Fiction : Fiction

Title: Breaking Connections
Author: WENDT ALBERT
Format: Paperback
Publishing status: Active
Publication date: 16/11/2015
Price: $35.00
RRP: $35.00
Imprint: Huia
Publisher: Huia Publishers
ISBN: 9781775502104
Available stock: 1

A LIZ CARLYLE INVESTIGATION 'Rimington tells her story with the crisp authority one would expect of James Bond's M' New York Times Book Review Recovering from a gruelling terrorist investigation, Liz Carlyle has been posted to MI5's counter-espionage desk. Her bosses hope the change of scene will give her some breathing space, but they haven't counted on Putin's increased aggression towards the West. Soon Liz is on the hunt for a Russian spy who threatens to plunge Britain back into the fraught days of the Cold War. Meanwhile, MI6 has hired Jasminder Kapoor, a controversial young civil rights lawyer, to explain issues of privacy and security to the public. But in this world of shadowy motives and secret identities, Jasminder must be extra-careful about whom she can trust ...

Title: Breaking Cover
Author: RIMINGTON STELLA
Series: A Liz Carlyle Novel
Format: Paperback
Publishing status: Active
Publication date: 10/08/2017
Price: $22.00
RRP: $22.00
Imprint: Bloomsbury
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9781408859735
Available stock: 2

'The kind of book that keeps you reading past midnight, holding on for dear life. There's a sense of menace on every page. An incredible debut by a brilliant new talent.' Rohan Wilson, author of To Name Those Lost Van Diemen's Land, 1826. When Bridget Crack arrives in the colony, she is just grateful to be on dry land. But finding the life of an indentured domestic servant intolerable, she pushes back and is punished for her insubordination-sent from one place to another, each significantly worse than the last. Too late, she realises the place she has ended up is the worst of all: the 'Interior,' where the hard cases are sent-a brutally hard life with a cruel master, miles from civilisation. She runs from there and finds herself imprisoned by the impenetrable Tasmanian wilderness. What she finds there-what finds her-is Matt Sheedy, a man on the run, who saves her from certain death. Her precarious existence among volatile and murderous bushrangers is a different kind of hell and, surrounded by roaring rivers and towering columns of rock, hunted by soldiers and at the mercy of killers, Bridget finds herself in an impossible situation.
In the face of terrible darkness, what will she have to do to survive? A gripping and moving story of a woman's struggle for survival in a beautiful and brutal landscape, Bridget Crack is a unique and deeply accomplished novel by a rare talent. 'A compelling story and terrifically told. Leary's voice is supremely confident and perfectly balances a fine lyricism with tough, sinewy sentences that hit hard and true.' Lenny Bartulin, author of Infamy

Title: Bridget Crack
Author: LEARY RACHEL
Format: Trade Paperback
Publishing status: Active
Publication date: 26/07/2017
Price: $33.00
RRP: $33.00
Imprint: Allen & Unwin Australia
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 9781760295479
Available stock: 2

Smart, gripping and urgent, the new blockbuster from the bestselling author of The Swimmer. Growing up poor, Yasmine vowed to always protect her little brother from harm. She broke her promise the day she left home, abandoning Fadi to his life in the Stockholm slums. Five years later, Yasmine still carries the guilt of leaving Fadi behind. Then she hears a rumour that he is dead, killed by a US drone in Syria. What happened to turn her sweet-natured brother into one of the CIA's most wanted men? The answer will shock her. It will shock you too. *Shortlisted for Sweden's Crime Thriller of the Year*

Title: Brother
Author: ZANDER JOAKIM
Format: Paperback
Publishing status: Active
Publication date: 10/08/2017
Price: $23.00
RRP: $23.00
Imprint: Head of Zeus
Publisher: Head of Zeus
ISBN: 9781781859230
Available stock: 2

Title: Brushstrokes of Memory
Author: MCMILLAN KAREN
Format: Trade Paperback
Publishing status: Active
Price: $35.00
RRP: $35.00
Imprint: Miscellaneous
ISBN: 9780473374358
Available stock: 2

A bracing and hypnotic portrait of the complexities of female friendship from the New York Times bestselling author of The Woman Upstairs. Julia Robinson and Cassie Burnes have been friends since nursery school. They have shared everything, including their desire to escape the stifling limitations of their birthplace, the quiet town of Royston, Massachusetts. But as the two girls enter adolescence, their paths diverge: while Julia comes from a stable, happy, middle-class family, Cassie never knew her father, who died when she was an infant, and has an increasingly tempestuous relationship with her single mother, Bev. When Bev becomes involved with the mysterious Anders Shute, Cassie feels cruelly abandoned. Disturbed, angry and desperate for answers, she sets out on a journey that will put her own life in danger, and shatter her oldest friendship. Compact, compelling, and ferociously sad, The Burning Girl is at once a story about childhood, friendship and community, and a complex examination of the stories we tell ourselves about childhood and friendship.
Claire Messud brilliantly mixes folklore and Bildungsroman, exploring the ways in which our made-up stories, and their consequences, become real.

Title: Burning Girl
Author: MESSUD CLAIRE
Format: Paperback
Publishing status: Active
Publication date: 31/08/2017
Price: $35.00
RRP: $35.00
Imprint: Fleet
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 9780708898628
Available stock: 2

'One of Britain's most visionary writers' DAVID PEACE 'An appalling, beautifully-lit abyss' ALAN MOORE A dark, chilling and mesmerising thriller set in wartime Berlin, for fans of Joseph Kanon and Robert Harris. Berlin 1943. August Schlegel lives in a world full of questions with no easy answers. Why is he being called out on a homicide case when he works in financial crimes? Why did the old Jewish solider with an Iron Cross shoot the block warden in the eye then put a bullet through his own head? Why does Schlegel persist with the case when no one cares because the Jews are all being shipped out anyway? And why should Morgen, wearing the dreaded black uniform of the SS, turn up and say he has been assigned to work with him? Corpses, dressed with fake money, bodies flayed beyond recognition: are these routine murders committed out of rage or is someone trying to tell them something?
Praise for Chris Petit's previous novels: 'Hugely impressive and highly readable; in the tradition of Thomas Harris's The Silence of the Lambs' Financial Times 'Ferocious invention marks this novel out as special' The Edge 'Ambitious and intelligent' Times 'Puts Petit in the first rank' Metro 'A zigzagging narrative as byzantine and blackly pessemistic as late James Ellroy' Independent on Sunday 'An example of the genre near its best. Gorky Park with something to spare; well worth anyone's weekend' Guardianfor The Psalm Killer

Title: Butchers of Berlin
Author: PETIT CHRIS
Format: Paperback
Publishing status: Active
Publication date: 20/04/2017
Price: $23.00
RRP: $23.00
Imprint: Simon & Schuster
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
ISBN: 9781471143434
Available stock: 2

Call Me By Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blooms between seventeen-year-old Elio and his father's house guest Oliver during a restless summer on the Italian Riviera. Unrelenting currents of obsession and fear, fascination and desire threaten to overwhelm the lovers who at first feign indifference to the charge between them. What grows from the depths of their souls is a romance of scarcely six weeks' duration, and an experience that marks them for a lifetime. For what the two discover on the Riviera and during a sultry evening in Rome is the one thing they both already fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy.

Title: Call Me By Your Name
Author: ACIMAN ANDRE
Format: Paperback
Publishing status: Active
Publication date: 21/09/2017
Price: $23.00
RRP: $23.00
Imprint: Atlantic Books
Publisher: Atlantic Books
ISBN: 9781786495259
Available stock: 1

All trails became dead-ends. Tips that had at first seemed urgent now faded away. The waiting game began. Whoever had the manuscripts would want money, and a lot of it. They would surface eventually, but where and when, and how much would they want? The most daring and devastating heist in literary history targets a high security vault located deep beneath Princeton University. Valued at $25 million (though some would say priceless) the five manuscripts of F Scott Fitzgerald's only novels are amongst the most valuable in the world. After an initial flurry of arrests, both they and the ruthless gang of thieves who took them have vanished without trace. Dealing in stolen books is a dark business, and few are initiated to its arts - which puts Bruce Kable right on the FBI's Rare Asset Recovery Unit's watch list. A struggling writer burdened by debts, Mercer Mann spent summers on Florida's idyllic Camino Island as a kid, in her grandmother's beach cottage. Now she is being made an offer she can't refuse: to return to the peace of the island, to write her novel - and get close to a certain infamous bookseller, and his interesting collection of manuscripts ...

Title: Camino Island
Author: GRISHAM JOHN
Format: Trade Paperback
Publishing status: Active
Publication date: 06/06/2017
Price: $35.00
RRP: $35.00
Imprint: Hodder & Stoughton
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Div
ISBN: 9781473663732
Available stock: 1