Recreation

New Titles Fiction March 2018 (arrived in February 2018)

Adventure

Act of revenge: a novel, Dale Brown and Jim DeFelice.
On Easter Sunday morning, the city of Boston is struck by a widespread and coordinated series of terrorist attacks: an explosion in the T, a suicide bomber at Back Bay Police Station, and heavily armed gunmen taking hostages at the Patriot Hotel. For robotics innovator Louis Massina, aka the Puppet Master, this is far more personal than a savage act of political terrorism.
Tom Clancy Power and empire, Marc Cameron.
A newly belligerent Chinese government leaves US President Jack Ryan with only a few desperate options in this continuation of the #1 New York Times bestselling Tom Clancy series. Jack Ryan is dealing with an aggresive challenge from the Chinese government. Pawns are being moved around a global chessboard: an attack on an oil platform in Africa, a terrorist strike on an American destroyer and a storm tossed American spy ship that may fall into Chinese hands.
Need to know, Karen Cleveland.
Vivian Miller is a dedicated CIA counterintelligence analyst assigned to uncover the leaders of Russian sleeper cells in the United States. On track for a much-needed promotion, she's developed a system for identifying Russian agents, seemingly normal people living in plain sight. After accessing the computer of a potential Russian operative, Vivian stumbles on a secret dossier of deep-cover agents within America's borders. A few clicks later, everything that matters to her her job, her husband, even her four children are threatened.
Act of betrayal: a Will Cochrane novel, Matthew Dunn.
Three years ago, intelligence officer Will Cochrane was brought in by a Delta Force colonel to assassinate a terrorist financier in Berlin. After the job, the commander vanished, and hasn't been heard from since. The details don't quite add up, and one of the CIA agents who was involved has been investigating the mission. He reaches out to Will for help, but before they can connect, the CIA man is poisoned. Will is determined to uncover the truth about Berlin.
Scourge of wolves, David Gilman.
Winter, 1361. If the English want their prize, they'll have to fight for it. As he battles to enforce Edward's claim, Thomas Blackstone will see his name blackened, his men slaughtered, his family hunted. He will be betrayed and, once again, he'll face the might of the French army on the field. But this time there will be no English army at his back, and he'll face the French alone.
Cutting edge, Ward Larsen.
A Coast Guard rescue swimmer in Alaska, Trey DeBolt's life is uprooted when his helicopter goes down during a particularly harrowing rescue. Gravely injured, DeBolt awakens weeks later to severe headaches and a battered body. He remembers little about the crash, and most disconcerting of all, he is recovering, not in a hospital, but in a seaside cabin in Maine, thousands of miles from where the accident occurred.
Light it up, Nick Petrie.
Combat veteran Peter Ash leaves a simple life rebuilding hiking trails in Oregon to help his good friend Henry Nygaard. Henry's son-in-law carrys a large sum of client money when the vehicle vanishes without a trace, leaving Henry's daughter and her company vulnerable.
The take, Christopher Reich.
Simon Riske is a freelance industrial spy who, despite his job title, lives a mostly quiet life above his auto garage in central London. Riske has avoided big, messy jobs; until now. A gangster, Tino Coluzzi has orchestrated the greatest street heist in the history of Paris: a visiting Saudi prince had his pockets lightened of millions in cash, and something else. Hidden within a stolen briefcase is a secret letter that could upend the balance of power in the Western world.
Dead on arrival: a novel, Matt Richtel.
A plane touches down at a desolate airport in a remote Colorado ski town. Shortly after landing, Dr. Lyle Martin, a world-class infectious disease specialist, is brusquely awakened to shocking news: Everyone not on the plane appears to be dead. A lethal new kind of virus surfaced, threatening mankind's survival, and now Martin; one of the most sought-after virologists on the planet is at the center of the investigation.
The Baltic prize, Julian Stockwin.
It is 1808 and Captain Sir Thomas Kydd is called away to join the Northern Expedition to Sweden, now Britain's only ally in the Baltic. Following the sudden declaration of war by Russia and with the consequent threat of the Czar's great fleet in St Petersburg, the expedition must defend Britain's dearly-won freedom in those waters.
Direct fire, A.J. Tata.
A powerful banker, gunned down in cold blood. A military family, senselessly slaughtered as they sleep. A four-star general, hacked and framed by virtual assassins. When Jake Mahegan receives a distress call from General Savage in North Carolina, he joins forces with Savage's combat JAG officer, Alexandra Russell, to follow the trail of a Syrian refugee-turned-terrorist who vows to avenge the bombing of a Syrian wedding.
Foreign and domestic, A. J. Tata.
One year ago, Captain Jake Mahegan led a Delta Force team into Afghanistan to capture an American traitor working for the Taliban. The mission ended in tragedy. The team was infiltrated and decimated by a bomb and Mahegan was dismissed from service dishonored forever. Now, haunted by the incident, Mahegan is determined to clear his name.
Operator down: a Pike Logan thriller, Brad Taylor.
It was to be a simple mission. Nothing more than assessing whether a merchant in the fabled Israeli Diamond Exchange was involved in a scheme that could potentially embarrass the state of Israel. But nothing is ever simple in the world of intelligence, as Aaron Bergman, a former leader of an elite direct action team under the Mossad, should have known.
Seventeen, Hideo Yokoyama.
It is 1985 and Kazumasa Yuuki, a seasoned reporter at the North Kanto Times, runs a daily gauntlet against the power struggles and office politics that plague its newsroom. But when an air disaster of unprecedented scale occurs on the paper's doorstep, its staff are united by an unimaginable horror, and a once-in-a-lifetime scoop.
A darker state, David Young.
The body of a teenage boy is found weighted down in a lake. Karin Muller, newly appointed Major of the People's Police, is called to investigate, but her power will only stretch so far, when every move she makes is under the watchful eye of the Stasi.

FANTASY

The overneath, Peter S. Beagle.
An odd couple patrols a county full of mythological beasts and ornery locals. A familiar youngster from the world of The Last Unicorn is gifted in magic but terrible at spell- casting. A seemingly incorruptible judge meets his match in a mysterious thief who steals his heart and two old friends discover that the Overneath goes anywhere, including locations better left unvisited.
The house of binding thorns, Aliette de Bodard.
As the city rebuilds from the onslaught of sorcery that nearly destroyed it, the great Houses of Paris, ruled by fallen angels, still contest one another for control over the capital. mysteriously disappear. As the Houses seek a peace more devastating than war, those caught between new fears and old hatreds must find strength, or fall prey to a magic that seeks to bind all to its will.
Witchlight, Marion Zimmer Bradley.
Winter Musgrave's past is largely blank, her memories missing or tissue-thin. She seem to be possessed as objects shatter when she passes, and the corpses of animal appear on her doorstep. She has the terrible feeling that something horrible happened in her empty past, the results of which are now haunting her with unbridled fury.
The lost plot, Genevieve Cogman.
In a 1920s-esque America, prohibition is in force, fedoras, flapper dresses, and tommy guns are in fashion, and intrigue is afoot. Intrepid Librarians Irene and Kai find themselves caught in the middle of a dragon vs dragon contest.
A long day in Lychford, Paul Cornell.
It's a period of turmoil in Britain, with the country's politicians electing to remove the UK from the European Union, despite ever-increasing evidence that the public no longer supports it. The small town of Lychford is suffering, but what can three rural witches do to guard against the unknown?
The lost child of Lychford, Paul Cornell.
It's December in the English village of Lychford the first Christmas since an evil conglomerate tried to force open the borders between our world and another. It's Lizzie's first Christmas as Reverend of St. Martin's and when the apparition of a small boy appears to Lizzie in the church the trio of witches are about to face their toughest battle yet!
Witches of Lychford, Paul Cornell.
The villagers in the sleepy hamlet of Lychford are divided. A supermarket wants to build a major branch on their border. Some welcome the employment opportunities, while some object to the modernization of the local environment. Judith Mawson knows the truth that Lychford lies on the boundary between two worlds, and that the destruction of the border will open wide the gateways to malevolent beings beyond imagination. If she is to have her voice heard, she's going to need the assistance of some unlikely allies.
Firestorm, Lucy Hounsom.
Kyndra has finally mastered her cold Starborn powers but is it too late? A faction of assassins, who can manipulate time, plan to rewrite the history of Acre. These Khronostians will ensure the Sartyan Empire was never founded. and in this new narrative, Kyndra is never even born. With her ally Char, and the rogue Khronostian Ma, Kyndra resolves to enlist the help of the dragons, banished long ago.
Winter of ice and iron, Rachel Neumeier.
With the Mad King of Emmer in the north and the vicious King of Pohorir in the east, Kehera Raehema knows her country is in a vulnerable position. She never expected to give up everything she loves to save her people, but when the Mad King's fury leaves her land in danger, she'll do anything that might buy time for her people to prepare for war, no matter the personal cost.
Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson.
In Oathbringer, the third volume of the New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive series, humanity faces a new Desolation with the return of the Voidbringers, a foe whose numbers are as great as their thirst for vengeance.
The way of kings, Brandon Sanderson.
A new epic series by the best-selling writer of Robert Jordan's final Wheel of Time novels introduces the world of Roshar through the experiences of a war-weary royal compelled by visions, a highborn youth condemned to military slavery and a woman who would save her impoverished house.
The lady of the lake, Andrzej Sapkowski.
After walking through a portal in the Tower of the Swallow, thus narrowly escaping death, the Witcher girl, Ciri, finds herself in a completely different world: a world of the Elves. She is trapped with no way out. Time does not seem to exist and there are no obvious borders or portals to cross back into her home world.
Hymn, Ken Scholes.
The struggle between the Andro-Francine Order of the Named Lands and the Y'Zirite Empire has reached a terrible turning point. Believing that his son is dead, Rudolfo has pretended to join with the triumphant Y'zirite forces, but his plan is to destroy them all with a poison that is targeted only to the enemy.
City of saints and madmen, Jeff VanderMeer.
Ambergris is a cruelly beautiful metropolis a haven for artists and thieves, for composers and murderers, and once there, anything can happen.
Blood fury, J. R. Ward.
A vampire aristocrat, Peyton is well aware of his duty to his bloodline: mate with an appropriate female of his class and carry on his family's traditions. He thought he'd found his perfect match until she fell in love with someone else.
Quillifer, Walter Jon Williams.
Quillifer is young, serially in love, studying law, and living each day keenly aware that his beloved homeport of Ethlebight risks closure due to silting of the harbor. His concerns for the future become much more immediate when he returns from a summery assignation to find his city attacked by Aekoi pirates.

FICTION

A walk across the sun, Corban Addison.
When a tsunami rages through their coastal town in India, 17-year-old Ahalya Ghai and her 15-year-old sister Sita are left orphaned and homeless. As they struggle to reach the safe haven of the convent where they attend school, they are abducted by human traffickers and thrust into a hidden world of sexual violence and illicit commerce, where the most valuable prize is the innocence of a child.
The ruins of empires, Akala.
A story that follows 'The Knowledge Seeker' through the course of human history, via astral travel and multiple re-incarnations, in an attempt to discover the causes of the rise and fall of empires. Inspired by the French author C.F. Volney's classic book of the same name.
Brass: a novel, Xhenet Aliu.
A waitress at the Betsy Ross Diner, Elsie hopes her nickel-and-dime tips will add up to a new life. She meets Bashkim, who is both worldly and naive, a married man who left Albania to chase his dreams and wound up working as a line cook in Waterbury, Connecticut. Elsie, herself the granddaughter of Lithuanian immigrants, falls in love quickly, but when she learns that she's pregnant, she can't help wondering where Bashkim's heart really lies, and what he'll do about the wife he left behind.
A good heart is hard to find, Trisha Ashley.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man of over forty is in possession of a major defect. Cassandra Leigh has woken as if from a bad dream; forty-four, childless and twenty-plus years into an affair with a married man. Cass is desperate for a baby and running out of time. Maybe Max is not the only man for her? Cass must throw caution to the wind and claim the life she's always wanted.
The boat people, Sharon Bala.
A debut novel about a thirty-five-year-old Sri Lankan refugee who has survived the harrowing experiences of civil war, a prison camp, and a perilous ocean voyage to Canada. His journey though has only begun as he and his young son navigate the morass of the refugee system.
The only story, Julian Barnes.
One summer in the sixties, in a staid suburb south of London, Paul aged nineteen and home from university, is urged by his mother to join the tennis club. In the mixed-doubles tournament he's partnered with Susan Mcleod, a fine player who's forty-eight, confident, ironic, and married, with two nearly adult daughters. They soon become lovers. This is a piercing account of helpless devotion, and of how memory can confound, fail and surprise us, and how first love fixes a life forever.
In the fall they come back: a novel, Robert Bausch.
Ben Jameson begins his teaching career in a small private school in Northern Virginia. He is idealistic, happy to have his first job after graduate school and hoping some day to figure out what he really wants out of life. In the two years he teaches English at Glenn Acres Preparatory School, he discovers what he believes will be his life's work: teaching. It is a book that explores both human frailty and the limits of benevolence.
The atomic city girls, Janet Beard.
In November 1944, eighteen-year-old June Walker boards an unmarked bus, destined for a city that doesn't officially exist. Oak Ridge, Tennessee has sprung up in a matter of months being a town of trailers and segregated houses, 24-hour cafeterias, and constant security checks. There, June joins hundreds of other young girls operating massive machines whose purpose is never explained. When the bombing of Hiroshima brings the truth about Oak Ridge into devastating focus, June must confront her ideals about loyalty, patriotism, and war itself.
The immortalists, Chloe Benjamin.
It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children, four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness, sneak out to hear their fortunes. Their prophecies inform their next five decades. The Immortalists probes the line between destiny and choice, reality and illusion, this world and the next. It is a deeply moving testament to the power of story, the nature of belief, and the unrelenting pull of familial bonds.
The girls in the picture: a novel, Melanie Benjamin.
A fascinating novel of the friendship and creative partnership between two of Hollywood's earliest female legends, screenwriter Frances Marion and superstar Mary Pickford. Their ambitions are challenged both by the men around them and the limitations imposed on their gender.This is a story of friendship and forgiveness. Melanie Benjamin perfectly captures the dawn of a glittering new era–its myths and icons, its possibilities and potential, and its seduction and heartbreak.
The trick: a novel, Emanuel Bergmann.
Sweeping between Prague during World War II and modern day Los Angeles, this deeply moving debut follows a young Jewish man in 1934 who falls in love and joins the circus as the country descends into war. Decades later, a young boy seeks out the now cynical, elderly magician in the hopes that his spells might keep his family together.
Oliver Loving, Stefan Merrill Block.
A shy boy named Oliver Loving joins his classmates at Bliss Township School's annual dance, hoping for a glimpse of the object of his unrequited affections, an enigmatic junior named Rebekkah Sterling. As the music plays, a troubled young man sneaks in through the school's back door. The dire choices this man makes that evening, and the unspoken story he carries, will tear the town of Bliss, Texas, apart.
Low life: short stories, Michael Botur.
The fourth folio of striking stories by NZ writer Michael Botur. A wild child finds settling down is suicide. An old man follows the girl of his dreams. Two mates waste a decade one-upping each other. A bogan bothers his way into the history books. Damaged daddies, angry young men, struggling saints, a has-been with a harem, a regretful gangsta… and a godfather grandmother.
The clocks in this house all tell different times, Xan Brooks.
In summer 1923, orphaned Lucy Marsh climbs into the back of an old army truck and is whisked off to the woods north of London, a land haunted by the past, where lost souls and monsters conceal themselves in the trees. In a sunlit clearing she meets the 'funny men', a quartet of disfigured ex-soldiers named after Dorothy's companions in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Here are the loved and the damaged, dark forests and darker histories, and the ever-present risk of discovery and violent retribution.
Sensible shoes: a story about the spiritual journey, Sharon Garlough Brown.
Follow the moving stories of four women as they are drawn into a spiritual formation journey at a retreat center: Hannah, a pastor who doesn't realize how exhausted she is. Meg, a widow and recent empty-nester who is haunted by her past. Mara, a woman who has experienced a lifetime of rejection and is now trying to navigate a difficult marriage. Charissa, a hard-working graduate student who wants to get things right.
Three things about Elsie, Joanna Cannon.
Eighty four year old Florence has fallen in her flat at Cherry Tree Home for the Elderly. As she waits to be rescued, Florence wonders if a terrible secret from her past is about to come to light and if the charming new resident is who he claims to be. Why does he look exactly like a man who died sixty years ago?
The summer that made us, Robyn Carr.
For the Hempsteads, two sisters who married two brothers and had three daughters each, summers were idyllic. The women would escape the city the moment school was out to gather at the family house on Lake Waseka - a magical haven where they were happy and carefree. Until the summer that changed everything. After an accidental drowning, the lake house was closed up for good. One woman is determined to draw her family together again, and the only way that can happen is to return to the lake and face the truth.
The house of impossible beauties, Joseph Cassara.
In 1980, New York City, Angel is new to the drag world, and ball culture, She has a yearning inside of her to help create family for those without. When she falls in love with Hector, a young man who dreams of becoming a professional dancer, the two decide to form the House of Xtravaganza, the first-ever all-Latino house in the Harlem ball circuit. But when Hector dies of AIDS-related complications, Angel must tend to their house alone.
Where the sun shines out: a novel, Kevin Catalano.
In the blue-collar town of Chittenango, New York, two young boys are abducted from a local festival and taken to a cabin in the woods. One is kept; one is killed. When they are next seen, ten-year-old Dean has escaped by swimming across Oneida Lake holding his brother's dead body. As the years pass, the people of Chittenango struggle to cope with the collateral damage of this unspeakable act of violence, reverberations that disrupt the community and echo far beyond.
Exemplary novels, Miguel de Cervantes.
The twelve novellas gathered together in Exemplary Novels reveal the extraordinary breadth of Cervantes's imagination: his nearly limitless ability to create characters, invent plots, and entertain readers across continents and centuries. Cervantes published his book in Spain in 1613.
Bad angels, Rebecca Chance.
Limehouse Wharf, the new, uber-luxury apartment building in Canary Wharf is where celebrities who have had 'work' done can hole up until they have healed and which is about to see its most glamorous and scandalous Christmas yet. Staying there over the festive period is Melody Down, an actress whose career is in tatters after too much plastic surgery and who has fled LA to get her body and her boyfriend back. But is a 'well-meaning' friend about to sabotage all of Melody's Christmas wishes?
The Amish seamstress, Mindy Starns Clark.
Amish-raised Izzy Mueller doesn't fit in with her family or her community. She works as a caregiver and is in love with Mennonite-raised Zed Bayer who is leaving soon for college. When she learns some unsavoury news about her own past she begins to question many things about her life.
The Endless Beach, Jenny Colgan.
On the quayside next to the Endless Beach sits the Summer Seaside Kitchen. It's a haven for tourists and locals alike, who all come to eat the freshest local produce on the island and catch up with the gossip. Flora, who runs the cafe, feels safe and content, unless she thinks too hard about her relationship with Joel, her gorgeous but emotionally and physically distant boyfriend. Her best friend Lorna is pining after the local doctor. Saif came to the island as a refugee, having lost all of his family. He's about to get some shocking news which will change everything for him.
Dancing home, Paul Collis.
Blackie and Rips are fresh out of prison when they set off on a road trip back to Wiradjuri country with their mate Carlos. Blackie is out for revenge against the cop who put him in prison on false grounds. He is also craving to reconnect with his grandmother's country. Driven by his hunger for drugs and payback, Blackie reaches dark places of both mystery and beauty as he searches for peace. He is willing to pay for that peace with his own life.
The whole way home, Sarah Creech.
Playing to packed houses while her hit song rushes up the charts, country singer and fiddler Jo Lover is poised to become a one-name Nashville star.To ensure her success, Jo has carefully crafted her image: a pretty, sassy, down-to-earth girl from small-town Virginia who pours her heart into her songs. But the stage persona she's built is threatened when her independent label merges with big-time Capitol Records, bringing Nashville heartthrob JD Gunn, her first love, back into her life.
Child of mine, Janita Cunnington.
It's January 1974, and a devastating flood is about to change the lives of four generations of women. Maggie Rowe is thirty-five, a teacher, and still living with her mother, Vera, in a tiny cottage in Hill Street, Brisbane and Donna Birtles, a feckless, twentysomething single mum and her little daughter Flower.
Kingdom of the wicked. Book one, Rules, Helen Dale.
784 ab urbe condita-31 AD. Jerusalem sits uneasily in a Roman Empire that has seen an industrial revolution and now has cable news and flying machines and rites and morals that are strange and repellent to the native people of Judaea. A charismatic young leader is arrested after a riot in the Temple and seems to be a man of peace, but among his followers are Zealots and dagger-men sworn to drive the Romans from the Holy Land. As the city sinks into violence, the stage is set for a legal case that will shape millennia the trial of Yeshua Ben Yusuf.
The Earlie King & the kid in yellow: a wayward myth, fragments shored against ruins, Danny Denton.
Ireland is flooded. It never stops raining. The kid in yellow has stolen the babba from the Earlie King. Why? Something to do with the King's daughter, and a talking statue. From every wall the King's Eye watches, and yet the city is full of hearts-defiant-sprayed in yellow, the mark of the Kid. It cannot end well. Can it?
Her, Garry Disher.
In Australia, 1909, a scrap man buys a scab-kneed three-year-old girl for nine shillings and sixpence. Her name is scarcely known or remembered. She bides her time. She does her work. Way back in the corner of her mind is a thought she is almost too frightened to shine a light on: one day she will run away.
The vanishing princess: stories, Jenny Diski.
The only story collection from the beloved Jenny Diski. Darkly funny, subversive, sexy, and eccentric tales from one of the most original and intelligent voices of our time with a new preface by Heidi Julavits, author of The Folded Clock.
Goblin, Ever Dundas.
Goblin is an oddball and an outcast. She's also a dreamer, a bewitching raconteur, a tomboy adventurer whose spirit can never be crushed. Goblin witnesses the carnage of the Blitz in London and sees things that can never be unseen but can be suppressed. She finds comfort in her beloved animal companions and lives on her wits with friends real and imagined, exploring her own fantastical world of Lizard Kings and Martians and joining the circus. In 2011, London is burning once again, and an elderly Goblin reluctantly returns to the city. Amidst the chaos of the riots, she must dig up the events of her childhood in search of a harrowing truth.
The adulterants, Joe Dunthorne.
Ray is not a bad guy. He mostly did not cheat on his heavily pregnant wife. He only sometimes despises every one of his friends. And though his career as a freelance tech journalist is dismal and he spends his afternoons churning out third-rate listicles in his boxer briefs, he dreams of making a difference. But Ray is about to learn that his special talent is for making things worse. Brace yourself for a wickedly funny look at the modern everyman.
Ivy and Abe, Elizabeth Enfield.
Two people. One love story. A million possibilities. Ivy and Abe were inseparable as children until an accident tore them apart. Several decades later, when both are in their seventies, a chance encounter reunites them. But time is not on their side. What if they'd met in a different time and place? Throughout various incarnations of their lives, they come together and go their separate ways, fall in and out of love, make or break promises. In every universe, Ivy and Abe are meant to meet. But are they meant to be?
Light fell, Evan Fallenberg.
Twenty years have passed since Joseph left behind his entire life his wife Rebecca, his five sons, his father, and the religious Israeli farming community where he grew up when he fell in love with a man, the genius rabbi Yoel Rosenzweig. Their affair is long over, but its echoes continue to reverberate through the lives of Joseph, Rebecca, and their sons in ways that none of them could have predicted.
Faking friends, Jane Fallon.
Amy thought she knew who her friend Melissa was. She also thought she was on the verge of the wedding of her dreams to her long-distance fiance when her career suddenly begins to unravel, Amy pays a surprise trip home to London. Her boyfriend Jack is out, but it looks like Melissa has been making herself at home. Amy has lost her job, her fiance, her best friend and her home in one disastrous weekend. Piecing her life back together won't be half as fun as dismantling theirs.
The glovemaker's daughter, Leah Fleming.
In 1666 a child is born in the farmhouse at Windebank, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Named Rejoice (Joy) by her dying father, Joy grows up witness to the persecution of the farming community for following a banned faith. Defying the authority of the local priest, she joins a group of Yorkshire pioneers travelling to the New World to form a colony close to Philadelphia a passionate, rebellious and courageous woman fighting against the constraints of the time. Will she find peace and love?
Here in Berlin: a novel, Cristina Garcia.
Here in Berlin is a portrait of a city through snapshots. An excavation of the stories and ghosts of contemporary Berlin, its complex, troubled past still pulsing in the air as it was during World War II. Critically acclaimed novelist Cristina Garcia brings the people of this famed city to life, their stories bristling with regret, desire, and longing.
Last Christmas in Paris: a novel of World War I, Hazel Gaynor.
In August 1914 England is at war as Evie Elliott watches her brother, Will, and his best friend Thomas Harding, depart for the front. Evie and Thomas experience a very different war. Frustrated by life as a privileged young lady, Evie longs to play a greater part in the conflict while Thomas struggles with the unimaginable realities of war. Through their letters, Evie and Thomas share their greatest hopes and fears and grow ever fonder from afar. Can love flourish amid the horror of the First World War, or will fate intervene?
River of smoke, Amitav Ghosh.
Amid a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal, three vessels, and the diverse occupants within, converge on Canton's Fanqui-Town, or Foreign Enclave, which is a powder keg awaiting a spark to ignite the Opium Wars.
Peach, Emma Glass.
Something has happened to Peach. It hurts to walk but she staggers home to parents that don't seem to notice. They can't keep their hands off each other and, besides, they have a new infant. Peach must patch herself up alone so she can go to college and see her boyfriend, Green.
Monsieur Ka, Vesna Goldsworthy.
In London winter of 1947, a young Frenchwoman arrives to work at the Kerenins house as a companion to the aged 'Monsieur Ka' he begins to tell his story. Albertine is the wife of a British army officer who is often abroad on covert government business. Lonely, yet eager to work, she begins to write Monsieur Ka's life story a as a secret gift to him. As she is drawn into Ka's dramatic past, her own life is shaken to its foundations.
On the bright side: the new secret diary of Hendrik Groen, 85 years old, Hendrik Groen; translated by Hester Velmans.
Eighty-five year old Hendrik Groen is fed up with coffee mornings and bingo. He dreams of escaping the confines of his care home and practicing hairpin turns on his mobility scooter. Inspired by his fellow members of the recently formed Old-But-Not-Dead Club, he vows to put down his Custard Cream and commit to a spot of octogenarian anarchy. Things turn serious when rumours surface that the home is set for demolition. It's up to Hendrik and the gang to stop it or drop dead trying.
A week in the life of Cassandra Aberline, Glenda Guest.
After forty-five years in Sydney, Cassandra Aberline returns to her home town in the Western Australian wheat belt in the same way she left on the Indian Pacific train. As they cross the emptiness of the vast Australian inland, Cassie travels back through her memories, too, frightened that she's about to lose them forever and with them, her last chance to answer the question that has haunted her almost all her life.
Guapa, Saleem Haddad.
Set over the course of twenty-four hours, Guapa follows Rasa, a gay man living in an unnamed Arab country, as he tries to carve out a life for himself in the midst of political and social upheaval.
Mother of all pigs: a novel, Malu Halasa.
Hussein Saban, the only pig butcher in his small Jordanian town, lives with three generations of women. When a long-lost soldier from Hussein's military past arrives, the Sabas family must decide whether to protect or expose him, bringing long-simmering rivalries and injustices to the surface.
The woman at 1,000 degrees, Hallgrimur Helgason.
Eighty year old Herra Bjornsson lives alone in a garage with her laptop, an oxygen tank and her father's old hand grenade. As she counts down her final days, Herra looks back at her own remarkable life. Her happy childhood in Iceland was disrupted by the outbreak of war and her father's fervent love of Hitler. Shipped off to supposed safety, Herra spent the war trekking alone across war-torn Europe in a desperate bid to survive.
The wedding promise, Emma Hannigan.
A tumbledown hacienda in the Spanish countryside in want of love and care is just what a grieving Irish family needs in this heartwarming, uplifting novel from Irish top ten bestseller Emma Hannigan.
The Dirty Book Club, Lisi Harrison.
M.J. Stark's life is picture-perfect. She has her dream job as a magazine editor, a sexy doctor boyfriend, and a glamorous life in New York City. But behind her success, there is a debilitating sense of loneliness. So when her boss betrays her and her boyfriend offers her a completely new life in California, she trades her cashmere for caftans and gives it a try.
The cactus, Sarah Haywood.
At forty-five, Susan Green thinks her life is perfect, as long as she avoids her indolent brother, Edward. Yet suddenly faced with the loss of her mother and, implausibly, with the possibility of becoming a mother herself, Susan's greatest fear is being realised: she is losing control. When she discovers that her mother's will inexplicably favours her brother, Susan sets out to prove that Edward and his friend Rob somehow coerced this dubious outcome.
Neon in daylight, Hermione Hoby.
Set in New York City in 2012, Kate, a young woman newly arrived from England, is staying in a Manhattan apartment while she tries to figure out her future. She has two unfortunate responsibilities during her time in America: to make regular Skype calls to her miserable boyfriend back home, and to cat-sit an indifferent feline named Joni Mitchell. But the city has other plans for her. Kate encounters two strangers who will transform her stay.
The velveteen daughter: a novel, Laurel Davis Huber.
The story of Margery Williams Bianco, author of the beloved children's book The Velveteen Rabbit, and her daughter Pamela, a world-renowned child prodigy artist whose fame at one time greatly eclipses her mother's.
At the end of the century, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
Caught between cultures, Jhabvala has always written powerfully of the relationship between India and the Western middle classes. In this collection of short stories, she deals with pathos, despair, sensuality and liberation with sensitivity, wit and affection.
Happy dreams, Jia Pingwa.
Poverty and injustice test one man's relentless optimism. From one of China's foremost authors, Jia Pingwa's Happy Dreams is a powerful depiction of life in industrializing contemporary China, in all its humor and pathos, as seen through the eyes of Happy Liu, a charming and clever rural laborer who leaves his home for the gritty, harsh streets of Xi'an in search of a better life.
Kompromat, Stanley Johnson.
Stanley Johnson's new satirical thriller Kompromat purports to tell what really happened in the run-up to those two recent political earthquakes, the Brexit Referendum in the UK in June 2016 and the US Presidential Election in November of that year.
The wolves of winter, Tyrell Johnson.
Lynn McBride has learned much since society collapsed in the face of nuclear war and the relentless spread of disease. As the memories of her old life continue to haunt, she's forced to forge ahead in the snow-drifted Canadian Yukon, learning how to hunt and trap and slaughter.
The cage, Lloyd Jones.
Two mysterious strangers turn up at a hotel in a small country town. Where have they come from? Who are they? What catastrophe are they fleeing? The townspeople want answers, but the strangers are unable to speak of their trauma. Before long, wary hospitality shifts to suspicion and fear, and the care of the men slides into appalling cruelty.
A girl in exile: requiem for Linda B., Ismail Kadare.
While waiting to hear whether his newest play will be approved for production, playwright Rudian Stefa is called in for questioning by the Party Committee. A girl Linda B. has been found dead, with a signed copy of his latest book in her possession. He soon learns that Linda's family, considered suspect, was exiled to a small town far from the capital, and that she committed suicide. Under the influence of a paranoid regime, Rudian finds himself swept along on a surreal quest to discover what really happened to Linda B.
Tornado weather, Deborah E. Kennedy.
Five year old Daisy Gonzalez's father is always waiting for her at the bus stop. But today, he isn't, and Daisy disappears. When Daisy goes missing, nearly everyone in town suspects or knows something different about what happened. They also know a lot about each other and are all connected, in ways small and profound, open and secret. By turns unsettling, dark, and wry, Kennedy's powerful voice brings the town's rich fabric to life.
That girl, Kate Kerrigan.
Three young women leave the cloying atmosphere of Catholic Ireland for the freedom of swinging 60s London, all in search of a new beginning. All three girls find themselves working for Bobby Chevron one of London's most feared gangland bosses and it's not long before their new lives start to unravel.
Pigs in heaven, Barbara Kingsolver.
A spellbinding novel of heartbreak and love, this book travels the roads from rural Kentucky and the urban southwest to Heaven, Oklahoma, and the Cherokee nation, testing the boundaries of family and the many separate truths about the ties that bind.
Surprise me, Sophie Kinsella.
After being together for ten years, Sylvie and Dan have all the trimmings of a happy life and marriage. When a scandal from the past is revealed that questions some important untold truths, they begin to wonder if they ever really knew each other after all.
Hearts of resistance, Soraya M. Lane.
When Hazel is given the chance to parachute into Nazi-occupied France, she seizes the opportunity to do more for the British war effort than file paperwork. Alongside her childhood friend, French-born Rose, she quickly rises up the ranks of the freedom fighters. For Rose, the Resistance is a link to her late husband, and a way to move forward without him.
Voyage of the heart, Soraya Lane.
Along with hundreds of other war brides, Betty, Madeline, Alice, and June set sail for New York to be with the men they love. In the days they spend at sea, the four young women become firm friends and vow to stay in touch no matter what their new lives bring. Life in a new country comes with many challenges, but the one thing they can count on is the friendship they forged while crossing the Atlantic.
The last train, Sue Lawrence.
At 7 p.m. on 28 December 1879, a violent storm batters the newly built iron rail bridge across the River Tay, close to the city of Dundee. Ann Craig is waiting for her husband, the owner of the largest local mill, to return home. From her window Ann sees a strange and terrible sight as the bridge collapses, and the lights of the train in which he is travelling plough down into the freezing river waters. As Ann manages the grief and expectations of family and friends, amid a town mourning its loved ones, doubt is cast on whether Robert was on the train, after all. If not, where is he, and who is the mysterious woman who is first to be washed ashore?
Everything here is beautiful, Mira T. Lee.
A story of two sisters: Miranda, the older responsible one, and Lucia, the headstrong unpredictable one, whose impulses are huge and, often, life changing. When their mother dies and Lucia starts hearing voices, it is Miranda who must find a way to reach her sister.Told in alternating points of view, this is an unforgettable, gut-wrenching story of the sacrifices we make to truly love someone, and when loyalty to one's self must prevail over all.
The alarming palsy of James Orr, Tom Lee.
James Orr husband, father, employee and all round model citizen wakes one morning to find one side of his face paralysed, and his life takes an abrupt and unexpected turn.
Walking wounded, Sheila Llewellyn.
Set in Northfield, an understaffed military psychiatric hospital immediately before the NHS is founded. This is the story of a doctor and his patient David Reece, a young journalist-to be whose wartime experiences in Burma have come back to haunt him violently, and Daniel Carter, one of the senior psychiatrists, a man who is fighting his own battles as well as those of his patients.
Edgar & Lucy, Victor Lodato.
Eight yearold Edgar remembers nothing of the terrible accident people still whisper about. He only knows his father is dead, his mother has a limp, and his grandmother believes in ghosts. When Edgar meets a man with his own tragic story, the boy begins a journey into a secret wilderness where nothing is clear, even the line between the living and the dead.
Savages: the wedding, Sabri Louatah.
On the eve of the 2012 presidential election, Nicolas Sarkozy finds himself opposing Kabyle Chaouch, who is leading in the polls the first presidential favorite of Algerian descent. Meanwhile, the Nerrouche family is preparing for a wedding but the family, the local underworld, and national politics are all tied together.
Heart spring mountain, Robin MacArthur.
In August 2011 tropical storm Irene wreaked havoc on Vermont, flooding rivers and destroying homes. New Orleans bartender Vale receives a call and is told that her mother, Bonnie, has disappeared. Beginning her search in the hometown she left eight years earlier, Vale finds herself falling back into the lives of the family she thought she'd left behind; and careening toward a family origin secret more stunning than she ever imagined.
This could change everything, Jill Mansell.
If Essie hadn't written that letter, the one that only her best friend was meant to see, then she'd still be living like a proper grown-up, tucked up with Paul in his picture-perfect cottage, maybe even planning their wedding. On the other hand, if her true feelings hadn't accidentally taken the internet by storm, she never would have met Zillah and Conor, not to mention Lucas. She'd never have found out just how much life there is to be lived.
Million love songs, Carole Matthews.
After splitting up with her cheating ex-husband, Ruby Brown is ready for a change. She's single again for the first time in years and she's going to dive into this brave new world with a smile on her face and a spring in her step. The last thing she's looking for is another serious relationship. Ruby soon has some very tough decisions to make. Is she ready for a relationship of any kind and what type of life does she really want?
The young widower's handbook: a novel, Tom McAllister.
For Hunter Cady, meeting Kait was the greatest thing that ever happened to him. Beautiful and confident, Kait is somehow charmed by Hunter's awkwardness and droll humor. So when she dies quite suddenly, Hunter is crushed. Numb with grief, he stumbles forward the only way he knows how: by running away.
The reservoir tapes, 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. But the aftershocks of Becky Shaw's disappearance have origins long before then, and those in the village have losses, and secrets, and stories of their own.
The tattooist of Auschwitz, Heather Morris.
This novel is based on the true story of Lale and Gita Sokolov, two Slovakian Jews, who survived Auschwitz and eventually made their home in Australia. In that terrible place, Lale was given the job of tattooing the prisoners marked for survival literally scratching numbers into his fellow victims' arms in indelible ink to create what would become one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust. Lale used the infinitesimal freedom of movement that this position awarded him to exchange jewels and money taken from murdered Jews for food to keep others alive. If he had been caught he would have been killed; many owed him their survival.
Still me, Jojo Moyes.
Lou Clark arrives in New York ready to start a new life, confident that she can embrace this new adventure and keep her relationship with Ambulance Sam alive across several thousand miles. She is hurled into the world of the super-rich Gopniks: Leonard and his much younger second wife, Agnes. Before she knows what's happening, Lou is mixing in New York high society, where she meets Joshua Ryan, a man who brings with him a whisper of her past. How can she reconcile a heart that lives in two places?
The secrets at ocean's edge, Kali Napier.
It is 1932 and Ernie and Lily Hass, and their daughter, Girlie, have lost almost everything in the Depression. All they have keeping their small family together are their secrets.
A working woman, Elvira Navarro.
An ambitious tale of feminine friendship, madness, a radically changing city, and the vulnerability that makes us divulge our most shameful secrets. It begins as Elisa transcribes the chaotic testimony of her roommate Susana, acting as part-therapist, part-confessor as Susana reveals the gripping account of her strange sexual urges and the one man who can satisfy them. But is Susana telling the truth?
Poison, Galt Niederhoffer.
Cass and Ryan Connor have achieved family nirvana. With three kids between them, a cat and a yard, and a home they built, they seem to have the Modern Family dream. Their family, including Cass' two children from previous relationships, has recently moved to Seattle a new start for their new lives. But trouble begins almost imperceptibly…
The Devil's Highway, Gregory Norminton.
Spanning centuries, and combining elements of historical and speculative fiction with the narrative drive of pure thriller, this is a breathtakingly original novel that challenges our dearly held assumptions about civilisation.A Roman road, an Iron Age hill fort, a hand-carved flint, and a cycle of violence that must be broken.
Turning for home, Barney Norris.
Once a year, every year, Robert's family come together at a rambling old house in the country to celebrate his birthday. However, this year Robert doesn't want to be reminded of what has happened since they last met, and neither, for quite different reasons, does his granddaughter Kate.
Their brilliant careers: the fantastic lives of sixteen extraordinary Australian writers, Ryan O'Neill.
Ryan O'Neill has written a hilarious novel in the guise of sixteen biographies of Australian writers. Meet Rachel Deverall, who unearthed the secret source of the great literature of our time and paid a terrible price for her discovery. Meet Rand Washington, hugely popular sci-fi author and inveterate racist. Meet Addison Tiller, master of the bush yarn, "The Chekhov of Coolabah", who never travelled outside Sydney.
The whole bright year, Debra Oswald.
Years ago, when her husband was killed as a bystander in an armed robbery, Celia left the city and brought her newborn daughter Zoe to this farm for a secure life. Now sixteen, Zoe is a passionate, intelligent girl, chafing against her mother's protectiveness, yearning to find intensity and a bit of danger. Kieran, and itinerant fruit picker from Sydney, and Zoe are drawn to each other the instant they meet, sparking excitement, worry, lust, trouble.
Trying, Emily Phillips.
A hugely funny, searingly honest comedy about to expect when you're not expecting. Olivia and Felix are trying for a baby. They even moved to the suburbs in anticipation of their future family. But despite approaching her cycle and their sex life with military precision, there's still no sign of what felt like the sure next step, whilst friends' broods seem to be growing by the week.
The school at the top of the Dale, Gervase Phinn.
Newly qualified teacher Tom Dwyer has been given his first post in Risingdale, a sleepy little village at the very top of the Yorkshire Dales. Unsure if he'll ever fit into this close-knit community, Tom joins a motley staff at the village school. With pupils who know more about sheep than they do arithmetic, Tom has his work cut out for him.
The afterlives, Thomas Pierce.
Jim Byrd died technically for a few minutes of a heart attack at age thirty. Revived with no memory of any tunnels, lights, or angels, Jim wonders what, if anything, awaits us on the other side. Then a ghost shows up.
Malacqua: four days of rain in the city of Naples waiting for the occurrence of an extraordinary event, Nicola Pugliese.
Four days of rain trigger strange events across Naples, ghostly voices are heard and musical coins appear. As a journalist searches for meaning, we follow those enduring the floods. This portrait of a much-mythologized city captivated Italy when it was first published in 1977. Withdrawn at the author's request until his death in 2012, this is its first English publication.
The missing girl, Jenny Quintana.
When Anna Flores' adored older sister goes missing as a teenager, Anna copes by disappearing too. She eventually builds a life for herself abroad. Thirty years later, the death of her mother finally forces Anna to return home. Tasked with sorting through her mother's possessions, she begins to confront not just her mother's death, but also Gabriella's disappearance and finds herself asking the question - what really happened to her sister?
In white ink, Elske Rahill.
This series of visceral stories focuses on the varying shapes of maternal experience and the violent forces of nature underlying domesticity. The stories explore the relationships between parents and children, and the double potential of those bonds to both empower and alienate.
Happiness for humans, P.Z. Reizin.
When Tom and Jen, two lonely people, are brought together by an intriguing email, they have no idea their mysterious benefactor is an artificial intelligence who has decided to play Cupid.
The heirs: a novel, Susan Rieger.
Six months after Rupert Falkes dies, leaving a grieving widow and five adult sons, an unknown woman sues his estate, claiming she had two sons by him. The Falkes brothers are pitched into turmoil, at once missing their father and feeling betrayed by him. In disconcerting contrast, their mother, Eleanor, is cool and calm, showing preternatural composure. A riveting portrait of a family, told with compassion, insight, and wit, The Heirs wrestles with the tangled nature of inheritance and legacy for one unforgettable, patrician New York family.
Me without you, Kelly Rimmer.
A story of how love can break our hearts and heal them. A book to make you smile, bring you to tears and remind you to hold on tightly to those you love.
Differently normal, Tammy Robinson.
A story about first love and the sacrifices you'll make for the ones you hold close. For Maddy, life is all about routine. It has to be, to keep her autistic sister happy and healthy. With just Maddy and her mother as Bee's full-time carers, there's no time in Maddy's life for complications like friends, let alone a boyfriend. So when Bee joins a new Riding for the Disabled stable and they meet Albert, the last thing on Maddy's mind is falling in love.
A kind of freedom: a novel, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton.
Evelyn is a Creole woman who comes of age in New Orleans at the height of World War II. Her family inhabits the upper echelon of Black society, and when she falls for no-account Renard, she is forced to choose between her life of privilege and the man she loves.
Off the record: a novel, Craig Sherborne.
Callum Smith Wordsmith is a newspaper journalist of the old school. When his marriage blows up after a night of drinking goes way too far, he is forced to leave the family home. Desperate to impress his estranged wife and feckless teenage son, he quits his job, taking a pay cut to work with a new online publication covering local crime. Will he win back his family?
Improvement: a novel, Joan Silber.
One of our most gifted writers of fiction returns with a bold and piercing novel about a young single mother living in Harlem, her eccentric aunt, and the decisions they make that have unexpected implications for the world around them.
Mr Dickens and his carol, Samantha Silva.
For Charles Dickens, each Christmas has been better than the last. His novels are literary blockbusters, avid fans litter the streets and he and his wife have five happy children and a sixth on the way. But when Dickens' latest book is a flop, the glorious life threatens to collapse around him. His publishers offer an ultimatum: either he writes a Christmas book in a month, or they will call in his debts, and he could lose everything.
Lullaby, Leïla Slimani.
She has the keys to their apartment. She knows everything. She has embedded herself so deeply in their lives that it now seems impossible to remove her. When Myriam, a French- Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to work after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect nanny for their two young children. They never dreamed they would find Louise.
Debriefing: collected stories, Susan Sontag.
A collection of short fiction from the groundbreaking essayist, novelist, and political activist includes allegories and parables as she wrestles with topics that made up her private sorrows and fears.
One good reason, Susan Stairs.
Laura has never been like other girls. She thinks about sadness rather than feeling it. Anger, jealousy, deceit, they just seem more useful.So when her family unit is shattered after a violent break-in to their home, she becomes intent on getting even.
Sunflowers & spinifex, Avan Judd Stallard.
For years Nick Harris has been drifting, until the day he finds himself surrounded by red dirt and razor wire, staring at brown-skinned men inside a refugee detention centre. He's no crusader, no bleeding-heart. It's just a job. The strange thing is, the longer Nick looks, the more normal the detainees seem, and the crazier everything around them.
Cow, Beat Sterchi.
An extraordinary Swiss-German novel about a magnificent cow and the Spanish immigrant worker who looks after her. The Cow is the story of a Spanish agricultural labourer, Ambrosio, who goes to Switzerland as a Gastarbeiter. He is bound for Innenwald, a village in the Swiss highlands, and the novel begins as he is about to spend a summer working for Farmer Knuchel.
London and the south-east: a novel, David Szalay.
Paul Rainey, the hapless antihero at the centre of this story works in ad sales. He sells space in magazines that hardly exist, and through a fog of booze and drugs dimly perceives that he is dissatisfied with his life; professionally, sexually, recreationally, the whole nine yards. If only there were something he could do about it..
The tiger and the acrobat, Susanna Tamaro.
Little Tiger is not like other tigers. Not content to spend her days alone, roaming the snow forests of Siberia hunting prey, she prefers instead to ponder the ways of the world. One day, eager to discover her own place within it, she sets out on a remarkable journey to discover the secret of life, and to meet the creatures she has heard most about: humans.
The white city, Roma Tearne.
Hera has known great loss over decades of endless winter. The first snows coincided with the arrest of her brother on terrorism charges, and since then she has witnessed the total collapse of normal life in a devastated London. Her only source of comfort through it all has been her relationship with Raphael. Now, as the thaw begins, can she at last track down her elusive lover?
Four respectable ladies seek part-time husband, Barbara Toner.
It's September 1919. The war is over, and everyone who was going to die from the flu has done so. There's a shortage of husbands and women in strife will flounder without a male to act on their behalf. And in the southern New South Wales town of Prospect, four ladies bereft of men have problems that threaten to overwhelm them.
Larkinland, Jonathan Tulloch.
Arriving in 1950s Hull, Arthur Merryweather finds himself lodging with the landlady from hell, and falling in love with fellow librarian Niamh O'Leary. But just as their love threatens to bloom, the mystery of Mr Bleaney, the enigmatic insurance salesman who rented his room before him, threatens to pull the poet into disaster.
They know not what they do, Jussi Valtonen.
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.
Going over the falls: a novel, Amy Waeschle.
Lorna Jacobs grew up surfing Hawaiis challenging waves alongside her wave-obsessed mother, Alex, until a fateful day at the Pipeline shattered their connection.
Baby boom!, Helen Wallen.
Emily is sweet, smart and a loyal friend. In love and ready to start a family, Emily can't wait to tell her best friends the great news that she's expecting. Molly, not really sure she even wants a baby finds herself pregnant, but to everyone's surprise and Emily's annoyance Molly makes it look like a breeze.
Sing, unburied, sing, Jesmyn Ward.
Jojo and his toddler sister, Kayla, live with their grandparents, Mam and Pop, and the occasional presence of their drug-addicted mother, Leonie, on a farm on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. Leonie is simultaneously tormented and comforted by visions of her dead brother, which only come to her when she's high.
Miss Jane: a novel, Brad Watson.
Inspired by the true story of his own great-aunt, he explores the life of Miss Jane Chisolm, born in rural, early-twentieth-century Mississippi with a genital birth defect that would stand in the way of the central "uses" for a woman in that time and place-namely, sex and marriage.
If the creek don't rise: a novel, Leah Weiss.
In a North Carolina mountain town filled with moonshine and rotten husbands, Sadie Blue is only the latest girl to face a dead-end future at the mercy of a dangerous drunk. But when a stranger sweeps in and knocks the world off-kilter for everyone in town, Sadie begins to think there might be more to life than being Roy's wife.
Mischief, Fay Weldon.
Waspish, wise, and wickedly witty, this is a collection to treasure forever. Reviewers have been describing Fay Weldon's inimitable voice for years. Now, here is Fay Weldon in her own words, selecting and introducing her favourite short stories from across her career as one of Britain's foremost contemporary novelists.
Before we were yours: a novel, Lisa Wingate.
In Memphis, Tennessee, 1936 the five Foss children find their lives changed forever when their parents leave them alone on the family shantyboat one stormy night. Rill Foss, just twelve years old, must protect her four younger siblings as they are wrenched from their home on the Mississippi and thrown into the care of the infamous Georgia Tann, director of the Tennessee Children's Home Society.
Red clocks: a novel, Leni Zumas.
Abortion is illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo. In a small Oregon fishing town Ro, a single high-school teacher, is trying to have a baby on her own.

GRAPHIC NOVEL

The graphic canon of children's literature: the world's great kids' lit as comics and visuals, Russ Kick.
The original three-volume anthology The Graphic Canon presented the world's classic literature from ancient times to the late twentieth century as eye-popping comics, illustrations, and other visual forms. In this follow-up, young people's literature through the ages is given new life for an adult audience by contemporary comic artists and illustrators.
The graphic canon of crime & mystery. Volume 1, From Sherlock Holmes to A Clockwork Orange to Jo Nesbø, Russ Kick.
From James M. Cain to Stephen King, from Sophocles to the Marquis de Sade to Iceberg Slim, here are stunning and sometimes macabre visualizations of some of the greatest crime and mystery stories of all time.
Platinum end. 4, Tsungumi Ohba.
Mirai and Metropoliman face off for the first time in the skies of Tokyo. But with his vow to never kill, how can Mirai hope to compete against such a ruthless opponent? And can Saki overcome her demons and become a valuable member of the team?
Goodnight Punpun. 7, Inio Asano.
This is Punpun Onodera s coming-of-age story. His parents marriage is falling apart. His dad goes to jail and his mom goes to the hospital. He has to live with his loser uncle and has a crush on a girl who lives in a weird cult.
Jessica Jones. [2], The secrets of Maria Hill, Brian Michael Bendis.
Jessica Jones is back where she belongs in her own comic, and taking on cases as Alias Investigations! But as the most dangerous book on the stands digs even deeper into the new mysteries of the Marvel Universe, Jessica has uncovered a truly startling secret.
Kill or be killed. Volume three, Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, Elizabeth Breitweiser.
Brubaker and Phillips best-selling series ratchets up the tension and violence as Dylan escalates his assault on the Russian Mafia, putting his secret and the lives of his friends at risk.
Conan the Slayer. [2], The Devil in Iron, Cullen Bunn.
Astro City. Ordinary heroes, Kurt Busiek.
The green hand and other stories, Nicole Claveloux with Edith Zha
I am a hero. Omnibus 5, Kengo Hanazawa.
Princess Jellyfish. 06, Akiko Higashimura.
Princess Jellyfish. 07, Akiko Higashimura.
Attack on Titan. 23, Hajime Isayama.
Kakegurui. 1, Homura Kawamoto.
Kakegurui. 3, Homura Kawamoto.
The walking dead. Here's Negan!, Robert Kirkman.
Black Hammer. [2], The event, Jeff Lemire.
When a visitor from the outside world arrives on the Farm, looking for the Black Hammer and bringing news of Spiral City to its Golden Age heroes, everything changes. Her arrival stirs up old memories and awakens new hope in the marooned heroes and they make a new attempt to escape their strange prison.
Descender. Book five. Rise of the robots, Jeff Lemire.
The universe is on the brink of war and the young android TIM-21 has somehow found himself at the center of it all. As his allies and enemies gather above the ocean planet, Mata, nothing can prepare TIM for the secrets that lie hidden below the alien seas.
Voices in the dark, Ulli Lust.
Dark souls: legends of the flame, George Mann.
In a realm where hollowed champions rise and fall with the ages, where brave knights quest for absolution and bonfires blaze against the everdark, myth and legend will forever prevail.
My lesbian experience with loneliness, Nagata Kabi.
Blame! 6, Tsutomu Nihei.
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Golden kamuy. 3, Satoru Noda.
Inuyashiki. 8, Hiroya Oku.
Inuyashiki. 9, Hiroya Oku.
The Tea Dragon Society, Katie O'Neill.
After discovering a lost Tea Dragon in the marketplace, apprentice blacksmith Greta learns about the dying art form of Tea Dragon caretaking from the kind tea shop owners.
Ian Fleming's James Bond. Felix Leiter, James Robinson.,
Umineko when they cry. Episode 7, Requiem of the golden witch. 1, Ryukishi07.
Complex age. 6, Yui Sakuma.
Sweet blue flowers. 2, Takako Shimura.
Curse words. Volume 2, Explosiontown, Charles Soule & Ryan Browne.
Food wars!: shokugeki no soma. 20, Frozen thoughts, Yuto Tsukuda.
Food wars!: shokugeki no soma. 21, Yuto Tsukuda.
Saga. [Volume eight], Fiona Staples.
The invisible war: a tale on two scales, Briony Barr & Gregory Crocetti.
Justice League vs. Suicide Squad, Joshua Williamson, Tim Seeley, Rob Williams, Si Spurrier.

HISTORICAL

Carnegie's maid: a novel, Marie Benedict.
Clara Kelley is not who they think she is. She's not the experienced Irish maid who was hired to work in one of Pittsburgh's grandest households. She's a poor farmer's daughter with nowhere to go and nothing in her pockets. But the other woman with the same name has vanished, and pretending to be her just might get Clara some money to send back home.
The revolution of the moon, Andrea Camilleri.
From his deathbed, Charles III's viceroy, Anielo de Guzmany Carafa, Marquis of Castle Rodrigo, names his wife, Dona Eleonora, as his successor. Eleonora de Moura is a highly intelligent and capable woman who immediately applies her political acumen to heal the scarred soul of Palermo, a city afflicted by poverty, misery, and the frequent uprisings they entail.
The wicked cometh, Laura Carlin.
The year is 1831.Down murky alleyways and in filthy hovels, acts of unspeakable wickedness take place and vulnerable people begin to disappear from the streets. Out of these shadows comes Hester White, a young woman who is desperate to escape the slums by any means possible.
Sudden death, Alvaro Enrigue.
Over the course of one dazzling tennis match; through assassinations and executions, carnal liaisons and papal dramas, artistic and religious revolutions, love and war, Sudden Death tells the grand adventure of the clash of empires and the dawn of the modern era.
The revolution of Marina M., Janet Fitch.
Marina Makarova is a woman of privilege who aches to break free of the constraints of her genteel life. Swept up on the tides of the Russian Revolution, Marina joins the marches for workers' rights, falls in love with a radical young poet, and betrays everything she holds dear, before being betrayed in turn.
The other Alcott, Elise Hooper.
We all know the story of the March sisters, heroines of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. But while everyone cheers on Jo March, based on Louisa herself, Amy March is often the least favorite sister. Now, it's time to learn the truth about the real "Amy," Louisa's sister, May.
The silent governess, Julie Klassen.
Olivia Keene is fleeing her own secret. She never intended to overhear his. But now that she has, what is Lord Bradley to do with her? He cannot let her go, for were the truth to get out, he would lose everything; his reputation, his inheritance, his very home.
The art of preserving love, Ada Langton.
Set in Ballarat, 1905. The gossips call 19-year-old Edie Cottingham the 'Too Girl' - too stubborn, too outspoken, and too modern to get a husband. But Edie does not care. She is determined to defy them all and find love with Theo Hooley, the gentle church organist and veteran of the African Boer war.
The traitor's wife: the woman behind Benedict Arnold and the plan to betray America: a novel, Allison Pataki.
Socialite Peggy Shippen is half Benedict Arnold's age when she seduces the war hero during his stint as military commander of Philadelphia. Blinded by his young bride's beauty and wit, Arnold does not realize that she harbors a secret: loyalty to the British. Nor does he know that she hides a past romance with a handsome British spy.
Out of the ashes, Tracie Peterson and Kimberly Woodhouse.
After the death of their father, Collette and Jean-Michel Langelier are no longer tied to post-war France. While his sister dreams of adventure, Jean- Michel is hoping to finally escape reminders of the horrors he faced in the war. When Jean-Michel receives an unexpected invitation for them to visit Alaska and the Curry Hotel, it seems an opportunity for a change he needs.
Imperial vengeance, Ian Ross.
Aurelius Castus is one of the leading military commanders of an empire riven by civil war. As the emperor Constantine grows ever more ruthless in his pursuit of power, Castus fears that the world he knows is slipping away. On the eve of the war's final campaign, Castus discovers that the emperor's son Crispus aims to depose his father and restore the old ways of Rome. He must choose between honour and survival, and face a final confrontation with emperor Constantine himself.
Mr Rochester, Sarah Shoemaker.
Uncover the secrets of Edward Fairfax Rochester, the beloved, enigmatic hero of Jane Eyre, as he tells his story for the first time in Mr Rochester, Sarah Shoemaker's gorgeous retelling of one of the most romantic stories in literature.
Beautiful star & other stories, Andrew Swanston.
History is brought alive by the people it affects, rather than those who created it. In Beautiful Star we meet Eilmer, a monk in 1010 with Icarus-like dreams; Charles I, hiding in 1651, and befriended by a small boy; the trial of Jane Wenham, witch of Walkern, seen through the eyes of her grand-daughter. This is a moving and affecting journey through time, bringing a new perspective to the defence of Corfe Castle, the battle of Waterloo, the siege of Toulon and, in the title story, the devastating dangers of the life of the sea in 1875.
The hills of gold unchanging, Lizzi Tremayne.
In this sequel to A Long Trail Rolling, Aleksandra and Xavier's saga continues over the Pony Express Trail through the mining camps of 1860's Nevada and California, the Sacramento floods and Old San Fran to Xavier's family hacienda, the Californio Rancho de las Pulgas.
The last hours, Minette Walters.
When the Black Death enters England through the port of Melcombe in Dorseteshire in June 1348, no one knows what manner of sickness it is or how it spreads and kills so quickly. The Church cites God as the cause, and religious fear grips the people as they come to believe that the plague is a punishment for wickedness.

HORROR

Ghost: 100 stories to read with the lights on, Chosen by Louise Welsh.
100 scary stories to read with the light on, selected and introduced by award-winning author Louise Welsh. Haunted houses, mysterious counts, weeping widows and restless souls, here is the definitive anthology of all that goes bump in the night.
House of echoes: a novel, Brendan Duffy.
Ben and Caroline Tierney had it all until Ben's second novel missed the mark, Caroline lost her lucrative banking job, and something went wrong with 8-year-old Charlie. They move to Swannhaven, a town that seems to have been forgotten by time, and begin to realize they might have made their worst mistake yet. What dark secret is buried in this odd place? and will Ben and Caroline figure it out soon enough to save their young family?
The Pilo Family Circus, Will Elliott.
Jamie is plunged into the horrific alternate universe of the Pilo Family Circus, a borderline world between Hell and Earth from which humankind's greatest tragedies have been perpetuated.
Into the drowning deep, Mira Grant.
Seven years ago Atagaris set off on a voyage to the Mariana Trench to film a "mockumentary" bringing to life ancient sea creatures of legend. It was lost at sea with all hands.The ambitious young scientist Victoria Stewart tries to uncover the fate of the sister she lost. Whatever the truth may be, it will only be found below the waves.
Anno Dracula. 1899, One thousand monsters, Kim Newman.
In 1899 Genevieve Dieudonne travels to Japan with a group of vampires exiled from Great Britain by Prince Dracula. They are allowed to settle in Yokai Town, the district of Tokyo set aside for Japan's own vampires.
Lovecraft country: a novel, Matt Ruff.
When his father Montrose goes missing, Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his Uncle George publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide and his childhood friend Letitia. On their journey to the manor of Mr. Braithwhite, heir to the estate that owned one of Atticus's ancestors, they encounter both mundane terrors of white America and malevolent spirits that seem straight out of the weird tales George devours.
What the hell did I just read: a novel of cosmic horror, David Wong.
Dave, John and Amy recount what seems like a fairly straightforward tale of a shape-shifting creature from another dimension that is stealing children and brainwashing their parents, but it eventually becomes clear that someone is lying, and that someone is the narrators.

MYSTERY

The Polish detective, Hania Allen.
Polish-born detective Dania Gorska, seconded to Dundee's Specialist Crime Division, is called to investigate three murders in which the bodies of the victims are posed in bizarre ways, with clues pointing to a druidic cult something which her investigative journalist brother Marek is pursuing for his paper.
Head case, Ross Armstrong.
Tom Mondrian is the last person you want on your case. And the only one who can solve it, in this quirky psychological thriller. Tom Mondrian's perfectly happy as a PCSO directing traffic, until a bullet to the brain changes everything.
City without stars, Tim Baker.
In Ciudad Real, Mexico, women are being thrown into the trash; raped, murdered and mutilated. The police have reported 300 deaths of young maquiladora girls from the factories, yet not found a single clue or suspect. But union agitator Pilar knows the number of deaths is more like 800, and that the lazy and corrupt police are the least likely to resolve the situation. Can the Pilar and Fuentes, a police officer, expose the truth when so many around them want to bury it?
Zen and the art of murder: a Black Forest investigation, Oliver Bottini.
Louise Boni, maverick chief inspector with the Black Forest crime squad, is struggling with her demons. Divorced at forty-two, she is haunted by the shadows of the past. Dreading yet another a dreary winter weekend alone, she receives a call from the departmental chief which signals the strangest assignment of her career.
I did it for us, Alison Bruce.
Cherry's instincts tell her that best friend Joanne's new boyfriend is bad news. Cherry fears for Joanne. Fears for Joanne's children. But Joanne won't listen because she's in love. So Cherry watches, and waits and then she makes a choice. But Cherry has a past, and secrets too. Is she really as good a friend to Joanne as she claims?
The ghosts of Galway, Ken Bruen.
Jack Taylor is recovering from a mistaken medical diagnosis and a failed suicide attempt. In need of money, and with former cop on his resume, Jack has been hired as a night-shift security guard. But his Ukrainian boss wants Jack to find what some claim to be the first true book of heresy, The Red Book, currently in the hands of a rogue priest who is hiding out in Galway after fleeing a position at the Vatican.
This I would kill for, Anne Buist.
Natalie King has been hired to do a psychiatric evaluation for the children's court. A custody dispute. Turns out Jenna and Malik's break-up is anything but simple. He claims she's crazy and compulsive; she claims he's been abusing their daughter Chelsea. But what if all the claims are true? Or none? How can Natalie protect the child?
The last good place, Robin Burcell.
Sgt. Al Krug and his younger, college-educated partner Casey Kellog are investigating a string of strangulation killings when another victim is found at the Presidio but a surprising, violent incident at the crime scene makes them wonder if everything is what it seems.
The wife: a novel of psychological suspense, Alafair Burke.
Jason has become a celebrated liberal figurehead, placing his wife Angela near the spotlight. When a college intern makes an accusation against Jason, and another woman, Kerry Lynch, comes forward with an even more troubling allegation, their perfect life begins to unravel. Jason insists he is innocent, but increasingly Angela is forced to ask how well she ever really knew her husband,
The pyramid of mud, Andrea Camilleri.
A body is discovered in a large sewage tunnel, half naked and with a bullet in his back. The investigation is slow and slippery to start with, but when Montalbano realizes that every clue he uncovers and every person he interviews is leading to the same place: the world of public spending and with it, the Mafia the case begins to pick up pace.
Bad sister, Sam Carrington.
Stephanie is scared for her life. Her psychologist, Connie Summers, wants to help her face her fears, but Connie will never really understand her. Stephanie's past has been wiped away for her own protection. When a mutilated body is dumped in plain sight, it will have devastating consequences for both women. Who is the victim? Who is to blame? Who is next?
Life of crime, Kimberley Chambers.
Dragged up on a council estate, Jason Rampling was determined to change his lot. Life is easy when the money rolls in. However, after a stretch inside Jason wants to pull off just one last job, the biggest of all, it could solve all of his problems. But this is a game that could cost them everything.
Nucleus, Rory Clements.
Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory is where the atom was split in 1932. Might the Cambridge men now win the race for a nuclear bomb? Hitler's generals need to be sure they know all the Cavendish's secrets. Only then will it be safe for Germany to wage war. When one of the Cavendish's finest brains is murdered, Professor Tom Wilde is once more drawn into the investigation.
A murder to die for, Stevyn Colgan.
When hordes of people descend on the picturesque village of Nasely for the annual celebration of its most famous resident, murder mystery writer Agnes Crabbe, events take a dark turn as the festival opens with a shocking death.
The guilty wife, Elle Croft.
Bethany Reston is happily married. But she's also having an affair with a famous client. And no one can ever know. When Bethany's lover is brutally murdered, she has to hide her grief from everyone…but someone knows her secret.
Dark pines, Will Dean.
An isolated Swedish town. A deaf reporter terrified of nature. A dense spruce forest overdue for harvest. A pair of eyeless hunters found murdered in the woods. When Tuva Moodyson investigates the story that could make her career she stumbles on a web of secrets that knit Gavrik town together.
Under cold stone: a Constable Molly Smith mystery, Vicky Delany.
Paul Keller was enjoying a vacation in the Rocky Mountains with his girlfriend Lucky Smith when his estranged son called begging for help. Paul and Lucky arrive at Matt's appartment only to find a body on the floor and Matt long gone.
This is how it ends, Eva Dolan.
This is how it begins. With a near-empty building, the inhabitants forced out of their homes by property developers. With two women: idealistic, impassioned blogger Ella and seasoned campaigner, Molly. With a body hidden in a lift shaft. But how will it end?
Shadow man: a novel, Alan Drew.
Detective Ben Wade has returned to his home town in Southern California in search of a quieter life and to try and save his marriage. Suddenly, the community, with its peaceful streets and neighbourly concerns, finds itself at the mercy of a serial killer who slips through windows and screen doors at night, shattering illusions of safety.
Much ado about murder, Elizabeth J. Duncan.
When the up-and-coming new British director for the Catskills Shakespeare Theater Company's production of "Much Ado About Nothing" is found dead, a presumed suicide, costume designer Charlotte Fairfax investigates.
The night trade, Barry Eisler.
For sex-crimes detective Livia Lone, a position with a government anti-trafficking task force is a chance to go back to Thailand to ferret out Rithisak Sorm, the trafficking kingpin behind her own childhood ordeal. But after a planned takedown in a nightclub goes violently awry, Livia discovers that she's not the only one hunting Sorm.
The deep dark descending, Allen Eskens.
Homicide Detective Max Rupert never fully accepted his wife's death, even when he believed that a reckless hit and run driver was the cause. But when he learns that in fact she was murdered, he devotes himself to hunting down her killers.
The woman in the window, A. J. Finn.
Anna Fox lives alone a recluse in her New York City home, drinking too much wine, watching old movies and spying on her neighbours. Then the Russells move next door: a father, a mother, their teenaged son. The perfect family. But when Anna sees something she shouldn't, her world begins to crumble. What is real? What is imagined? Who is in danger? Who is in control?
Sweet little lies, Caz Frear.
In 1998, Maryanne Doyle disappeared and was never seen again. Dad lied about knowing Maryanne Doyle. Alice Lapaine has been found strangled near Dad's pub. Dad was in the local area for both Maryanne Doyle's disappearance and Alice Lapaine's murder. Connection? Trust cuts both ways; what do you do when it's gone?
Into the black nowhere, Meg Gardiner.
In southern Texas, on Saturday nights, women are disappearing. One vanishes from a movie theater. Another is ripped from her car at a stoplight. Another vanishes from her home while checking on her baby. Rookie FBI agent Caitlin Hendrix, newly assigned to the FBI's elite Behavioral Analysis Unit, fears that a serial killer is roaming the dark roads outside Austin.
Look for me, Lisa Gardner.
Detective DD Warren and Flora Dane are in a race against time to save a young girl's life, or bring her to justice. A family home has become a crime scene. Five people are involved, four of them have been savagely murdered; one, a sixteen-year-old girl, is missing. Was she lucky to have escaped? Or is her absence evidence of something sinister?
A dangerous language, Sulari Gentill.
When Rowland Sinclair volunteers his services as a pilot to fly the renowned international peace advocate, Egon Kisch, between Fremantle and Melbourne, he is unaware of how hard Australia's new Attorney General will fight to keep the "raging reporter" off Australian soil. A Communist agent is murdered on the steps of Parliament House and Rowland finds himself drawn into a dangerous world of politics and assassination.
Auntie Poldi and the fruits of the Lord, Mario Giordano.
Wine and murder nothing is more likely to rouse Auntie Poldi's love of the chase. Poldi is alive to the faintest whiff of criminality. What to others might seem a series of misfortunes the water supply cut off, a poisoned dog is clearly, to Poldi, an escalation: the Mafia have had her in their sights ever since she solved Valentino's murder.
Deadly cure: a novel, Lawrence Goldstone.
Dr. Noah Whitestone is called urgently to his wealthy neighbor's house to treat a five-year-old boy with a shocking set of symptoms. When the child dies suddenly later that night, Noah is accused by the boy's regular physician, the powerful and politically connected Dr. Arnold Frias, of prescribing a lethal dose of laudanum. To prove his innocence, Noah must investigate the murder.
Into the thinnest of air, Simon R. Green.
Ishmael Jones and his partner Penny are attending the re-opening of Tyrone's Castle, an ancient Cornish inn originally built by smugglers. Over dinner that night, the guests entertain one another with ghost stories inspired by local legends and superstitions. But it would appear that the curse of Tyrone's Castle has struck for real when one of their number disappears into thin air.
The dark angel, Elly Griffiths.
Dr Ruth Galloway receives a letter from Italian archaeologist Dr Angelo Morelli, asking for her help. He's discovered a group of bones in a tiny hilltop village near Rome but doesn't know what to make of them. In the town she finds a baffling Roman mystery and a dark secret involving the war years and the Resistance.
Save me, Mandasue Heller.
When Ellie Fisher misses her train home one night, she has no idea that being in the right place at the wrong time will change her life forever.
Punishment, Anne Holt.
A serial killer is on the loose in Norway - a killer of the worst kind. He is abducting children and murdering them - in an undetectable way that confounds the police. He then returns the child's body to the mother with a desperately cruel note.
Hellbent, Gregg Hurwitz.
Evan Smoak was raised inside a top secret government programme and trained to become a lethal weapon. And yet for all the dangerous skill he instilled in his young charge, Jack Jones cared for Evan like a son. But Jack knew too much about a programme that had gone rotten; he was a loose end that needed to be dealt with.
The surrogate, Louise Jensen.
Kat and her husband Nick have tried everything to become parents, and are on the point of giving up. Then a chance encounter with a childhood friend Lisa gives Kat and Nick one last chance to achieve their dream. But there is more to Lisa than meets the eye.
Earth storm, Mons Kellentoft.
In the early hours of the morning, the naked body of a young man is discovered in a ditch next to Gota Kanal. The cause of death is mysterious; the body bears no visible traces of violence. The man is soon identified as Peder Akerlund, a former Swedish politician, excluded from his party for racism but since reformed.
A face to die for, Andrea Kane.
When Gia Russo sees a photo of a Minneapolis woman who looks exactly like her, their Facebook exchanges blossom into a long-distance friendship. They agree to meet in New York and bond over a feeling that they share more than just a visual resemblance. DNA testing confirms that they're identical twins and raises more questions than answers.
Night moves, Jonathan Kellerman.
LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis knows there are crimes his skill and savvy cannot solve alone. That's when he calls on brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware to read between the lines, where the darkest motives lurk. There's no spilled blood, no evidence of a struggle, and, thanks to the victim's missing face and hands, no immediate means of identification.
The language of secrets, Ausma Zehanat Khan.
Detective Esa Khattak heads up Canada's Community Policing Section, which handles minority-sensitive cases across all levels of law enforcement. Khattak is still under scrutiny for his last case, so he's surprised when INSET, Canada's federal intelligence agency, calls him in to investigate a local terrorist cell which is planning an attack on New Year's Day.
Murder lies waiting: a Rose McQuinn mystery, Alanna Knight.
For Rose McQuinn the invitation to holiday at a luxury hotel on the isle of Bute is an unexpected delight until she discovers the real reason is to investigate a twenty year old non-proven murder case.
The girl in the woods, Camilla Lackberg.
When a four-year-old girl disappears in the woods, the community is horror-struck. Thirty years ago, a young girl went missing from the exact same spot, and was later discovered, murdered. Back then, two teenage girls were found guilty of the killing. Could it really be a coincidence that one of the girls, now a world-famous actress, has just returned?
Black out, John Lawton.
The Blitz, London 1944. As the Luftwaffe make their last desperate assault on the city, in the East End children lead police to a charred, dismembered corpse buried in a bombsite. The victim is German and it soon becomes clear that this is no ordinary murder.
Old flames, John Lawton.
The body of a Royal navy diver floats near a Russian battleship in Portsmouth, giving every excuse for both sides to refreeze the Cold War. Inspector Troy's investigation leads him to the rotten heart of MI6 and into the path of an old flame.
Riptide, John Lawton.
After ten years spying for the Americans, Wolfgang Stahl disappears during a Berlin air raid in 1941. The Germans think he's dead. The British know he's not.
The body on the doorstep, A. J. Mackenzie.
Kent, 1796. Shocked to discover a dying man on his doorstep and lucky to avoid a bullet himself Reverend Hardcastle finds himself entrusted with the victim's cryptic last words. With smuggling rife on England's south-east coast, the obvious conclusion is that a dodgy deal has gone wrong. But why is the leader of the local Customs service so reluctant to investigate?
Scorched earth, David Mark.
The police think Crystal Heathers isn't missing. The trainee detective assigned to the case isn't so sure. McAvoy thinks someone was being held at the derelict building where they just found a body pinned to the wall and that all the signs point to it being a little girl. But why would anyone not report a kidnapping? And how far would someone go to get revenge?
Blood sisters, Graham Masterton.
In a nursing home on the outskirts of Cork, an elderly nun has been suffocated in her sleep. It looks like a mercy-killing until another sister from the same convent is found floating in the Glashaboy river. The nuns were good women, doing God's work. Why would anyone want to kill them? But then a child's skull is unearthed in the garden of the nuns' convent, and DS Katie Maguire discovers a fifty-year-old secret that just might lead her to the killer if the killer doesn't find her first.
Living death, Graham Masterton.
DS Katie Maguire and her team are stretched to their limit. A gang of dognappers is terrorising Cork. The city's drug trade is at an all time high. Now they have a missing girl to find too, and all in the glare of the media spotlight. As Katie closes in on the truth, she realises that the three cases might be connected. But with every second she spends investigating, the clock ticks on for the missing girl, trapped in a living death.
Red light, Graham Masterton.
An unknown killer is attacking the pimps of Cork. DC Katie Maguire's job is to find the killer. But can she bring the killer to justice, or will her conscience demand that the killer remain free to find more victims?
Taken for dead, Graham Masterton.
It is a sunny Saturday in county Cork, and an Irish wedding is in full swing. No one could predict that the cutting of the cake would bring this wedding to a horrifying end. The severed head of Micky Crounan, local baker, is grinning gruesomely up from the bottom tier of his own cake.
White bones, Graham Masterton.
One wet November morning, a field on Meagher's Farm gives up the dismembered bones of 11 women. In this part of Ireland, unmarked graves are common, but these bones date to 1915, long before the Troubles. What's more, these bones bear the marks of a meticulous executioner. These women were almost certainly skinned alive.
I'll keep you safe, Peter May.
Husband and wife Niamh and Ruairidh Macfarlane co-own Ranish Tweed: a Hebridean company that weaves its own special variety of Harris cloth, which has become a sought- after brand in the world of high fashion. But when Niamh learns of Ruairidh's affair with Russian designer Irina Vetrov, then witnesses the pair killed by a car bomb in Paris, her life is left in ruins.
Anything you do say, Gillian McAllister.
Joanna is an avoider. So far she has spent her adult life hiding bank statements and changing career aspirations weekly. But then one night Joanna hears footsteps on the way home. Is she being followed? She is sure it's him; the man from the bar who wouldn't leave her alone.
Death in the stacks, Jenn McKinlay.
Lindsey Norris and her staff are gearing up for the Briar Creek Library's annual Dinner in the Stacks fund-raiser. The night of the fundraiser a dead body is found.
The frozen woman, Jon Michelet.
In the depths of the Norwegian winter, a woman's frozen corpse is discovered in the garden of a notorious ex-lawyer, Vilhelm Thygesen. She has been stabbed to death. A young biker, a member of a gang once represented by the lawyer, is found dead in suspicious circumstances.
The perfect stranger: a novel, Megan Miranda.
A journalist sets out to find a missing friend, a friend who may never have existed at all.
The night market, Jonathan Moore.
A man is found dead in one of the city's luxury homes. Homicide detective Ross Carver arrives at the scene when six FBI agents burst in and forcibly remove him from the premises. Two days later, Carver wakes in his bed to find Mia, a neighbour he's hardly ever spoken to, reading aloud to him. He has no recollection of the crime scene, no memory of how he got home, and no idea that two days have passed.
Games with the dead, James Nally.
Life is about to get complicated for DC Donal Lynch when a young woman is kidnapped, Donal is brought in to deliver the ransom money. But the tightly-planned drop off goes wrong, Julie Draper is discovered dead, and Donal finds his job on the line, a scapegoat for the officers in charge.
Like lions, Brian Panowich.
Clayton Burroughs is sheriff of Bull Mountain, last surviving member of the brutal and blood-steeped Burroughs clan. It's been a year since a rogue government agent systematically crippled the family's criminal empire, leaving two brothers dead and Clayton broken and haunted by wounds that may never heal. Now Bull Mountain is vulnerable, ripe for predators wanting to re-establish the flow of dope and money through the town.
Bloody January, Alan Parks.
An exciting, evocative noir novel set in 1973 Glasgow, a city on the cusp of a heroin epidemic, featuring detective Harry McCoy. When an 18-year-old boy shoots a young woman dead in the middle of a busy Glasgow street and then commits suicide, McCoy knows it can't be a random act of violence.
Undertow, Anthony J. Quinn.
Detective Celcius Daly is plunged into an investigation that reveals Northern Ireland's darkest days aren't over yet. A policeman's suicide leads Inspector Celcius Daly across the Irish border and into a labyrinth of lies and corruption.
Dark in death, J.D. Robb.
On a chilly February night, during a screening of Psycho in midtown, someone sunk an ice pick into the back of Chanel Rylan's neck, then disappeared quietly into the crowds of drunks and tourists in Times Square.
The stakes, Ben Sanders.
Rip-offs are a dangerous game, but NYPD robbery detective Miles Keller thinks he's found a good strategy: rip off rich New York criminals and then retire early, before word's out about his true identity. New town, new name, no worries.. The NYPD is investigating him for the shooting of a hitman named Jack Deen.
The interior: a novel, Lisa See.
The Interior brings back the duo of Chinese police detective Liu Hulan and her lover, American attorney David Stark. This time, for Hulan, the case is alarmingly personal, unearthing her own buried past and a stunning network of violence and conspiracy.
Two days gone, Randall Silvis.
The perfect family. The perfect house. The perfect life. All gone now. What could cause a man, when all the stars of fortune are shining upon him, to suddenly snap and destroy everything he has built? This is the question that haunts Sergeant Ryan DeMarco after the wife and children of beloved college professor and bestselling author Thomas Huston are found slaughtered in their home.
Walking the bones, Randall Silvis.
Ryan DeMarco's has decided to take a leave of absence from the Pennsylvania State Police and head out on an extended road trip with Jayme, his former colleague and present girlfriend, In Jayme's tiny hometown for her grandmother's funeral, they're quickly recruited to help solve a long-dead case involving seven skeletons of young girls.
Unholy city: a Claire Codella mystery, Carrie Smith.
Despite their rocky history, Detective Claire Codella and Precinct Detective Brian Haggerty come together when senior churchwarden Philip Graves bloody body is found lying in the herb garden of historic St. Pauls Episcopal Church on Manhattans Upper West Side.
Her beautiful monster, Adi Tantimedh.
When Ravi's colleagues at Golden Sentinels discover that he sees gods in moments of heightened anxiety and stress, they are surprisingly fine with it. They even encourage him to incorporate his visions into his work, especially now that the cases have become more intense, with many hidden risks at play. But their latest case; a search for a dead Russian oligarch's last will and testament, leads to more than anyone expected.
Fatal crossing, Lone Theils.
When a picture of two Danish girls who disappeared on a boat bound for England in 1985 surfaces in an old suitcase, journalist Nora Sands professional curiosity is immediately awakened. Before she knows it, she is mixed up in the case of a serial killer serving a life sentence in a notorious prison.
Perfect criminals, Jimmy Thomson.
Danny Clay is working as a scriptwriter. His best mate and editor is Vietnamese neighbour and script editor Zan who may or may not have killed a man with her bare hands. When their writer friends start dying in mysterious circumstances, Danny must resurrect his old army sapper skills to prevent himself and Zan becoming the next victims.
The Chalk Man, C. J. Tudor.
It all started on the day of the fair and the terrible accident. When twelve-year-old Eddie first met the Chalk Man. It was the Chalk Man who gave Eddie the idea for the drawings: a way to leave secret messages between his group of friends. And it was fun, to start with, until the figures led them to the body of a young girl.
The fountain in the forest, Tony White.
When a brutally murdered man is found hanging in a theatre, Detective Sergeant Rex King becomes obsessed with the case. Who is this anonymous corpse, and why has he been ritually mutilated? But as Rex explores the crime scene further, the mystery deepens, and he finds himself confronting his own secret history instead.
The English wife, Lauren Willig.
Annabelle and Bayard Van Duyvil live a charmed life in 1890s New York: he's the scion of an old Knickerbocker family, she grew up in a Tudor house in England. Yes, there are rumors that she's having an affair with an architect, but rumors are rumors, and people will gossip. When Bayard is found dead with a knife in his chest on the night of their Twelfth Night Ball, Annabelle goes missing, presumed drowned, and the papers go mad.
Grist Mill Road: a novel, Christopher J. Yates.
The year is 1982; the setting, an Edenic hamlet some ninety miles north of New York City. Three friend Patrick, Matthew, and Hannah, are bound together by a terrible and seemingly senseless crime. Twenty-six years later, in New York City, living lives their younger selves never could have predicted, the three meet again, with even more devastating results.

ROMANCE

The Christmas room, Catherine Anderson.
In Rustlers Gulch, widow Maddie McLendon begins to have second thoughts about uprooting her life to move there with her son and grandson. Contractors have yet to break ground on their new house, leaving them to live in a makeshift camp of trailers, tents, and sheds. Millionaire rancher Sam Conacher doesn't take kindly to his foolish new neighbors, but then he hasn't taken kindly to anyone since his wife died six years earlier.
A tide too high: a novel, Carole Brungar.
A novel about two people from different worlds who find a soul mate in each other and almost lose everything in the process.
One more song, Nicki Edwards.
Harrison Baxter and Edwina Campbell lead completely different lives. Much has changed for Harry since he escaped his home town of Yallambah ten years ago, headed for the bright lights of the big city. Now he's the star of Melbourne's hottest musical, chasing only the next standing ovation. Why bother going back to Yallambah to visit his parents when his father couldn't care less about his success?
Duke of storm, Gaelen Foley.
Set in London, 1817, roguish Major Connor Forbes has just received the surprise of a lifetime. After returning from the front lines of the Napoleonic Wars, the Irish-born warrior has just learned he's the heir to an English dukedom. The only problem? The last three Dukes of Amberley all died under very mysterious circumstances, and before long, Connor is convinced that someone is trying to kill him.
Where the Murray River runs, Darry Fraser.
Ard O'Rourke is Linley Seymour's perfect man. They've known each other since they were children and she has never wanted anyone else. But when she discovers Ard has fathered a child with another woman, her dreams turn to dust. When Linley and her Aunt Cee Cee run a women's refuge, Linley finds herself unexpectedly and painfully the guardian of Ard's baby.
Two weeks 'til Christmas, Laura Greaves.
Claire Thorne never expected to be heading home for Christmas in Bindallarah the small country town she left behind thirteen years ago and spends every day trying to forget. But then again she never expected fate to bring Scotty, her oldest friend and first love back into her life.
Holiday in the Hamptons, Sarah Morgan.
Felicity Knight loves New York, but when she spots her ex-husband in the city, Fliss is desperate to escape! Vet Set Carlyle is back from California to establish his own practice and settle down. When he learns that his ex Fliss still lives close by, that future is looking a whole lot brighter.
Moonlight over Manhattan, Sarah Morgan.
Determined to conquer a lifetime of shyness, Harriet Knight challenges herself to do one thing a day in December that scares her, including celebrating Christmas without her family. But when dog walker Harriet meets her newest client, exuberant spaniel Madi, she adds an extra challenge to her list dealing with Madi's temporary dog sitter, gruff doctor Ethan Black, and their very unexpected chemistry.

SAGA

The girls from the local, Rosie Archer.
Ruby Garett has been living and working at the Point of No Return pub since her parents were killed by a bomb. She loves the bustle of the pub as it helps take her mind off worrying about her fiance, Joe, away fighting in France. The only thing Ruby doesn't like about the Point is Sylvie.
Greyfriars House, Emma Fraser.
On a remote Scottish island sits Greyfriars House, a house haunted by unspoken words and family mysteries. But once it was a happy and comforting place and in the summer of 1939, family and friends gather to forget their fears about the impending war.
Hattie's home, Mary Gibson.
Three very different women struggle to make their way against incredible hardship in post-war South London. These women will forge a bond that will ultimately allow each of them to overcome crippling grief, harsh prejudice and post-war deprivation.
The great alone, Kristin Hannah.
Lenora Allbright is 13 when her father convinces her mother, Cora, to forgo their inauspicious existence in Seattle and move to Kaneq, AK. It's 1974, and the former Vietnam POW sees a better future away from the noise and nightmares that plague him.
The orphans of Ardwick, Emma Hornby.
After a cold, hard winter on the streets, three orphans are about to give up hope when an unexpected turn of events brings them to the doorstep of Bracken House. Taken in by the firm but kind-hearted cook, the young friends can hardly believe their luck. But behind Bracken House's impressive facade lies a household steeped in troubles and mystery, with residents above and below stairs battling their own demons and dark secrets.
One kind man, Anna Jacobs.
Finn Carlisle loses his wife and unborn child, and when he eventually decides to settle down again, his great-uncle dies and leaves him Heythorpe House in Ellindale. Finn finds a village of people in dire need of jobs, a house that hasn't been lived in for 30 years and Reggie, and an eleven-year-old who's run away from the nearby orphanage and its brutal Director Buddle.
Believe in me, Susan Lewis.
Leanne and her teenage daughter Abby have recently been forced to move from London back to Kesterley-on-Sea, to Ash Morley Farm where Leanne grew up. Leanne's husband Jack, Abby's father, killed himself over a year ago, and the pair are still reeling from the shock waves caused by the tragedy.
The lost daughter of India, Sharon Maas.
When Caroline meets Kamal the attraction is instant. He's enchanting, charismatic and she can't wait to set up a new life with him in India. Both their families are against the union but Caroline is convinced they'll come round, especially when she gives birth to a beautiful daughter, Asha.
Molly's Christmas orphans, Carol Rivers.
Molly Swift, at 27, has already suffered the tragic loss of her two-year-old daughter Emily, to the flu outbreak of 1935. Now she waits for news of her shopkeeper husband Ted, who volunteered at the outbreak of war, for the British Expeditionary Forces.
Fall from grace, Danielle Steel.
Sydney Wells's perfect life with her wealthy, devoted husband vanishes when he dies suddenly in an accident. Widowed at forty-nine, she discovers he has failed to include her in his will. With Andrew's vicious daughters in control of his estate, and no home or money, Sydney finds a job in fashion, despite her own designer daughters' warnings.
From the stars above, Peter Watt.
For a hundred years they have never forgiven, never forgotten. Now, the war between the Duffy and Macintosh dynasties will be brought to its stunning conclusion.

SCIENCE FICTION

Infinite stars: the definitive anthology of space opera and military SF, Bryan Thomas Schmidt.
Uncharted worlds, distant galaxies, and unknown threats lurking in the vastness of the cosmos, travel to the farthest regions of space in this collection of original short stories. Written by many of today's finest authors, readers will find canonical tales of the Honorverse, the Lost Fleet, Dune, Vatta's War, Ender Wiggin, the Legion of the Damned, the Imperium, and more.
Robots vs fairies, Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe.
It's the ultimate death match between the mechanical and the magical! When the lasers cease firing and the fairy dust settles, who will triumph in these epic battles between the artificial and the supernatural? Choose a side.
Lilith's brood, Octavia E. Butler.
All of humanity must share the world with uncanny, unimaginable alien creatures after war destroys Earth, in an omnibus edition containing three class science fiction novels; Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago.
Emergence: a Foreigner novel, C.J. Cherryh.
The nineteenth book in the beloved Foreigner space opera series begins a new era for human diplomat Bren Cameron, as he navigates the tenuous peace between human refugees and the alien atevi .
Star's end, Cassandra Rose Clarke.
The Corominas family own a small planet system which consists of one gaseous planet and four terraformed moons, nicknamed the Four Sisters. The patriarch of the family, Phillip Coromina, earned his riches through a terraforming and mining business, and then later expanded into weapons manufacture, namely the production of genetically engineered soldiers, which are sold to the various mercenary groups available for hire across the galaxy.
Worlds of exile and illusion, Ursula K. Le Guin.
Intergalactic war reaches Fomalhaut II in Rocannon's World. Born out of season, a precocious young girl visits the alien city of the farborns and the false-men in Planet of Exile. In City of Illusions a stranger wondering in the forest people's woods, is found and his health restored, now the fate of two worlds rests in this stranger's hands.
Neogenesis: a new Liaden Universe novel, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller.
The Complex Logic Laws were the result of a war waged hundreds of years in the past, when two human powers threw massive AI navies at each other and nearly annihilated themselves. Being human, they blamed their tools for this near miss; they destroyed what was left of the sentient ships, and made it illegal to be, manufacture, or shelter an independent logic.
Mississippi roll, George R.R. Martin.
Featuring beloved characters from the Wild Cards universe. Now on its final voyage, the historical steamboat Natchez is known for her super-powered guest entertainers. But after the suspicious death of a crew member, retired NY police detective Leo Storgman decides to make this incident his personal case.
The best of all possible worlds: a novel, Karen Lord.
A proud and reserved alien society finds its homeland destroyed in an unprovoked act of aggression, and the survivors have no choice but to reach out to the indigenous humanoids of their adopted world, to whom they are distantly related.
After the flare, Deji Bryce Olukotun.
A catastrophic solar flare reshapes our world order as we know it in an instant, electricity grids are crippled, followed by devastating cyberattacks that paralyze all communication. With America in chaos, former NASA employee Kwesi Bracket works at the only functioning space program in the world, which just happens to be in Nigeria.
Elysium fire, Alastair Reynolds.
One citizen died a fortnight ago. Two a week ago. Four died yesterday and unless the cause can be found, and stopped, within the next four months, everyone will be dead. For the Prefects, the hunt for a silent, hidden killer is on.
Dark state, Charles Stross.
In the near-future, the collision of two nuclear superpowers across timelines, one in the midst of a technological revolution and the other a hyper-police state, is imminent. In Commissioner Miriam Burgeson's timeline, her top level agents run a high risk extraction of a major political player.
The Feed, Nick Clark Windo.
It makes us. It destroys us. Now we must learn to live without it. The Feed is accessible everywhere, by everyone, at any time. It instantaneously links us to all information and global events as they break. Every interaction, every emotion, every image can be shared through it; it is the essential tool everyone relies on to know and understand the thoughts and feelings of partners, parents, friends, children, colleagues, bosses, employees, in fact, of anyone and everyone else in the world.