The Tomb of Hercules by Andy McDermott
Category: Crime | Thriller | Series: Wilde/Chase Ser.
From the author of THE HUNT FOR ATLANTIS, comes an electrifying new novel. Nina Wilde is on the hunt for the Tomb of Hercules. Studies of an ancient text have convinced archaeologist Nina Wilde that a tomb containing the remains of legendary warrior Hercules may actually exist. If she can locate it, it ...Show more
Murder in Punch Lane by Jane Sullivan
Category: Crime | Thriller
Inspired by real events and people, Murder in Punch Lane is a dark and gripping crime novel that maps the sins and secrets of nineteenth-century Melbourne. Melbourne, 1868. When dazzling theatre star Marie St Denis dies in the arms of her best friend, fellow actress Lola Sanchez, everyone believes it wa ...Show more
Sparrow by James Hynes
Category: Fiction
'Utterly engrossing, vivid and honest' - Emma Donoghue 'A novel of ancient times for our times.’ - Jim Crace Sparrow tells the story of Jacob, son of no one, last survivor of an abandoned British Roman town. Raised in a brothel on the Spanish coast in the waning years of the Roman Empire, a boy of no ...Show more
Tombland (Shardlake #7) by C. J. Sansom
Category: Crime | Thriller | Series: The\Shardlake Ser.
**Sunday Times Number One Bestseller**Tudor England is brought vividly to life in Tombland, the seventh novel in C. J. Sansom's number one bestselling Shardlake series.Summer, 1549.Two years after the death of Henry VIII, England is sliding into chaos ... The nominal king, Edward VI, is eleven years old ...Show more
Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors
Category: Fiction
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein 'A stunning exploration of sisterhood and grief, addiction and recovery, pain and pleasure. Captivating' TESS GUNTY 'In Blue Sisters, grief is rendered with gorgeous particularity' RAVEN LEILANI The Blue sisters have always been exce ...Show more
The Butterfly Collector by Tea Cooper
Category: Fiction
What connects a botanical illustration of a butterfly with a missing baby and an enigma fifty years in the making? A twisty historical mystery from a bestselling Australian author. 1868 Morpeth Theodora Breckenridge, still in mourning after the loss of her parents and brother at sea, is more interested ...Show more
A Calamity of Souls by David Baldacci
Category: Crime | Thriller
Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully-accused Black defendants in this courtroom drama from the number one bestselling author David Baldacci. Jac ...Show more
Storm Boy and Other Stories by Colin Thiele
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: From 8
Set along the rugged beauty of the South Australian coast, Storm Boy cares for an injured pelican and finds a friend that shows him the power of loyalty and love. This moving story is now a major motion-picture and one of the classics of Australian writing for children. This edition comes with five othe ...Show more
Freefall (#5 Kensy and Max) by Jacqueline Harvey
Category: Fiction | Series: Kensy and Max 5
Back at Alexandria with their friend Curtis Pepper visiting, Kensy and Max are enjoying the school break. Especially when Granny Cordelia surprises them with a trip to America! It's meant to be a family vacation but the twins soon realise there's more to this holiday than meets the eye - the chase for D ...Show more
Night Swimmers by Roisin Maguire
Category: Fiction
A funny and moving family story with an unconventional heroine in a quirky coastal community - Olive Kitteridge or The Shipping News on the edge on the Irish Sea. Grace lives alone in Ballybrady, a little village on the sublimely beautiful east coast of Northern Ireland. She fills her days with swimmin ...Show more
Close to Death (Hawthorne 5) by Anthony Horowitz
Category: Crime | Thriller
Richmond Upon Thames is one of the most desirable areas to live in London. And Riverview Close - a quiet, gated community - seems to offer its inhabitants the perfect life. At least it does until Giles Kenworthy moves in with his wife and noisy children, his four gas-guzzling cars, his loud parties and ...Show more
Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan
Category: Fiction
Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan is the critically acclaimed second collection from the Booker-shortlisted author of Small Things Like These. A long-haired woman moves into the priest's house and sets fire to his furniture.That Christmas, the electricity goes out.A forester mortgages his land and ...Show more