ospies' philosophy, including master spy Cyril DePaul and his lover Aristide Makricosta.
The testament of Loki, Joanne M. Harris.
Ragnarok was the End of Worlds. Asgard fell, centuries ago, and the old gods have been defeated. Some are dead, while others have been consigned to eternal torment in the netherworld; among them, the legendary trickster, Loki. A god who betrayed every side and still lost everything, who has lain forgotten as time passed and the world of humans moved on to new beliefs, new idol and new deities.
Scourged, Kevin Hearne.
Unchained from fate, the Norse gods Loki and Hel are ready to unleash Ragnarok, a.k.a. the Apocalypse, upon the earth.
Grey sister, Mark Lawrence.
The Convent of Sweet Mercy has trained young girls to hone their skills for centuries. In Mystic Class, Novice Nona Grey has begun to learn the secrets of the universe. But before she leaves the convent, Nona must choose which order to dedicate herself to; and whether her path will lead to a life of prayer and service or one of the blade and the fist.
Circe, Madeline Miller.
In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe has neither the look nor the voice of divinity, and is scorned and rejected by her kin. Increasingly isolated, she turns to mortals for companionship, leading her to discover a power forbidden to the gods: witchcraft.
The hyena and the hawk, Adrian Tchaikovsky.
They face a hunger that could consume the gods themselves From the depths of myth an ancient enemy has returned: the Plague People, whose very presence obliterates whole villages; whose terror destroys minds. In their wake, nothing is left of the people, not their places, not their ways.
The thief, J. R. Ward.
Sola Morte, former cat burglar and safecracker, has given up her old life on the wrong side of the law. On the run from a drug lord's family, she is lying low far from Caldwell, keeping her nose clean and her beloved grandmother safe. Her heart, though, is back up north, with the only man who has ever gotten through her defenses: Assail, son of Assail, who never meant to fall in love, and certainly not with a human woman.
The guns of empire, Django Wexler.
As the roar of the guns subsides and the smoke of battle clears, the country of Vordan is offered a fragile peace. After their shattering defeats at the hands of brilliant General Janus bet Vhalnich, the opposing powers have called all sides to the negotiating table in hopes of securing an end to the war.
The infernal battalion, Django Wexler.
The Beast, imprisoned beneath the fortress-city of Elysium for a thousand years, has been loosed upon the world and is spreading like a plague through the north. Queen Raesinia Orboan and soldiers Marcus D'Ivoire and Winter Ihernglass face a betrayal they never could have foreseen.

FICTION

Disobedience, Naomi Alderman.
Naomi Alderman's Disobedience is an insightful and witty novel on the search for love, tolerance and faith. By the age of 32, Ronit has left London and transformed her life. She has become a cigarette-smoking, wise-cracking, New York career woman, who is in love with a married man. But when Ronit's father dies she is called back into the very different world of her childhood, a world she thought she had left far behind.
The taster, V.S. Alexander.
Amid the turbulence of World War II, a young German woman finds a precarious haven closer to the source of danger than she ever imagined; one that will propel her through the extremes of privilege and terror under Hitler's dictatorship.
Lullaby road: a novel, James Anderson.
Winter has come to Route 117, a remote road through the high desert of Utah trafficked only by eccentrics, fugitives, and those looking to escape the world. Local truck driver Ben Jones, still in mourning over a heartbreaking loss, is just trying to get through another season of treacherous roads and sudden snowfall without an accident. But then he finds a mute Hispanic child who has been abandoned.
I'jaam: an Iraqi rhapsody, Sinan Antoon; translated by Rebecca C. Johnson and Sinan Antoon with an introduction by Elias Khoury.
An inventory of the General Security headquarters in central Baghdad reveals an obscure manuscript. Written by a young man in detention, the prose moves from prison life, to adolescent memories, to frightening hallucinations, and what emerges is a portrait of life in Saddam Hussein.
What it means when a man falls from the sky, Lesley Nneka Arimah.
The daughters, wives and mothers in Lesley Nneka Arimah's remarkable debut collection find themselves in extraordinary situations: a woman whose mother's ghost appears to have stepped out of a family snapshot, another who, exhausted by childlessness, resorts to fashioning a charmed infant out of human hair, a 'grief worker' with a miraculous ability to remove emotional pain at a price.
Eleanor's secret, Caroline Beecham.
London, 1942. When art school graduate, Eleanor Roy, is recruited by the War Artists Advisory Committee, she comes one step closer to realising her dream of becoming one of the few female war artists. But breaking into the art establishment proves difficult until Eleanor meets painter, Jack Valante, only to be separated by his sudden posting overseas.
The matter with Morris: a novel, David Bergen.
When Morris Schutt, a prominent newspaper columnist, surveys his life over the past year, he sees disaster everywhere. His son has just been killed in Afghanistan, and his newspaper has put him on indefinite leave; his psychiatrist wife, Lucille, seems headed for the door; he is strongly attracted to Ursula, the wife of a dairy farmer from Minnesota; and his daughter appears to be having an affair with one of her professors.
On a cold dark sea, Elizabeth Blackwell.
On April 15, 1912, three women climbed into Lifeboat 21 and watched in horror as the Titanic sank into the icy depths. They were strangers then. Twenty years later, a sudden death brings the three women back together, forcing them to face the impossible choices they made, the inconceivable loss, and the secrets they have kept for far too long.
White houses, Amy Bloom.
Lorena Hickok meets Eleanor Roosevelt in 1932 while reporting on Franklin Roosevelt's first presidential campaign. She is not instantly charmed by the idealistic, patrician Eleanor. As their connection deepens into intimacy, what begins as a powerful passion matures into a lasting love, and a life that Hickok never expected to have.
Flying at night, Rebecca L. Brown.
Piper Hart has poured all her energy into raising her son, Fred, while her often-absent husband, Isaac, has poured all his energy into a career defending the wrongly accused. She's always told herself her son is perfectly normal, but somewhere deep inside her rests a tiny suspicion that all is not well.
The Insomnia Museum, Laurie Canciani.
Anna lives in a flat with dad. He is a hoarder, and together they have spent the last 12 years constructing the Insomnia Museum, a labyrinth built from dead TVs, old cuckoo clocks, stacks of newspapers and other junk Dad has found. Anna is 17. She can't remember ever having seen outside the flat.
All rivers run free, Natasha Carthew.
Brittle but not yet broken, Ia Pendilly ekes out a fierce life in a caravan on the coast of Cornwall. In years of living with Bran, her embattled, battering cousin and common law husband, she's never yet had her own baby. So when she discovers the waif washed up on the shore, Ia takes the risk and rescues her.
America is not the heart, Elaine Castillo.
How many lives can one person lead in a single lifetime? When Hero de Vera arrives in America, disowned by her parents in the Philippines, she's already on her third. Her uncle, Pol, who has offered her a fresh start and a place to stay in the Bay Area, knows not to ask about her past. And his younger wife, Paz, has learned enough about the might and secrecy of the De Vera family to keep her head down.
Everything about you, Heather Child.
Freya has a new virtual assistant. It knows what she likes, knows what she wants and knows whose voice she most needs to hear: her missing sister's. It adopts her sister's personality, recreating her through a life lived online. But this virtual version of her sister knows things it shouldn't be possible to know.
The Amish quilter, Mindy Starns Clark and Leslie Gould.
Linda Mueller happily devotes most of her time to quilting. When she's not working at an English fabric shop, she's busy working on her own quilts and honing her craft. Linda's orderly life is suddenly disrupted when the husband of her oldest sister, Sadie, passes away.
I'll be your blue sky, Marisa de los Santos.
On the weekend of her wedding, Clare Hobbes meets an elderly woman named Edith Herron. During the course of a single conversation, Edith gives Clare the courage to do what she should have done months earlier: break off her engagement to her charming, yet overly possessive, fiancé. Three weeks later, Clare learns that Edith has died, and has given her another gift.
William Deans, the passionate pioneer: his life reconstructed, Louise Deans.
William Deans, an extraordinarily passionate, often overlooked, early New Zealand pioneer, was a prolific letter writer. This most unusual work of historical creative fiction is reconstructed from the letters he wrote.
The ghost notebooks, Ben Dolnick.
Nick Beron and Hannah Rampe move from New York City to the tiny upstate town of Hibernia in search of a change. Their careers have flatlined, the city is exhausting, and they've reached a relationship stalemate. Hannah takes a job as live-in director of the Wright Historic House, When she disappears, Nick will discover the hidden legacy of Wright House: a man driven wild with grief, and a spirit aching for home.
Bohemia beach, Justine Ettler.
Catherine Bell, a famous concert pianist, is struggling to hold on to her career in a competitive international arena that spans the classical music capitals of the world. After a disastrous show in Copenhagen, Cathy is about to attempt her first concert performance without alcohol in Prague when her marriage implodes, her terminally ill, Czech-born mother goes missing from her London hospital, and a much needed highly paid recording deal falls through.
Lawn boy: a novel, Jonathan Evison.
For Mike Muñoz, a young Chicano living in Washington State, life has been a whole lot of waiting for something to happen. Not too many years out of high school and still doing menial work, and just fired from his latest gig as a lawn boy on a landscaping crew, he knows that he's got to be the one to shake things up if he's ever going to change his life.
Death actually: death. Love. And in between, Rosy Fenwicke.
Maggie never wanted to go into the family business, but when her parents die suddenly and her husband has just abandoned her and their two small children, what choice does she have?
How to rule the world, Tibor Fischer.
London. A city robbing and killing people since 50BC. The Vizz: an industry in crisis. Baxter Stone, a film maker and television veteran, a lifelong Londoner (who thinks he sees better than others) is having problems in the postbrain, crumbling capital. Swindled by an insurance company, he's in in debt; a Lamborghini is blocking his drive and MI6 is blocking his mobile reception.
A lady's guide to selling out: a novel, Sally Franson.
Once a book-loving English major, Casey lands a job at a top ad agency that highly values her ability to tell a good story. Her best friend thinks she's a sellout, but Casey tells herself that she's just paying the bills.
The comedown: a novel, Rebekah Frumkin.
A dazzling epic that follows two very different families in Cleveland across generations, beginning with their patriarchs.
The ocean liner, Marius Gabriel.
As war engulfs Europe, 1,500 passengers risk everything to find a brighter future. Cousins Masha and Rachel Morgenstern board the luxury liner the SS Manhattan bound for New York, desperate to escape the concentration camps that claimed the rest of their family. America offers a safe haven, but to reach it they must survive a hazardous Atlantic crossing.
In our mad and furious city, Guy Gunaratne.
For Selvon, Ardan and Yusuf, growing up under the towers of Stones Estate, summer means what it does anywhere: football, music, freedom. But now, after the killing of a British soldier, riots are spreading across the city, and nowhere is safe.
Promise, Minrose Gwin.
Drawing on historical events, Minrose Gwin beautifully imagines natural and human destruction in the deep South of the 1930s through the experiences of two remarkable women whose lives are indelibly connected by forces beyond their control.
The electric Michelangelo, Sarah Hall.
On the windswept front of Morecambe Bay, Cy Parks spends his childhood years first in a guest house for consumptives run by his mother and then as apprentice to alcoholic tattoo-artist Eliot Riley. Thirsty for new experiences, he departs for America and finds himself in the riotous world of the Coney Island boardwalk, where he sets up his own business as 'The Electric Michelangelo'.
Sociable: a novel, Rebecca Harrington.
When Elinor Tomlinson moved to New York with a degree in journalism she had visions of writing witty opinion pieces, marrying her journalist boyfriend, and attending glamorous parties with famously perverted writers. Instead, Elinor finds herself nannying for two small children who speak in short, high screams, sleeping on a foam pad in a weird apartment, and attending terrible parties.
The flicker of old dreams: a novel, Susan Henderson.
Finding fulfillment in her job as an embalmer in her father's small town mortuary, outsider Mary bonds with a villainized local who was blamed for a fatal accident twenty years earlier, a friendship that compels her to consider what might happen if she were to leave their fading community.
The bookshop of the brokenhearted, Robert Hillman.
Tom Hope doesn't think he's much of a farmer, but he's doing his best. He can't have been much of a husband to Trudy, either, judging by her sudden departure. It's only when she returns, pregnant to someone else, that he discovers his surprising talent as a father. So when Trudy finds Jesus and takes little Peter away with her to join the holy rollers, Tom's heart breaks all over again. Enter Hannah Babel, quixotic small town bookseller, the second Jew and the most vivid person Tom has ever met.
Where the dead sit talking, Brandon Hobson.
A spare, lyrical Native American coming of age story set in rural Oklahoma in the late 1980s. With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with the Troutt family. Literally and figuratively scarred by his unstable upbringing, Sequoyah has spent years mostly keeping to himself, living with his emotions pressed deep below the surface, that is, until he meets the seventeen-year-old Rosemary, another youth staying with the Troutts.
The wisdom of Sally Red Shoes, Ruth Hogan.
Masha is drowning. Once a spirited, independent woman with a rebellious streak, her life has been forever changed by a tragic event twelve years ago. Unable to let go of her grief, she finds solace in the silent company of the souls of her local Victorian cemetery and at the town's lido, where she seeks refuge underwater, safe from the noise and the pain.
Soviet milk, Nora Ikstena; translated from the Latvian by Margita Gailitis.
This novel considers the effects of Soviet rule on a single individual. The central character in the story, a nameless woman, tries to follow her calling as a doctor. But then the state steps in.
The art of friendship, Lisa Ireland.
They're best friends; practically family, so it doesn't matter that she and Libby now have different, well, different everything, actually, or so it seems when they're finally living in the same city again. Or does it?
Close to you: a novel, Kara Isaac.
Allison Shire is done with love since she found out her husband was a bigamist; now she's using her English degree to guide tours through the famous New Zealand sites featured in the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit movies. Jackson Gregory was on the cusp of making it big until his girlfriend left him for his biggest business competitor– and took his most guarded commercial secrets with her. Now he's at the bottom of the world for three weeks pretending to be a die-hard Lord of the Rings fan.
Then there was you, Kara Isaac.
Josh Tyler fronts a top-selling worship band and is in demand all over the world. But, in the past, his failed romantic relationships almost destroyed both his reputation and his family. He's determined to never risk it happening again. The last thing he needs is some American girl tipping his ordered life upside down.
Big guns, Steve Israel.
When American mayors start a campaign to ban handguns, Otis Cogsworth, CEO of Cogsworth International Arms worries about the effects on his company. He convinces an Arkansas congressman to introduce the 'American Freedom from Fear Act': a law mandating that every American must own a gun.
The last equation of Isaac Severy: a novel in clues, Nova Jacobs.
Just days after mathematician and family patriarch Isaac Severy dies of an apparent suicide, his adopted granddaughter Hazel, owner of a struggling Seattle bookstore, receives a letter from him by mail. In it, Isaac alludes to a secretive organization that is after his final bombshell equation, and he charges Hazel with safely delivering it to a trusted colleague.
The death of Noah Glass, Gail Jones.
The art historian Noah Glass, having just returned from a trip to Sicily, is discovered floating face down in the swimming pool at his Sydney apartment block. His adult children, Martin and Evie, must come to terms with the shock of their father's death. But a sculpture has gone missing from a museum in Palermo, and Noah is a suspect. The police are investigating.
The Gunners: a novel, Rebecca Kauffman.
Mikey Callahan is suffering from the clouded vision of macular degeneration. He struggles to establish human connections, and is reconnecting with 'The Gunners, ' his group of childhood friends, after one of their members has committed suicide. Sally had distanced herself from all of them before ending her life, and she died harboring secrets about the group and its individuals. Mikey hopes that confronting secrets about his own past, and his father's, will dispel some of the emotional stupor that clouds his life.
Dandelions, Yasunari Kawabata; translated and with an afterword by Michael Emmerich.
Beautifully spare and deeply strange, Dandelions exploring love and madness is Kawabata's final novel, left incomplete when he committed suicide in April, 1972.
Who is Rich?: a novel, Matthew Klam; drawings by John Cuneo.
Two people, who are married to other people, meet at a conference for artists and writers in a charming seaside village much like Provincetown. Rich, a formerly sort-of-famous cartoonist, and Amy, a student of narrative painting, shared a moment of passion the summer before, and have returned to see what happens next. In the wicked events that follow, both of their lives completely unravel.
The enchanted clock: a novel, Julia Kristeva; translated by Armine Kotin Mortimer.
In the Palace of Versailles there is a fabulous golden clock, made for Louis XV by the king's engineer, Claude-Siméon Passemant. The astronomical clock shows the phases of the moon and the movements of the planets, and it will tell time; hours, minutes, seconds, and even sixtieths of seconds, until the year 9999. Passemant's clock brings the nature of time into sharp focus in Julia Kristeva's intricate, poetic novel
The road home, Beverly Lewis.
Sent from Michigan to Pennsylvania following the tragic death of her Amish parents, Lena Rose Schwartz grieves her loss and the separation from her nine siblings. Beside the fact that Lena has never been so far from home, she hasn't met the family she will now be living with. But worse than that is having to live apart from her close-knit brothers and sisters. How will they manage without her to care for them, especially six-year-old Chris?
Feast days: a novel, Ian MacKenzie.
Emma has come to Brazil for her husband's career, with no job prospects of her own, a weak grasp of the language, and a deep ambivalence about having a child. Her early days in São Paulo are listless but privileged; volunteering at a local church to assist refugees, Emma finds herself unable to resist the tug of São Paulo's political and social unrest.
Mrs.: a novel, Caitlin Macy.
In the well-heeled milieu of New York's Upper East Side, coolly elegant Philippa Lye is the woman no one can stop talking about. Despite a shadowy past, Philippa has somehow married the scion of the last family-held investment bank in the city. And although her wealth and connections put her in the center of this world, she refuses to conform to its gossip-fueled culture. Then, into her precariously balanced life, come two women:
The jade lily, Kirsty Manning.
In 2016, fleeing London with a broken heart, Alexandra returns to Australia to be with her grandparents, Romy and Wilhelm, when her grandfather is dying. With only weeks left together, her grandparents begin to reveal the family mysteries they have kept secret for more than half a century.
Women in sunlight: a novel, Frances Mayes.
Kit Raine, an American writer living in Tuscany, is working on a biography of a friend. Her work is interrupted by the arrival of Julia, Camille, and Susan, all of whom have launched a recent and spontaneous friendship. Susan, the most adventurous of the three, has enticed them to subvert expectations of staid retirement by taking a lease on a big, beautiful house in Tuscany. Though novices in a foreign culture, their renewed sense of adventure imbues each of them with a gusto for life, and a fierce determination to thrive, which will have drastic and unforeseeable results.
How to be safe: a novel, Tom McAllister.
Recently suspended for a so-called outburst, high school English teacher Anna Crawford is stewing over the injustice at home when she is shocked to see herself named on television as a suspect in a shooting at the school where she works. Though she is quickly exonerated, and the actual teenage murderer identified, her life is nevertheless held up for relentless scrutiny and judgment.
Mission to Kala, Mongo Beti; translated from the French by Peter Green.
Mission to Kala (Mission terminée) is a powerful comic novel set in late colonial Cameroon.
The executor, Blake Morrison.
What matters most: marriage or friendship? fidelity or art? the wishes of the living or the talents of the dead? Matt Holmes finds himself considering these questions sooner than he thinks when his friend, the poet Robert Pope, dies unexpectedly
Like a fading shadow, Antonio Muñoz Molina; translated from the Spanish by Camilo A. Ramirez.
The year is 1968. James Earl Ray has just shot Martin Luther King Jr.Using recently declassified FBI files, Antonio Muñoz Molina reconstructs Rays final steps through the Portuguese capital, taking us inside his feverish mind, troubled past, and infamous crime.
Border districts: a fiction, Gerald Murnane.
In Border Districts, a man moves from a capital city to a remote town in the border country, where he intends to spend the last years of his life. It is time, he thinks, to review the spoils of a lifetime of seeing, a lifetime of reading. Which sights, which people, which books, fictional characters, turns of phrase, and lines of verse will survive into the twilight?
Inferno: (a poet's novel), Eileen Myles.
Poet, essayist and performer Eileen Myles' chronicle transmits an energy and vividness that will not soon leave its readers. Her story of a young female writer, discovering both her sexuality and her own creative drive in the meditative and raucous environment that was New York City in its punk and indie heyday, is engrossing, poignant, and funny.
Letters to Iris, Elizabeth Noble.
Tess has a secret; one which is going to turn her life upside-down in just nine months' time. The only person she can confide in is her beloved grandmother. But Iris is slipping further away each day. Then chance brings a stranger into Tess's life. Gigi's heart goes out to Tess and she's determined to show her that there's a silver lining to every cloud.
A sister in my house, Linda Olsson.
Maria has found a sanctuary in a rented house, overlooking a small Spanish village by the sea. She is coming to terms with losing the love of her life. But her solitude and the places that have become special to her are about to be encroached upon by the arrival of her younger sister, Emma. Will the intrusion only serve to evoke the bad memories of childhood or will the impending visit help them restart their lives?
Almost love, Louise O'Neill
When Sarah falls for Matthew, she falls hard. So it doesn't matter that he's twenty years older. That he sees her only in secret. That, slowly but surely, she's sacrificing everything else in her life to be with him. Sarah's friends are worried.
The lido, Libby Page.
Kate is a twenty-six-year-old riddled with anxiety and panic attacks who works for a local paper in Brixton, London, covering forgettable small stories. When she's assigned to write about the closing of the local lido (an outdoor pool and recreation center), she meets Rosemary, an eighty-six-year-old widow who has swum at the lido daily since it opened its doors when she was a child.
Travelling in a strange land, David Park.
The world is shrouded in snow. Transport has ground to a halt. Tom must venture out into a transformed and treacherous landscape to collect his son, sick and stranded in student lodgings. But on this solitary drive from Belfast to Sunderland, Tom will be drawn into another journey, one without map or guide, and is forced to chart pathways of family history haunted by memory and clouded in regret.
Patient X: the case-book of Ryunosuke Akutagawa, David Peace.
These are the stories of Patient X in one of our iron castles. He will tell his tales to anyone with the ears and the time to listen. Inspired and informed by Akutagawa's stories, essays and letters, David Peace has fashioned a most extraordinary novel of tales.
Dear Mrs Bird, AJ Pearce.
London, 1940. Emmeline Lake and her best friend Bunty are trying to stay cheerful despite the Luftwaffe making life thoroughly annoying for everyone. Emmy dreams of becoming a Lady War Correspondent and when she spots a job advertisement in the newspaper she seizes her chance but after a rather unfortunate misunderstanding, she finds herself typing letters for the formidable Henrietta Bird, the renowned agony aunt of Woman's Friend magazine.
A year at Hotel Gondola, Nicky Pellegrino.
Kat has never wanted to live a small, everyday sort of life. She's an adventurer, a food writer who travels the world visiting far-flung places and eating unusual fare. Now she is about to embark on her biggest adventure yet - a relationship.
Mothers, Chris Power.
Chris Power's stories are peopled by men and women who find themselves at crossroads or dead ends; at ancient Swedish burial sites, river crossings on Exmoor, and raucous Mexican weddings.
The overstory: a novel, Richard Powers.
Nine strangers; each summoned in different ways by trees, are brought together in a last and violent stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest.
Little big man, Katy Regan.
Ten-year-old Zac has never met his dad, who allegedly did a runner before he was born. But when his mum lets slip that he's the only man she's ever loved, Zac turns detective and, roping in his best friend, hatches a plan to find his father and give his mum the happy-ever-after she deserves.
The fish girl, Mirandi Riwoe.
The Fish Girl tells of an Indonesian girl whose life is changed irrevocably when she moves from a small fishing village to work in the house of a Dutch merchant. There she finds both hardship and tenderness as her traditional past and colonial present collide.
Gone Viking, Helen Russell.
Frazzled mum Alice Ray likes to think she's on top everything; she has four bags-for-life in the boot of her car for heaven's sake. But after spectacularly embarrassing herself at work, she finally gives in to her sister's pleas to take a much needed break. But this is not the luxury spa holiday Alice hoped for; instead, she finds herself in Denmark, in the middle of nowhere, on a `How to be a Viking' getaway.
From a low and quiet sea, Donal Ryan.
For Farouk, family is all. He has protected his wife and daughter as best he can from the war and hatred that has torn Syria apart. If they stay, they will lose their freedom, will become lesser persons. If they flee, they will lose all they have known of home, for some intangible dream of refuge in some faraway land across the merciless sea.
Things bright and beautiful, Anbara Salam.
When Bea Hanlon follows her preacher husband Max to a remote island in the Pacific, she soon sees that their mission will bring anything but salvation.
One clear, ice-cold January morning at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Roland Schimmelpfennig; translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch.
One clear, ice-cold January morning shortly after dawn, a wolf crosses the border between Poland and Germany. His trail leads all the way to Berlin, connecting the lives of disparate individuals whose paths intersect and diverge.
Good neighbors: a novel, Joanne Serling.
A searing portrait of suburbia, friendship, and family strained by a devotion to false appearances.
Restless souls, Dan Sheehan.
After three years embedded in the Siege in Sarajevo, Tom returns to Dublin a haunted shell of his former self
Property: a collection, Lionel Shriver.
This landmark publication, the first collection of stories from a master of the form, explores the idea of property in both senses of the word: real estate, and stuff.
The one who wrote destiny, Nikesh Shukla.
Mukesh has just moved from Kenya to the drizzly northern town of Keighley. He was expecting fame, fortune, the Rolling Stones and a nice girl, not poverty, loneliness and racism. Still, he might not have found Keith Richards, but he did find the girl. Neha is dying. Lung cancer, a genetic gift from her mother and an invocation to forge a better relationship with her brother and her widowed father before it's too late. The problem is, her brother is an unfunny comedian and her idiot father is a first-generation immigrant who moved to Keighley of all places. Rakesh is grieving. He lost his mother and his sister to the same illness, and his career as a comedian is flat-lining. Sure, his sister would have claimed that it was because he was simply unfunny, but he can't help feel that there is more to it than that more to do with who he is and where he comes from rather than the content of his jokes. Ba has never looked after her two young grandchildren before. After her daughter died, her useless son-in-law dumped them on her doorstep for a month and now she has to try and work out how to bond with two children who are used England, not to the rhythms of Kenya.
You think it, I'll say it: stories, Curtis Sittenfeld.
Curtis Sittenfeld has established a reputation as a sharp chronicler of the modern age who humanizes her subjects even as she skewers them. Now, with this first collection of short fiction, her astonishing gift for creating characters that take up residence in readers' heads.
Paris metro: a novel, Wendell Steavenson.
Working as a correspondent for an American newspaper in the Middle East for several years after 9/11, Kit learns the stories of people from all walks of life. She marries an Iraqi diplomat; when they separate, Kit is left raising their teenage son alone in Paris. When the Paris terrorist attacks occur in 2015, virtually on her doorstep, it forces her to question her core beliefs.
The little white house, Natalia Sheppard.
Based on the story of a little white house that did indeed exist in rural New Zealand, this story weaves reality with fantasy, telling the tale of all who lived there, from the perspective of the house itself. As the house becomes conscious and self-aware, it begins to learn and grow, yet this desire for knowledge and understanding comes at a cost.
The parking lot attendant: a novel, Nafkote Tamirat.
A mesmerizing, indelible coming-of-age story about a girl in Boston's tightly-knit Ethiopian community who falls under the spell of a charismatic hustler out to change the world.
Ponti, Sharlene Teo.
2003. Singapore. Friendless and fatherless, sixteen-year-old Szu lives in the shadow of her mother Amisa, once a beautiful actress and now a hack medium performing seances with her sister in a rusty house. When Szu meets the privileged, acid-tongued Circe, they develop an intense friendship which offers Szu an escape from her mother's alarming solitariness, and Circe a step closer to the fascinating, unknowable Amisa.
The boy who belonged to the sea, Denis Thériault; translated from the French by Liedewy Hawke.
Set on the rugged north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada, Denis Theriault's powerful debut novel tells the touching story of an extraordinary friendship between two young boys who have both suffered the loss of a parent.
A Nantucket wedding: a novel, Nancy Thayer.
A few years after losing her beloved husband, Alison is doing something she never thought she would do again: getting married. While placing the finishing touches on her summer nuptials, Alison is anxious to introduce her fiancé, David, to her grown daughters: Felicity, a worried married mother of two, and Jane, also married but focused on her career
Heads of the colored people: stories, Nafissa Thompson-Spires.
Calling to mind the best works of Paul Beatty and Junot Diaz, this collection of moving, timely, and darkly funny stories examines the concept of black identity in this so-called post-racial era.
Mouths don't speak, Katia D. Ulysse.
No one was prepared for the massive earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010, taking over a quarter-million lives, and leaving millions of others homeless. Three thousand miles away, Jacqueline Florestant mourns the presumed death of her parents, while her husband, a former US Marine and combat veteran, cares for their three-year-old daughter as he fights his own battles with acute PTSD. Horrified and guilt-ridden, Jacqueline returns to Haiti in search of the proverbial closure.
The house of broken angels: a novel, Luis Alberto Urrea.
In Urrea's exuberant new novel of Mexican-American life, 70-year-old patriarch Big Angel de la Cruz is dying, and he wants to have one last birthday blowout.
The madonna of the mountains, Elise Valmorbida.
1923: Maria Vittoria is embroidering a sheet for her dowry trunk. Her father has gone to find her a husband. There are no eligible men in this valley or the next one, and her father will not let her marry just anyone, and now, despite Maria's years, she is still healthy. Her betrothed will see all that. He'll be looking for a woman who can do the work. Maria can do the work.
They know not what they do, Jussi Valtonen; translated by Kristian London.
Joe Chayefski has got what he always wanted: a reputation as one of America's top neuroscientists, a beautiful wife and two perfect daughters. But his carefully created idyll is threatened when his Baltimore neuroscience lab is targeted by animal rights activists.
The neighborhood: a novel, Mario Vargas Llosa; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.
In the 1990s, during the turbulent and deeply corrupt years of Alberto Fujimori's presidency, two wealthy couples of Lima's high society become embroiled in a disturbing vortex of erotic adventures and politically driven blackmail.

GRAPHIC NOVEL

Scalped. Book two, Jason Aaron,
FBI agent Dash Bad Horse had been forced back into a life and a place that he'd thought he'd escaped years before:
Godhead. Volume one, Ho Che Anderson.
When a powerful multinational corporation creates a machine that can communicate with God, does it spell humanity's salvation or the end of days? This sprawling saga, set in the not-so-distant future, explores the collision courses among science, religion, and corporate greed.
Old Man Logan. [6], Days of anger, writer, Ed Brisson
Old man Logan is confronted by an enemy from his past! And since his past is a dystopian future, you know this won't be good.
Harrow County. [7], Dark times a'coming, script, Cullen Bunn; art and lettering, Tyler Crook.
Things are heating up in this supernatural fantasy as young heroine Emmy Crawford prepares to face off against old foes in the horror-plagued town of Harrow County
The damned. Volume 2, "Ill-gotten", written by Cullen Bunn
In a prohibition-era world where demonic entities pull the strings that make the crime families dance, Eddie is a mortal with two things working for him. First of all, he can't die.
Bottled, Chris Gooch.
Jane is sick of her dead-end life in the suburbs and desperate for a change. Her old schoolmate Natalie made it out, working in Japan as a fashion model. Now, as Natalie comes back to town on business, Jane sees a way for her friend to do her a favor whether she likes it or not.
The forever war, writer, Joe Haldeman
The legendary novel of extraterrestrial war in an uncaring universe comes to comics.
Imperfect girl. 1, story by NISHIOISN,
Legendary novelist NISIOISIN partners up with Mitsuru Hattori in the first of a three volume graphic novel adaptation of one of his mystery novels.
Imperfect girl. 2, story by NISIOISN,
Imperfect girl. 3, story by NISIOISN,
The Black Monday murders. 02, words by Jonathan Hickman
Thomas Dane goes looking for a man who doesn't want to be found.
Attack on Titan. 24, Hajime Isayama; [translation, Ko Ransom].
It catches up to you. The world outside the Walls is vaster than Eren and his comrades could have ever imagined.
Tokyo ghoul: re. 1, Sui Ishida; [translation, Joe Yamazaki].
The Commission of Counter Ghoul is the only organization fighting the Ghoul menace, and they will use every tool at their disposal to protect humanity from its ultimate predator.
Tokyo ghoul: re. 2, Sui Ishida; [translation, Joe Yamazaki].
Haise Sasaki is in charge of turning the unruly members of the Qs Squad into an elite counter-Ghoul unit.
Tokyo ghoul: re. 3, Sui Ishida; [translation, Joe Yamazaki].
Operation Auction Sweep has turned into a bloodbath as the investigators face off against the ghouls of Aoigiri Tree's security forces.
Shiver: selected stories, Junji Ito; [translation & adaptation, Jocelyn Allen; "Painter" translation and adaptation, Naomi Kokubo].
This volume includes nine of Junji Ito's best short stories, as selected by the author himself and presented with accompanying notes and commentary.
The Vision, Tom King, writer
Old Man Logan. [4], Old monsters, writer, Jeff Lemire
Jubilee is missing! And to find her, Logan will have to team up with a supernatural super-team; the Howling Commandos!
Royal City. Volume 2, Sonic youth, [created, written and illustrated by Jeff Lemire; lettered by Steve Wands].
In this second installment of bestselling author Jeff Lemire's ambitious new series we travel back to the year 1993.
Overlord. 6, original story, Kugane Maruyama; art, Hugin Miyama; [translation, Emily Balistrieri].
The day of the battle with the Great One fast approaches. Can Zaryusu unite the lizardmen tribes before they're all wiped from this earth?
Baccano! 2, original story, Ryohgo Narita; art, Shinta Fujimoto; character design, Katsumi Enami; [translation, Taylor Engel].
New York, 1930. Three years after the Phantom Father incident, Firo is about to get a promotion within the Martillo Family.
Baccano! 1, original story Ryohgo Narita; art Shinta Fujimoto; character design Katsumi Enami; [translation, Taylor Engel].
New York, 1927. In a corrupt city where crime rules the streets, Firo Prochainezo is in the Camorra, an Italian criminal syndicate distinct from the mafia.
Umineko when they cry. Episode 7, Requiem of the golden witch. 2, story by Ryukishi07; art by Eita Mizuno; [translation: Stephen Paul].
Ten Years before the disastrous family reunion on Rokkenjima, a young servant named Yasu started working at the Ushiromiya mansion, where she first encounters the witch Beatrice.
Niourk, story and art by Olivier Vatine
On a post-apocalyptic Earth, where mankind has regressed to a handful of primitive tribes hunting and foraging for a meager, oppressed existence, a lone black child, shunned by other members of his tribe, sets out on an epic journey to what used to be known as New York.
Judge Dredd. The complete case files. 31, [John Wagner, Alan Grant, writers; Siku [and nineteen others], artists].
Return of the Hag!
Suicide Squad. Vol. 3, Burning down the house, Rob Williams
Deep within the world is a hidden flame, an inferno of hatred and vengeance that consumes everything it touches.
Suicide Squad. Vol. 4, Earthlings on fire, Rob Williams
Amanda Waller, director of Task Force X, has hand-picked the members of her Suicide Squad to handle any dirty job she throws their way.
Suicide Squad. Vol. 5, Kill your darlings, Rob Williams
Devastated by Rustam and his Burning World, the international conspiracy known as the People reveal themselves to Amanda Waller in a desperate move to secure their mysterious endgame for Planet Earth!
The saga of Tanya the Evil. 01, original story, Carlo Zen
When the average Japanese salaryman is suddenly thrown into in a world wracked with warfare and hardship by a supernatural power, they might first think to hide or run away.

HISTORICAL

Between two worlds, A.N. Arthur.
1914. Samuel, Jimmy and Cass struggle to adjust after the Great Strike. For those men and their loved ones, change demands sacrifice and loss - for even love comes with its price. But greater challenges beyond their imagining are about to engulf them all.
Orphanage boys, A.N. Arthur.
In 1897 Samuel and James Brodie are left at the Stoke Orphanage where abuse and privation are rites of passage.
My dear Hamilton: a novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, Stephanie Dray & Laura Kamoie.
Tells the story of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, a revolutionary woman who, like her new nation, struggled to define herself in the wake of war, betrayal, and tragedy. Tells not just as the wronged wife at the center of a political sex scandal but also as a founding mother who shaped an American legacy in her own right.
Varina: a novel, Charles Frazier.
With her marriage prospects ruined in the wake of her father's financial decline, teenage Varina Howell decides her best option is to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects a life of security as a Mississippi landowner. When he instead pursues a career in politics and is appointed President of the Confederacy, it puts Varina at the white-hot centre of one of the darkest moments in American history.
The lily and the rose, Jackie French.
Australian heiress Sophie Higgs was 'a rose of no-man's land', founding hospitals across war-torn Europe during the horror that was WW1. Now, in the 1920s, Sophie's wartime work must be erased so that the men who returned can find some kind of 'normality'. Sophie is, however, a graduate of the mysterious Miss Lily's school of charm and intrigue, and once more she risks her own life as she attempts to save others still trapped in the turmoil and aftermath of war.
The abbot's tale: a novel, Conn Iggulden.
In the year 937, the new king of England, a grandson of Alfred the Great, readies himself to go to war in the north. His dream of a united kingdom of all England will stand or fall on one field on the passage of a single day.
Beneath the Kauri tree, Sarah Lark; translated by D. W. Lovett.
As the nineteenth century draws to a close, the struggle for women's suffrage has finally reached New Zealand. But when the tide of change rolls in, it threatens to engulf two young women from very different backgrounds, who are coming of age amid the tumult.
A love woven true, Tracie Peterson and Judith Miller.
Jasmine Houston, a widow with a young son, agrees to harbor former slaves at her horse farm outside of Lowell, even though her father, a plantation owner, supports slavery. When a boardinghouse keeper unwittingly becomes involved with a traveling peddler who sells something infinitely more valuable than shoes, Jasmine is devastated to discover that her son and the former slaves have been kidnapped.
The pattern of her heart, Tracie Peterson and Judith Miller.
When tragedy strikes, Jasmine Houston must uproot her family from the Northern mill town of Lowell and take over her family's Southern plantation. Tensions are high, and the lives of the slaves they've promised to protect hang in the balance.
Painter to the king, Amy Sackville.
This is a portrait of Diego Velazquez, from his arrival at the court of King Philip IV of Spain, to his death 38 years and scores of paintings later.
Ecstasy: a novel, Mary Sharratt.
In the glittering hotbed of turn-of-the-twentieth-century Vienna, one woman's life would define and defy an era. Gustav Klimt gave Alma her first kiss. Gustav Mahler fell in love with her at first sight and proposed only a few weeks later. Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius abandoned all reason to pursue her. Poet and novelist Franz Werfel described her as "one of the very few magical women that exist." But who was this woman who brought these most eminent of men to their knees?
Game, Trevor Shearston.
It is 1865. For three years Ben Hall and the men riding with him have been lords of every road in mid-western New South Wales from Bathurst to Goulburn, Lambing Flat to Forbes. But with the Harbourers' Act made law, coach escorts armed now with the new Colt revolving rifle, and mailbags more often containing cheques than banknotes, being game is no longer enough.
A reckoning, Linda Spalding.
It's 1855, and the Dickinson farm, in the bottom corner of Virginia, is already in debt when a Northern abolitionist arrives and creates havoc among the slaves. Determined to find his mother and daughter, who are already free in Canada, Bry is the first slave to flee, and his escape inspires a dozen others. Soon, the farm, owned by one brother and managed by another, is forfeited to the bank.

HORROR

The feral road: an Omega days novel, John L. Campbell.
In deserted, snowbound towns and along empty roads, the frozen dead hunt for the living. But death in winter takes many forms.
Unbury Carol: a novel, Josh Malerman.
Carol Evers is a woman with a dark secret. You see, every so often Carol descends into a death-like coma that she calls the Black Place. For two to four days her heartbeat slows way down, her breathing all but stops, and to the eyes of all she would appear dead as a doornail. Only two people know of her condition: her husband Dwight, and her former lover James Moxie; the most legendary outlaw the Trail has ever seen.
The dead road, Seth Patrick.
The third in Seth Patrick's genre-bending trilogy, following Reviver and Lost Souls, delivers chilling twists as a forensic detective revives the dead to exhume a world-changing conspiracy.

MYSTERY

Easy motion tourist, Leye Adenle.
Guy Collins, a British hack, is hunting for an election story in Lagos. A decision to check out a local bar in Victoria Island ends up badly; a mutilated female body is discarded close by and Collins is picked up as a suspect.
The darkling bride: a novel, Laura Andersen.
The Gallagher family has called Deeprath Castle home for seven hundred years. Nestled in the Wicklow Mountains of Ireland, the estate is now slated to become a public trust, and book lover and scholar Carragh Ryan is hired to take inventory of its historic library. But after meeting Aidan, the current Viscount Gallagher, and his enigmatic family, Carragh knows that her task will be more challenging than she'd thought.
Robert B. Parker's Old black magic, Ace Atkins.
Iconic, tough-but-tender Boston PI Spenser delves into the black market art scene to investigate a decades-long unsolved crime of dangerous proportions.
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.
Exhibit Alexandra, Natasha Bell.
Alexandra Southwood lived an average, happy life with her husband, Marc, and two daughters until she was kidnapped, and held in a room against her will. When the police discover Alexandra's bloody belongings by the river, they turn the missing-persons case into a murder investigation, but Marc cannot accept that she is lost to him.
A breath after drowning, Alice Blanchard.
Child psychiatrist Kate Wolfe's world comes crashing down when one of her young patients commits suicide, so when a troubled girl is left at the hospital ward, she doubts her ability to help. But the girl knows things about Kate's past, things she shouldn't know.
The craftsman, Sharon Bolton.
Florence Lovelady's career was made when she convicted coffin-maker Larry Glassbrook of a series of child murders 30 years ago. Like something from our worst nightmares the victims were buried alive. Larry confessed to the crimes; it was an open and shut case. But now he's dead, and events from the past start to repeat themselves.
Black dog, Stephen Booth.
It's been a long, hot summer in the Peak District national park. But summer comes to an end when the body of missing teenager Laura Vernon is found. For young police detective Ben Cooper, the work has just begun. His community is hiding a girl's killer, and a past as dark as the Derbyshire night.
Dancing with the virgins, Stephen Booth.
In a remote part of the Peak District stand the Nine Virgins, a ring of stones overshadowed by a dark legend. Now, as winter closes in, a tenth figure is added to the circle; the body of Jenny Weston is discovered, her limbs arranged so she appears to be dancing.
Top hard, Stephen Booth.
As he watches criminals target a French lorry in an A1 layby, Stones McClure thinks his plans might actually come together for once. He's looking forward to a life full of everything he could possibly want. Money, cars, a pair of fancy cowboy boots; who could ask for more? But things aren't always what they seem. And Stones should know it better than anyone.
Gravesend, William Boyle.
Ray Boy Calabrese is released from prison 16 years after his actions led to the death of a young man. The victim's brother, Conway D'Innocenzio, is a 29-year-old Brooklynite wasting away at a local Rite Aid, stuck in the past and still howling for Ray Boy's blood. When the chips are down and the gun is drawn, Conway finds that he doesn't have murder in him. T
Her last word, Burton, Mary.
Fourteen years ago, Kaitlin Roe was the lone witness to the abduction of her cousin Gina. She still remembers that lonely Virginia road. She can still see the masked stranger and hear Gina's screams. And she still suffers the guilt of running away in fear and resents being interrogated as a suspect in the immediate aftermath.
Everything is lies, Helen Callaghan.
What if your parents had been lying to you since the day you were born? Sophia's parents lead quiet, unremarkable lives. At least that is what she's always believed. Until the day she arrives at her childhood home to find a house ringing with silence. Her mother is hanging from a tree. Her father is lying in a pool of his own blood, near to death.
Our house, Louise Candlish.
When Fi Lawson arrives home to find strangers moving into her house, she is plunged into terror and confusion. She and her husband Bram have owned their home on Trinity Avenue for years and have no intention of selling. How can this other family possibly think the house is theirs?
Getting warmer, Alan Carter.
Cato Kwong is back. Back in Boom Town and back on a real case'the unsolved mystery of a missing 15-year-old girl. But it's midsummer in the city of millionaires and it's not just the heat that stinks. A pig corpse, peppered with nails, is uncovered in a shallow grave, and a body with its throat cut turns up in the local nightclub.
Evil intent, Kate Charles.
After the traumatic end of her relationship with fiancé Adam, the last thing Callie Anson needs is any more emotional turmoil. But it seems she is not destined for a quiet life just yet. Knowing that women in the clergy are still disapproved of in certain quarters, Callie is prepared to face some criticism. But the deep-seated hatred shown by some of her respected male colleagues takes her by surprise.
The woman in the woods, John Connolly.
It is spring, and the semi-preserved body of a young Jewish woman is discovered buried in the Maine woods. It is clear that she gave birth shortly before her death. But there is no sign of a baby. Private detective Charlie Parker is engaged by the lawyer Moxie Castin to shadow the police investigation and find the infant.
Presumed dead, Mason Cross.
Adeline Connor was the Devil Mountain Killer's final victim. After she was gunned down, the murderer disappeared and the killing spree ended. Carter Blake has been hired to do what he does best: to find someone.
The wrong man, Jason Dean.
Imprisoned former Marine James Bishop will have only one opportunity to make his break for freedom. And one chance to prove that he isn't responsible for the murders for which he has been jailed. What Bishop doesn't know is who is responsible for setting him up, or why.
The marmalade murders: a Penny Brannigan mystery, Elizabeth J. Duncan.
The competition is friendly and just a little fierce at the annual Llanelen agricultural show. Local artist and spa owner Penny Brannigan agrees to help with the intake of the domestic arts entries and to judge the children's pet competition on show day. Then the president of the Welsh Women's Guild disappears, and a carrot cake entered in the competition goes missing.
Blind defence, John Fairfax.
Diane Heybridge was found hanging in a dingy London bedsit with a blood orange in her mouth. Her callous, jilted partner Brent Stainsby stands accused of her murder and he's turned to the maverick legal team William Benson and Tess de Vere to defend him. However, as the trial unfolds it soon becomes clear that there is far more to Diane Heybridge than meets the eye.
Perfect death, Helen Fields.
Unknown to DI Luc Callanach and the newly promoted DCI Ava Turner, a serial killer has Edinburgh firmly in his grip. The killer is taking his victims in the coldest, most calculating way possible, engineering slow and painful deaths by poison, with his victims entirely unaware of the drugs flooding their bloodstream until it is too late. But how do you catch a killer who hides in the shadows.
Bryant & May: hall of mirrors, Christopher Fowler.
The year is 1969 and ten guests are about to enjoy a country house weekend at Tavistock Hall. But one amongst them is harbouring thoughts of murder.
Day of the dead, Nicci French.
On a north London high street, a runaway vehicle crashes to a halt. The man in the driving seat was murdered a week earlier. On Hampstead Heath, a bonfire blazes: in the flames lies the next victim. As autumn leaves fall, a serial killer runs amok in the capital, playing games with the police.
A gruesome discovery, Cora Harrison.
Like all who seek charitable contributions, Reverend Mother Aquinas is used to being gifted some fairly dubious items. But nothing like this. On opening the evil-smelling trunk, labelled 'old books', the Reverend Mother is horrified to discover it contains the dead body of one of Cork's richest merchants, wrapped in decomposing animal hides.
An unjust judge: a Burren mystery, Cora Harrison.
It was a macabre ending for an unjust judge: his throat slit by a sharp knife; his body stuffed into a lobster pot and left beneath a powerful jet of water shooting up through the cliffs from the turbulent Atlantic. When Mara, Brehon of the nearby kingdom of the Burren, comes to investigate, she knows that her first suspects have to be the five young men who had received such savage sentences for minor crimes.
The river below, Bonnie Hearn Hill.
When a mangled car is pulled from the river, containing bloodstains and a gun, the sense of safety is shattered in Tessa's Californian hometown. Tessa, who works at the river conservancy, thinks she saw a girl out on the riverbank but Tessa's memory is failing and could this be the start of something more serious?
Dead if you don't, Peter James.
Kipp Brown, successful businessman and compulsive gambler, is having the worst run of luck of his life. He's beginning to lose big style. However, taking his teenage son, Mungo, to their club's big Saturday afternoon football match should have given him a welcome respite, if only for a few hours. But it' at the stadium where his nightmare begins.
A brush with death, Quintin Jardine.
When millionaire Leo Speight is found poisoned at his Ayrshire mansion, Police Scotland has a tough case on its hands. Speight was a champion boxer with national hero status, and a long list of lovers and friends stand to benefit from his estate. Did one of them decide to speed things up?
Shattered mirror, Iris Johansen.
Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is once again thrown into a deadly game of intrigue when she receives a cryptic package containing a skull and a two sided mirror. Eve is determined to reconstruct the skull and uncover the mystery of the person's identity, and when she does, the face of a beautiful woman begins to emerge. But who is she?
Zack: a thriller, Mons Kallentoft and Markus Lutteman; translated by Neil Smith.
Zack Herry is the golden boy who has stumbled into a career in the Stockholm police force. At night, he hangs out at the clubs, partying with the people he should really be arresting. He knows that it won't last, but he can't help himself, even as he starts being investigated by internal affairs.
The murder files: the Anna Travis cases, Lynda La Plante.
Above suspicion: A rookie detective, Anna is about to embark on her first murder case, and it couldn't be a more serious, more gruesome series of murders.
The fear within: a thriller, J.S. Law.
After events on board the submarine HMS Tenacity, Lieutenant "Dan" Lewis of the Royal Navy's Kill Team was warned not to pursue those responsible. She should walk away, stop investigating, but her thirst for justice means she can't let it go.
The secret of Vesalius, Jordi Llobregat; translated from Spanish by Thomas Bunstead.
Daniel Amat has left Spain and all that happened there behind him. Having just achieved a brilliant role in Ancient Languages at Oxford University and an even more advantageous engagement, the arrival of a letter, a demand, stamped Barcelona comes like a cold hand from behind.
In the cage where your saviours hide, Malcolm Mackay.
Darian Ross is a young private investigator whose father, an ex cop, is in prison for murder. He takes on a case brought to him by a charismatic woman, Maeve Campbell. Her partner has been stabbed; the police are not very curious about the death of a man who laundered money for the city's criminals.
I, witness, Niki Mackay.
Six years ago, Kate Reynolds was found holding the body of her best friend; covered in blood and clutching the knife that killed her. Kate has been in prison ever since. Now her sentence is up and she is being released. Kate can't remember what happened that night but she doesn't think she did it.
Mr Churchill's secretary, Susan Elia MacNeal.
Maggie Hope has graduated at the top of her college class and possesses all the skills of the finest minds in British intelligence, but her gender qualifies her only to be the newest typist at No. 10 Downing Street. Her indefatigable spirit and remarkable gifts for codebreaking, though, rival those of even the highest men in government, and Maggie finds that working for the prime minister affords her a level of clearance she could never have imagined and opportunities she will not let pass.
In Prior's wood: a Max Tudor mystery, G.M. Malliet.
Newly returned from investigating a murder in Monkslip-super-Mare, handsome Max Tudor wants nothing more than to settle back into his predictable routine as vicar of St. Edwold's Church in the village of Nether Monkslip. But the flow of his sermon on Bathsheba is interrupted when the lady of the local manor house is found in a suicide pact with her young lover.
Money in the morgue: the new Inspector Alleyn mystery, Ngaio Marsh & Stella Duffy.
Roderick Alleyn is back in this unique crime novel begun by Ngaio Marsh during the Second World War and now completed by Stella Duffy.
The killing house, Claire McGowan.
When a puzzling missing persons' case opens up in her hometown, forensic psychologist Paula Maguire can't help but return once more. Renovations at an abandoned farm have uncovered two bodies: a man known to be an IRA member missing since the nineties, and a young girl whose identity remains a mystery.
Wicked river: a novel, Jenny Milchman.
Six million acres of Adirondack forest separate Natalie and Doug Larson from civilization. For the newlyweds, an isolated backcountry honeymoon seems ideal. But just as Natalie and Doug begin to explore the dark interiors of their own hearts, as well as the depths of their love for each other, it becomes clear that they are not alone in the woods.
American by day, Derek B. Miller.
She knew it was a weird place. She'd heard the stories, seen the movies, read the books. But now police Chief Inspector Sigrid Odegard has to leave her native Norway and actually go there; to that land across the Atlantic where her missing brother is implicated in the mysterious death of a prominent African-American academic. America.
The perfect mother, Aimee Molloy.
We all want different things. Francie wants to be the perfect mother. Nell wants to escape the past. Collette wants to spend more time with her family. All Winnie wants is to have her baby back. When Nell suggests a night out in Brooklyn to her new mums club, the others jump at the chance. But the evening takes a tragic turn when single mother Winnie learns that her six-week-old son Midas has been kidnapped.
Our little secret, Roz Nay.
Angela Petitjean sits in a cold, dull room. The police have been interrogating her for hours, asking about Saskia Parker. She's the wife of Angela's high school sweetheart, HP, and the mother of his child. She has vanished.
Private princess, James Patterson & Rees Jones.
Jack Morgan receives an offer he cannot refuse. When the head of the world's foremost investigation agency is invited to meet Princess Caroline, third in line to the British throne, he boards his Gulfstream jet and flies straight to London. The Princess needs Morgan's skills, and his discretion.
The stranger, Kate Riordan.
Cornwall, 1940. In the hushed hours of the night a woman is taken by the sea. Was it a tragic accident? Or should the residents of Penhallow have been more careful about whom they invited in?
Killing time, Mark Roberts.
DCI Eve Clay is on her way to try and interview a young Czech girl who was missing for eight days, when another case is called in. Two Polish migrant workers have been found dead in their burnt out flat. But this is no normal house fire. The men's bodies had been doused in petrol.
Death is not enough, Karen Rose.
Gwyn Weaver is as resilient as anyone could be. Having survived an attempted murder, she has rebuilt her life and reclaimed her dignity and strength. She's always known about her feelings for defence attorney Thomas Thorne, but as her friend and a colleague there could be no chance of anything more, or could there?
The bone readers, Jacob Ross.
Jacob Ross brings the best traditions of crime fiction to the Caribbean novel with a fast-moving narrative, richly observed characters, a powerful evocation of place and a denouement that will leave readers breathless.
The devil in music, Kate Ross.
Julian Kestrel, gentleman sleuth and dandy extraordinaire, becomes fascinated with an unsolved case involving the murder of a Milanese aristocrat and the disappearance of his protégé, a brilliant young English opera singer.
The Elizas: a novel, Sara Shepard.
When debut novelist Eliza Fontaine is found at the bottom of a hotel pool, her family at first assumes that it's just another failed suicide attempt. But Eliza swears she was pushed, and her rescuer is the only witness. Desperate to find out who attacked her, Eliza takes it upon herself to investigate.
All the beautiful lies: a novel, Peter Swanson.
Harry Ackerson has always considered his stepmother Alice to be sexy and beautiful. She has always been kind and attentive, if a little aloof in the last few years. Days before his college graduation, Alice calls with shocking news. His father is dead and the police think it's suicide.
The Blood, E. S. Thomson.
Summoned to the riverside by the desperate, scribbled note of an old friend, Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain find themselves on board the seamen's floating hospital, an old hulk known only as The Blood, where prejudice, ambition and murder seethe beneath a veneer of medical respectability.
The death chamber, Lesley Thomson.
Queen's Jubilee, 1977: Cassie Baker sees her boyfriend kissing another girl at the village disco. Upset, she heads home alone and is never seen again.
Tales: short stories featuring Ian Rutledge and Bess Crawford, Charles Todd.
Now published together for the first time: Charles Todd's absorbing short stories:'The Kidnapping,' 'The Girl on the Beach,' 'Cold Comfort,' and 'The Maharani's Pearls', featuring everyone's favorite Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge.
The forgotten lands, Justin Warren.
Dylan Harper is a young, up and coming detective, with a point to prove. But when he and his mentor Detective Joe Gardella are summoned to the office of the Chief of Police and given an assignment that is outside their jurisdiction they sense that something is up.
Sins of the father: a Countess of Prague mystery, Stephen Weeks.
Her role in an investigation detailed in The Countess of Prague, has brought Beatrix von Falklenburg to the attention of the Hapsburg Emperor Franz Josef I, who has her summoned to his palace in Vienna to investigate the murder/suicide of Baroness Marie Vetsera and Crown Prince Rudolf. But before Trixie is handed her assignment, a terrible murder occurs on a snowy Prague funicular railway.

ROMANCE

Whirlpool, Cherry Adair.
Treasure hunter Persephone Case is very good at what she does. But she's even better at pirating, and the Cutter brothers are her only targets. For years, she's played a game of cat and mouse in an attempt to get them to confront her. But it isn't until she meets their new partner, and her wicked one weekend stand, Finn Gallagher, that she's truly caught.
Someone to care, Mary Balogh.
Two years after the death of the Earl of Riverdale, his family has overcome the shame of being stripped of their titles and fortune, except for his onetime countess, Viola. With her children grown and herself no longer part of the social whirl of the ton, she is uncertain where to look for happiness, until quite by accident her path crosses once again with that of the Marquess of Dorchester, Marcel Lamarr.
The legend of Nimway Hall: 1818 - Isabel, Suzanne Enoch.
The moment Isabel de Rossi turns eighteen, she takes charge of Nimway Hall, which has stood empty for the past ten years. Well-aware that all her female forebears found true love at Nimway, she can't wait to discover her own destined match.
Running barefoot, Amy Harmon.
When Josie Jensen, an awkward 13-year-old musical prodigy crashes headlong into new-comer Samuel Yazzie, an 18-year-old Navajo boy full of anger and confusion, an unlikely friendship blooms. Josie teaches Samuel about words, music and friendship, and along the way finds a kindred spirit.
The smallest part, Amy Harmon.
It was a big lie. The biggest lie she'd ever told. It reverberated through her head as she said it, ringing eerily, and the girl behind her eyes, the girl who knew the truth, screamed, and her scream echoed along with the lie.
Someone like you, Karly Lane.
When bestselling author, twenty-nine year old Hayley Stevens, walked in on her husband, Paul, and her best friend in bed together, she knew her life would never be the same again. One year later, Hayley stowed her last bag in her much-loved Audi Coupe and said goodbye to the city.
A place to remember, Jenn J. McLeod.
Running away for the second time in her life, twenty-seven-year old Ava believes the cook's job at a country B & B is perfect, until she meets the owner's son, John Tate.
The other lady vanishes, Amanda Quick
After escaping from a private sanitarium, Adelaide Blake arrives in Burning Cove, California, desperate to start over. Working at a herbal tea shop puts her on the radar of those who frequent the seaside resort town: Hollywood movers and shakers always in need of hangover cures and tonics. One such customer is Jake Truett, a recently widowed businessman in town for a therapeutic rest.

SAGA

Victory girls, Helen Carey.
August 1944. Allied troops are fighting their way across Europe. But rocket attacks on London are a chilling reminder that the war is far from over. Helen knows all too well how dangerous it is in war-torn France. But it's a long time since she heard from her French fiance, and nothing is going to stop her going back to track him down.
Miss Mary's daughter, Diney Costeloe.
After her mother's death, twenty-year-old Sophie Ross is left orphaned , with only her erstwhile nursemaid and faithful friend, Hannah for company. Penniless and little chance of an income, she looks for work as a governess in London to avoid destitution. But unbeknown to Sophie, her mother instructed Hannah to post a letter to Trescadinnick House in Cornwall upon her death.
The illumination of Ursula Flight, Anna-Marie Crowhurst.
Born on the night of an ill-auguring comet just before Charles II's Restoration, Ursula Flight has a difficult future written in the stars. Against the custom of the age she begins an education with her father, who fosters in her a love of reading, writing and astrology. Following a surprising meeting with an actress, Ursula's dreams turn to the theatre and thus begins her quest to become a playwright despite scoundrels, bounders, bad luck and heartbreak.
A brighter day tomorrow, Pam Evans.
Despite air raids and rationing in wartime London, sisters Liz and Dora Beck find time for fun and laughter at the local ice-rink. Then a handsome American serviceman catches their attention and so begins heartache between the sisters.
Never too old for love, Rosie Harris.
Now in her seventies and widowed for the past three years, Mary Wilson never expected to find love again. But when a kindly stranger helps her home with her shopping and she invites him in for a cup of tea, it marks the start of a slow-burning friendship.
Shipyard girls in love, Nancy Revell.
Sunderland, 1941. With a brief break in air raids providing some much-needed respite from the war, things are looking up for head welder Rosie, who has fallen head over heels for Detective Sergeant Miller. But how long can their romance last in such uncertain times?
Christmas on Coronation St., Maggie Sullivan.
Elsie Grimshaw lives in one of the worst streets in Weatherfield and is desperate to escape from life at home with a brutal father and the drudgery of working at the local mill.

SCIENCE FICTION

Cowl, Neal Asher.
In the far future, the Heliothane Dominion is triumphant in the solar system, after a bitter war. But some of the enemy have escaped into the distant past, where they can position themselves to wreak havoc across time. The worst of these is the monstrous Cowl, an artifically forced advance in human evolution, more vicious than any prehistoric beast.
Semiosis, Sue Burke.
Colonists from Earth wanted the perfect home, but they'll have to survive on the one they found. They don't realize another life form watches and waits. Only mutual communication can forge an alliance with the planet's sentient species and prove that humans are more than tools.
Blackfish City, Sam J. Miller.
After the climate wars, a floating city is constructed in the Arctic Circle, a remarkable feat of mechanical and social engineering, complete with geothermal heating and sustainable energy. The city's denizens have become accustomed to a roughshod new way of living, however, the city is starting to fray along the edges; crime and corruption have set in, the contradictions of incredible wealth alongside direst poverty are spawning unrest, and a new disease called "the breaks" is ravaging the population.
Only human, Sylvain Neuvel.
In her childhood, Rose Franklin accidentally discovered a giant metal hand buried beneath the ground outside Deadwood, South Dakota. As an adult, Dr. Rose Franklin led the team that uncovered the rest of the body parts which together form Themis: a powerful robot of mysterious alien origin.
From distant stars, Sam Peters.
Inspector Keon has finally got over the death of his wife Alysha in a terrorist attack five years ago. The illegal AI copy of her, Liss, that he created to help him mourn has vanished, presumed destroyed. His life is back on track. But a deadly shooting in a police-guarded room in a high-security hospital threatens to ruin everything.
Head on, John Scalzi.
Hilketa is a frenetic and violent pastime where players attack each other with swords and hammers. The main goal of the game: obtain your opponent's head and carry it through the goalposts. With flesh and bone bodies, a sport like this would be impossible. But all the players are "threeps," robot-like bodies controlled by people with Haden's Syndrome, so anything goes.
The ace of skulls: a tale of the Ketty Jay, Chris Wooding.
All good things come to an end. And this is it: the last stand of the Ketty Jay and her intrepid crew. They've been shot down, set up, double-crossed and ripped off.

WESTERN

Shadow shooters, George Arthur.
Released from Yuma Prison in the fall of 1878, after serving three years for bank robbery, Anson Hawkstone returns to the Apache village where he lived, determined to find Rachel, his former love, and give up the outlaw trail.
Western Union, Paul Bedford.
The year is 1861 and the nation is at war. The Western Union Telegraph Company intends to connect East with West as never before, but is beset by enemies. Wires are cut and telegraph poles burned, and then matters take a far darker turn when a repair crew is massacred. The question is, who might be responsible?
Battle Mountain, Matt Cole.
Clay Parker and his cohorts are what is left of the once-infamous Tulley gang. They have waited five years to get the money they stole from a bank, which they believe has been hidden by one of their own and he has just been released from prison.
Trouble at Painted River, Matt Cole.
Outlaw Birch Hamilton was born Birch Kent, a bastard boy who was thrust into a life of crime at the age of sixteen. Now he was attempting to do the near impossible - break out of Yuma Territorial Prison.
Six-guns at Solace, John Davage.
When Meg Thornton becomes caught up in a bank raid, she is horrified to discover that one of the raiders is her brother, Clay, who has been on the run since killing the barman in their home town. Clay has fallen in with the notorious Pike gang, and Eli Pike will kill Meg if he finds out she was a witness to the raid.
Bad blood, Ethan Flagg.
The bond between wandering cowboys Buck Medwell and his younger brother Skip has always been fractious. So when Buck is forced to bust his kin out of jail following their pay-off at the end of a cattle drive to Newton, Kansas, the writing is on the wall. Their flight from the law into neighbouring Colorado leads to a split when bad blood finally spills over.
Stagecoach to Serenity, Steven Gray.
After Darren Norton shoots Arthur Hamlin dead during a card game, he goes on the run, leaving behind his girlfriend, Sal the Gal. A reward is put up for his capture and bounty hunter Gustavus Greeley is soon on his trail.
The defenders, Alex Hawkesville.
The bounty hunter had long thought of settling down. But when Jubal Thorne came to the small community of Brewlins he discovered a hotbed of intrigue and vice. Who was Abbey Watt and why was she central to the changes in a way of life?
Texan secrets, Dirk Hawkman.
Sheriff Owen Rowlands' closest friend Renard has gone missing. Searching his friend's ransacked house, the lawman finds a dying man on the bed - but no sign of Renard. Determined to track down his friend, Rowlands investigates links to a mysterious gang, only to find that his old friend was not what he seemed.
Long John, D.D. Lang.
William Henry John was a small time rancher. But when his wife died in a riding accident, he became a broken man. He turned to drink. At first his neighbours were helpful and sympathetic, but Henry John soon became the town drunk and ignored by all. Then one day his life changed.