Thornwood House by Anna Romer
When Audrey Kepler inherits an abandoned homestead in rural Queensland, she jumps at the chance to escape her loveless existence in the city and make a fresh start.
In a dusty back room of the old house, she discovers the crumbling photo of a handsome World War Two medic – Samuel Riordan, the homestead’s former occupant – and soon finds herself becoming obsessed with him.
But as Audrey digs deeper into Samuel’s story, she discovers he was accused of bashing to death a young woman on a young woman on his return from the war in 1946. When she learns about other unexplained deaths in recent years– she begins to suspect that the killer is still very much alive.
Wrongful Death by Linda LaPlante
Six months after the body of Josh Reynolds, a London nightclub owner, was found and determined by police and coroner to be a suicide, DCS James Langton tasks DCI Anna Langton to review the case. Reynolds died from a single gunshot wound to the head, the gun held in his right hand. But details are emerging that suggest someone else may have fired the gun... As soon as she wraps up the case, Langton tells Anna, she can join him at the FBI Academy in Virginia for training. Meanwhile, a Senior FBI Agent, Jessie Dewar, crime scene expert, is seconded to Anna's team as part of her research and immediately the competence of the original investigation team is questioned.
The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon
This is the book on everyone’s lips. New sensation, Samantha Shannon's first book is a seven-part series.
The year is 2059. Nineteen-year-old Paige Mahoney is working in the criminal underworld of Scion London, based at Seven Dials, employed by a man named Jaxon Hall. Her job: to scout for information by breaking into people's minds. Paige is a dreamwalker, a clairvoyant and, in the world of Scion, she commits treason simply by breathing. This book will appeal to fans of Phillip Pullman’s The Northern Lights
Maddaddam by Margaret Atwood
The final novel in Atwood’s dystopian trilogy.
In a little enclave called the cob house a motley crew of survivors live alongside the green-eyed Crakers, a gentle, inquisitive species bio-engineered to replace humans.
Toby, a member of the now-defunct Gods Gardeners, is still in love with Zeb. The Crakers' reluctant prophet, Snowman (or Jimmy, or SnowmantheJimmy), has been seriously injured, Amanda is still in shock from the Painballer attack and Ivory Bill simply can't take his eyes off the nubile Swift Fox.
Will they ever be able to make their world stable enough for future generations?
Floodline by Kathryn Heyman
What remains after everything is washed away? Funny, moving and utterly compelling, Floodline tells of the unexpected salvation that can be found on the edge of disaster.
When the city of Horneville is destroyed by a flood on the eve of a huge gay mardis gras, Mikey Brown - the feisty and dynamic host of a Christian shopping channel - knows exactly what she needs to do. Taking her sons with her, she sets out on a grand mercy mission.
Ember Island by Kimberley Freeman
From nineteenth-century England to present-day Australia.
1891: Orphaned as a small child, Tilly Kirkland found a loving, safe home with her grandfather in Dorset. When her grandfather's health fails, it seems perfect timing that she meets Jasper Dellafore. Yet her new husband is not all he seems.
2012: Bestselling novelist Nina Jones is struggling with writer's block and her disappointing personal life. After a storm damages Starwater, her house on Ember Island, she decides to stay for a while and oversee the repairs. Nina discovers diary pages hidden in the walls of the old home. And a mystery unravels that she is determined to solve.
Secrets of the Sea House by Elisabeth Gifford
A multi-generational historical debut set in a beautiful manor house on an island in the Outer Hebrides, Secrets of the Sea House is a beguiling tale of love, loss and hope which will appeal to fans of Kate Morton.
It will be more than a century before the Sea House reluctantly gives up its secrets. Ruth and Michael buy the grand but dilapidated building and begin to turn it into a home for the family they hope to have. Their dreams are marred by a shocking discovery.
The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane
One morning Ruth wakes thinking a tiger has been in her seaside house. Later that day a formidable woman called Frida arrives, looking as if she's blown in from the sea. In fact she's come to care for Ruth. Frida and the tiger: both are here to stay, and neither is what they seem.
Which of them can Ruth trust? And as memories of her childhood in Fiji press upon her with increasing urgency, can she even trust herself?
Pursuing Love and Death by Heather Taylor Johnston
For the Smith family a wedding becomes just another landmine to negotiate alongside midlife crisis, loneliness and of course love and death. With clashing personalities reuniting for the first time in years the result is explosive and unexpected.
Heather Taylor Johnston’s debut is a darkly comic family saga.
Bones of the Lost by Kathy Reichs
The new Temperance Brennan novel from bestselling author Kathy Reichs.
The body of a teenage girl is discovered along a desolate highway on the outskirts of Charlotte. Inside her purse is the ID card of a local businessman who died in a fire months earlier.
Who was the girl? And was she murdered?
Dr Temperance Brennan, Forensic Anthropologist, must find the answers. She soon learns that a Gulf War veteran stands accused of smuggling artefacts into the country. Could there be a connection between the two cases?
Mr Lynch’s Holiday by Catherine O'Flynn
Lomaverde is a new Spanish utopia for those seeking their place in the sun. Now a ghost town where feral cats outnumber the handful of anxious residents. It is a place of empty pools, long afternoons and unrelenting sunshine.
Widowed Midlands bus driver Dermot Lynch turns up one bright morning. He's come to visit his son Eammon and his girlfriend, Laura. Except Eammon never opened Dermot's letter announcing his trip. Just like he can't quite get out of bed, or fix anything, or admit Laura has left him.
Though neither father nor son knows quite what to make of the other, Lomaverde's Brits - Roger and Cheryl, Becca and Iain - see in Dermot a shot of fresh blood. Someone to enliven their goat-hunting trips, their paranoid speculations, the endless barbecuing and bickering.
As Dermot and Eammon gradually reveal to one another the truth about why each left home, both get drawn further into the bizarre rituals of ex-pat life, where they uncover a shocking secret at the community's heart.
Almost English by Charlotte Mendelson
In a tiny flat in west London, sixteen-year-old Marina lives with her emotionally delicate mother, Laura, and three aging Hungarian relatives. She is desperate to escape her families expectations, strange traditions and even stranger food.
Her family sacrifice everything to send her to Combe Abbey, a traditional English public school. However she soon discovers she does not fit in here either. At home her mother Laura has her own problems and doesn’t realise things are starting to go wrong for Marina at Combe Abbey.
