The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer

$29.95

A moving tale of post-war friendship, love and books, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society is a captivating and completely irresistible novel of enormous depth and heart. It's 1946, and as Juliet Ashton sits at her desk in her Chelsea flat, she is stumped. A writer of witty newspaper columns during the war, she can't think of what to write next. Out of the blue, she receives a letter from one Dawsey Adams of Guernsey - by chance he's acquired a book Juliet once owned - and, emboldened by their mutual love of books, they begin a correspondence. Dawsey is a member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, and it's not long before the rest of the members write to Juliet - including the gawky Isola, who makes home-made potions, Eben, the fisherman who loves Shakespeare, and Will Thisbee, rag-and-bone man and chef of the famous potato peel pie. As letters fly back and forth, Juliet comes to know the extraordinary personalities of the Society and their lives under the German occupation of the island. Entranced by their stories, Juliet decides to visit the island to meet them properly - and unwittingly turns her life upside down. Gloriously honest, enchanting and funny, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society is sure to win your heart.

The Devil’s Eye
Ian Townsend

$27.99

To a remote part of the Queensland coast come the hundreds of sails of the northern pearling fleets and a native policeman trying to solve a murder. It is the end of the nineteenth century, and one of the most powerful hurricanes, Mahina is moving across the Coral Sea. Nearly two thousand people are gathering around Cape Melville, right in the path of the storm that is about to cause Australia's deadliest natural disaster. Based on real events, this is the story of an unstoppable force of nature and the birth and death of an Australian dream.

The Lace Reader
Brunonia Barry

$32.99

The Whitney women of Salem, Massachusetts are famous for reading the future in the patterns of lace. But the future doesn't always bring good news - as Towner Whitney knows. When she was just fifteen her gift sent her whole world crashing to pieces. She predicted, and then witnessed, something so horrific that she vowed never to read lace again, and fled her home and family for good. Yet family is a powerful tie. So it is that fifteen years later, Towner finds herself back in Salem. The Lace Reader is a tightly plotted and bewitching read.

Six Suspects
Vikas Swarup

$32.95

Vicky Rai, son of a prominent Indian Cabinet minister has been shot dead by persons unknown. Six people were partying at his house immediately preceding his death - each one equally liable to have pulled the trigger. In this elaborate mystery reminiscent of Agatha Christie, you as the reader are the detective, as six suspects' lives unravel before our eyes - a bureaucrat, a cannibal, an idiot, an actress, a politician, and a nobody. Vikas Swarup's finely schematic and audacious plotting will delight the many fans of his acclaimed novel Q & A.

When Will There be Good News?
Kate Atkinson

$32.95

In rural Devon, six-year-old Joanna Mason witnesses an appalling crime. Thirty years later the man convicted of the crime is released from prison. In Edinburgh, sixteen-year-old Reggie works as a nanny for a G.P. who has gone missing and Reggie seems to be the only person who is worried. Across town, Chief Inspector Louise Monroe is also looking for a missing person, unaware that hurtling towards her is an old friend Jackson Brodie himself on a journey that becomes fatally interrupted.

Deception
Michael Meehan

$32.95

From the blood-soaked streets of the 1870 siege of Paris, to the tear-gas and chaos of its student riots of 1968; from the desolate, windswept Australian desert to the appalling dank prisons of 19th Century New Caledonia. A young Australian man arrives in riot-ravaged Paris, armed with an ancient manuscript. His journey takes him back and forth in time, over the ruins of desert and city, and through the wrecks and mirages of history and memory. Deception tells an epic, dramatic story of a search for truth, spanning continents and generations.

The 19th Wife
David Ebershoff

$32.95

Set in a secretive offshoot of the Mormons that still practices plural marriage, Jordan, a young man expelled as a teenager from his community for innocently holding hands with a half-sister, returns to Utah to defend his mother. His polygamous father has been found dead, and one of his wives - Jordan's mother - is in jail accused of the crime. Bold, shocking and enthralling, The 19th Wife expertly draws together
narratives to explore how religion can distort love and family, in a page turning literary mystery.