Trespass

by Rose Tremain

Set among the hills and gorges of the Cevennes, the dark and beautiful heartland of southern France, Trespass is a thrilling novel about disputed territory, sibling love and devastating revenge.In a silent valley stands an isolated stone farmhouse, the...

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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet

by David Mitchell

David Mitchell is back! You may remember the hoopla the boys at Riverbend made over David Mitchell’s ‘Cloud Atlas’ a few years ago, and I know a number of our local bookclubs have since read it too. Mitchell’s new book is written a little differently...

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Dead in the Family

by Charlaine Harris

They’re easy to read, a little trashy, but full of sinful pleasures, lust and hot vampires! And for readers of the phenomenal Sookie Stackhouse this tenth installment of the series will not disappoint. The Fae War may be over but Sookie is left with a...

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Ilustrado

by Miguel Syjuco

Winner of the Man Asian Literacy Prize.

Crispin Salvador, lion of Philippine letters, is found dead in the Hudson River. His young acolyte, Miguel, sets out to investigate the author's suspicious death and the strange disappearance of an unfinished...

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The Breaking of Eggs

by Jim Powell

Feliks Zhukovski is a Pole in Paris, a man out of place and out of his own time - a man who chose politics over people and ideas over love. His life's work is a travel guide to the old Eastern bloc; his personal life a series of failures. Unfortunately...

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Houdini's Flight

by Angelo Loukakis

To escape takes a special kind of magic. Terry Voulos is struggling. His marriage, his relationship with his son and his work prospects are shaky. He finds solace in the possibility of a new career as a magician, before a tragic accident sends him into...

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Marrowbone Marble Company

by Glenn Taylor

1941. Orphan Loyal Ledford works the swing shift tending furnace at the Mann Glass factory in Huntington, West Virginia. He courts Rachel, the boss's daughter, a company nurse with spike-straight posture and coal black hair. But when Pearl Harbour is...

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Fatal Tango

by Wolfram Fleischhauer

When Giulietta Battin, ballerina at the conservative Berlin opera, falls in love with the dashing Argentinean tango champion, Damian Alsina, she unwittingly embarks on an intoxicating but dangerous journey. Having fled his country's political horrors,...

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