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  • Even for a con artist, Liz is about to take things way, way too far . . .Liz has always had a knack for charming people and gaining their trust. That's what makes her such a talented con artist. But lately the pressure's rising - Liz's past crimes have started snapping at her heels. So she leaps at the chance to escape to the Mexican coast to decorate a socialite's new villa, planning to lie low, enjoy paradise, and behave herself for once.When Liz is mistaken for her absent employer, Isabelle, she can't help getting drawn into this glamorous seafront community. But dangerous secrets lurk beneath the surface, and it's not long before Liz realises that this time, she might be in
  • over her head . . .Spoiler: it's going to be carnage.
Retreat (Thriller / suspense) Krysten Ritter $34.99
  • A sound froze her blood. A woman. A woman screaming in pure terror. Screaming and sobbing-begging-out here, in this desolate place.
    Twenty years ago, ornithology student Jessica Weston panicked when she heard a woman screaming for her life in the remote Barrington Tops. Her relief, when she discovers that it is a lyrebird making the sounds, is profound. She is thrilled to have caught his display on video. Then she remembers-lyrebirds are mimics. Whatever the wild creature has heard must have really happened, and happened nearby.
    Jessica takes her video to the police.
  • Despite support from newly minted detective, Megan Blaxland, with no missing person reported and no body, her evidence is ridiculed and dismissed.
    Twenty years later, a body is unearthed, just where Jessica said it would be.
    Horrified they let the case go cold, Jessica, now an associate professor, and Megan, recently retired but brought back to head up the investigation, reunite and join forces. They are determined to find the killer, whatever it takes. What they don't realise is that they are not just putting their lives in danger, but also the lives of those close to them ...
Lyrebird (Crime & mystery) Jane Caro $34.99
  • Murder and Mayhem on the waterfront.It's time for the Tea Ladies!
    1967- Hazel's new job at the docks quickly turns perilous when she stumbles into the criminal underworld that lurks beneath the surface. A million in gold coins has vanished from a cargo ship and a dead body washed up. Suddenly, she's in over her head.
    Disillusioned with her life, Betty is led astray by a charismatic new friend and finds herself exposed in more ways than one - until a crisis drags her back to reality.
    Living in a high-class brothel, Irene gets wind of a threat that could destroy her livelihood.
  • She takes on the Maltese mafia and becomes involved in a dangerously sticky situation.
    When one of the tea ladies disappears, they face their greatest challenge yet, pushing their detective skills to the limit. It will take more than a glass of Hazel's homemade wine to solve this one.
The Deadly Dispute (Crime & mystery) Amanda Hampson $34.99
  • What would you do if your childhood sweetheart was accused of murder?Justine Stone left her hometown in Essex eighteen years ago, and she hasn't looked back since. Married to Noah, with a beautiful house and a high-flying career as a barrister, she rarely thinks about her ex-boyfriend, Jake.Until she's given her first murder case, and sees his face staring up at her, charged with a horrific double murder.The Jake that Justine loved would never have hurt anyone. But as evidence begins to come to light, Justine has to face up to the fact that perhaps she never really knew Jake at all. And as the past begins to merge with the present, Justine's life that she's worked
  • so hard to create begins to fall apart.You can run from your secrets. But they'll always catch up with you.
Bad Blood (Crime & mystery) Sarah Hornsley $32.99
  • Three women and the healing power of friendship, an uplifting story for readers of Rachael Johns and Joanna Nell. A heartwarming and evocative novel of love, friendship and family, where hope overcomes all - even terrible hospital coffee. Andie has no memory of the man who pushed her out of the way of a speeding car. A week before Coral's biggest career highlight, her mum has a fall. And the last thing Mara wants is to be assigned to work at the hospital bedside of the much-despised senior partner of her law firm. Andie, Coral and Mara become the daily visitors to the three patients at the end of East Wing of Hepburn House Rehabilitation Hospital. The balcony that connects the
  • three rooms provides an oasis, a healing place, but more than that, too: a place where their lives will interconnect and never be quite the same again...
The View From The Balcony ( Modern & contemporary fiction) Janette Paul $34.99
  • It began in every town and city at the same time, in every dark and twisted corner of our world. One third of the earth's citizens were asleep at the time. Their awakening was marked by horror and confusion. Just about everyone else had their routine interrupted as they witnessed the event with eyes wide open. They prayed it was a dream.In the small, sleepy town of Gattan, population 7448, it happened at eleven o'clock on a Saturday morning. At the local soccer field, only one boy, aged ten years and one week, remained standing as the brothers, sisters and parents of his teammates realised the horror they were witnessing. Their screams split the sky.One hundred and thirty million died that first
  • day.Every day since, on the morning of a child's ninth birthday, it happens again. No one knows why. The ongoing horror becomes known as Orpheus Nine and bereft parents cruelly labelled Orpheans. Global leaders have no answers as chaos takes hold. Conspiracy theories and violence spread as scientists wrestle with the ongoing toll and anxious citizens and militant Orpheans try to take matters into their own hands.In Gattan, the chasm between life before and after grows wider for three old friends, now parents. They struggle with waves of grief at the loss of one child, guilt at one child's survival and anger as another child edges closer to their birthday. No matter the cost,
  • each of the friends attempt to fight the unfathomable in their own way. But the reality is, the clock keeps ticking, the world order is crumbling and the gods are watching ...
Orpheus Nine (odern & contemporary fiction) Chris Flynn $32.99
  • Cherry Hendricks might be down on her luck, but she can write the book on what makes something funny: she's a professional clown who creates raucous, zany fun at gigs all over Orlando. Between clowning and her shifts at an aquarium store for extra cash, she's always hustling. Not to mention balancing her judgmental mother, her messy love life, and her equally messy community of fellow performers.Things start looking up when Cherry meets Margot the Magnificent - a much older lesbian magician - who seems to have worked out the lines between art, business, and life, and has a slick, successful career to prove it. With Margot's mentorship and industry connections, Cherry is sure to take
  • her art to the next level. Plus, Margot is sexy as hell. It's not long before Cherry must decide how much she's willing to risk for Margot and for her own explosive new act - and what kind of clown she wants to be under her suit.
Stop me if You've Heard This One (Modern & contemporary fiction) Kristen Arnett $32.99
  • Dame Harriet Walter, renowned for her wonderful portrayals in Succession and Killing Eve, among others, is one of Britain's most esteemed Shakespearean actors. Now, having played most of Shakespeare's female characters, audaciously, she lets them speak their minds.With new parts for thirty Shakespearean women, written in 'Shakespearean' verse and prose, Harriet Walter goes between the lines of the plays to let us hear what she imagines - sometimes playfully and sometimes searchingly - these women were really thinking.Here's what Gertrude longed to say; why Lady MacBeth felt she should be King; how Juliet's nurse bemoaned her loss; why Ariel
  • is anxious about freedom and what Cleopatra's handmaidens really thought of her. Ophelia surprises us, Olivia surprises herself and Miranda glimpses the future; these pieces are alongside other brilliant insights, from the servants to the sovereigns.Harriet Walter says 'Shakespeare's mind and words have been the backbone of our culture and they have seeped into my bloodstream over the decades that I have been privileged to speak them. As Ben Jonson said, he is a man for all times, but he is also a man of his time and there's the rub. Though his empathy for his female creations is miraculous, his plays mirror the hierarchy and patriarchy of his day with the result that women are seldom centre stage, have far
  • fewer lines, and their function in the plot is always and solely in relation to a man. But not in these pages...'
She Speaks! (Modern & contemporary fiction) Harriet Walter $49.99
  • Arabella gets an unexpected chance at love when she’s thrust into a conflict and history she’s tried to avoid all her life.
    Zoya is playing matchmaker for her last unmarried granddaughter and stirring up buried memories.
    Naya is keeping a secret from her children that will change all their lives.
    Thirty-five-year-old Arabella, a New York theatre director whose dating and career prospects are drying up, is offered an opportunity to direct a risqué cross-dressing interpretation of a Shakespeare classic—that might garner international attention—in the
  • West Bank. Her mother, Naya, and grandmother, Zoya, hatch a plot to match her with Aziz, a Palestinian American doctor volunteering in Gaza. Arabella agrees to meet Aziz, since her growing feelings for Yoav, a celebrated Israeli American theatre designer, seem destined for disaster...
Too Soon(Modern & contemporary fiction)Betty Shamieh$32.99
  • Lila Kennedy has a lot on her plate. A recently broken marriage, two wayward daughters, a house that is falling apart, and an elderly stepfather who seems to have quietly moved in. Not to mention a once promising writing career that is now in freefall. So when her real dad - a man she has barely seen since he ran off to Hollywood thirty-five years ago - suddenly appears on her doorstep wanting to make amends, it feels like the final straw.
    But it turns out even the family you thought you could never forgive might have something to teach you- about love, friendship, and what it actually means to be family.
We All Live Here (Adult & contemporary romance) Jojo Moyes $34.99
  • It is 1657, and 24-year-old Marquis Jehan Beaudelaire - Avignon's most striking and sought-after bachelor - is in desperate need of a wife, an heir, and, most urgently, a new valet. Enter Jonathan Kryk, a vision of breath-taking beauty.Despite his immense wealth and high status, Jehan finds himself ensnared by the rigid constraints of his era and social rank. His longing for the man who tends to him daily, who dresses and bathes him, remains an impossible dream. Spies lurk everywhere - can he trust anyone in his household, even his own family? The ever-watchful eyes of God and the law put him in immense danger.
Even Beyond Death (Historical fiction) Fiona Melrose $34.99
  • Once they were just them. Now they're forty-something and there's kids. Whose time is this?
    Phil is trying to feel closer to his recently passed mother by spending time alone at his parent's house on the coast. But he is lonely, and stupidly he's invited a bunch of old friends to visit. It's bound to be a mistake. All those children! But it's too late now, and tomorrow Bella and Tim will arrive with their two kids, one on the brink of puberty, and the next day Jo and Lucas will come too, with their little one. Then there's Annie, who will be by herself.

Time Together(Modern & contemporary fiction)Luke Horton$34.99
  • Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world's largest seed bank, Shearwater was once full of researchers. But with sea levels rising, the Salts are now its final inhabitants, packing up the seeds before they are transported to safer ground. Despite the wild beauty of life here, isolation has taken its toll on the Salts. Raff, 18 and suffering his first heartbreak, can only find relief at his punching bag; Fen, 17, has started spending her nights on the beach among the seals; 9-year-old Orly, obsessed with botany, fears the loss of his beloved natural world; and Dominic can't stop turning back towards the past, and the loss that drove the family to Shearwater in
  • the first place.
    Then, during the worst storm the island has ever seen, a woman washes up on shore. As the Salts nurse the woman, Rowan, back to life, their suspicion gives way to affection, and they finally begin to feel like a family again. Rowan, long accustomed to protecting her heart, begins to fall for the Salts, too. But Rowan isn't telling the whole truth about why she set out for Shearwater. And when she discovers the sabotaged radios and a freshly dug grave, she realises Dominic is keeping his own dark secrets. As the storms on Shearwater gather force, the characters must decide if they can trust each other enough to protect the precious
  • seeds in their care before it's too late-and if they can finally put the tragedies of the past behind them to create something new, together.
Wild Dark Shore (Modern & contemporary fiction) Charlotte McConaghy $34.99
  • Audrey Sweetman wakes up one morning next to her husband, excited for the promotion she's been working towards for years. But by nightfall, everything in her life has been upended.
    She escapes to the seaside village of Whitehaven Bay, but her plan to hide is derailed by her meddlesome new neighbours. The Coffin Cheaters bikie gang. A cranky pensioner with a habit of naked swimming. Shez, the dubious 'CEO' of the holiday flats. A mouthy teen who's nothing but trouble. And a handsome yet elusive retiree, Dr Flood.
    When Audrey learns she's facing financial
  • disaster, the villagers help her launch the haphazard Bittersweet Biscuits. Targeting divorce parties for Sydney's elite, Audrey begins selling fortune cookies that tell the bitter truth.
    With a little help from her unpredictable friends, Audrey just might be able to make the outlandish business work-if the law doesn't catch up with her first.
The Bittersweet Bakery Cafe (Modern & contemporary fiction) Catherine Greer $32.99
  • Whether it's escaping boarding school, or buying hormones from the local speed dealer, Geraldine is open to all the world has to offer - even if the world doesn't quite know what to make of her.
    This is the story of a woman who changes the world that wants to change her. Geraldine is born with an adventurer's heart. Whether it's escaping from boarding school in Rhodesia, or buying hormones from the local speed dealer in Weston-super-Mare, Geraldine is open to all the world has to offer - even if the world doesn't quite know what to make of her. Arriving in Australia as an adolescent, Geraldine finds solace and self-discovery through music. As she grows into
  • a woman, she not only inspires others but also learns to be accepted for who she truly is.
Geraldine (Modern & contemporary fiction) Andrea Thompson $34.99
  • Peak District, Mercia, AD 910: a young girl, Freda works hard to avoid her father's temper, while longing for his approval. She loves foraging in the woods and hearthside stories of heroes. Secretly she thinks in poetry and dreams of one day being able to write; her quills are grass stalks and sticks, her parchment the sky, the earth, her skin. But Freda's world is at war, and when her village is decimated in a savage raid and her father goes missing, Freda must find the strength to survive.
    Taken in by the church, her only options are a life of servitude or prayer. But the cunning bishop sees an opportunity. As well as teaching Freda to write, he uses her survival
  • as evidence of a miracle so as to attract pilgrims who bring wealth. As Freda chafes against the bishop's increasing control, she develops a friendship with the Mercian leader Ethelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, who shows her what it is to lead as a woman in a world that worships warrior kings.
    Soon Freda must choose. Does she remain the powerless, subservient quill whose fate lies in the hands of another, or does she fight for the right to create - and write - her own story?
By Her Hand (Historical fiction) Marion Taffe $34.99
  • In the shadowy aisles of the Lamplighter's Bookshop, secrets lie as thick as the dust…When Evelyn Seaton answers an advertisement for an assistant at a forgotten bookshop in York, she is not the only one with something to hide.
    There she meets the enigmatic and prickly William Morton, an aspiring writer keeping secrets of his own. But when the walls that Evelyn has built around herself start to crumble, there is only one person she can turn to.
    As the layers are brushed away, can Evelyn and William find the courage to write the next chapter of their story?
The Lamplighter's Bookshop (Historical fiction) Sophie Austin $29.99
  • New Year's Eve, Loloma Island, Fiji. At one of the most exclusive island resorts in the Pacific ocean, the champagne is poured, the fireworks are ready, and the countdown to new year is just beginning. It's set to be a night that no one will forget.Especially when a body washes up on the shore...But it's impossible to find answers when everyone here has a motive.The billionaire's daughter, glamorous, untouchable, hungry for her inheritance.The start-up founder, out of money, and out of time.The young dive instructor, in way over his head and struggling to stay afloat.The husband, blinded by desire, in all the
  • wrong ways.And the lover, hidden in the shadows, where no one can see them....One person's holiday of a lifetime is about to be the last they'll ever have.
The Private Island (Crime & mystery) Ali Lowe $32.99
  • It was as if the present and the past were linked: a spider’s web, wherein a shock to one strand could make the whole structure shake. The Kelly family’s idyllic holiday in the south of France is disturbed when Cass, a thirteen-year-old girl, goes missing. She’s discovered several hours later with no visible signs of injury. Everyone present dismisses the incident as a close brush with tragedy.
    Sixteen years later, at a funeral for a member of the Kelly family, Cass collapses. The present and the past start to collide as buried secrets come to light and old doubts resurface. What really happened to Cass in
  • the south of France? And what’s wrong with her now?
Signs of Damage(Modern & contemporary fiction)Diana Reid$34.99
  • In a close-knit community on Ireland’s west coast, a baby is found abandoned on the beach. Named Brendan Bonnar by Ambrose, the fisherman who adopts him, Brendan will become a source of fascination and hope for a town caught in the storm of a rapidly changing world. Ambrose, a man more comfortable at sea than on land, brings Brendan into his home out of love. But it’s a decision that will fracture his family and force him to try to understand himself and those he cares for.
The Boy From The Sea (Modern & contemporary fiction) Garrett Carr $34.99
  • When you can fake anything, how do you know what’s real?
    Harlow Close has made a career as an influencer uncovering the secrets of Winnipeg, dubbed ‘North America's strangest city’. The region is renowned for its sub-zero temperatures, dropping to minus 40 degrees – sometimes for months at a time. Yet, it’s not just the frigid winters and geographic seclusion that render Winnipeg peculiar. When Harlow’s father mysteriously disappears amid a brutal cold snap, suspicions of foul play arise. It’s not like Scott to miss phone calls – and he’s been even more cautious since that time he was catfished by a romance scammer.
  • Unhappy with the pace of the police investigation, Harlow launches her own search, enlisting her sister Blaise’s reluctant help. As Harlow struggles to uncover what happened to her father, she’s forced to question everything and everyone around her – including herself.
Cold Truth (Modern & contemporary fiction) Ashley Blunt $34.99
  • In the middle of the night, Detective Lieutenant Milo Sturgis is called to a Westside hospital. A young woman has been left dead at the entrance to the E.R.
    Milo soon identifies the victim as an aspiring actress, and evidence points him in the direction of a Hollywood misfit with an arrest record.
    Before they can arrest the suspect, however, he is found shot dead on his balcony.
    Milo calls brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware to help unpick the case. But as more bodies appear, linked only by the rifle used to kill them, the more complicated it
  • becomes.
    It is clear there are darker forces at work. Can Alex and Milo uncover the truth before it's too late?
Open Season (Thriller / suspense) Jonathan Kellerman $34.99
  • Fleeing Melbourne for a village in the Yorkshire Dales had felt right. Sanctuary, I’d thought.
    But nowhere is as straightforward as it first appears.
    When Giselle escapes to the north Yorkshire village of Hollydale, she doesn’t give much thought to what she might find there. She's more concerned with what she's leaving behind – a toxic marriage, the loss of her beloved sister, Lina, and the cloud of suspicion over the circumstances of Lina's death.
    But in this small community she makes new
  • and fascinating friends, chief among them Margaret, a wealthy elderly local who lives in Chatswood Hall, the mansion perched on a hill above the village, and Tom, the local handyman. Giselle hopes to start life over, but the past cannot be outrun and her husband will not be cut loose, threatening to arrive in Hollydale at any moment.
    When a bomb explodes on the one road that leads to her cottage, Giselle realises that her Hollydale life is larger and more complicated than she’d understood.
After The Fall (Modern & contemporary fiction) Kirsten Alexander $34.99
  • What would you do if you found out you'd been raising another couple's child - and they've been raising yours?
    Fourteen years ago, Kelsey and Raf Maccioni left hospital with their newborn daughter, Ammy. Days later, Shona and Nathan James welcomed the birth of their son, Zac.
    The only thing the two couples have in common is the IVF clinic where their dreams came true. They are strangers to each other - for now.
    Fast forward to April 2024 . . . Ammy has grown into a rebellious young woman, and
  • Zac is a kind but introverted teenager.
    Life may not be perfect for either family, but like everyone else they are muddling through.
    Until Ammy takes a DNA test for a school project. At first the results are puzzling. Then disturbing. Then earth-shattering - when the IVF clinic admits a terrible mistake.
The Mix-up (Modern & contemporary fiction) Kylie Ladd $34.99
  • Marina is a divorced mother of three preschoolers.Lilah is a shy and lonely librarian.Opal is a broke post-menopausal fitness guru.
    These three women have absolutely nothing in common - except for the charming, attractive man who's beenlying to all of them. Now that he's tied up in a basement, they may just have something to bond over.
    But how far is each willing to go to get revenge? As this shared secret brings them closer together, other, deadlierproblems come crashing into their lives. Can
  • they put their differences aside to save themselves - and each other?
Eat Slay Love (Thriller / suspense) Julie Mae Cohen $32.99
  • In the hallowed halls of Cambridge, a dangerous obsession takes hold… When a young man arrives in Cambridge as a first-year student, he finds himself an outsider. There’s the punting and the politics, the wine and the waistcoats, all seemingly familiar to everyone but him. Then he falls under the spell of Bryn Cavendish.
    A notorious party boy and skilled magician, Bryn is magnetic. To be in his circle is to revel in clouds of ecstasy, untouched by the rules. To be exiled is to haunt the peripheries of campus life like a ghost.
    As the academic year intensifies and Bryn’s magic tricks become more sinister, one
  • question lingers. Is Bryn’s charisma the source of his influence or does he wield a much darker and more dangerous power?
And he Shall Appear (Modern & contemporary fiction) Kate Van der Borgh $32.99
  • After posting a drunken rant that goes horrifically viral, Bronte needs a place to lie low. Jobless, friendless, broke, she volunteers as a carer on an isolated rural property. She won't be paid for looking after dementia sufferer Nell, but at least she'll have a place to stay. Bronte's host is Nell's daughter Veda, who runs spiritual rebirthing retreats. She also claims the rights of a sovereign citizen and rejects the authority of the state, refusing even to register her car. She has acquired a small but devoted following of the like-minded.
    Are they harmless cranks, with their conspiracy theories and outrage at government overreach? Or dangerously
  • paranoid domestic terrorists? And what is the dark secret that Nell, in her confused state, keeps harking back to? Bronte, increasingly uneasy, would be getting far away from the whole place-if she had anywhere else to go.


Panic (Thriller / suspense) Catherine Jinks $34.99
  • They're the only ones who can stop the murder ... if they don't kill each other first.
    Solving a murder that hasn't happened yet should be easy, right? But when Maxella Conrad barges her way onto the illustrious Barbarani Estate to warn them about a murder plot, her life becomes anything but easy.
    For one thing, there's Greyson Hawke, the Barbarani family's 'fixer' who's lived and worked with the wine dynasty his whole life. He refuses to believe Max, especially when he realises who she is- a disgraced ex-cop who's just spent the last six months behind bars. But when it seems that Max might be
  • telling the truth, Grey is forced to team up with her to save the Barbaranis.
    But nothing is as it seems on the Barbarani Estate, and it soon becomes clear that they won't be able to stop this murder unless they solve the secrets of the past - and learn to trust each other.
    Can Max and Grey confront their own demons before the last shot fires and they both lose everything?
Last Shot (Adult & contemporary romance) Emma Pignatiello $34.99
  • Silence protects the victims… And the killer
    When the dismembered body of a headmaster is found on the derelict site of a former school in Sheffield, DI Diana Walker finds herself chasing shadows.
    Faced with missing teachers, unreported crimes and silent witnesses, Diana is running out of leads. Her colleagues insist this is just another instance of gang violence, but Diana knows there’s something more. Something everyone’s too scared to talk about.
    With her reputation on the line, Diana is determined to find the truth. Her search for
  • answers leads to Sheffield’s neglected underbelly, where she finds distrust, horrifying secrets and a whole new understanding of justice.
The Day of The Roaring (Crime & mystery) Nina Bhadreshwar $32.99
  • Margot and Mama have lived by the forest since Margot can remember. When Margot isn't at school, they spend quiet days together in their cottage, waiting for strangers to knock on their door. Strays, Mama calls them. Mama loves the strays. She feeds them wine, keeps them warm. Then she satisfies her burning appetite by picking apart their bodies.But Mama's want is stronger than her hunger sometimes, and when a white-toothed stray named Eden turns up in the heart of a snowstorm, little Margot must confront the shifting dynamics of her family, untangle her own desires and make a bid for freedom.
The Lamb (Horror & ghost stories) Lucy Rose $34.99
  • ARE YOU READY TO BRAVE THE DARK?After nearly eighteen months at Basgiath War College, Violet Sorrengail knows there's no more time for lessons. No more time for uncertainty. Because the battle has truly begun, and with enemies closing in from outside their walls and within their ranks, it's impossible to know who to trust.Now Violet must journey beyond the failing Aretian wards to seek allies from unfamiliar lands to stand with Navarre. The trip will test every bit of her wit, luck, and strength, but she will do anything to save what she loves - her dragons, her family, her home, and him.Even if it means keeping a secret so big, it could destroy everything.They need an army. They need power. They
  • need magic. And they need the one thing only Violet can find - the truth.But a storm is coming... and not everyone can survive its wrath.
Onyx Storm(Fantasy romance)Rebecca YarrosPaperback - $34.99 Hardcover - $55.00
  • There are moments when a single choice can define an entire life. Haiwen and Suchi are teenage sweethearts in 1940s Shanghai; their childhood friendship has blossomed into young love, and they believe that they are soulmates. But when Haiwen secretly decides to enlist in the army to keep his brother from the draft, their shared future is shattered. Their paths take them far afield from each other, with the exception of one pivotal chance encounter on the Hong Kong ferry in 1966.Sixty years later, Haiwen, now in his late seventies, is bagging bananas at a 99 Ranch in Los Angeles when he lifts his head to once more see Suchi. As they begin to rekindle their friendship, it feels like they
  • might have a second chance to live the life they were supposed to have together. But the weight of the past lives with them at every moment, and only time will tell if they are able to forge something new.
Home Seeking (Modern & contemporary fiction) Kristin Chen $34.99
  • Who is Cate Kay?Cate Kay is the most famous author on the planet. But it's just a name. Somehow, despite her bestselling novels and the record-breaking film franchise, the writer has remained completely anonymous.
    Anne Marie Callahan is the name nobody knows. Only the people she left behind. And Annie knows there's no one there anymore who could connect the dots between the girl who ran away all those years ago and the famous novelist.If you asked, she'd say her name was Cass Ford. That's what her barista shouts each morning. And it's how she introduces herself to the woman she'll eventually call the love
  • of her life.Three names, three lives. But Cate Kay is finally ready to tell you who she really is.And when the truth is out, will everyone's favourite novelist hold on to her place in our hearts or are some betrayals impossible to forgive?
The Three Lives of Cate Kay (Modern & contemporary fiction) Kate Fagan $32.99
  • Maddy Banks is just like any other stressed-out student at NYU. Between exams, navigating life in the city, and a recent breakup, it's normal to feel overwhelmed. It doesn't help that she's always been the odd one out in her picture-perfect Connecticut family. But Maddy's latest low is devastatingly low, and she goes on antidepressants. She begins to feel good, dazzling in fact, and she soon spirals into a wild and terrifying mania that culminates in a diagnosis of bipolar disorder.
    As she struggles to find her way in this new reality, navigating the complex effects bipolar has on her identity, her relationships, and her life dreams, Maddy will have to
  • figure out how to manage being both too much and not enough.
More or Less Maddy (Modern & contemporary fiction) Lisa Genova $32.99
  • Natalia Leonova's talents were once celebrated across Europe, her grace and artistry in demand on stages from St Petersburg to Moscow to Paris. But when a devastating accident leaves her unable to dance, Natalia is left unmoored in St Petersburg, the city that made her a ballerina. Soon, the ghosts of her former life begin to resurface- her loving but difficult mother, her absentee father, the friendships destroyed by her single-minded ambition.

    Above all, she is haunted by Alexander and Dmitri, the two gifted dancers who led to her downfall. So when Dmitiri resurfaces with a tantalising offer for Natalia to return to the
  • stage in her signature role of Giselle, she must decide whether she can live without ballet, and how much she is willing to sacrifice to get back on stage.

    Painting a vivid portrait of a world in which cutthroat ambition, ever-shifting politics, and sublime artistry collide, City of Night Birds unveils the making of a dancer with both profound intimacy and breathtaking scope.
City of Night birds (Modern & contemporary fiction) Juhea Kim $32.99
  • Six Students. One Murder. Your Time Starts Now...
    The mature students of Royal Hastings University's new art course have been trouble from day one. From acclaimed artist Alyson who seems oddly overqualified, to hapless Patrick who can barely operate design software, and city boy Cameron who blusters his way through assignments. Not to mention Jem, who's a gifted young sculptor... but cross her at your peril.
    The year-long course is blighted by students setting fire to one another's artwork, a rumoured extra-marital affair and a disastrous road trip. But finally they are
  • given their last assignment: to build an art installation for a local manufacturer. With six students who have nothing in common except their clashing personal agendas, what could possibly go wrong?
    The answer is: murder. When the external examiner arrives to assess the students' coursework, he becomes convinced that a student was killed on the course and that the others covered it up. But is he right? Only a close examination of the evidence will reveal the truth. Your time starts now...
The Examiner (Thriller / suspense) Janice Hallett $32.99
  • A historic institution is hiding a very modern threat.The studentAi Ming, a Chinese student, is forced by her government to transfer from Harvard to Oxford University, where she is recruited to an elite Chinese study centre based out of St Felix's College.The scapegoatMeanwhile, the centre's newly recruited head stumbles on its more sinister purpose- recruiting Chinese and sympathetic British students to steal high-value research and intellectual property. Unsure who at the university he can trust, he turns to CIA agent Manon Tyler for help.The spy who might be their only hope...
  • But as Ai and another Chinese-American student are drawn deeper into a deadly game, will Manon be able to penetrate the heart of St Felix's secrets in time to save them?
The Hidden Hand (Espionage & spy thriller) Stella Rimington $32.99
  • Meet Fleck Parker: Mother, Crafter and Amateur Detective.
    Fleck loves a good puzzle. She spends most of her time feeling invisible, caring for three small children, and that's fine, really. But it does make her brain itch occasionally.
    When Trixie, fellow school-mum and avid crafter, is accused of stealing money from Many Hands, the women's charity known for its charming store full of handmade crafts, Fleck feels compelled to investigate and clear Trixie's name. From playground stake-outs to tailing cars while nursing the baby to sleep, Fleck and Trixie uncover a case more complex than either of them could have
  • imagined.
    Will they crack the case?
The Paradise Heights Craft Store Stitch-Up(Crime & mystery)Kate Solly$34.99
  • Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August morning in the small village of Three Pines in Quebec. Someone has managed to track down Armand Gamache, head of homicide, as he sits with his wife in their back garden. When he finally answers the call, his rage shatters the calm of their quiet Sunday morning.That's only the first in a sequence of strange events that begin THE GREY WOLF. At first they seem small - a missing coat, a note for Gamache reading "this might interest you", a puzzling scrap of paper with a mysterious list - but then a murder. All propel Chief Inspector Gamache and his team toward a terrible realization. Something much more sinister than any one murder or any one case is fast approaching. A threat unlike anything they've seen before.
  • case is fast approaching. A threat unlike anything they've seen before.
The Grey Wolf (Crime & mystery) Louise Penny $32.99
  • What happens to loving each other forever when your soulmate decides living forever is more important?Yuki and Sam are soulmates.They are destined to spend the rest of their lives together.They are supposed to love one another, forever.But when a miracle drug is created which can extend a human's life, indefinitely, Sam decides to live forever, rather than love Yuki forever.What comes next is a time-bending, decades-long, world-building epic set across the globe and narrated by an intersecting cast of characters. Who Wants to Live Forever is the greatest romance you will ever read without
  • the happily ever after.
Who Wants to Live Forever (Modern & contemporary fiction) Hanna Thomas Uose $34.99
  • Coralie grew up in Australia but needed to escape some ghosts. Adrift in London, she meets witty, sexy, generous Adam-and his charming four-year-old daughter. Falling in love is fun. And then?
    Coralie yearns for children of her own, and to become a writer. But her trips back to Australia change her perspective. Ten years on, something essential is missing.
    In this unforgettable story about what 'happily ever after' might truly mean, Jessica Stanley writes about life as we live it, and reveals how our intimate dramas can get tangled up with the public events of our times.
Consider Yourself Kissed (Adult & contemporary romance) Jessica Stanley $34.99
  • A powerful and darkly comic story of ambition and survival in a business that's anything but funny.
    Ali Lauder, a driven but undervalued radio producer, is assigned the job of a lifetime: landing the sought-after comedian Ed Catchpole for her show. A seasoned performer with an unpredictable edge, Ed seems to offer Ali a way out of her routine - but as their connection deepens, she realises that Ed's charisma hides more than his talent and her own boundaries begin to fray.Against the murky backdrop of London's comedy circuit, Ali is forced to confront the precarious power dynamics at play in an
  • industry rife with misogyny. Fortunately, she's not alone. Enter Scold's Bridie, and underground network of women in comedy who've seen too much to keep silent and who band together to expose the darkest secrets of the stage ... and the men who hide in the spotlight.
Don't Make Me Laugh (Society & culture) Julia Raeside $32.99
  • Europe is racing towards the future. Steam travel is the emblem of progress; industry and invention are creating ever greater wealth and ever greater deprivation; and on an autumn day in 1895 a young woman determined to make her mark on history boards the Granville to Paris Express with a bomb. With her travel the train crew and her fellow passengers: the men who run the engine, who have built a life together away from their wives; a little boy travelling alone for the first time; a wealthy statesman and his ill daughter; an artist far from home and in search of a muse; and another young woman with a secret of a very different nature hidden beneath the layers of her dress . . .
The Paris Express (Modern & contemporary fiction) Emma Donghue $34.99
  • All systems fail. All societies crumble. All worlds end.In the authoritarian Federation, there is a plot to assassinate and replace the President, a man who has downloaded his mind to a succession of new bodies to maintain his grip on power. Meanwhile, on the fringes of a Western Europe that has renounced human governance in favour of ostensibly more efficient, objective, and peaceful AI Prime Ministers, an experimental artificial mind is malfunctioning, threatening to set off a chain of events that may spell the end of the Western world.As the Federation and the West both start to crumble, Lilia, the brilliant scientist whose invention may be central to bringing down
  • the seemingly immortal President, goes on the run, trying to break out from a near-impenetrable web of Federation surveillance. Her fate is bound up with a worldwide group of others fighting against the global status quo.Each of them must navigate seemingly insurmountable dangers and threats to remain free and, ultimately, put humanity's future back into its own hands.
Where The Axe is Buried (Modern & contemporary fiction) Ray Nayler $34.99
  • In the courtyard of the Pacific Heights building, a local waitress is found dead.Five apartments overlook the murder scene. Five people witnessed a crime take place.Finding the killer should be simple.Except none of the witnesses' stories match.They all saw something - from a different angle, at a different time.None of them saw everything. Anyone could be the killer.Detectives Carl "Bluey" Blueson and Lachlan Dyson, each with their own careers in peril, must solve what others assume is a straightforward case. But to unmask a killer they must unpick a complex puzzle - where the motivations of the witnesses are as mystifying as the crime itself.
  • How can you solve a crime if anyone could be lying?
Pacific Heights (Crime & mystery) S.R. White $32.99
  • Annie thought the murders were over.She was wrong.It is autumn in Castle Knoll and Annie Adams is busy settling into her new home. She doesn't find Gravesdown Hall particularly cosy, especially since she found two dead bodies there over the summer. What's more, ever since she arrived in the village, Annie has had the creeping sense she's being watched.Lonely, and desperate for some company, Annie starts talking to a stranger she meets in the grounds of the estate. The striking old woman introduces herself as Peony Lane, the fortune-teller who predicted Great Aunt Frances' murder all those years ago. And now she has a fortune to tell Annie.
  • Desperate not to fall into the same trap as Frances, Annie flees Peony Lane, refusing to hear any of her grim predictions. But she can't outrun Peony for long, as hours later she finds her, dead on the floor of Gravesdown Hall, a ruby-hilted dagger plunged into her back.But who killed the mysterious fortune teller and why? And can Frances' library of evidence help Annie solve the case?
How to Seal Your Own Fate (Crime & mystery) Kristen Perrin $32.99
  • What if being true to yourself means hurting everyone around you? Brynn is a claustrophobic suburban mother on the brink . . . Eric, her husband, is transforming in dark and dangerous ways . . . Their daughter, Jenny, can't fathom the storm barrelling towards her . . . When Brynn awakes from a coma speaking fluent French, she seizes the opportunity to start a new life in Paris, a seismic personal transformation that leaves a slew of shattered lives in its wake. Darkly funny and profoundly insightful, Mother Tongue challenges our expectations of motherhood and our beliefs about women's lives. It is at once an exhilarating tale of escape and a warning about the cost of renewal.
Mother Tongue (Modern & contemporary fiction) Naima Brown $34.99
  • Jane and Dan have been married for nineteen years, but Jane isn't sure they're going to make it to twenty. She feels unneeded by her teenagers, her one published novel has sold under five hundred copies, and she's pretty sure Dan is cheating on her. Arriving at renowned restaurant La Fin du Monde to celebrate their anniversary, Jane thinks it's time to ask for a divorce.But before they even get to the second course, a climate activist group bursts into the room. Jane is shocked - and not just because she's in a movie-style hostage situation. Nearly everything the disorganized activists say and do is right out of the pages of her failed book. Which means Jane and Dan are the only ones who know what's
  • going to happen next. And they're the only ones who can stop it. If they can survive this, maybe they can survive anything - even marriage.
Jane And Dan at The End of The World(Modern & contemporary fiction)Colleen Oakley$34.99
  • Heather Russo is miserable – work is non-stop, and her love life is in tatters. But she’s not the only one struggling. Her mother, Sandy, is finally separating from Heather’s womanising father, while her grandmother, Bonnie, is grieving her third husband by carrying his urn everywhere she goes… even the supermarket.Sick of everyone’s moping, Bonnie plans a surprise girls’ trip: they’re going to hike the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu!
    Heather is a reluctant hiker – until she meets charming Owen on the trail and things start to get interesting. Of course, that’s when Bonnie decides to share some long-held secrets that just might send them all
  • over the edge. With every twist in the trail, Heather learns more about her family – and herself. And as her time with Owen becomes precious, she’s forced to reconsider what she really wants.
Best, First and Last (Modern & contemporary fiction) Amy Mathews $32.99
  • Broome 2023- when Saskia's free-spirited mother leaves her a caravan in her will, it doesn't make sense. Saskia is a schoolteacher, tied to plans and schedules, even if they are beginning to feel restrictive. Then she finds clues in the van about her mother's mysterious past, setting her on a journey to Tasmania with her young daughter Anouk, who shares her late grandmother's fascination with birds.
    In 1968, teenager Greta De Winter seeks solace in the Stanley wetlands, a swamp that attracts all manner of wildlife. Her father is the local councillor and her mother a taxidermist, working to create bird dioramas for the Tasmanian Museum and
  • Art Gallery. But while the De Winter household seems harmless from the outside, a dark secret hides within.
    When Saskia and Anouk arrive in Stanley, they search for the missing pieces to the puzzle of Greta's tragic childhood. In the process of uncovering her family history, Saskia realises that her mother's final act might also enable her to rediscover who she really is, and what she is truly capable of.
Where The Birds Call Her Name(Historical fiction)Claire van Ryn$34.99
  • The journey will be long and difficult, one thousand miles. Try not to be too obvious. Stick to the backroads. You'll know you've arrived when you get there.
    Stephen Bolin leaves a bizarre note by his deathbed, asking his sisters to take his body back to his birthplace in Far North Queensland. When they ignore his request, Stephen's corpse makes the nocturnal pilgrimage alone. But what is compelling him and what will he find there?
    His journey, as a kind of jiangshi, takes him back through his turbulent family history- from his Chinese great-grandfather's life on the goldfields in 1860s Queensland, to his
  • Scottish grandparents' migration to Australia as ten-pound Poms, and to his own coming of age and coming out in Brisbane and London.
First Name Second Name (Horror & ghost stories) Steve MinOn $32.99
  • People like Dash didn't die. He was only what? Mid-thirties? Well off. Adored. By some anyway. World at his feet. Well, Myddle at his feet, which was his world.
    Ruth Dawson has taken a break from big city law to fill in for a few months at a mate's small-town legal practice in Myddle. It's not what she's used to . . .
    So when she hears the front door of her office open she's expecting a weird demand, or a question she doesn't know the answer to. But it's Bea Baulderstone's mum, worried that she hasn't seen her seventeen-year-old daughter for five days, and Constable Gazza Parker is refusing to report the girl missing.
  • Ruth tries to find Bea, but Myddle is a wall of indifference. Then Dash Rogers is found at his farm gate, dead from a gunshot wound, and suddenly the town is very interested in Bea's whereabouts.
The Bluff (Thriller / suspense) Joannna Jenkins $34.99
  • Diana has her freedom – isn’t that what she wanted?
    After years of watching her safe marriage go stale, Diana Wood separated from her husband, Oliver. But as his newly single life soars and she eats cereal for dinner, Diana begins to question her choices.
    When a client invites her to Paris, she jumps at the chance – not only can she work on her secret project, showcasing real women’s deepest fantasies, but an elusive lover from her past will be there too.
    As she heads off to the City of Light, Diana intends to indulge in every one of her desires
  • – culinary, artistic, fashionable and sensual. But holidays don’t last for ever.
    Is it possible to be married and be the spontaneous, creative, fully alive woman she rediscovers in Paris?
Diana in Love (Modern & contemporary fiction) Jen Besser & Shana Feste $32.99
  • Why does humanity cling to warfare when it destroys the land and people the armies try to claim?

    Claverton Castle, 1940. Eagles and Spitfires fly in the skies of England as Lady Deanna, the aristocratic granddaughter of the Duke of Claverton, spends her days shovelling manure and her evenings in blue satin, attending dinner parties to gather intelligence from the many Nazi sympathisers among Britain's powerful upper classes. She is an excellent spy: the information she gleans may prove vital in the months ahead. But when she becomes enmeshed in the German plot to restore the
  • Duke of Windsor to the throne of England and ensure an alliance with Hitler, she must feign cooperation and risk her life for the sake of her country.
    As war devastates Europe, 'Lady Dee' must solve other mysteries, too. Why do the three orphaned children she has taken into her home and grown to love refuse to reveal their identity? What reason can British Intelligence have to warn her away from Sam Murray, a decorated Australian pilot and the only man she feels she could ever marry? Is the wounded soldier who stumbles along the secret caves below her home truly the missing Duke of Claverton?
The Whisperer's War (Historical romance) Jackie French $34.99
  • It was the impossibility of him that kept her coming back. Edna gave up everything when she fell in love with an acclaimed writer, leaving Australia and moving to New York, where the publishing and literary scene was the backdrop to their secret story. When Molly, an Australian editor working in New York, discovers a novel by an anonymous author, she is drawn intimately into the story. She becomes determined to find the author and know how the story ends - not imagining that she will uncover shocking truths about her own life along the way. A compelling literary mystery about desire, creativity, food, longing and the ever-shifting power dynamics of love.
Love Unedited(Modern & contemporary fiction)Caro Llewellyn$34.99
  • Cece is in love. She has arrived early at her in-laws' beautiful lake house in Salish, Montana, to finish planning her wedding to Charlie, a cardiac anaesthesiologist with a brilliant future.When Charlie asks Garrett, his best friend from college, to officiate the ceremony, Cece can't imagine anyone less appropriate for the task. After all, Garrett, a depressed baggage handler at the local airport, doesn't believe in marriage. But as she spends time with him and his gruff mask slips, she grows increasingly uncertain about her future, leading to an impulsive decision that will alter the three friends' lives forever - the events of that summer reverberating across fifty years and spanning generations.
Dream State (Modern & contemporary fiction) Eric Puchner $34.99
  • Anthony Fennell, a journalist, is in pursuit of a story buried at the bottom of the sea- the network of tiny fibre-optic tubes that carry the world's information across the ocean floor - and what happens when they break.
    So he has travelled to Cape Town to board the George Lecointe, a cable repair vessel captained by Chief of Mission John Conway. Conway is a talented engineer and fearless freediver - and Fennell is quickly captivated by this mysterious, unnerving man and his beautiful partner, Zanele.
    As the boat embarks along the west coast of Africa, Fennell learns the rhythms of life at sea, and finds his place among the band of
  • drifters who make up the crew. But as the mission falters, tensions simmer - and Conway is thrown into crisis. A terrible, violent tragedy is unfolding in the life he has left behind on land; and, trapped out at sea, it seems as if the vast expanse of the ocean is closing in.
    Then Conway disappears; and Fennell must set out to find him.As taut and propulsive as a thriller, and a timeless exploration of narrative and truth, Twist is the work of a master storyteller at the height of his powers.
Twist (Modern & contemporary fiction) Colum McCann $32.99
  • The HostLegendary mystery author J. R. Alastor's books are sold all over the world, but no one knows his real name. After years hiding in the shadows, he has sent out six invitations to an exclusive murder mystery retreat on his private island.
    The AssistantMila del Angel has been hired to ensure the week runs smoothly. She has yearned for revenge on a ghost from her past for years - and this could be her chance to get it.
    The PlayersThe six bestselling thriller writers accept their invitations without question - it's an
  • opportunity any author would kill for.
    The GameWhat should have been a week of trope-filled games takes a sinister turn when one guest is found dead, and the others find themselves in the midst of a nightmare drawn from Alastor's dark imagination. They may have written thrillers - but now they and Mila must survive one...
You Are Fatally Invited (Crime & mystery) Ande Pliego $34.99
  • HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO BECOME ONE OF THEM?
    When Hanna moves to Spain for an internship at the prestigious Prado gallery, she finds herself spending her days buried in the museum's stifling archives, and her nights alone in a tiny rented flat.
    Then one day she sees them; Tom, Samuel, and Leah. Glamorous and elegant, they are also foreigners in the city. But unlike her they are fabulously wealthy, their lives an endless whirl of creativity and hedonism. And when Hanna discovers an uncatalogued 17th century etching in the archive, she makes a decision which changes everything.
  • From the sultry streets of Madrid to the gleaming world of Mediterranean luxury villas and exclusive art world parties, as Hanna gets closer to her deepest desire, the stakes mount ever higher.
The Group (Thriller / suspense) Sigge Eklund $32.99
  • A serial killer is taking out cops in NYC. Could Detective Michael Bennett be next?
    Michael Bennett says a prayer every time he witnesses a death. In his line of work, it happens too often.
    But lately he's attended so many police funerals that his deepening sadness is crossing into the zone of suspicion.
    Bennett must find the person responsible for the deaths of his friends - before he becomes their next target.
    With a new baby on the way, Bennett's protective instincts - as a father, a colleague
  • and a detective - have never faced a bigger test.
Paranoia (Thriller / suspense) James Patterson & James O.Born $34.99
  • On a private island off the west coast of Scotland, the Agarwals gather for a much-awaited family reunion.
    Raj, the patriarch and business tycoon, who has six weeks to decide how to split his petrochemicals empire between his three children.
    Shalini, the fragile mother, who longs to see her family healed.
    Myra, the eldest daughter and golden child, who, unbeknownst to the family, is on the brink of bankruptcy.
    Aseem, the son and supposed heir, who
  • must choose between his wife and his family.
    Aisha, the fun-loving youngest daughter, who is tired of being treated like a child.
    And Zoe, the outsider whose #Instaperfect life is built on a foundation of lies.
    Everyone has a secret - but only one would kill to protect it...
The Inheritance (Thriller / suspense) Trisha Sakhlecha $34.99
  • ALL YOUR LIFE YOU'RE CIA.THEN YOU'RE NOT.
    A Russian arrives in Singapore with a secret to sell. When the Russian is killed and Sam Joseph, the CIA officer dispatched for the meet, goes missing, Artemis Procter is made a scapegoat and run out of the service. Traded back in a spy swap, Sam appears at Procter's central Florida doorstep months later with an explosive secret: there is a Russian mole hidden deep within the upper reaches of CIA.
    As Procter and Sam investigate, they arrive at a shortlist of suspects made up of both Procter's closest friends and fiercest
  • enemies. The hunt soon requires Procter to dredge up her own checkered past in service of CIA, placing her and Sam into the sights of a savvy Russian spymaster who will protect Moscow's mole in Langley at all costs, even if it means wreaking bloody havoc across the United States.
    Bouncing between the corridors of Langley and the Kremlin, the thrilling new novel by David McCloskey explores the nature of friendship in a faithless business, and what it means to love a place that does not love you back.
The Seventh Floor (Modern & contemporary fiction) David McCloskey $32.99
  • Against the backdrop of the last decadent gasps of the twentieth century, the Gulch family have led a charmed existence in the ultra-wealthy enclave of Belle Haven, Connecticut. Now, the empire they have built is on the edge of collapse, and as the decades of fraud and criminality that lie beneath the family's incredible wealth is exposed, the Gulch children are summoned.
    Kick Gulch, desperate and broke, is drawn back into the unreal world she thought she'd escaped forever.
    Her brother, Lincoln, one of Belle Haven's shining stars, is revelling in its culture of power and excess, and masterminding his
  • ascendancy.
    At the head of the family are Honey and Fax, circling each other as the authorities close in. Fax is drawn out of his dream life of drug-fuelled fantasies, while Honey is willing to reshape the world to see what they have built survive.
    As tensions rise and conspiracies are forced to the surface, the truth behind the disappearance of Kick's high school friend comes into question, with each of them facing the complicity of their silence.
Somebody Down There Likes Me (Modern & contemporary fiction) Robert Lukins $32.99
  • It's January 1983. During his university summer break, Ryan Bradley returns to the remote town of Nashville in New Zealand's rugged King Country.
    It's a bittersweet trip- he's working long, punishing hours as a woolpresser, he needs to sell his late mother's house, and he's increasingly feeling like an outcast in his childhood town.
    But mostly he's haunted by memories of Sanna Sovernen, a Finnish backpacker and his secret lover, who worked with him in the shearing shed the summer before - then vanished without trace.
  • Now Sanna's sister Emilia has arrived from Finland, determined to get answers - and as he's the workmate who reported Sanna missing, she wants Ryan's help. Because Emilia knows her sister was not the first female traveller in the area to disappear . . .
When The Deep Dark Bush Swallows You Whole (Thriller / suspense) Geoff Parkes $34.99
  • Among the women of Greek mythology, the witch Medea may be the most despised. Known for the brutal act of killing her own children to exact vengeance on her deceitful husband, Jason, the leader of the Argonauts, Medea has carved out a singularly infamous niche in our histories.
    But what if that isn’t the full story?
    The daughter of a sea nymph and the granddaughter of a Titan, Medea is a paradox. She is at once rendered compelling by virtue of the divinity that flows through her bloodline and made powerless by the fact of her being a woman. As a child, she intuitively submerges herself in witchcraft
  • and sorcery but soon finds her skills may not be a match for the prophecies that hang over her entire family like a shroud.
    As Medea comes into her own as a woman and a witch, she also faces the arrival of the hero Jason, preordained by the gods to be not only her husband but also her lifeline to escape her isolated existence. Medea travels the treacherous seas with the Argonauts, battles demons she could never have imagined, and falls in love with the man who may ultimately be her downfall in this fresh and propulsive “must-have” (Library Journal, starred review) read in which you will finally hear Medea’s side of the story through a fresh and feminist lens.
Medea (Myth & legend told as fiction) Eilish Quin $34.99
  • We all know a George. He's the kind of guy who's brimming with potential but incapable of following through; he doesn't know if he's in love with his girlfriend, but he certainly likes having her around; he's distant from - but still reliant on - his mother; he swears he'll finish his novel one day.
    Sure, you might find him disappointing. But no one is more disappointed in George than George himself.
IThe Book of George (Modern & contemporary fiction) Kate Greathead $32.99
  • Everyone thinks Heath Rocha was my first love. He wasn't. My first love was figure skating.
    She might not have a famous name, funding, or her family's support, but Katarina Shaw has always known that she was destined to become an Olympic skater. When she meets Heath Rocha, a lonely kid stuck in the foster care system, their instant connection makes them a formidable duo on the ice. Clinging to skating - and each other - to escape their turbulent lives, Kat and Heath go from childhood sweethearts to champion ice dancers, captivating the world with their scorching chemistry, rebellious style, and rollercoaster relationship.
  • Until a shocking incident at the Olympic Games brings their partnership to a sudden end.
    As the ten-year anniversary of their final skate approaches, an unauthorised documentary reignites the public obsession with Shaw and Rocha, claiming to uncover the 'real story' through interviews with their closest friends and fiercest rivals. Kat wants nothing to do with the documentary. But she can't stand the thought of someone else defining her legacy either. So, after a decade of silence, she's telling her story- from the childhood tragedies that created her all-consuming bond with Heath to the clash of desires that tore them apart. Sensational
  • rumours have haunted their every step for years, but the truth may be even more shocking than the headlines.
The Favourites (Modern & contemporary fiction) Layne Fargo $34.99
  • The nightmare she's running from is nothing compared to where she's headed.
    Tegan is eight months pregnant, alone, and desperately wants to put her crumbling life in the rearview mirror. So she hits the road, planning to stay with her brother until she can figure out her next move. But she doesn't realize she's heading straight into a blizzard.
    She never arrives at her destination.
    Stranded in rural Maine with a dead car and broken ankle, Tegan worries she's made a terrible mistake. Then a miracle occurs- she is rescued by a couple who offers her a
  • room in their warm cabin until the snow clears.
    But something isn't right. Tegan believed she was waiting out the storm, but as time ticks by, she comes to realize she is in grave danger. This safe haven isn't what she thought it was, and staying here may have been her most deadly mistake yet.
    And now she must do whatever it takes to save herself-and her unborn child.
The Crash (Thriller / suspense) Freida McFadden $34.99
  • Jam is sweet but it can also burn.
    Tasmania, 1874. Growing up in the impoverished tenements along the Hobart Rivulet, Harriet Brown is used to doing whatever it takes to survive. Including, at just twelve years old, shearing off her hair and pretending to be a boy to secure a job as label-paster at the George Peacock and Sons jam factory.
    Four years later, the deceit becomes too much to bear and Harriet risks everything on the chance at a future with her ambitious friend and workmate Henry Jones. But this decision forces her into a new deception: play the role of expert jam maker, or else be
  • cast out onto the streets.
    As the secrets and lies grow, Harriet is driven to more and more desperate choices. Choices that will end with a dangerous secret which, if discovered, could destroy not only her life but the lives of those she loves and protects.
The Jam Maker (Historical fiction) Mary-Lou Stephens $32.99
  • Ever since her beloved Jed died, all Virginia wants is to be left alone. But the little girl who lives down the street is so sweet, that even in her grief-fuelled state Virginia’s heart softens whenever she sees her.
    And that’s why Virginia knows there’s something wrong in the little girl’s house. So when the mother asks Virginia to take her child far away, somewhere safe, Virginia says yes.
    The last thing Virginia would call herself is a hero. She’s just doing what anyone else would do, right? But when she realises how much danger the child is in, she knows she needs to do everything she can to keep her
  • safe … Because sometimes it’s the most ordinary people who do the most extraordinary things.
Virginia Lane is Not a Hero (Crime & mystery) Rosalind Stopps $32.99
  • Life has thrown Zelu some curveballs over the years, but when she's suddenly dropped from her university job and her latest novel is rejected, all in the middle of her sister's wedding, her life is upended. Disabled, unemployed and from a nosy, high-achieving, judgmental family, she's not sure what comes next.In her hotel room that night, she takes the risk that will define her life - she decides to write a book VERY unlike her others. A science fiction drama about androids and AI after the extinction of humanity. And everything changes.What follows is a tale of love and loss, fame and infamy, of extraordinary events in one world, and another. And as Zelu's life
  • evolves, the lines between fiction and reality begin to blur.Because sometimes a story really does have the power to reshape the world.
Death of The Author(Science fiction)Nnedi Okorafor$34.99
  • Prince of spin and life of the party, Baz King, is missing. Nine years ago, at an innocent summer barbecue in Melbourne, everything imploded. For the Kings and the four other young families there that fateful day marriages fractured, friendships crumbled and lives were upended.
    Nothing would ever be the same.
    Now in their forties and their children teenagers, Baz King cannot be found. Has his charm finally run out? With a history of dodgy dealings and no shortage of motives, anyone could be a suspect – his ex-wife, Birdie; his colleague, Alex Turner; his lover, Jess and her husband, Richard; his friend’s
  • nanny and new wife, Madison – who wants him out of the picture?
The Pool (Modern & contemporary fiction) Hannah Tunnicliffe $34.99
  • Charlotte's daughter, Stella, is sensitive and brilliant - perhaps even a genius - but after the sudden death of her babysitter, Blanka, the once disruptive and anti-social child has become docile and agreeable. And what's more unsettling is that she has begun to mirror Blanka's personality, from her accent and repetitive phrases to fierce cravings for Armenian meat stew after being raised a vegetarian.Charlotte is pregnant with her second child, depleted and sick, and convinced that Blanka herself is somehow responsible for Stella's transformation. But how could Blanka still be entwined in their lives?As Charlotte becomes increasingly obsessed, it's clear her husband believes
  • this is all in her head and soon, Charlotte is convinced she is the only one who can save her daughter.
Clever Little Thing (Thriller / suspense) Helena Echlin $34.99
  • James Larwood’s life is perfect – until a single mistake sees him lose everything. When James is released from prison, he is penniless and potentially homeless. Enter James’ tradie brother, Larry, who employs him as a cleaner and starts a factory Book Club to try and get his brother back on his feet. James expects to be lumped with a bunch of uneducated bogans and westies, but comes to realise that this group of misfits are some of the warmest, funniest and most intelligent humans he has ever met.Can James claw back the life he once had? The Bogan Book Club – You won’t know whether to laugh or cry, so you’ll probably do both!
The Bogan Book Club (Modern & contemporary fiction) John Larkin $29.99
  • Adele and Jason are childhood sweethearts. Their wedding day on the sunny Australian coast is a chance to reunite and celebrate with friends and family.But Adele isn't telling the truth about her relationship. And some of the wedding party still reeling from a tragic death in the group a decade before hold secrets of their own.What happened on the jetty all those years ago was an accident, everyone agrees.
    Or do they?
The Weddinng Party (Thriller / suspense) Rebecca Heath $32.99
  • When future governor Philip Gidley King sailed with the First Fleet to the new colony, he had his pick of the convict women to look after him.
    Two years, and two sons, later, he set out back to England to provide a report on Sydney and its newly tamed Norfolk Island, as his mistress Ann Inett begged him to return to her and their children.
    After a year and a half he did - but bringing with him a shocking secret that would cut her to the core, and change all their lives forevermore.
    This is a story of tangled love affairs, female
  • friendship, twisted loyalties, betrayals, hardship, male infidelity, and the tragedies and triumphs of life in a new land.
The Governor, His Wife And His Mistress (Historical fiction) Sue Williams $34.99
  • Sri Lanka, 2009. Decades of civil war and bloodshed are being brought to an end at last—by any means necessary. In the capital, Colombo, tenacious journalist Ameena Fernando is murdered, execution-style, on a busy street near her home, with no witnesses.
    With pressure growing to find Ameena’s killer, CIA agent Ellie Harper is sent to seek justice for the journalist’s death, with strict instructions: find something, but not too much. It’s her first time returning to the island after her last mission went tragically awry four years prior, and Ellie has more than one ghost to lay to rest. Amid the international scheming and jostling for
  • stakes in post-war Sri Lanka, Ellie follows the trail of secrets on a mission to uncover a truth worth killing for.
Unfinished business (Crime & mystery) Shankari Chandran $34.99
  • In the summer of 1938, Sonja is lifted onto a Kindertransport train that will take her from Nazi-occupied Austria to London. She leaves behind her parents, Fania and Arnold, and her baby brother Moses. She is the only member of her family to survive. In 1966, Fania is working as a massage therapist in Montreal, a country that provided her safe haven after she lost her entire family in the Second World War. And yet there are strange echoes, impressions, of those she loves everywhere she turns. Has she lost her mind or is her family still alive? In twenty-first-century Vienna, Arnold receives a message from an Englishwoman claiming to be his long-lost daughter, Sonja. Daring to believe that she survived, Arnold waits for her at the
  • train station. Finally, in New York, 2002, Moses is haunted by the ghost of his best friend who was killed in the Prague Spring, and who exhorts Moses to return to Prague to make peace for the dead. Moving from the Second World War to 2016, between Vienna and Prague, London and Montreal, New York and Miami, Rooms for Vanishing is the story of a family blown apart and across the globe by war. They each believe that they are the sole survivor, and maybe they are, because this is a novel of maybe-lived lives, parallel worlds and possibilities, and one populated by ghosts. Spellbinding and profound, Rooms for Vanishing explores the collisions between desire and reality, memory and facts; it is a singular work that
  • masterfully reimagines the lost possibilities of history itself.
Rooms For Vanishing ( Modern & contemporary fiction) Stuart Nadler $34.99
  • When we opened Sherlock Tomes people warned us that we'd made a terrible mistake. The one thing they didn't warn us about was the murders . . .
    The Bookshop Detectives are on the case!
    In this rollicking new adventure, Garth and Eloise (and Stevie) must sniff out a prolific poisoner ahead of a vital fundraising event, the Battle of the Book Clubs. As time runs out and the body count rises, it seems the bad actors are circling closer to the people and places they care about.
    Could Pinter, the infamous serial killer from Eloise's past, somehow be involved? And
  • when anyone could be a suspect, how can Garth and Eloise keep their customers, their small town and their beloved bookshop safe?
The Bookshop Detectives Tea And Cake And Death (Crime & mystery) Gareth Ward & Louise Ward $34.99
  • 1922: You are cordially invited to summer at the Gatsby Mansion in West Egg, with the most illustrious - and the deadliest - guest list.Freshly twenty-one and sporting a daring new bob, Greta Gatsby - younger sister to the infamous Jay - is finally free of finishing school. An idyllic summer stretches ahead of her at the Gatsby Mansion, the jewel of West Egg.But when Greta arrives at the secluded white-stone estate bathed in the late-afternoon light, she finds she isn't the only visitor. Jay is hosting an intimate gathering of New York's fashionable set: Daisy and Tom Buchanan, along with his brother Edgar, Nick Carraway and Jordan Baker.
  • That evening, the guests enjoy a candelabra-lit dinner party. That night, they dance to the lilt of the gramophone. The next morning, one of them is missing.Murder has come to West Egg, the warm breeze tainted by scandal, betrayal and secrets. Turning sleuth isn't how Greta meant to spend her summer - but what choice does she have when one of them could be next?
The Gatsby Gambit (Crime & mystery) Claire Anderson-Wheeler $32.99
  • It’s the story everyone wants to hear.
    That spring night in South London, when Isabel and Edward’s lives were torn apart.
    The night Isabel learned that the worst things wait, just outside the door.
    The night Edward learned that he was powerless to stop them.
    The night they never talk about.
    When their attacker is caught, it's finally time to tell the story of that night.
    Not to the world. Or to the man who did it.
  • But to each other.
    This is a story of murder. This is a story of survival. But most of all, this is a story of love.
The Death of us (Thriller / suspense) Abigail Dean $32.99
  • A scholarship kid with straight As and massive potential, Evie Gordon always thought she was special, that she'd be someone.But after graduating from an elite university, she finds herself drowning in debt and working as a private tutor to the children of Los Angeles's super-rich.Everything changes when Evie arrives at the Victor family's lavish mansion for her weekly lesson to discover pure carnage: the bloody remains of Mr and Mrs Victor sullying their beautiful back garden, and a woman crying for help from inside the house.Within moments, Evie and the woman go from bystanders to suspects to fugitives. Finding herself the target of a nation-wide
  • manhunt, Evie sets out on a road-trip like no other, accompanied by the mysterious woman, who has quickly become the most important person in Evie's mixed up life. Meanwhile the press run wild with her story: a gifted kid turned killer, a new Charles Manson looking to start a class war.Evie is - finally and disastrously - someone. A scholarship kid with straight As and massive potential, Evie Gordon always thought she was special, that she'd be someone.But after graduating from an elite university, she finds herself drowning in debt and working as a private tutor to the children of Los Angeles's super-rich.Everything changes when Evie arrives at the Victor family's lavish mansion for her weekly
  • lesson to discover pure carnage: the bloody remains of Mr and Mrs Victor sullying their beautiful back garden, and a woman crying for help from inside the house.Within moments, Evie and the woman go from bystanders to suspects to fugitives. Finding herself the target of a nation-wide manhunt, Evie sets out on a road-trip like no other, accompanied by the mysterious woman, who has quickly become the most important person in Evie's mixed up life. Meanwhile the press run wild with her story: a gifted kid turned killer, a new Charles Manson looking to start a class war.Evie is - finally and disastrously - someone.
Killer Potential (Modern & contemporary fiction) Hannah Deitch $32.99
  • ONCE UPON A TIME LIKE YOU'VE NEVER READ IT BEFORE . . . DI Lyla Rondell is on the case of a lifetime. Tasked with investigating a series of perplexing deaths, the only lead she has is that each appears to be based on a different classic fairy tale. Far from the stuff of bedtime stories, the press is having a field day with what they have named the Grimm Ripper Murders. But as the bodies stack up, Lyla’s whole world is about to flip on its head. Because the killer’s bloody trail stretches deep into her own origin story, and when she discovers the truth, nothing will ever be the same again.
  • Faced with the fact that everything she knows is fiction, Lyla will have to take a little creative license of her own if she’s going to turn the final page on the killings . . .
Little Red Death (Thriller / suspense) A.K Benedict $34.99
  • On a small island off the coast of Scotland, an isolated community is grieving. Eighteen-year-old Alan Ferguson was found at the foot of the lighthouse - an apparent suicide.
    DIs Georgina Lennox and Richard Stewart are sent to investigate. A raging storm keeps them trapped on the island for five days. And the locals don't take kindly to mainlanders.
    As George and Richie question the island's inhabitants, they discover a village filled with superstition and shrouded in secrets.
    But someone wants those secrets to stay buried. At any cost.
The Wolf Tree (Crime & mystery) Laura McCluskey $34.99
  • When Claire surprises her fiance, Noah, at work for their anniversary, she's the one who ends up being shocked to her core ...
    Because Noah left the company nine months ago, and she had no idea. How can she not have known?
    Now he isn't answering her calls. He won't respond to her messages. He's disappeared.
    As Claire desperately tries to find her fiance, her world begins to shatter as the truth about who Noah really is starts to emerge.
    And things are about to spiral dangerously out of control . . .
Cuckoo(Thriller / suspense)Callie Kazumi$34.99
  • Virginia is on a ship bound for London, lured by her creative dreams, leaving behind her weeping mother and father in Adelaide. On the cocoon-like journey she is struck by the messiness of relationships and her uncontrollable body. But things on the other side of the world are no neater, as she is pulled between her conservative expectations and her magnetic internal life.
    In innovative poetic prose, artist and author Barbara Hanrahan plunges us into the possibility-filled London of her youth while reflecting the all-but-unchanged experience of finding independence as a creative woman. Originally published in 1974, Sea Green was inspired by Hanrahan’s
  • experiences but has a life and immediacy all its own.
Sea Green (Modern & contemporary fiction) Barbara Hanrahan $32.99
  • Twenty years ago, Grace only wanted to be with Trent - a boy with a guitar and a lot of promises. Her mother, Dorothy, wanted her daughter to fulfil her potential.
    In a fit of fury and heartbreak, Grace boards a plane to London where she builds a dazzling career in the music industry, marries Ed who would do anything for her, and has two children (one who might be a sociopath, but the other seems fine).
    That glamorous lifestyle is a distant memory as Grace drags her kids and a particularly irritating dachshund back to the Blue Mountains, where Dorothy is waiting with a roast and inevitable questions about why Ed
  • is no longer in the - seemingly perfect - picture. On a McDonald's pitstop, Grace bumps into a ghost from the past ... Trent.
Better Days(Modern & contemporary fiction)Claire Zorn$34.99
  • The Hickory Creek Community Centre is a lifeline for new mums. So when a bad case of black mould threatens to end the only women's services available in their small town, a new mothers' group bands together to save it. Their plan? Create a fundraiser calendar featuring themselves ... in the nude.
    As the mothers bare all, it doesn't take long for them to start baring their secrets too. Stay-at-home mum Rhea is hopeful this project will be enough to distract her from the gnawing guilt she's been feeling about her dissatisfaction with being 'just' a mum. Single mother Samantha is recovering from a heartbreaking loss and isn't sure if the anxiety she's feeling is normal or not. And
  • everyone says new-to-town Tahlie is so lucky to have such a present and supportive partner in Hamish, the town's golden boy. So why does she feel so lonely?
    As the calendar takes shape, the women begin to reclaim their identities, embrace their imperfections and forge new friendships. And perhaps the most unexpected result of all, in their bid to save the community centre, they just might also save a life ...
The Calendar Mums (Modern & contemporary fiction) Lauren K. McKellar $34.99
  • Born into poverty in pre-war London, and growing up fast during the Blitz, Betty grabs the chance at a bigger life by migrating to Australia. On board the SS Asturias she meets three people who will influence the course of her life-Pearl, a good-hearted party girl; Athena, a Greek woman on her way to marry a man she has never met; and Leo, a German Jew who lost his family in the war.
    In Sydney, Betty is making ends meet as a waitress at the famous Trocadero dance hall when she stumbles into a rushed courtship with Donald, a wealthy businessman, and dedicates herself to being the ideal 1950s suburban housewife. But life has other plans for Betty, and soon she must find a way to
  • do more than survive.
    Set against a century of world events and social upheavals, Betty takes us to the frontlines of the anti-war protests and the women's liberation movement of the 1970s, to the AIDS crisis during the 1980s, to Mexico and eventually becomes a TV screenwriter. Even in her nineties, Betty is still passionately engaged with the world, still surprising us.
One Hundred Years of Betty (Modern & contemporary fiction) Debra Oswald $34.99
  • Everybody needs good neighbours...
    When Claire Corral goes missing from her home on Carnation Way, her neighbour Jamie isn't too concerned. He's busy-caring for his dad, recovering from a broken heart and eating himself into a bigger pair of pants.
    Then the police turn up.
    Is Claire's disappearance connected with the body found next door thirteen years ago? Does Jamie's father, now grappling with dementia, know more about these events than he should? And then there's Tess, equal parts mysterious and charming, who just moved in at number thirty-five...
  • As Jamie asks around, an unsettling picture begins to form. Perhaps quiet, respectable Carnation Way is home to the same secrets and heartaches as any other neighbourhood-with a few more murders thrown in.
The Body Next Door (Crime & mystery) Zane Lovitt $34.99
  • Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices and regrets. Zikora, her best friend, is a lawyer who has been successful at everything until — betrayed and brokenhearted — she must turn to the person she thought she needed least. Omelogor, Chiamaka’s bold, outspoken cousin, is a financial powerhouse in Nigeria who begins to question how well she knows herself. And Kadiatou, Chiamaka’s housekeeper, is proudly raising her daughter in America – but faces an unthinkable hardship that threatens all she has worked to achieve.
Dream Count (Modern & contemporary fiction) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie $34.99
  • In 'The Patron Saints of Middle Age,' a woman visits two friends she hasn't seen since her divorce. In 'A for Alone,' a married artist embarks on a project intended to disprove the so-called Mike Pence Rule, which suggests that women and men can't spend time alone together without lusting after each other. And in 'Lost but Not Forgotten,' Sittenfeld gives readers of her novel Prep a new window into the world of her beloved character Lee Fiora, decades later, when Lee attends an awkward school reunion.
Show Don't Tell (Short stories) Curtis Sittenfeld $34.99
  • Sergeant Lindsay Boxer's friend and former partner is brutally murdered in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.
    SFPD homicide detective Lindsay Boxer knows her way around a crime scene.
    But nothing can prepare her for the shock of recognition- the victim is Warren Jacobi, Lindsay's former partner who rose to chief of police.
    A top detective until the end, Jacobi managed to leave Lindsay a clue.
    Following a trail of evidence along the west coast, the Women's Murder Club pledges to
  • Jacobi's death before the killer can take another one of their own.
25 Alive (Thriller / suspense) James Patterson & Maxine Paetro $34.99
  • It's a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at a grand beachside hotel wearing her best dress and least comfortable shoes. Immediately she is mistaken for one of the wedding people - but she's actually the only guest at the Cornwall Inn who isn't here for the big event.Phoebe has dreamed of coming here for years. She hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband but now she is divorced and depressed, and not sure how to go on. She's not been sure how to do anything, lately, except climb into bed and drink gin and tonics and listen to the sound of the refrigerator making ice.When the bride discovers her elaborate destination wedding could be ruined by this
  • sad stranger, she is furious. She has spent months accounting for every detail and every possible disaster - except for, well, Phoebe . . . Soon, both women find their best-laid plans derailed and an unlikely confidante in one another.
The Wedding People (Modern & contemporary fiction) Alison Espach $34.99
  • She thinks it was murder. But if she can’t trust herself, can anyone else?
    Nancy North and her boyfriend Felix are making the move across London to Harlesden. A new flat, a new area, a new start. Because while Nancy is fine now, she wasn’t fine before. But settling into the new flat and meeting the new neighbours isn’t helped by Felix’s hovering concern. She is all right. She is sticking to her breathing exercises and doctor-prescribed help.
    So, when their new neighbour Kira Mullan is found dead by suicide, Felix is understandably worried about Nancy’s frame
  • of mind. But Nancy saw Kira the day before she died and she didn’t strike her as someone who was suicidal – she was upset and angry, yes, but was she upset and angry enough to take her own life?
    Nancy is the only one convinced that there’s more to Kira’s death than has been discovered. But all the police and the neighbours see is a vulnerable woman who isn’t sure of what she saw, and might even be imagining things . . .
    Is Nancy imagining things, or are there more questions that should be asked about the last days of Kira Mullan?
The Last Days of Kira Mullan(Thriller / suspense)Nicci French$34.99
  • Leah has a good life. She lives on the Drove, an inner-city cul-de-sac, with her husband, Moses, and their two children. She and her neighbours - the drovers - look out for each other. Theirs is a safe, community-oriented enclave and that's the way it's going to stay.
    When itinerants set up camp in 'their' park, some of the drovers are unsettled, some are outraged, and all of them want the campers to move on. Not even Sholto, the campers' charismatic leader, can put their fears to rest.
    Why is Sholto - handsome, charming and apparently with other options - living in a tent, and why has he chosen to pitch it beside the Drove? And why is Leah tempted
  • to put her family and her comfortable life at risk when Sholto turns his wolf-like gaze towards her?
The Campers (Modern & contemporary fiction) Maryrose Cuskelly $32.99
  • Young Cassie Booth goes missing on her paper round. Then her bloodstained jacket is found in a boathouse belonging to Karl Wilding - but there is little evidence against him.
    Meanwhile, a routine visit by Detective Inspector Pat North to appease persistent complainer Stephen Warrington soon spirals into something far more sinister. As his behaviour becomes increasingly obsessive, North suspects that Warrington has been involved in a far more horrific crime.
    Only one of the men is guilty of Cassie's murder. But can the jury unravel the complex web of lies and deliver justice?
Accused (Thriller / suspense) Lynda La Plante $32.99
  • Sister. Rival. Protector.
    Quiet and reserved, Clemmie is happy in the background. Although her parents may overlook her talents, her ability to read hieroglyphs makes her invaluable at the Egyptian relic parties which have made her father the toast of Victorian society.
    But at one such party, the words Clemmie interprets from an unusual amulet strike fear into her heart. The beautiful and dangerous glyphs she holds in her hands will change her life forever.
    Five years later, Clemmie arrives in Egypt on a mission to save what remains of her
  • family. The childhood game she used to play about the immortal sisters, Isis and Nephthys, has taken on a devastating resonance and it is only by following Nephthys' story that she can undo the mistakes of the past.
    On her journey up the Nile she will meet unexpected allies and enemies and, along with long-buried secrets and betrayals, Clemmie will be forced to step into the light.
Nephthys (Historical fiction) Rachel Driscoll $34.99
  • Lucy is running from what she’s done – and what someone did to her.
    There’s only one person who might understand: her sister Jess. But when Lucy arrives at her sister’s desolate cliff-top house, Jess is gone.
    Lucy is now alone, in a strange town steeped in rumour. Stories of men disappearing without a trace. A foundling discovered in a sea-swept cave. And women’s voices murmuring on the waves…
    As Lucy searches for her sister, those voices get ever louder. They tell of two sisters, two centuries ago, bound and transported
  • across the world. A world where men always get their way. A world that is at once distant, and achingly familiar.
    Are these voices luring Lucy closer to her sister? Or will the secrets of the past pull them both under?
The Sirens (Modern & contemporary fiction) Emilia Hart $32.99
  • The whole truth, as the name implies, is the collective knowledge of all those involved. Which is why you can never really piece it together again afterwards. Because some of those who possessed a part of it will already be dead. Or they're lying, or their memories are bad.
    It's 1989, and in a small town on the Austria-Hungary border, nobody talks about the war; the older residents pretend not to remember, and the younger ones are too busy making plans to leave. The walls are thin, the curtains twitch, there is a face at every window, and everyone knows what they are not supposed to say.
  • But as thousands of East German refugees mass at the border, it seems that the past is knocking on Darkenbloom's door.
    Still, though, nobody talks about the war.
    Until a mysterious visitor shows up asking questions.
    Until townspeople start receiving threatening letters and even disappearing.
    Until a body is found.
Darkenbloom (Historical fiction) Eva Menasse $36.99
  • What if heartbreak came with a manual? It starts with a late-night knock on the door. Thirty-something best friends Dee, Liv and Rosa share a flat in south London, while Katie, the fourth member of their friendship group, lives close by with her long-term boyfriend. But, when Katie’s nine-year relationship ends – suddenly and brutally – she turns up on their doorstep with no idea where she’ll live, what to do next or how to do anything after spending so long with her life entwined with someone else’s. Out comes the martini shaker (an old, well-washed gherkin jar) and, with an unused sketchbook, an idea. They’ll make Katie the handbook that she needs to process her heartbreak and start rebuilding her life.
  • There are notes on tears, hangovers and roast chicken, scribblings about music, new bedding and pure, white-hot rage. Everywhere there is permission to feel agony and elation and anger, and everything that is extraordinary and appalling. But Katie is not the only one nursing a broken heart. Rosa is a hopeless romantic, despite still reeling from her ex’s infidelity. Scarred by her ex’s parting words, Dee is committed to being commitment-free. And while Liv knows that breaking up with her girlfriend was what she wanted, she can’t help but wonder if she did the right thing . . .
Instructions For Heartbreak (Modern & contemporary fiction) Sarah Handyside $34.99
  • Mick Herron's Slow Horses meets David Baldacci's The Camel Club in a hot new series. When a serial killer starts targeting other serial killers, and seems to be one step ahead of the FBI at every turn, only one team of misfits has a chance of stopping him ...
    Gardner Camden is a walking analytical brain with an affinity for riddles, puzzles, and codes. It makes him the perfect fit for the Patterns and Recognition (PAR) unit of the FBI, a team of five brilliant but misfit agents who are too talented, too extraordinary to fire from the Bureau. Gardner's smart, but he's all business - except for his seven-year-old daughter and
  • occasional visits to his elderly mother, he prioritises his work and justice over everything else, no matter the cost.
    A serial killer from one of Gardner's solved cases, presumed to be long dead, is found murdered, and then soon after, another body with a similar story. The mastermind murderer has left clues and riddles for Gardner and his team - a mathematician, a sniper and weapons expert, a computer analytics specialist, and their leader, a career agent - as they track him across the country. With the threat of PAR dissolving, the team can't afford to make any mistakes and Gardner must work to solve the riddles before it's too late.
Head Cases (Crime & mystery) John McMahon $34.99
  • With mystery, intrigue, and the hints of romance international bestselling author Julia Kelly is known for, Evelyne Redfern returns in Betrayal at Blackthorn Park. Freshly graduated from a rigorous training program in all things spy craft, former typist Evelyne Redfern is eager for her first assignment as a field agent helping Britain win the war. However, when she learns her first task is performing a simple security test at Blackthorn Park, a requisitioned manor house in the sleepy Sussex countryside, she can’t help her initial disappointment. Making matters worse, her handler is to be David Poole, a fellow agent who manages to be both strait-laced and dashing in annoyingly equal measure. However, Evelyne soon
  • realizes that Blackthorn Park is more than meets the eye, and an upcoming visit from Winston Churchill means that security at the secret weapons research and development facility is of the utmost importance. When Evelyne discovers Blackthorn Park’s chief engineer dead in his office, her simple assignment becomes more complicated. Evelyne must use all of her—and David’s—detection skills to root out who is responsible and uncover layers of deception that could change the course of the war.
Betrayal at Blackthorn Park(Historical mysteries)Julia Kelly$34.99
  • One night in the woodsA party gone wrongA body discovered at sunrise
    He murdered her at the folly on their wedding day, left her body for the crows. They say she haunts the woods now, a girl in a white dress … Everyone in the small town of Thorncombe knows the tales of the haunted woods where the birds don’t sing and a girl in a white dress roams, luring people to their deaths. But when a girl in white is found dead the morning after Halloween, her body carefully arranged at the bottom of an old stone folly, the community is thrown into turmoil.
  • With a teenage daughter of his own, police detective Ben Chase knows how high the stakes are. Was the girl the victim of a party prank gone wrong, or does her death represent something more sinister and ritualistic?
    As the investigation unfolds and the noose tightens around Chase’s own family, the only thing anyone can be sure of is that no one is safe until this violent killer is caught.
One Dark Night (Thriller / suspense) Hannah Richell $32.99
  • Every couple has their secrets . . .It's wedding season, and tensions are brewing.When one lavish wedding ends in disaster before it can even begin - with the maid of honour discovered dead in Nantucket Harbor just hours before the ceremony - everyone in the wedding party is suddenly a suspect.As Chief of Police Ed Kapenash digs into the best man, the bride, the groom's famous mystery novelist mother, and even a member of his own family, the chief discovers that every wedding is a minefield - and that no couple is perfect.
The Perfect Couple(Modern & contemporary fiction)Elin Hilderbrand$22.99
  • It was meant to be a harmless prank.
    Growing up, May Hanover was a good girl, always. Well-behaved, top of her class, a compulsive rule-follower. Raised by a first-generation Chinese single mother with high expectations, May didn't have room to slip up, let alone fail. Her friends didn't call her the Little Sheriff for nothing.
    But even good girls have secrets. And regrets. When it comes to her friendship with Lauren and Kelsey, she's had her fair share of both. Their bond-forged when May was just twelve years old-has withstood a tragic accident, individual scandals, heartbreak and loss. Now the three friends
  • have reunited for the first time in years for a few days of sun and fun in the Hamptons. But a chance encounter with a pair of strangers leads to a drunken prank that goes horribly awry.
    When she finds herself at the center of an urgent police investigation, May begins to wonder whether Lauren and Kelsey are keeping secrets from her, testing the limits of her loyalty to lifelong friends.
    What had they gone and done?
    The Note is a page-turner of the highest order from one of our greatest contemporary suspense writers.
The Note (Crime & mystery) Alafair Burke $32.99
  • The story of a family over the past 100 years, starting in Palestine under British rule and ending in Redland Bay in Queensland.
    Samah Sabawi shares the story of her parents and many like them who were born as their parents were being forced to leave their homelands.
    Filled with love for land, history, peoples it is more than anything else a family story and a love story told with enormous humanity and feeling. How the son (one of six), born at the height of the displacements to a disabled father and illiterate mother, a believer in peaceful resistance, became a leading poet and writer in Palestine, before being forced,
  • with his own young family in tow, to flee and start a new life in Australia.
    One of the gifts of Samah Sabawi's Baba is to remain open-hearted and optimistic.
Cactus Pear For my Beloved (Middle Eastern history) Samah Sabawi $36.99
  • Two years ago, and with assassins after his head, Bourne knew he had to let Abbey Laurent walk away from his dangerous world.
    Now Abbey is back - and she s married to a top government official. But she s convinced someone is trying to kill her husband, and she wants Bourne s help.
    Bourne follows the plot into a deadly web of conspiracy that puts them all at risk. But the deeper he descends into the violence and duplicity, the more he believes that Abbey may not know who her husband really is...
The Bourne Vendetta (Espionage & spy thriller) Robert Ludlum's $32.99
  • Fredy built a wall against suffering in their hearts...
    At the dark heart of the Holocaust, there was a wooden hut whose walls were painted with cartoons; a place where children sang, staged plays and wrote poetry. Safely inside, but still in the shadow of the chimneys, they were given better food, kept free of vermin, and were even taught meditation to imagine full stomachs and a day without fear. The man who became their guiding light was a young Jewish prisoner named Fredy Hirsch.
    But being a teacher in such a brutal concentration camp was no mean feat. Whether it was begging the SS for better
  • provisions, or hiding his homosexuality from his persecutors, he risked his life every day for one thing: to protect the children from the mortal danger they all faced.
    But time is running out for Fredy and the hundreds of children in his care. Can he find a way to teach them the one lesson they really need to know: how to survive?
The Teacher pf Auschwitz (Historical fiction) Wendy Holden $32.99
  • This is a magical love story. Where, despite what I have just told you, the most extraordinary thing to happen is a woman learns to forgive herself.
    When Caitlin inherits a significant sum of money on her fortieth birthday, she decides to break the habits of a lifetime and throw caution to the winds. She's about to tell her husband Paul that they're leaving London on a once-in-a-lifetime journey to Eat Pray Love their way around the world, only ... she doesn't tell Paul that, because before the candles are lit, he tells her that he's very much in love with someone else. After a drunken night trying to console herself, Caitlin books tickets to Australia - anything
  • to get as far away as possible.
    What does the world feel like when it's ending for you, and no-one else? What does life feel like when you are running away from it? This is a story that begins in a way you expect, and ends very far from there. It is a story of creaking English hallways and vast Australian skies. Of hands that feel like warm sandpaper. Cicadas that sing so loudly they drown out the grief. Of white wine and an old piano and children who want their parents back from the dead. It is a magical tale of travel and mystery. And a very human tale of sex and loss and seawater and the primal joy of coming home. This is The Cicada House.
The Cicada House (Modern & contemporary fiction) Ella Ward $32.99
  • The Cotswolds, 1924. At the Old Forge in the quiet village of Maybury-in-the-Marsh a cry of anguish rings out: lady of the house Amy Phelps has been discovered dead. But with all the windows and doors to her room locked from inside, how – and by whom – was she killed?
    Arbuthnot ‘Arbie’ Swift finds himself in the unlikely position of detective. The celebrated author of The Gentleman’s Guide to Ghost-Hunting is staying at the Old Forge to investigate a suspected spectre, but now the more pressing matter of Amy’s murder falls to him too.
    With old friend Val, he soon uncovers a sorry
  • tale of altered wills, secret love affairs and tragic losses – and plenty of motives for murder. When events take another sinister turn, Arbie must find the killer, fast. And to do so will mean cracking a most perfectly plotted crime…
Murder By Candleight (Crime & mystery) Faith Martin $22.99
  • It's 1986 and a nuclear reactor has exploded in Chernobyl. Syvert L yning returns home from military service to live with his mother and brother on the outskirts of a town in Southern Norway. One night, he dreams of his late father, and can't shake him from his mind. Searching through his father's belongings for clues and connections, he finds a cache of letters that lead to the Soviet Union.
    In present-day Russia, Alevtina is trying to balance work and family. She has always sought the answers to life's big questions, but is preoccupied with care of her young son. Her friend Vasilisa offers some nourishment- she is writing a book about an
  • ancient feature of Russian culture, the belief in eternal life. Meantime, Alevtina is heading towards a meeting that will redraw the contours of her world.
    A searching and humane novel, The Wolves of Eternity is an intimate journey into the experiences of a half-brother and half-sister in their two different - yet deeply connected - lives. The second novel in Karl Ove Knausgaard's extraordinary new series, it expands the universe of The Morning Star in the decades before the blazing and mysterious star descends.
The Wolves of Eternity(Fiction in translation)Karl Knausgaard$22.99
  • Private investigator Julia Stark receives an unannounced visit at the office. The man at the door is one of the owners of a successful family business. The day before, he was present at a board meeting and dinner at his estate in the northwestern part of Sweden. The following morning, he finds a photograph in his phone of a bloodyman, tied up with a bag over his head.
    Due to alcohol-related amnesia, the man has no idea where the picture comes from and wants to hire Stark Detective Agency to clear his name before the police get involved. Julia asks her ex-husband Sidney Mendelson to take time off from the City Police and assist her in the investigation.
  • There is still a glimmer of hope left in Julia that this might be her chance to win him back.
    Welcomed as guests at the opulent estate, Julia and Sidney begin to search for the truth while dining and socializing with each of the family members that could theoretically be involved in the murder.
I Will Find The Key (Crime & mystery) Alex Ahndoril $32.99
  • Diana Wood has a job she likes and a husband, Oliver, she loves. They're in married love, which isn't exactly the same as love love, but it's fine.
    Or is it? Is fine good enough?
    With sex and intimacy more like a memory, Diana decides to rediscover the deeply feeling woman she once was, embarking on a journey of art, sensuality - and sexual fantasy.
    But does rediscovering her own desires means dissolving the safe life she's so carefully cultivated? And is it worth it...?
Dirty Diana (Modern & contemporary fiction) Jen Besser $32.99
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