Recreation

New Titles Fiction November 2018 (arrived in October)

ADVENTURE

War of the wolf, Bernard Cromwell.
Uhtred of Bebbanburg has won back his ancestral home but, threatened from all sides by enemies both old and new, he doesn't have long to enjoy the victory. In Mercia, rebellion is in the air as King Edward tries to seize control. In Wessex, rival parties scramble to settle on the identity of the next king
Button man, Andrew Gross.
Morris, Sol, and Harry Rabishevsky grew up poor and rough in a tiny flat on the Lower East Side, until the death of their father thrust them into having to fend for themselves and support their large family. Morris, the youngest, dropped out of school at twelve years old and apprenticed himself to a garment cutter in a clothing factory; Sol headed to accounting school; but Harry, scarred by a family tragedy, fell in with a gang of thugs as a teenager.
Forever and a day, Anthony Horowitz.
M laid down his pipe and stared at it tetchily. 'We have no choice. We're just going to bring forward this other chap you've been preparing. But you didn't tell me his name.' 'It's Bond, sir, ' the Chief of Staff replied. 'James Bond.'
Skyjack, K.J. Howe.
When Thea Paris's flight is hijacked over the Libyan Desert, her first priority is the two former child soldiers she is escorting to a new life in London. As an international kidnap specialist, Thea Paris negotiates for hostage release as part of her job. She knows one wrong move could lead to deadly consequences.
A hero born, Jin Yong
China. The year is 1200. The Song Empire has been defeated in the north by invading Jurchen forces. Pushed further south, the empire is in danger of collapse and the Chinese population is furious. Now it falls to lone patriots trained in the martial arts to save China.
The spear of Atlantis, Andy McDermott.
World-famous archaeologist Nina Wilde and her husband, ex-SAS bodyguard Eddie Chase, believe their days of danger are behind them. But when Nina is framed for the theft of a priceless artefact in a daring raid on a luxury cruise ship, she has no choice but to flee.
Bearskin, James A. McLaughlin.
Rice Moore is just beginning to think his troubles are behind him. He's found a job protecting a remote forest reserve in Virginian Appalachia where his main responsibilities include tracking wildlife and refurbishing cabins. It's hard work, and totally solitary: perfect to hide away from the Mexican drug cartels he betrayed back in Arizona.
Red war: a Mitch Rapp novel, Vince Flynn
When Russian president Maxim Krupin discovers that he has inoperable brain cancer, he's determined to cling to power. His first task is to kill or imprison any of his countrymen who can threaten him. Soon, though, his illness becomes serious enough to require a more dramatic diversion; war with the West.
The Moscow sleepers, Stella Rimington.
A man lies dying in a hospice in upstate Vermont. When a stranger visits, claiming to be a childhood friend, the FBI is alerted. News of this suspected Russian illegal and his deathbed guest soon reaches MI5 in London.
Courtney's war, Wilbur Smith
Torn apart by war, Saffron Courtney and Gerhard von Meerbach are thousands of miles apart, both struggling for their lives. Gerhard; despite his objections to the Nazi regime, is fighting for the Fatherland, hoping to one day have the opportunity to rid Germany of Hitler and his cronies.
A death in Sweden, Kevin Wignall.
Dan Hendricks is a man in need of a lifeline. A former CIA operative, he is now an agent for hire by foreign powers on the hunt for dangerous fugitives. It's a lethal world at the best of times, and Dan knows his number is almost up. His next job could be his last; and his next job is his biggest yet.
To die in Vienna, Kevin Wignall.
Freddie Makin is a spy for hire. For a year he's been watching Jiang Cheng, an academic whose life seems suspiciously normal. To Freddie, it's just a job; he never asks who's paying him or why, until the day someone is sent to kill him and suddenly the watcher becomes the watched.
Dark age: a novel of the Dark Age, James Wilde.
It is AD 367, and Roman Britain has fallen to the vast barbarian horde which has invaded from the north. Towns burn, the land is ravaged and the few survivors flee. The army of Rome; once the most effective fighting force in the world, has been broken, its spirit lost and its remaining troops shattered.

FANTASY

Magic triumphs, Ilona Andrews.
Kate has come a long way from her origins as a loner taking care of paranormal problems in post-Shift Atlanta. She's made friends and enemies. She's found love and started a family with Curran Lennart, the former Beast Lord. But her magic is too strong for the power players of the world to let her be.
Magefall, Stephen Aryan.
The land is in turmoil. Mages are hunted by men and gods alike. Even their own kind betray each other in the name of safety and protection. With their last refuge fallen, two young mages must conspire against a god to show the world that their abilities aren't a curse; they are the only way to ensure lasting peace.
Blood of assassins, RJ Barker.
The assassin Girton Club-foot and his master have returned to Maniyadoc in hope of finding sanctuary, but death, as always, dogs Girton's heels. The place he knew no longer exists. War rages across Maniyadoc, with three kings claiming the same crown; and one of them is Girton's old friend Rufra.
King of assassins, RJ Barker.
Many years of peace have passed in Maniyadoc, years of relative calm for the assassin Girton Club-Foot. Even the Forgetting Plague, which ravaged the rest of the kingdoms, seemed to pass them by. But now Rufra ap Vthyr eyes the vacant High-King's throne and will take his court to the capital where every enemy he has ever made will gather and the endgame of twenty years of politics and murder will be played out in his bid to become the King of all Kings.
The last sun, K.D. Edwards.
Rune Saint John, last child of the fallen Sun Court, is hired to search for Lady Judgment's missing son, Addam, on New Atlantis, the island city where the Atlanteans moved after ordinary humans destroyed their original home. With his companion and bodyguard, Brand, he questions Addam's relatives and business contacts through the highest ranks of the nobles of New Atlantis.
The grey bastards, Jonathan French.
Call them outcasts, call them savages; they've been called worse, by their own mothers, but Jackal is proud to be a Grey Bastard. He and his fellow half-orcs patrol the barren wastes of the Lot Lands, spilling their own damned blood to keep civilized folk safe. A rabble of hard-talking, hog-riding, whore-mongering brawlers they may be, but the Bastards are Jackal's sworn brothers, fighting at his side in a land where there's no room for softness.
Time's convert, Deborah Harkness.
On the battlefields of the American Revolution, Matthew de Clermont meets Marcus MacNeil, a young surgeon from Massachusetts, during a moment of political awakening when it seems that the world is on the brink of a brighter future. When Matthew offers him a chance at immortality and a new life, free from the restraints of his puritanical upbringing, Marcus seizes the opportunity to become a vampire.
An easy death, Charlaine Harris.
Set in a fractured United States, in the southwestern country now known as Texoma. A world where magic is acknowledged but mistrusted, especially by a young gunslinger named Lizbeth Rose. Battered by a run across the border to Mexico Lizbeth Rose takes a job offer from a pair of Russian wizards to be their local guide and gunnie.
City of lies: a poison war novel, Sam Hawke.
Jovan wears two faces. Outwardly, he is the lifelong friend of the Chancellor's charming, irresponsible heir. He's quiet. Forgettable even. But in truth he is a master of poisons and chemicals, trained to protect the Chancellor's family.
Shiang, C. F. Iggulden.
In Shiang, the young king rules without dissent. Mazer swordsmen stand watch on every corner, looking for the first sign of rebellion. This city is a place of quiet and slow dignity, like a man eating rice with a razor pressed against his throat.Yet with one sharp movement, order is overturned.
The poppy war, R. F. Kuang.
When Rin aced the Keju; the Empire-wide test to find the most talented youth to study at the academies, it was a shock to everyone. That she got into Sinegard; the most elite military school in the Nikara Empire, was even more surprising. But surprises aren't always good.
Heroine worship, Sarah Kuhn.
Aveda's finally being forced to deal with fallout from her diva behavior, and the fact that she's been a less than stellar friend to Evie. Or that Scott Cameron, the man Aveda's loved for nearly a decade, is suddenly giving her the cold shoulder. Or that the city has been demon-free for three months.
Heroine's journey, Sarah Kuhn.
If there's one thing Beatrice Tanaka never wanted to be, it's normal. But somehow, her life has unfolded as a series of "should haves". Her powers of emotional projection should have made her one of the most formidable superheroes of all time.
Dragon's code: Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern, Gigi McCaffrey.
The last time Thread attacked Pern, the world was unprepared for the fight; until the Oldtimers appeared. These courageous dragonriders arrived from the past, traveling four hundred years to help their descendants survive. But the collision of past and present took its toll.
The sisters of the winter wood, Rena Rossner.
Raised in a small village surrounded by vast forests, Liba and Laya have lived a peaceful sheltered life, even if they've heard of troubling times for Jews elsewhere. When their parents travel to visit their dying grandfather, the sisters are left behind in their home in the woods. Liba discovers the secret that their Tati can transform into a bear, and their Mami into a swan, she realizes the old fairy tales are true.
Legion: the many lives of Stephen Leeds, Brandon Sanderson.
A genius of unrivaled aptitude, Stephen can learn any new skill, vocation, or art in a matter of hours. However, to contain all of this, his mind creates hallucinatory people; Stephen calls them aspects, to hold and manifest the information. Wherever he goes, he is joined by a team of imaginary experts to give advice, interpretation, and explanation.
Imaro, Charles Saunders
Imaro is a rousing adventure; a tale of a young man's continuing struggle to gain acceptance amongst his people, and to break the cycle of alienation and violence that plagues his life. Imaro is heroic fantasy like it's never been done before.
Heartstone, Elle Katharine White.
They say a Rider in possession of a good blade must be in want of a monster to slay; and Merybourne Manor has plenty of monsters. Aliza Bentaine has already lost one sister to the invading gryphons. So when Lord Merybourne hires a band of Riders to hunt down the horde, Aliza is relieved her home will soon be safe again.
The ember blade, Chris Wooding.
In this story, the Ossian way of life is fading and the Dachen way is taking its place and Aren is comfortable with that. Even when his parents are accused of treason he supports the establishment and maintains there's been some mistake, which is all it takes to get himself and his best friend arrested.

FICTION

The Penguin book of Japanese short stories, Jay Rubin.
The Penguin Book of Japanese Short stories is filled with fear, charm, beauty and comedy.
The optimistic decade: a novel, Heather Abel.
The camp was created because of the oil shale bust and the real estate boom, by protests against Reagan and against the Gulf War. Caleb Silver, the beloved founder of the back-to-the-land camp Llamalo, is determined to teach others to live simply. Ranchers Don and his son, Donnie, gave up their land to Caleb and now want it back.
Transcription, Kate Atkinson.
In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers the work to be by turns both tedious and terrifying. But after the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past for ever.
Murder in the dark, Margaret Atwood.
These short fictions and prose poems are bizarre: bread can no longer be conceived as wholesome comforting loaves and a poisonous brew is concocted by cynical five- year-olds. Intent on breaking the forces of convention, this collection should captivate the reader's imagination.
Make or break, Catherine Bennetto.
Jess gets taken on a surprise trip by her long-term boyfriend, Pete, to attend her best friend's last minute wedding in South Africa. Jess imagines sun, sand, wine and safaris, and returning to London with an ethically mined diamond on her left hand. But this holiday isn't set to be quite the fairy tale Jess has planned and suddenly she finds her world tilting on its axis.
The anniversary, Hilary Boyd.
Is the one you tried to forget the one you can't live without? Stella once thought that if she never saw Jack again, it would be too soon. But life has other plans for her and her stubborn, handsome ex-husband.
A lucky man: stories, Jamel Brinkley.
In the nine expansive, searching stories of A lucky man, fathers and sons attempt to salvage relationships with friends and family members and confront mistakes made in the past.
And the hippos were boiled in their tanks, William S. Burroughs
In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs were both arrested following a murder: one of their friends had stabbed another and then come to them for advice; neither had told the police. Later they wrote this fictionalised account of that summer.
Chekhov: stories for our time, Anton Chekhov
Chekhov wrote nearly one thousand stories, a body of work that is unmatched in its alchemy of sensitivity, wisdom, precision, verve, soulfulness, and economy. Chekhov's sensibility was radically human and thoroughly modern: write not how you think things should be, but rather as they are.
The litten path, James Clarke.
March, 1984. Britain's miners face political opposition. Soon, the State will confront them, violent forces will be unleashed and the country will change forever. The Newmans have enough on their plate without a strike to contend with.
Tirzah and the prince of crows, Deborah Kay Davies.
Set in a remote valley in Wales, this is 1974, and Tirzah is sixteen, pretty, witty and wise. Brought up in a staunchly religious family, she has lived a sheltered life. But then she meets a boy.
French exit, Patrick deWitt.
Frances Price tart widow, possessive mother and Upper East Side force of nature is in dire straits, beset by scandal. Her adult son Malcolm is no help, mired in a permanent state of arrested development. And then there's their cat, who Frances believes houses the spirit of her late husband, an infamously immoral lawyer whose gruesome tabloid death rendered them social outcasts.
Gone so long: a novel, Andre Dubus III.
Daniel Ahearn lives a quiet, solitary existence in a seaside New England town. Forty years ago, following a shocking act of impulsive violence on his part, his daughter, Susan, was ripped from his arms by police. Now in her forties, Susan still suffers from the trauma of a night she doesn't remember, as she struggles to feel settled, to love a man and create something that lasts.
Virgil Wander, Leif Enger.
When Virgil Wander's car flies off the road into icy Lake Superior he survives, but his language and memory are altered and he emerges into a world no longer familiar to him. Virgil begins to piece together his personal history and the lore of his broken town, with the help of a cast of affable and curious locals. Into this community returns a prodigal son, Adam Leer, who may hold the key to reviving their town.
Old baggage, Lissa Evans.
During the Women's Suffrage Campaign, she marched, she sang and she heckled Winston Churchill. She was gaoled nine times. But she is still searching for a fresh mould into which she can pour her energies.
Paris echo, Sebastian Faulks.
American postdoctoral researcher Hannah and runaway Moroccan teenager Tariq have little in common, yet both are susceptible to the daylight ghosts of Paris. Hannah listens to the extraordinary witness of women who were present under the German Occupation; in her desire to understand their lives, and through them her own, she finds a city bursting with clues and connections. Out in the migrant suburbs, Tariq is searching for a mother he barely knew.
Summer of love, Caro Fraser.
In the hot summer of 1949, a group of family and friends gather at Harry Denholm's country house in Kent. Meg and Dan Ranscombe, emerging from a scandal of their own making; Dan's godmother, Sonia and her two young girls, Laura and Avril, only one of whom is Sonia's biological daughter.
The day I found you, Pedro Chagas Freitas
The restaurant is crowded and noisy. The man sits by the window, watching the grey sky, bored, as he is every Monday morning. Suddenly he turns and she's there, standing in front of him.
Katerina, James Frey.
Katerina is a sweeping love story alternating between 1992 Paris and Los Angeles in 2018. At its center are a young writer and a young model on the verge of fame, both reckless, impulsive, addicted, and deeply in love.
The reluctant fortune-teller, Keziah Frost.
Norbert Zelenka has always lived life on the sidelines. It's why at seventy-three years old he's broke and alone except for the company of a Chihuahua. But when "Carlotta's Club"; three strong-willed seniors with plenty of time on their hands, decide to make Norbert their latest project, he reluctantly agrees to their scheme.
The survivors, Kate Furnivall.
Klara Janowska and her daughter Alicja have walked for weeks to get to Graufeld Displaced Persons camp. In the cramped, dirty, dangerous conditions they, along with 3,200 others, are the lucky ones. They have survived and will do anything to find a way back home.
No one ever asked: a novel, Katie Ganshert.
When an impoverished school district loses its accreditation and the affluent community of Crystal Ridge has no choice but to open their school doors, the lives of three very different women converge.
The squeeze, Lesley Glaister.
Marta, a teenager trafficked from Romania in the early 1990s is forced to work as a prostitute in Edinburgh. Mats, a Norwegian businessman, who longs only to be a good husband and father, becomes involved with Marta and both their lives are wrenched, for good or ill, in new directions.
An absolutely remarkable thing: a novel, Hank Green.
Coming home from work at three a.m., twenty-three-year-old April May stumbles across a giant sculpture. Delighted by its appearance and craftsmanship; like a ten-foot-tall Transformer wearing a suit of samurai armour, April and her friend Andy make a video with it, which Andy uploads to YouTube. The next day April wakes up to a viral video and a new life.
The year of the farmer, Rosalie Ham.
In a quiet farming town somewhere in country New South Wales, war is brewing. The last few years have been punishingly dry, especially for the farmers, but otherwise, it's all Neralie Mackintosh's fault. If she'd never left town then her ex, the hapless but extremely eligible Mitchell Bishop, would never have fallen into the clutches of the truly awful Mandy, who now lords it over everyone as if she owns the place.
Letters to my daughters, Emma Hannigan
Throughout their lives, the Brady sisters have always been closer to their nanny May than their own mother. May always thought of them as her daughters. When she dies suddenly the sisters are devastated, especially when they learn her final words of advice and love have gone missing.
The reluctant midwife: a Hope River novel, Patricia Harman.
The Great Depression has hit West Virginia hard. Men are out of work; women struggle to feed hungry children. Luckily, Nurse Becky Myers has returned to care for them.
Companions, Christina Hesselholdt
Camilla, Charles, Alma, Edward, Alwilda and Kristian are a circle of friends hurtling through mid-life. Companions follows their loves, ambitions, pains and anxieties as they age, fall sick, have affairs, grieve, host dinner parties and move between the Lake District, Berlin, Lisbon, Belgrade, Mozambique, New York and, of course, Denmark.
Winter in paradise: a novel, Elin Hilderbrand.
Irene Steele's life is idyllic, until it is rocked by a late-night phone call that brings news of her husband's sudden death. Even in the midst of her crippling grief, Irene cannot get one question out of her head: why was his body found on St. John, a tropical Caribbean paradise far removed from their suburban life?
The dark dark: stories, Samantha Hunt.
This is the first collection of stories from a widely acclaimed novelist writing in the realm of the literary fantastical. They urge an understanding of youth and mortality, ghosts, ghost towns, doubling and loss, with the hope that we can know one another more deeply or at least stand side by side to observe the mystery of the world.
A change of key, Adrienne Jansen.
Marko has come to the ends of the earth to escape a once illustrious past in Bulgaria. So why does a Polish bookstore owner call him a traitor? And who covertly photographed him for the newspaper? Someone knows who he is.
The forgotten guide to happiness, Sophie Jenkins.
Twenty-eight-year-old Lana Green has never been good at making friends. She's perfectly happy to be left alone with her books. Or at least, that's what she tells herself
The thin red line, James Jones.
On Guadalcanal in the south Pacific, the soldiers of C Company are about to enter the war. The men know they face their baptism of fire. But none know if they will be one of 'the lucky ones' to make it safely off the island.
The Dutch wife, Ellen Keith.
As the tulips bloom and the Nazis tighten their grip across Amsterdam, the last signs of Dutch resistance are being swept away. Marijke de Graaf and her husband are arrested and deported to different concentration camps in Germany. Marijke is given a terrible choice: to suffer a slow death in the labour camp or; for a chance at survival, to join the camp brothel.
When we were young: a novel, Karen Kingsbury.
From their first meeting, to their stunning engagement and lavish wedding, to their happily-ever-after, Noah and Emily Carter were meant to be together. More than a million adoring fans have followed their lives on Instagram since the day Noah publicly proposed to Emily. But behind the carefully staged photos and encouraging posts, their life is anything but a fairytale, and Noah's obsession with social media has ruined everything.
Unsheltered: a novel, Barbara Kingsolver.
How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has folded; the college where her husband had tenure has closed.
Wintering, Krissy Kneen.
When Jessica's partner disappears into the dark Tasmanian forest, there is of course the mystery of what happened to him; the deserted car, the enigmatic final image recorded on his phone. There is the strange circle of local women, widows of disappeared men, with their edgy fellowship and unhinged theories. But for Jessica there is also the tight community in which she is still a stranger and Matthew was not.
People in the room, Norah Lange
A young woman in Buenos Aires spies three women in the house across the street from her family's home. Intrigued, she begins to watch them. She imagines them as accomplices to an unknown crime, as troubled spinsters contemplating suicide, or as players in an affair with dark and mysterious consequences.
Passing, Nella Larsen
Clare Kendry leads a dangerous life. Fair, elegant, and ambitious, she is married to a white man unaware of her African American heritage and has severed all ties to her past. Clare's childhood friend, Irene Redfield, just as light-skinned, has chosen to remain within the African American community, but refuses to acknowledge the racism that continues to constrict her family's happiness. A chance encounter forces both women to confront the lies they have told others.
Smoking kills, Antoine Laurain
When headhunter Fabrice Valantine faces a smoking ban at work, he decides to undergo hypnotherapy to help kick the habit. At first the treatment is a success but, as the stresses of daily life begin to overwhelm him, he can't help lighting up again. To his great distress, he finds that smoking no longer offers him the ecstatic release it once did.
The far-back country, Kate Lyons.
In 1979, at the age of fourteen, Ray McCullough ran away from his home on a western New South Wales sheep property following a violent confrontation with his dad, Jim McCullough. He left behind his mother, Delly, and his sisters, Ursula and Tilda. Now forty-one, Ray works as an itinerant cook and labourer across the remote outback.
Tara: a story of love, choice and courage, Deborah Maree.
Tara has always devoted her life to her boys and in return, without realising, has alienated herself from those around her. Tara's husband, Jim, is a successful sheep farmer but he has become uncommunicative and emotionally removed from his family. James, their eldest child has withdrawn from everyone, including his mother, and has been strangely quiet.
Bird Cottage, Eva Meijer
Len Howard was forty years old when she decided to leave her London life and loves behind, retire to the English countryside and devote the rest of her days to her one true passion: birds. Moving to a small cottage in Sussex, she wrote two bestselling books, astonishing the world with her observations on the tits, robins, sparrows and other birds that lived nearby, flew freely in and out of her windows, and would even perch on her shoulder as she typed.
Sexus, Henry Miller.
Frantically seeking antidotes to his dreary job and life 'in a morbidly respectable neighbourhood' with his wife Maude, Miller becomes obsessed with the promiscuous and mysterious Mara, dance hall hostess, femme fatale and pathological liar. This volume looks back in fictionalised form to Miller's America life in the 1920s.
The plus one, Sophia Money-Coutts.
Polly Spencer is fine. She's single, turning thirty and only managed to have sex twice last year (both times with a Swedish banker called Fred), but seriously, she's fine. But it's a New Year, a new leaf and all that. Polly's determined that over the next 365 days she'll remember to shave her legs, drink less wine and generally get her s–t together.
She would be king: a novel, Wayétu Moore.
Gbessa, exiled from the West African village of Lai, is starved, bitten by a viper, and left for dead, but still she survives. June Dey, raised on a plantation in Virginia, hides his unusual strength until a confrontation with the overseer forces him to flee. Norman Aragon, the child of a white British colonizer and a Maroon slave from Jamaica, can fade from sight when the earth calls him. When the three meet in the settlement of Monrovia, their gifts help them salvage the tense relationship between the African American settlers and the indigenous tribes.
The Christmas sisters, Sarah Morgan.
In the snowy Highlands of Scotland, Suzanne McBride is dreaming of the perfect cozy Christmas. Her three adopted daughters are coming home for the holidays and she can't wait to see them. But tensions are running high.
Nine perfect strangers, Liane Moriarty.
The retreat at health and wellness resort Tranquillum House promises total transformation. Nine stressed city dwellers are keen to drop their literal and mental baggage, and absorb the meditative ambience while enjoying their hot stone massages. Watching over them is the resort's director, a woman on a mission to reinvigorate their tired minds and bodies.
Killing commendatore: a novel, Haruki Murakami
A thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a strange painting in the attic, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances.
The last summer of Ada Bloom, Martine Murray.
In a small country town during one long, hot summer, the Bloom family begins to unravel. Marital secrets, new and long-hidden, surface with devastating effect. Martha is straining against the confines of her life, lost in regret for what might have been, when an old flame shows up.
A keeper, Graham Norton.
The mystery of Elizabeth Keane's father is one that has never been solved by the people of Buncarragh; not for lack of speculation. Her mother Patricia had been assumed a spinster, until she began dating a mysterious man from out of town, and within months had left Buncarragh and had married. Less than two years later, Patricia was back, with a new baby in her arms.
Strike your heart, Amélie Nothomb
Marie is the prettiest girl in her provincial hometown and is dating the most popular boy in town. She is the envy of all her schoolmates and she loves it. When she falls pregnant and gives birth to Diana, things change.
Shell, Kristina Olsson.
In 1965 as Danish architect Jøprn Utzon's striking vision for the Sydney Opera House transforms the skyline and unleashes a storm of controversy, the shadow of the Vietnam War and a deadly lottery threaten to tear the country apart. Journalist Pearl Keogh, exiled to the women's pages after being photographed at an anti-war protest, is desperate to find her two missing brothers and save them from the draft.
Where the crawdads sing, Delia Owens.
For years, rumours of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark. But Kya is not what they say.
The caregiver: a novel, Samuel Park.
Mara Alencar's mother Ana is her moon, her sun, her stars. Ana, a struggling voice-over actress, is an admirably brave and recklessly impulsive woman who does everything in her power to care for her little girl. With no other family or friends her own age, Ana eclipses Mara's entire world.
I invited her in, Adele Parks.
When Mel receives an unexpected email from her oldest friend Abi, it brings back memories she thought she had buried forever. Their friendship belonged in the past. To those carefree days at university. But Abi is recovering from a bad breakup and needs Mel's help, and she wants a place to stay.
Melmoth, Sarah Perry.
Twenty years ago Helen Franklin did something she cannot forgive herself for, and she has spent every day since barricading herself against its memory. But the sheltered life she has crafted for herself is about to change.
A spark of light, Jodi Picoult.
The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center a women's reproductive health services clinic its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage.
An American story, Christopher Priest
Ben Matson lost someone he loved in the 9/11 attacks. Or thinks he did; no body has been recovered, and she shouldn't have been on that particular plane at that time. But he knows she was.
The coordinates of loss, Amanda Prowse.
When Rachel Croft wakes up on her family's boat in Bermuda, it's to sunshine and yet another perfect day; until she goes to wake her seven-year-old son, Oscar. Because the worst thing imaginable has happened. He isn't there. In the dark and desperate days that follow, Rachel struggles to navigate her grief.
The girl on the page, John Purcell.
Amy Winston is a hard-drinking, bed-hopping, hot-shot young book editor on a downward spiral. Having made her name and fortune by turning an average thriller writer into a Lee Child, Amy is given the unenviable task of steering literary great Helen Owen back to publication.
Foe, Iain Reid.
Junior and Hen are a quiet married couple. They live a comfortable, solitary life on their farm, far from the city lights, but in close quarters with each other. One day, a stranger from the city arrives with surprising news: Junior has been randomly selected to travel far away from the farm; very far away.
The labyrinth of the spirits: a novel, Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Nine-year-old Alicia lost her parents during the Spanish Civil War when the Nacionales (the fascists) savagely bombed Barcelona in 1938. Twenty years later, she still carries the emotional and physical scars of that violent and terrifying time.
States of passion, Nihad Sirees
A hapless Aleppo bureaucrat is stranded in the middle of the deserted countryside as a violent storm sets in. When he seeks refuge in an isolated old mansion, inhabited by an aged gentleman and his sinister servant, he begins to uncover a captivating tale of family secrets, lost passions, and shady dealings.
I will find you, Daniela Sacerdoti.
When her mother dies, heartbroken Cora seeks solace on a remote Scottish island. Alone in a crumbling cottage inaccessible at high tide, she discovers the stones have their secrets. Nearly three hundred years ago, a young woman sought shelter here, also racked with sorrow.
Theory of bastards, Audrey Schulman.
"Stage four. Surgery. Recovering." While those are the simple words that once described Dr. Francine Burk's situation, the reality is much more complex. Her new reality is feeling unduly thrilled by her increasing ability to walk across a room without assistance. And it's being offered a placement at a prestigious research institute where she can put to good use her recent award money.
The dinner list, Rebecca Serle.
"We've been waiting for an hour." That's what Audrey says. She states it with a little bit of an edge, her words just bordering on cursive. That's the thing I think first. Not: "Audrey Hepburn is at my birthday dinner, but Audrey Hepburn is annoyed." At one point or another, we've all been asked to name five people, living or dead, with whom we'd like to have dinner. Why do we choose the people we do?
Broken play, Nicholas Sheppard.
Alec Haudepin has spent the winters of his youth on the rugby field, and now, at twenty-three, his dream of playing for the All Blacks is almost within reach. But his rise to prominence uncovers quiet sadness about the part of his identity he has always struggled to acknowledge. Broken Play captures magnificently the internal conflict and tumult experienced by so many young gay sportsmen struggling to find their true identity.
Lake success: a novel, Gary Shteyngart.
When his dream of the perfect marriage, the perfect son, and the perfect life implodes, a Wall Street millionaire takes a cross-country bus trip in search of his college sweetheart and ideals of youth.
Sisters of No Mercy, Vincent Silk.
Mega-storm Martha has wreaked havoc and it's harder than ever to find a home. Hapless Pinky, Del; mother-hen and mentor, and the ever-resourceful and sometime sleuth Almond are members of Sisters of No Mercy. A band of vigilantes, a pack of thieves or a new wave commune, this underground network has a fresh target: heir to a mining fortune and property mogul Dirk Trench.
Marriage of a thousand lies, SJ Sindu.
Lakshmi, called Lucky, is an unemployed millennial programmer. She likes to dance, to have a drink or two, and she makes art on commission. Fifty bucks gets you high-resolution digital images of anything you want (orcs, mermaids, cos-playing couples in sexy boudoir scenes) and a nice frameable print. Lucky's husband, Krishna, is an editor for a greeting card company. Both are secretly gay.
Every breath, Nicholas Sparks.
Hope Anderson is at a crossroads. At 36, she's been dating her boyfriend, an orthopedic surgeon, for six years. With no wedding plans in sight, and her father recently diagnosed with ALS, she decides to use a week at her family's cottage in Sunset Beach, North Carolina, to ready the house for sale and mull over some difficult decisions about her future.
The women in black, Madeleine St John.
At the very end of the Ladies' Frocks Departments, past Cocktail Frocks, there was something very special, something quite, quite wonderful; but it wasn't for everybody: that was the point. Because there, at the very end, there was a lovely arch, on which was written in curly letters Model Gowns.
Table for eight, Tricia Stringer.
Clever, charming dressmaker Ketty Clift is embarking on her final cruise from Sydney before she must make serious changes in her life. Supported by the ship's all-powerful maître d' Carlos, she has a mission: transform the lives of those who join her at her dining table every evening.
Cedar Valley, Holly Throsby.
On the first day of summer in 1993, two strangers arrive in the town of Cedar Valley. One is a calm looking man in a brown suit. He makes his way down the main street and walks directly to Cedar Valley Curios & Old Wares, sitting down on the footpath, where he leans silently against the big glass window for hours. The other is 21-year-old Benny Miller. Fresh out of university, Benny has come to Cedar Valley in search of information about her mother, Vivian, who has recently died.
Terrarium: new and selected stories, Valerie Trueblood.
The new stories collected within Terrarium represent an exciting direction for the author: a condensing of narrative and, in some cases, a departure from it into another state of mind. It's hard to describe any of Trueblood's stories as "typical."
Johnny got his gun, Dalton Trumbo.
It was the war to end all wars, the global struggle that would finally make the world safe for democracy, at any cost. But one American soldier has paid a price beyond measure. And within the disfigured flesh that was once a vision of youth lives a spirit that cannot accept what the world has become.
Bad boy: a novel, Elliot Wake.
Vlog star Renard Grant has nothing to prove: he's got a pretty face, chiseled body, and two million adoring video subscribers. Plus scars on his chest and a prescription for testosterone. Because Ren is transgender: assigned female at birth, living now as male. He films his transition and shares it bravely with the world; his fans love his honesty and positivity.
Cherry, Nico Walker.
A young man is just a college freshman when he meets Emily. They share a passion for Edward Albee and ecstasy and fall hard and fast in love. But soon Emily has to move home to Elba, New York, and he flunks out of school and joins the army.
After the peace, Fay Weldon.
How many parents does it take to make a baby? In the case of Rosalind Melrose Smithson it took four: one birth mother; one legal father; one interfering neighbour and one turkey baster filled with the defrosted essence of an anonymous donor. Or not so anonymous as it turned out.
Glimpses of the moon, Edith Wharton.
Nick Lansing and Susy Branch are young, attractive, but impoverished New Yorkers. They are in love and decide to marry, but they realise their chances of happiness are slim without the wealth and status that their more privileged friends take for granted. Nick and Susy agree to separate whenever either encounters a more eligible proposition.
A station on the path to somewhere better, Benjamin Wood.
For twenty years, Daniel Hardesty has borne the emotional scars of a childhood trauma which he is powerless to undo, which leaves him no peace. One August morning in 1995, the young Daniel and his estranged father Francis; a character of 'two weathers', of irresistible charm and roiling self-pity, set out on a road trip to the North that seems to represent a chance to salvage their relationship.
Layover, Lisa Zeidner.
Claire Newbold is not your typical heroine. Smart and sexy, yes, but she's also been known to sneak into a hotel room or two without paying, seduce a teenager in wet bathing trunks, and just check out of things altogether; like her job. Her only child has died. On the discovery her husband has had an affair, she takes leave of absence from her everyday life, and her behaviour drifts from illicit to erratic.

GRAPHIC NOVEL

Platinum end. 6, Tsugumi Ohba
Scalped. Book three, Jason Aaron
A game of thrones. Volume 4: the graphic novel, George R.R. Martin
Ed the happy clown: a graphic novel, Chester Brown.
A hallucinatory tale that functions simultaneously as a dark roller-coaster ride of criminal activity and a scathing condemnation of religious and political charlatanism. As the world around him devolves into madness, the eponymous Ed escapes variously from a jealous boyfriend, sewer monsters, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and a janitor with a Jesus complex.
Black hole, Charles Burns.
We learn from the outset that a strange plague has descended upon the area's teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The disease is manifested in any number of ways; from the hideously grotesque to the subtle (and concealable), but once you've got it, that's it. There's no turning back.
Astro city. Broken melody, Kurt Busiek
The book of Madge: (her book), Elizabeth Cunningham.
In 1990, novelist Elizabeth Cunningham found herself engaged with an outspoken, irreverent, hand-drawn character who called herself Madge and demanded her own book of cartoons. Together, Madge and Elizabeth graphically (in every sense!) protested the first Gulf War, and The Book of Madge took form.
It will all hurt, Farel Dalrymple.
A weird, sad, silly, sketchy, and dreamy watercolor fantasy action quest in which Alemendra Clementine and her crew of anti-social adventurers all come together on a psych- apocalyptic world to take down an evil wizard.
Son of Hitler, Anthony Del Col
What if someone told you your biological father was the most evil man alive? In the darkest days of World War II a female British spy handler discovers a rumour: that when Adolf Hitler was stationed in France during the First World War he fathered a child.
Woman world, Aminder Dhaliwal
When a birth defect wipes out the planet's entire population of men, Woman World rises out of society's ashes. Dhaliwal's infectiously funny instagram comic follows the rebuilding process, tracking a group of women who have rallied together under the flag of "Beyonce's Thighs".
A new Jerusalem, Benjamin Dickson.
Eleven-year-old Ralph lives with his mother, plays in bombed-out buildings and dreams of the day his father will come home and tell him of all his heroic battles. But when his father actually does come back, he is far from what Ralph expected: his father is sullen, withdrawn and refuses to discuss the war at all.
The ghost script: a graphic novel, Jules Feiffer.
In The Ghost Script, Feiffer plunges us into the blowzy, boozy world of Blacklist Hollywood, circa 1953: witch hunts and Reds and pinkos and starlets and a mysterious, orchid-growing mastermind, the renamed "Cousin Joseph," running a back-channel clearinghouse for victims of the entertainment world's purge.
Passing for human: a graphic memoir, Liana Finck.
Melancholy and funny, personal and surreal, Passing for Human is a neurological coming-of-age story in which Liana Finck goes in search of that thing she has lost; her shadow, that part of her that has always felt as though she is living in exile from the world.
Sex criminals. [5], Five-fingered discount, Matt Fraction
Rome West, Justin Giampaoli
An alt-history account of the founding of America, as a lost fleet of Roman soldiers arrives a thousand years before Columbus.
No game, no life, please!. 4, Yu Kamiya
Marvel zombies, Robert Kirkman
Torn from the pages of Ultimate Fantastic Four! On an Earth shockingly similar to the Marvel Universe's, an alien virus has mutated all of the world's greatest super heroes into flesh-eating monsters!
Mortal Kombat X. Volume 2, Blood gods, Shawn Kittelsen
Mortal Kombat X. Volume 3, Blood island, Shawn Kittelsen
Descender. Volume 6, The machine war, Jeff Lemire
Red Hood and the Outlaws. Vol. 1, Dark trinity, Scott Lobdell
Red Hood and the Outlaws. Vol. 3, Bizarro reborn, Scott Lobdell,
A sea of love, Wilfrid Lupano
Each morning, a frail, old, bespectacled fisherman heads out to sea, leaving his doting, matronly wife at home patiently caring for the house, awaiting his return in the evening. But one evening he doesn't come home, instead accidentally snared by a much larger, industrial fishing trawler that absentmindedly carries him across the Atlantic.
Berlin, Jason Lutes.
Marthe Müller, a young woman escaping the memory of a brother killed in World War I, Kurt Severing, an idealistic journalist losing faith in the printed word as fascism and extremism take hold; the Brauns, a family torn apart by poverty and politics.
Overlord. 7, Kugane Maruyama
The ballad of Halo Jones. Volume 3, Alan Moore
Strong female protagonist. Book two, Brennan Lee Mulligan
Tyler Cross. Black Rock, Fabien Nury
It's 1950, and Tyler Cross has just robbed 17 kilos of pure heroin from the Mafia. He has 20 dollars in his pocket, a Colt in his belt, and he's on foot, alone, in deepest darkest Texas. He's heading for Black Rock, a down-and-out southern town under the thumb of a petrol magnate and his sons.
Harley Quinn. Vol. 5, Vote Harley, Amanda Conner
Ice Cream Man. Volume one, Rainbow sprinkles, W. Maxwell Prince
Deadly class. Vol. 7, Love like blood, Rick Remender,
Notes on a thesis, Tiphaine Rivière
When Jeanne is accepted on to a PhD course, she is over the moon, brimming with excitement and grand plans,but is the world ready for her masterful analysis of labyrinth motifs in Kafka's The Trial?
Umineko when they cry. Episode 7, Requiem of the golden witch. 3, Ryukishi07
Food wars!: shokugeki no soma. 25, The life of a reject, Yuto Tsukuda
Saga. [Volume nine], Fiona Staples
Y, the last man. The deluxe edition, Book five, Brian K. Vaughan
Y, the last man. The deluxe edition, Book three, Brian K. Vaughan
Y, the last man. The deluxe edition. Book four, Brian K. Vaughan
Y, the last man. The deluxe edition. Book one, Brian K. Vaughan
Y, the last man. The deluxe edition. Book two, Brian K. Vaughan
Birthright. Volume five, Belly of the beast, Joshua Williamson
Birthright. Volume four, Family history, Joshua Williamson
Birthright. Volume one, Homecoming, Joshua Williamson
Birthright. Volume six, Fatherhood, Joshua Williamson
Birthright. Volume three, Allies and enemies, Joshua Williamson
Birthright. Volume two, Call to adventure, Joshua Williamson

HISTORICAL

Mad boy: an account of Henry Phipps in the War of 1812 : a novel, Nick Arvin.
Young Henry Phipps is on a quest to realize his dying mother's last wish: to be buried at sea, surrounded by her family. Not an easy task considering Henry's ne'er-do-well father is in debtor's prison and his comically earnest older brother is busy fighting the red coats on the battlefields of Maryland. But Henry's stubborn determination knows no bounds.
The silence of the girls: a novel, Pat Barker.
The ancient city of Troy has withstood a decade under siege of the powerful Greek army, who continue to wage bloody war over a stolen woman; Helen. In the Greek camp, another woman watches and waits for the war's outcome: Briseis.
The passion of Mary Magdalen: a novel, Elizabeth Cunningham.
The most provocative woman in the Gospels, Mary Magdalen makes only a few, dramatic appearances. You always knew there had to be more to the story. Make way for Maeve, the feisty, outspoken Celtic Mary Magdalen, telling her own story, on her own terms.
The Macedonian, Nicholas Guild.
On a cold, snow-swept night in the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon, a son is born to the king's principal wife. His mother hates him for being his father's child. His father hardly notices him. With two elder brothers, obscurity seems his destiny.
A world on fire, James Heneage.
Only the intervention of the Great Powers of France, Russia and Britain can save Greece. In the wild south, the people of the Mani have risen up against 400 years of Ottoman rule. But initial triumph leads to bitter feuding among the Greek victors, and the Sultan sends his vassal, Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt, to invade.
Seven days in May: a novel of the Lusitania: inspired by true events, Kim Izzo.
As World War I rages in continental Europe, two New York heiresses, Sydney and Brooke Sinclair, are due to set sail for England. Brooke is engaged to marry impoverished aristocrat Edward Thorpe-Tracey, the future Lord Northbrook, in the wedding of the social calendar. Sydney has other adventures in mind; she is drawn to the burgeoning suffragette movement, which is a constant source of embarrassment to her proper sister.
The winter soldier, Daniel Mason.
Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Europe. Enraptured by romantic tales of battlefield surgery, he enlists, expecting a position at a well-organized field hospital. But when he arrives; at a commandeered church tucked away high in a remote valley of the Carpathian Mountains, he discovers a freezing outpost ravaged by typhus.
The angel's mark, S. W. Perry.
Queen Elizabeth I's control over her kingdom is wavering. Amidst a tumultuous backdrop of Spanish plotters, Catholic heretics and foreign wars threatening the country's fragile stability, the body of a small boy is found in the City of London, with strange marks that no one can explain.
Playthings, Alex Pheby.
Alex Pheby's Playthings offers a visceral and darkly comic portrait of paranoid schizophrenia. Based on the true story of nineteenth-century German judge Daniel Paul Schreber, Playthings artfully shows the disorienting human tragedy of Schreber's psychosis, in vertiginous prose that blurs the lines between madness and sanity.
The lost queen: a novel, Signe Pike.
In a land of mountains and mist, tradition and superstition, Languoreth and her brother Lailoken are raised in the Old Way of their ancestors. But in Scotland, a new religion is rising, one that brings disruption, bloodshed, and riot. And even as her family faces the burgeoning forces of Christianity, the Anglo-Saxons, bent on colonization, are encroaching from the east.
Ceridwen of Kilton, Octavia Randolph.
Ninth-century Saxon England crumbles under the onslaught of a relentless foe; the Danish Vikings. Ceridwen, a young woman with divided loyalties, watches as the peace and plenty she enjoys at the Saxon stronghold of Kilton gives way to wary watchfulness.
Silver hammer, golden cross, Octavia Randolph.
A Peace which must be defended. A vow which must be broken. It is the final decade of the ninth century. The Peace between Wessex and the Danes long- settled in the Danelaw erodes. A new onslaught of Danes attacks Angle-land, trying once and for all to destroy Ælfred.
The circle of Ceridwen, Octavia Randolph.
It is the year 871, when England was Angle-Land, and largely fallen to the invading Vikings. Ceridwen, lost in the frozen woods, is discovered by warriors accompanying young Aelfwyn, daughter of a Saxon lord, sold into marriage to a Viking war chief as part of a peace treaty. Becoming fast friends with Aelfwyn, Ceridwen joins the group to their destination.
The claiming, Octavia Randolph.
Sidroc the Dane has been in Angle-land for twelve years. The first nine were all hard fighting. He has won treasure beyond counting, and now peace for his men. But there is one thing he still desires: Ceridwen as his wife.
The Hall of Tyr, Octavia Randolph.
Ten years have passed since fifteen year old Ceridwen set out from her Priory home to make her own life. She has known love and loss, triumph and heartbreak. Yet the Circle which has moved about her is largely intact, although the counterpoint has changed, bringing with it the hope of renewed love.
Tindr, Octavia Randolph.
Tindr is handsome, kind, and the best hunter on 9th century Gotland. He possesses a deep empathy with animals, which powers his reverence towards the game he takes to survive. But he is also deaf, which closes him off from the society that surrounds him; and seemingly, from finding love.
Miss Kopp just won't quit, Amy Stewart.
After a year on the job, New Jersey's first female deputy sheriff has collared criminals, demanded justice for wronged women, and gained notoriety nationwide for her exploits. But on one stormy night, everything falls apart.
Songwoman, Ilka Tampke.
Since the slaughter of her people, Ailia has been living, alone, in the forest. It is a time of deep healing and communing with the earth and its spirits; the Mothers. But now, Ailia has regained enough strength to return to the tribes, and rejoin the war.
The turn of midnight, Minette Walters.
As the year 1349 approaches, the Black Death continues its devastating course across England. In Dorseteshire, the quarantined people of Develish question whether they are the only survivors. Guided by their beloved young mistress, Lady Anne, they wait, knowing that when their dwindling stores are finally gone they will have no choice but to leave.

HORROR

Flight or fright, Stephen King
An anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube with hundreds of strangers. All the ways a trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some never thought of before.
Brother: a novel, Ania Ahlborn.
Deep in the heart of Appalachia stands a crooked farmhouse miles from any road. The Morrows keep to themselves, and it's served them well so far. When girls go missing off the side of the highway, the cops don't knock on their door. Which is a good thing, seeing as to what's buried in the Morrows' backyard.
The bird eater, Ania Ahlborn.
Twenty years ago, the mysterious death of his aunt left Aaron Holbrook orphaned and alone. He abandoned his rural Arkansas hometown vowing never to return, until his seven- year-old son died in an accident, plunging Aaron into a nightmare of addiction and grief. Desperate to reclaim a piece of himself, he returns to the hills of his childhood, to Holbrook House, where he hopes to find peace among the memories of his youth.
The devil crept in, Ania Ahlborn.
Young Jude Brighton has been missing for three days, and while the search for him is in full swing in the small town of Deer Valley, Oregon, the locals are starting to lose hope. They're well aware that the first forty-eight hours are critical and after that, the odds usually point to a worst-case scenario. And despite Stevie Clark's youth, he knows that, too; he's seen the cop shows.
I always find you, John Ajvide Lindqvist
In September 1985, 19-year-old John Lindqvist moves into a dilapidated old building in Stockholm, planning to make his living as a magician. Something strange is going on in the building's basement; and the price of entry is just a little blood. At first.
The raping of Ava Desantis: a horror novel, Mylo Carbia.
A working-class college student is brutally raped by three wealthy fraternity brothers and is then confronted with the decision of a lifetime: accept money to stay quiet or seek justice with the police. What she does in response is the basis of this captivating woman's revenge horror story.
Violets are red, Mylo Carbia.
Violet Ramspeck, a Manhattan housewife, captures her husband's young mistress and quietly keeps her prisoner in the basement of their Upper East Side town home. Violet's prisoner, Allegra Adams, spends every waking moment trying to escape her luxurious prison.
Dark sentinel: a Carpathian novel, Christine Feehan.
After the devastating loss of her entire family, Lorraine Peters heads to the woods searching for peace of mind and anything to quell the anger in her soul. Instead, she stumbles upon a scene of horrific violence, as one man lies helpless in the face of three attackers.
We sold our souls, Grady Hendrix.
In the 1990s, heavy metal band Dürt Würk was poised for breakout success; until lead singer Terry Hunt embarked on a solo career and rocketed to stardom as Koffin, leaving his fellow bandmates to rot in obscurity.
Heart-shaped box, Joe Hill.
'Buy my stepfather's ghost' read the e-mail. So Jude did. He bought it, in the shape of the dead man's suit, delivered in a heart-shaped box, because he wanted it: because his fans ate up that kind of story.
The corset, Laura Purcell.
Is prisoner Ruth Butterham mad or a murderer? Victim or villain? Dorothea and Ruth. Prison visitor and prisoner. Powerful and powerless. Dorothea Truelove is young, wealthy and beautiful. Ruth Butterham is young, poor and awaiting trial for murder.
Blood communion: a tale of Prince Lestat, Anne Rice
In this spellbinding novel, Lestat, rebel outlaw, addresses the tribe of vampires, directly, intimately, passionately, and tells the mesmerizing story of the formation of the Blood Communion and how he became Prince of the vampire world, the true ruler of this vast realm, and how his vision for all the Children of the Universe to thrive as one, came to be.
Thirty-seven: a novel, Peter Stenson.
The Survivors, their members known only by the order in which they joined, live alone in a rural Colorado mansion. They believe that sickness bears honesty, and that honesty bears change. Fueled by the ritualized Cytoxan treatments that leave them on the verge of death, they instigate the Day of Gifts.
Dracul, Dacre Stoker
It is 1868, and a twenty-one-year-old Bram Stoker waits in a desolate tower to face an indescribable evil. Armed only with crucifixes, holy water, and a rifle, he prays to survive a single night, the longest of his life. Desperate to record what he has witnessed, Bram scribbles down the events that led him here.
Nothing left to lose, Dan Wells.
Hi. My name is John Cleaver, and I hunt monsters. I used to do it alone, and then for a while I did it with a team of government specialists, and then the monsters found us and killed almost everyone, and now I hunt them alone again. This is my story.

MYSTERY

Bodies from the library: lost tales of mystery and suspense by Agatha Christie and other masters of the golden age, Tony Medawar.
This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 13 rare tales by masters of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a newly discovered Agatha Christie crime story that has not been seen since 1922.
The never-open desert diner: a novel, James Anderson.
Ben Jones lives a quiet, hardscrabble life, working as a trucker on Route 117, a little-travelled road in a remote region of the Utah desert which serves as a haven for fugitives and others looking to hide from the world. For many of the desert's inhabitants, Ben's visits are their only contact with the outside world, and the only landmark worth noting is a once-famous roadside diner that hasn't opened in years. Ben's routine is turned upside down when he stumbles across a beautiful woman named Claire playing a cello in an abandoned housing development.
Agatha Raisin and the dead ringer, M. C. Beaton.
The team of bells at St. Ethelred church is the pride and glory of the idyllic Cotswolds village of Thirk Magna, together with the most dedicated bell ringers in the whole of England: the twins Mavis and Millicent Dupin. As the village gets ready for the Bishop's visit, the twins get overly-excited at the prospect of ringing the special peal of bells created for the occasion and start bullying the other bell ringers, forcing them to rehearse and rehearse; so much so that Joseph Kennell, a retired lawyer, yells at the sisters that he 'felt like killing them'!
Solemn graves: a Billy Boyle World War II mystery, James R. Benn.
A double murder in a French chateau just after D-Day threatens Allied operations, and US Army detective Billy Boyle is called to investigate. July, 1944, a full month after D-Day. An American officer and a member of the French Resistance were found dead in a manor house outside the town of Trevieres.
The night of Rome, Carlo Bonini
It's all change in Rome. The new Pope is determined to bring radical reform, while a new centre-left government replaces its disgraced predecessor. And with crime lynchpin Samurai in jail, his protege attempts to establish himself as his successor.
Death at sea: Montalbano's early cases, Andrea Camilleri
Set on the Sicilian coast, a collection of eight short stories featuring the young Inspector Montalbano.
The thin blue line, Christoffer Carlsson
Detective Leo Junker thought he'd crossed his last line. But he's never learned to say no. So when an escaped criminal he knows all too well hands him a photo of a murdered prostitute, he reopens the cold case as a favour.
The cold summer, Gianrico Carofiglio
The summer of 1992 is a cold one in southern Italy. The chilling Mafia violence currently sweeping Sicily has spread to Puglia, much to the consternation of Pietro Fenoglio, a local officer of the Carabinieri. Fenoglio, recently jilted by his wife, must simultaneously deal with his personal crisis and the gang wars raging around Bari.
You let me in, Lucy Clarke.
Nothing has felt right since Elle rented out her house. There's a new coldness. A shift in the atmosphere. The prickling feeling that someone is watching her every move from the shadows.
Robert B. Parker's Colorblind: a Jesse Stone novel, Reed Farrel Coleman.
Jesse Stone is back on the job after a stint in rehab, and the road to recovery is immediately made bumpy by a series of disturbing and apparently racially motivated crimes, beginning with the murder of an African American woman. Then, Jesse's own deputy Alisha; the first black woman hired by the Paradise police force, becomes the target of a sophisticated frame-up.
No one can hear you, Nikki Crutchley.
Troubled teen Faith Marsden was one of several girls abducted from Crawton, a country town known for its picturesque lake and fertile farmland. Unlike the others, she escaped, though sixteen years on she still bears the emotional and physical scars.
False witness, Michelle Davies.
7.15am: Two children are seen on top of a wall in a school. Shortly later one of them lies fatally injured at the bottom. Did the boy fall or was he pushed? As a family liaison offer, DC Maggie Neville has seen parents crumble under the weight of their child's death. Imogen Tyler is no different.
Dark Sky Island: a Jennifer Dorey mystery, Lara Dearman.
The tiny island of Sark lies isolated in the dark waters of the Channel Islands. No cars are allowed. No streetlamps light its paths. It is the world's only Dark Sky Island. This breathtaking patch of land seems the picture of tranquility but at its heart lies a web of murder, deceit, and hidden danger.
Death at Thorburn Hall, Julianna Deering.
Drew Farthering finds a new mystery on his hands when he arrives at Thorburn Hall in Scotland for the 1935 British Open. His host, Lord Rainsby, asks Drew to investigate a suspected embezzler and then dies in a suspicious accident the next day.
Murder at the Mikado, Julianna Deering.
Just as Drew Farthering thinks his life has calmed down some, Fleur Landis, a former girlfriend, reappears, in dire need of his help. She's married now, no longer an actress; but the lead actor in her former troupe's production of The Mikado has been murdered, and Fleur is the police's number one suspect.
Murder on the moor, Julianna Deering.
At the urgent request of an old school friend, Drew and Madeline Farthering come to Bloodworth Park Lodge in the midst of the Yorkshire moors, a place as moody and mysterious as a Bronte hero. There have been several worrisome incidents out on the moor; property destroyed, fires started, sheep and cattle scattered, and worst of all, the vicar has been found dead on the steps of the church.
Rules of murder, Julianna Deering.
Drew Farthering loves a good mystery, although he generally expects to find it in the pages of a novel, not on the grounds of his country estate. When a weekend party at Farthering Place is ruined by murder and the police seem flummoxed, Drew decides to look into the crime himself.
A willing murder, Jude Deveraux.
Sara Medlar is a household name in romance, with millions of books sold. But lately, retirement has been boring her and she's found herself back in her hometown of Lachlan, Florida, remodeling the grand old mansion she'd admired as a child. It's much too big for her alone, but she'd die before letting anyone in town know that.
Breathe, Dominick Donald.
Dick Bourton is not like the other probationer policemen in Notting Hill. He's older, having fought in Europe and then Korea. And he's no Londoner, being from Cotswold farming stock. Then there's Anna, the exotically beautiful White Russian fiancee he has brought back to these drab streets and empty bombsites. She may as well come from a different planet.
Gallows Court, Martin Edwards.
A headless corpse; an apparent suicide in a locked room; a man burned alive during an illusionist's show in front of thousands of people. Scotland Yard is baffled by the sequence of ghastly murders unfolding across the city and at the centre of it all is mysterious heiress Rachel Savernake.
Crisis: a Dick Francis novel, Felix Francis.
Harrison Foster is summoned to Newmarket after a fire in the Chadwick Stables kills six very valuable horses. There is far more to the 'simple' fire than initially meets the eye. For one, human remains are found among the equestrian ones.
Lethal white, Robert Galbraith.
When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike's office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed, and cannot remember many concrete details, there is something sincere about him and his story.
The wildlands: a novel, Abby Geni.
When a Category 5 tornado ravaged Mercy, Oklahoma, no family in the small town lost more than the McClouds. Their home and farm were instantly demolished, and orphaned siblings Darlene, Jane, and Cora made media headlines. This relentless national attention and the tornado's aftermath caused great tension with their brother, Tucker, who soon abandoned his sisters and disappeared.
Taking stock, Tess Gerritsen.
The quiet scandal surrounding her parents' deaths twenty years ago has always haunted Beryl Tavistock. Now she's decided that the only way to exorcise the ghosts of the past is to search for the truth.
The last thing she told me, Linda Green.
Moments before she dies, Nicola's grandmother Betty whispers to her that there are babies at the bottom of the garden. Nicola reassures her that it is two statues of fairies she has in the garden, but Betty insists there are babies.
The spotted dog, Kerry Greenwood.
When a distraught Scottish veteran from Afghanistan is knocked unconscious, waking up to find his beloved ex-service dog missing, Corinna and her lover, Daniel, find themselves inextricably drawn into the machinations of a notorious underworld gang of drug runners.
Intrigue in Covent Garden, Susanna Gregory.
The plague has almost disappeared, leaving its surviving population diminished and in poverty. While most of Thomas Chaloner's attention is on the continuing threat of war with the Dutch, the death of a well-connected physician, the mysterious sinking of a man-of-war in the Thames and the disappearance of a popular courtier are causing concern to his employer.
Keeper: an Emily Roy and Alexis Castells investigation, Johana Gustawsson
Whitechapel, 1888: London is bowed under Jack the Ripper's reign of terror. London 2015: actress Julianne Bell is abducted in a case similar to the terrible Tower Hamlets murders of some ten years earlier, and harking back to the Ripper killings of a century before.
Cold bayou, Barbara Hambly.
Despite his misgivings, Benjamin January has agreed to play the piano at the wedding of wealthy French Creole landowner Veryl St-Chinian. All is not well, for the marriage of 67-year-old, profoundly infatuated Uncle Veryl to an 18-year-old Irish tavern-slut spells potential disaster for everyone in the inter-married Viellard and St-Chinian clans.
Death of a novice: a Reverend Mother mystery, Cora Harrison.
The Reverend Mother is delighted with her new entrant to the convent. Young Sister Gertrude is well-educated, has worked for an accountant and has an appealing sense of humour. But one autumn morning, Sister Gertrude is found dead inside a small wooden shed, just beside the river.
The murder of Harriet Monckton, Elizabeth Haynes.
On 7th November 1843, Harriet Monckton, 23 years old and a woman of respectable parentage and religious habits, is found murdered in the privy behind the chapel she regularly attended in Bromley, Kent. The community is appalled by her death, apparently as a result of swallowing a fatal dose of prussic acid, and even more so when the surgeon reports that Harriet was around six months pregnant.
The Katharina code, Jørn Lier Horst
Twenty-four years ago Katharina Haugen went missing. All she left behind was her husband Martin and a mysterious string of numbers scribbled on a piece of paper. Every year on October 9th Chief Inspector William Wisting takes out the files to the case he was never able to solve.
Wrecked: an IQ novel, Joe Ide.
Isaiah Quintabe, IQ for short, has never been more successful, or felt more alone. A series of high-profile wins in his hometown of East Long Beach have made him so notorious that he can hardly go to the corner store without being recognized. So when a young painter approaches IQ for help tracking down her missing mother, it's not just the case Isaiah's looking for, but the human connection.
Absolute proof, Peter James.
Investigative reporter Ross Hunter nearly didn't answer the phone call that would change his life, and possibly the world, forever. 'I'd just like to assure you I'm not a nutcase, Mr Hunter. My name is Dr Harry F. Cook. I know this is going to sound strange, but I've recently been given absolute proof of God's existence, and I've been advised there is a writer, a respected journalist called Ross Hunter, who could help me to get taken seriously.'
The other woman, Sandie Jones.
Emily thinks Adam's perfect; the man she thought she'd never meet. But lurking in the shadows is a rival; a woman who shares a deep bond with the man she loves. Emily chose Adam, but she didn't choose his mother Pammie.
The forbidden door, Dean Koontz.
Jane Hawk thinks her precious five-year-old son is hidden safely away, with vigilant, indomitable friends. But the malice and resources of her powerful adversaries are boundless and their hunters are circling ever closer to the boy, hoping to draw his mother into their trap.
Murder Mile, Lynda La Plante.
February, 1979, 'The Winter of Discontent'. Economic chaos has led to widespread strikes across Britain. Jane Tennison, now a Detective Sergeant, has been posted to Peckham CID, one of London's toughest areas. As the rubbish on the streets begins to pile up, so does the murder count: two bodies in as many days.
The perfect couple, Lexi Landsman.
Sarah and Marco Moretti are the perfect couple. Together they have travelled the globe building high-profile careers as archaeologists. Now, at a dig in Florence, they are on the brink of the discovery of a lifetime. However their marriage is not what it seems.
I know you know: a novel, Gilly Macmillan.
Twenty years ago, eleven-year-olds Charlie Paige and Scott Ashby were murdered in the city of Bristol, their bodies dumped near a dog racing track. A man was convicted of the brutal crime, but decades later, questions still linger.
The prisoner in the castle: a Maggie Hope mystery, Susan Elia MacNeal.
American-born spy and code-breaker extraordinaire Maggie Hope must solve a baffling series of murders among a group of captive agents on an isolated Scottish island.
In the blood, Ruth Mancini.
In southeast London, a young mother has been accused of the unthinkable: poisoning her own child. Then, as he recovers in hospital, someone tampers with his IV line and leaves him to bleed to death.
The widows of Malabar Hill, Sujata Massey.
Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father's law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. Armed with a law degree from Oxford, Perveen also has a tragic personal history that makes her especially devoted to championing and protecting women's legal rights.
Bury the lead: a Joe Gunther novel, Archer Mayor.
When the body of a young woman is found near a trail at a popular ski mountain, the case falls to Joe Gunther and his team at the Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI). They quickly have a suspect, Mick Durocher, and a confession, but not everyone on the team is convinced.
Leave no trace: a novel, Mindy Mejia.
There is a place in Minnesota with hundreds of miles of glacial lakes and untouched forests called the Boundary Waters. Ten years ago a man and his son trekked into this wilderness and never returned. Search teams found their campsite ravaged by what looked like a bear. They were presumed dead until a decade later the son appeared.
The relentless tide: a D.C.I. Daley thriller, Denzil Meyrick.
When Professor Francombe and her team of archaeologists find the remains of three women on a remote Kintyre hillside; a site rumoured to have been the base of Viking warlord Somerled, their delight soon turns to horror when they realise the women tragically met their end little more than two decades ago
Forget my name, J.S. Monroe.
You are outside your front door. There are strangers in your house. Then you realise. You can't remember your name. She arrived at the train station after a difficult week at work. Her bag had been stolen, and with it, her identity. Her whole life was in there; passport, wallet, house key. When she tried to report the theft, she couldn't remember her own name.
The breakers, Marcia Muller.
On a foggy summer morning, private investigator Sharon McCone receives a call from her former neighbors, the Curleys. Their usually dependable daughter Chelle hasn't been answering their calls for weeks. Would Sharon check on her?
Black diamond fall, Joseph Olshan
Luc Flanders has just finished playing a game of pond hockey with his college roommates when he realizes he has lost something precious and goes back to the ice to find it. He never returns, and the police department in Middlebury, Vermont are divided in their assessment of what may have happened to him.
Only to sleep: a Philip Marlowe thriller, Lawrence Osborne.
The year is 1988. The place, Baja California. And Philip Marlowe; now in his seventy-second year, is living out his retirement in the terrace bar of the La Fonda hotel. Sipping margaritas, playing cards, his silver-tipped cane at the ready. When in saunter two men dressed like undertakers, with a case that has his name written all over it.
Swift vengeance, T. Jefferson Parker.
Returning hero and private investigator Roland Ford is on the trail of a mysterious killer who is beheading CIA drone operators and leaving puzzling clues at each crime scene.
The way of all flesh, Ambrose Parry.
Young women are being discovered dead across the Old Town, all having suffered similarly gruesome ends.
Ambush, James Patterson
Only Detective Michael Bennett stands in the way of two lethal cartels fighting for New York City's multi-million-dollar opioid trade. And they know where Bennett, and his family, live.
Juror no. 3, James Patterson
Ruby Bozarth, a newcomer to Rosedale, Mississippi, is also fresh to the Mississippi Bar and to the docket of Circuit Judge Baylor, who taps Ruby as defence counsel in a racially charged felony.
The man who came uptown, George Pelecanos.
Michael Hudson spends the long days in prison devouring books given to him by the prison's librarian, a young woman named Anna who develops a soft spot for her best student. Anna keeps passing Michael books until one day he disappears, suddenly released after a private detective manipulated a witness in Michael's trial.
Now you see her, Heidi Perks.
Charlotte is looking after her best friend's daughter the day she disappears. She thought the little girl was playing with her own children. She swears she only took her eyes off them for a second. Now, Charlotte must do the unthinkable: tell her best friend Harriet that her only child is missing.
Triple jeopardy, Anne Perry.
Daniel Pitt is delighted that his sister is visiting London with her American husband Patrick, a policeman, and their young daughters. But Patrick's trip has another purpose, for which he enlists Daniel's help. Philip Sidney, a young British diplomat, is accused of robbery and assault in Washington, but he has taken diplomatic immunity and fled to England.
Countdown: a Jesse Sutherlin mystery, Frederick Ramsay.
Sheriff Privette doesn't take a deep interest in this cold crime, but Jesse is not letting it go. His father's body has been found with a money belt fat with fifty dollars, a small fortune.
In a house of lies, Ian Rankin.
A missing private investigator is found, locked in a car hidden deep in the woods. Worse still both for his family and the police is that his body was in an area that had already been searched.
The wanderer, Michael Ridpath.
Iceland, 2017: When a young Italian tourist is found brutally murdered at a sacred church in northern Iceland, Magnus Jonson, newly returned to the Reykjavk? police force, is called in to investigate.
By the pricking of her thumb: a real-town murder, Adam Roberts.
Private Investigator Alma is caught up in another impossible murder. One of the world's four richest people may be dead; but nobody is sure which one. Hired to discover the truth behind the increasingly bizarre behaviour of the ultra-rich, Alma must juggle treating her terminally ill lover with a case which may not have a victim.
The colours of all the cattle, Alexander McCall Smith.
When Mma Potokwane suggests to Mma Ramotswe that she run for a seat on the City Council, Mma Ramotswe is at first unsure. But when she learns about the proposed construction of the flashy Big Fun Hotel next to a graveyard, she allows herself to be persuaded.
The darkest place, Jo Spain.
Christmas day, and DCI Tom Reynolds receives an alarming call. A mass grave has been discovered on Oileán na Caillte, the island which housed the controversial psychiatric institution St. Christina's. The hospital has been closed for decades and onsite graves were tragically common.
Drive your plow over the bones of the dead, Olga Tokarczuk
The story takes place in a remote Polish village, where Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her sixties, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. When members of a local hunting club are found murdered, she becomes involved in the investigation.
Under my skin, Lisa Unger.
It's been a year since Poppy's husband, Jack, was brutally murdered during his morning run through Manhattan's Riverside Park. In the immediate aftermath, Poppy spiraled into an oblivion of grief, disappearing for several days only to turn up ragged and confused wearing a tight red dress she didn't recognize.
The accusation, Zosia Wand.
Eve lives in the beautiful Cumbrian town of Tarnside with her husband Neil. After years of trying, and failing, to become parents, they are in the final stages of adopting four-year- old Milly. Though she already feels like their daughter, they just have to get through the 'settling in' period: three months of living as a family before they can make it official. But then Eve's mother, Joan, comes to stay.
Consumed: a novel, J.R. Ward.
Anne Ashburn is a woman consumed. By her bitter family legacy, by her scorched career as a firefighter, by her obsession with department bad-boy Danny McGuire, and by a new case that pits her against a fiery killer. But when one risky decision at a warehouse fire changes her life forever, Anne must reinvent not only her job, but her whole self.
The shrouded path, Sarah Ward.
November, 1957: Six teenage girls walk in the churning Derbyshire mists, the first chills of winter in the air. Their voices carrying across the fields, they follow the old train tracks into the dark tunnel of the Cutting. Only five appear on the other side.
An act of villainy, Ashley Weaver.
Walking through London's West End after a night at the theater, Amory Ames and her husband Milo run into wealthy investor and former actor Gerard Holloway and his wife Georgina, old friends of theirs. When Holloway invites them to the dress rehearsal of a new play he is directing, Amory is shocked to learn that Holloway has cast his mistress, actress Flora Bell, in the lead role.
The wife's shadow, Cath Weeks.
Everyone admires Suzy and her doll's house life. She has a gorgeous family, a beautiful home and a successful business. But Suzy hasn't always been in control. In her past lies a shadowy tale of fear and instability; a life that she once ran away from, and has hidden from ever since.

New Zealand Fiction

Spy for love, Jemma Daintree.
Security expert and spy catcher Chase Ryder arrives in Wellington, New Zealand in 1894 in pursuit of dangerous Russian Irina Karpinsky. Forced to ask for help from Dilys Frampton, the beautiful owner of the notorious Aphrodite Club, his plans do not include falling in love.
Swim, Avi Duckor-Jones.
Swim tells the story of Jacob, an open water distance swimmer, who returns to New Zealand, the country of his youth, after receiving a letter from his estranged Mother. He spends the summer in the small bay of his adolescence, renovating the summer shack his father had built, as he tries to make sense of the tragedies that took place there years before.
Into the Sounds, Lee Murray.
On leave, and out of his head with boredom, NZDF Sergeant Taine McKenna joins biologist Jules Asher, on a Conservation Department deer culling expedition. Despite covering an area the size of the Serengeti, only eighteen people live in the isolated region, so it's a surprise when the hunters stumble on the nation's Turehu tribe, becoming some of only a handful to ever encounter the elusive ghost people.

ROMANCE

The king's captive virgin, Natalie Anderson.
Kassie's scandalous family has left her craving a life in the shadows, not the spotlight. Then King Giorgos Nicolaides kidnaps her, demanding information about his missing sister! She knows nothing; but their potent attraction unlocks a desire Kassie never thought possible.
Sheikh's pregnant Cinderella, Maya Blake.
It's the day of the royal wedding, and everyone who's anyone is in attendance; except the bride! Refusing to let being jilted disrupt his kingdom, duty-bound, cold- hearted Sheikh Zufar commands timid maid Niesha be his stand-in Queen.
The Italian's runaway princess, Andrea Bolter.
When billionaire Gio Grassi rescues a beautiful stranger on the streets of Florence he never imagined she'd be royalty! Princess Luciana's innocence compels Gio to protect her and he's intrigued by her vivacity.
Keeping secrets, Fiona Brand.
Billionaire Damon Smith doesn't like a double cross. First, his lover and trusted assistant, Zara Westlake, disappeared. Now he's discovered she gave birth to a baby. Their baby.
Runaway temptation, Maureen Child.
When Shelby Arthur's mad dash from the altar ends in the arms of sexy rancher Caleb Mackenzie, she's a goner. And then the handsome Texan offers his ranch as a hideaway while she gets her life under control but soon their passion is out of control.
The million pound marriage deal, Michelle Douglas.
Billionaire playboy Will Trent-Paterson has one year to get married. His father will disinherit him if he doesn't settle down, which would leave his vulnerable sister homeless.
The family they've longed for, Robin Gianna.
Paediatric surgeon Rory Anderson is dreading returning to her small Alaskan home town and seeing her ex, local doctor Jacob Hunter! After everything they've lost, discovering he's a single dad brings back so many painful memories.
The Greek's blackmailed mistress, Lynne Graham.
Blackmailed into the billionaire's bed? Elvi can't believe her attempt to appeal to heartless Xan's benevolent side has gone so wrong!
Claiming his wedding night consequence, Abby Green.
Nicolo Santo Domenico's marriage to heiress Chiara is purely for convenience; until their explosively passionate wedding night! But when Chiara realises that Nico's reasons for seducing her are as cold as his heart, she flees their fledgling marriage.
Carrying the single dad's baby, Kate Hardy.
Beatrice Lindford's fresh start is abruptly derailed the moment she starts working with gorgeous single dad Dr Daniel Capaldi. He instantly ruffles her guarded feathers, but Beatrice must keep her mind on her new job and away from the temptation of Daniel's charming yet sorrowful smile.
The surgeon's one-night baby, Charlotte Hawkes.
Still reeling from her failed marriage, Archana Coates is ready to rediscover the vibrant, fun-loving woman she once was. So an unexpected encounter with childhood crush, playboy surgeon Kaspar Athari leads to temptation she can't resist.
Princess's nine-month secret, Kate Hewitt.
For a stolen night of freedom, ever-dutiful Princess Halina throws caution to the wind and succumbs to the seduction of notorious Rico Falcone. Yet the consequences of their insatiable passion lands Lina in royal disgrace.
On the right track, Penelope Janu.
Golden's quiet country life is about to get messy. When the diminutive but fiery Golden Saunders falls from her horse and smashes her leg irreparably, and her racing family is disgraced by a corruption scandal, she thinks she's hit rock bottom.
The confounding case of the Carisbrook emeralds, Stephanie Laurens.
A young lady accused of theft and the gentleman who elects himself her champion enlist the aid of Stokes, Barnaby, Penelope, and friends in pursuing justice, only for the investigators to find themselves tangled in a web of inter-family tensions and secrets.
The murder at Mandeville Hall, Stephanie Laurens.
Well-born rakehell and head of an ancient family, Alaric, Lord Carradale, has finally acknowledged reality and is preparing to find a bride. But loyalty to his childhood friend, Percy Mandeville, necessitates attending Percy's annual house party, held at neighbouring Mandeville Hall.
English lord on her doorstep, Marion Lennox.
After a storm leaves handsome stranger Bryn Morgan stranded at Charlie's Outback farmhouse she plans to keep her distance! But as the weather intensifies Charlie seeks comfort in Bryn's reassuring arms.
The heir the prince secures, Jennie Lucas.
After an exquisite encounter with a Sicilian leaves idealistic Tess alone, penniless and pregnant, she's raising her tiny daughter by herself. Until Stefano returns to New York, discovers his unknown heir, and reveals himself to be royalty!
Alaskan holiday: a novel, Debbie Macomber.
An uplifting Christmas tale, set in the Alaskan wilderness, about finding love where it's least expected. Before beginning her new job as sous chef at one of Seattle's finest restaurants, Josie Stewart takes on a six-month position cooking at a lodge in an Alaskan lake town. It's only temporary; or so she thinks.
The lost pearl, Emily Madden.
On the evening of her sixteenth birthday party, Catherine McGarrie wants nothing more than for the night to be over, even though the opulence of the ballroom befits the daughter of a US Navy Rear Admiral. Then she meets Charlie, a navy officer from the other side of the tracks, a man her parents would never approve of.
The nurse's pregnancy miracle, Ann McIntosh.
After leaving her cheating ex, nurse Nychelle Cory decides to have the baby she's always wanted through IVF. As she's determined to raise her child alone she must ignore her inconvenient attraction to gorgeous colleague Dr David Warmington.
Conveniently wed to the prince, Nina Milne.
When Prince Stefan learns he might inherit land in his estranged principality, he sees a chance to honour his late mother. However, beguiling Holly Romano, whose family work the estate is also named in the will; and the land goes to whomever marries first so they join forces and marry each other!
Bound by their scandalous baby, Heidi Rice.
Hotel tycoon Lukas Blackstone is shocked to learn he has an orphaned nephew, and he's infuriated by the electricity sizzling between him and his nephew's guardian, Bronte!
Rescued by her Mr Right, Alison Roberts.
Injured nurse Harriet Collins agrees to let hunky paramedic Jack Evans get her fighting fit and back on the Specialist Disaster Response team.
A ring to take his revenge, Pippa Roscoe.
To secure his revenge against his cruel father, billionaire Antonio Arcuri needs a fake fiancee; fast! So he demands his shy PA Emma Guilham wears his diamond. In return he'll help fulfil her own dreams; starting with a jet-set trip to Buenos Aires!
One day in December: a novel, Josie Silver.
Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn't exist anywhere but the movies. But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one. Their eyes meet, there's a moment of pure magic, and then her bus drives away.
Healed by her army doc, Meredith Webber.
General surgeon Kate Mitchell is reunited with Dr Angus Caruth; the gorgeous army doc she spent one night with three years ago. Working together on the Specialist Disaster Response team reignites their flame.

SAGA

Beneath a frosty moon, Rita Bradshaw.
It's 1940 and Britain is at war with Germany. For Cora Stubbs and her younger siblings this means being evacuated to the safety of the English countryside. But little does Cora know that Hitler's bombs are nothing compared to the danger she will face in her new home, and she is forced to grow up fast.
The dream daughter, Diane Chamberlain.
When Caroline Sears receives the news that her unborn baby girl has a heart defect, she is devastated. It is 1970 and there seems to be little that can be done. But her brother-in-law, a physicist, tells her that perhaps there is.
The sister's secret, Jennie Felton.
The Sykes family have lived at Fairley Terrace since their youngest daughter, Rowan, was born. Fiercely clever, Rowan finds it difficult to fit in with the other village children, so when her beloved older sister, Laurel, takes a new job and moves back home, Rowan is overjoyed.
Workhouse angel, Holly Green.
Angelina was abandoned on the doorsteps of Brownlow Workhouse when she was just a baby - her only possession the rag doll she held in her arms. Nicknamed 'Angel' for her golden curls, she is adopted by Mr and Mrs McBride.
Wedding bells for land girls, Jenny Holmes.
The Women's Land Army are the only thing standing between the country and starvation. Patriotism, duty and friendship sustain the Land Girls through these hard times but, even in times of war, love always finds a way.
The evacuee summer, Katie King.
Evacuee twins Connie and Jessie are reminded every day of the differences between a Yorkshire summer and what they had previously known in London's Bermondsey. Life at Tall Trees vicarage, Harrogate, is full of adventure, with the arrival of a mischievous pony called Milburn who soon sets about showing who's boss.
Arcadia, Di Morrissey.
In the 1930s, in an isolated and beautiful corner of southern Tasmania, a new young wife arrives at her husband's secluded property; Arcadia. Stella, an artist, falls in love with Arcadia's wild, ancient forest. And when an unknown predator strikes, she is saved by an unusual protector.
Sisters and brothers, Fiona Palmer.
Bill, 72, feels left behind after the death of his adored wife. He relies heavily on his only daughter, Sarah. Sarah, career woman and perfectionist homemaker, struggles to keep up with the Joneses. As her husband grows distant, she has no support network.
Victory for the shipyard girls, Nancy Revell.
With the war showing no sign of abating, Helen is thriving in her role as shipyard manager. But at home the return of her father brings a shocking discovery that tears her family apart. Gloria is shouldering the burden of a terrible secret. If the truth comes out there could be dire consequences, and it will take all her resolve to resist the pressure around her.
Her daughter's dream, Francine Rivers.
Growing up isn't easy for little Carolyn Arundel. With her mother, Hildemara, quarantined to her room with tuberculosis, Carolyn forms a special bond with her oma Marta, who moves in to care for the household.
Her mother's hope, Francine Rivers.
Determined to find life on her own terms, Marta leaves Switzerland and lands in the central valley of California with her children and husband in tow. Years later when Marta's eldest daughter, Hildi, gains her independence by becoming a nurse, marrying and beginning family of her own, Marta must come to terms with her well-meaning desire to help.

SCIENCE FICTION

Nightflyers: & other stories, George R.R. Martin.
On a voyage toward the boundaries of the known universe, nine misfit academics seek out first contact with a shadowy alien race. But another enigma is the Nightflyer itself, a cybernetic wonder with an elusive captain no one has ever seen in the flesh.
Supercute futures, Martin Millar.
Mox and Mitsu are Supercute. That is to say, they founded the global business Supercute Enterprises as teenagers from Mox's bedroom in London, armed only with a phone, a collection of their favourite cuddly toys and a love of all things kawaii. Thanks to them, the Supercute aesthetic is now a way of life.
Rosewater, Tade Thompson.
Rosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious biodome, its residents comprise the hopeful, the hungry, and the helpless; people eager for a glimpse inside the dome or a taste of its rumoured healing powers.
Through darkest Europe, Harry Turtledove.
Senior investigator Khalid al-Zarzisi is a product of the unsurpassed educational systems of North Africa and the Middle East. The countries and cultures of North Africa and the Middle East have dominated the globe for centuries, from the Far East to the young nations of the Sunset Lands. Only one region has festered for decades: Europe, whose despots and monarchs can barely contain the simmering anger of their people.
The wild dead: a Bannerless saga novel, Carrie Vaughn.
A century after environmental and economic collapse, the people of the Coast Road have rebuilt their own sort of civilization, striving not to make the mistakes their ancestors did. They strictly ration and manage resources, including the ability to have children. Enid of Haven is an investigator, who with her new partner Teeg is called on to mediate a dispute between households over an old building in a far-flung settlement at the edge of Coast Road territory.
The stars now unclaimed, Drew Williams.
Jane Kamali is an agent for the Justified. Her mission: to recruit children with miraculous gifts in the hope that they might prevent the Pulse from once again sending countless worlds back to the dark ages.
The master of time, David Wingrove.
The war for time is reaching its end. As the German and Russian forces seek to destroy a third, seemingly-unstoppable faction, Otto Behr reluctantly finds himself at the centre of all timelines, his very existence the catalyst by which reality itself will be reset or destroyed. But for Otto, the battle to become the Master of Time has become a fight for family, love and reality itself.

WESTERN

The regulator, Ethan J. Wolfe.
Soldier, Sniper, Secret Service Agent, Regulator. Murphy answers only to the President. His latest assignment comes from President Garfield and is classified Top Secret. A serial killer is murdering railroad workers and settlers in the western states and territories.