The Blind Spots by Thomas Mullen

Seven years ago, a mysterious virus blinded everyone in the world in a matter of months. Technology helped people adjust to the new normal, creating a device that approximates vision, downloading visual data directly to people's brains. But what happens when someone finds a way to manipulate it and change what people see? 

Rosewater by Liv Little

Elsie is out of options. She's exhausted from being pushed in and out of social housing, she's deflated by debt and she's disturbed by the dark reality of having bailiffs show up at her door. With nowhere to go, there's only one person left to turn to: her best friend, Juliet.

The Memory of Animals by Claire Fuller

In the face of a pandemic, an unprepared world scrambles to escape the mysterious disease causing sensory damage, nerve loss, and, in most cases, death. Neffy, a disgraced and desperately indebted marine biologist, registers for an experimental vaccine trial in London - perhaps humanity's last hope for a cure. 

The Wildwater Women by Ellie Wood

Four women, all from very different lives, all with reason to step into the water and wash away their past. But will the friendship they build be enough to keep them afloat when they each must face their fears?

Pomegranate by Helen Elaine Lee

Ranita is determined to stay clean and regain custody of her two children. With a fierce, smart, and sometimes funny voice, Ranita reveals how rocky and winding the path to wellness is for a Black woman, even as she draws on family, memory, faith, and love in order to choose life.

Pru Goes Troppo by Stevan Eldred-Grigg

A comic novel about the ups and downs of two people who are privileged parasites, yet curiously innocent.

Ruin by Emma Hislop

Women and girls walk a perilously thin line between ruin and redemption in these stories as they try, with varying degrees of success, to outmanouver the violence that threatens to define their lives.

A Guide to Being Just Friends by Sophie Sullivan

Hailey Sharp has a one-track mind: Get her salad shop off the ground. Do everything possible to make it a success. Repeat. With a head full of entrepreneurial ideas and a bad ex in her rear-view mirror, Hailey's focus is living life the way she wants to. No distractions. 

The Secret Service of Tea and Treason by India Holton

Book 3 in the Dangerous Damsels series

When rumours circulate that a group of dastardly pirates plan to assassinate the Queen, Alice is immediately assigned to the case. However she won't be working alone. Enter Daniel Bixby. Unflappable master spy and Alice's greatest rival.

Finding Cinderella by Colleen Hoover

Companion novella for the Hopeless series.

Daniel does not believe in love at first sight until he lays eyes on Six, a girl with a quirky personality, but a secret from the past could jeopardize their chance at happily ever after.

Happy Place by Emily Henry

Harriet and Wyn are the perfect couple - they go together like bread and butter, gin and tonic. Every year for the past decade, they have run away from their lives to drink far too much wine and soak up the sea air with their favourite people in the world. Except this year, they are lying through their teeth.

The Double Bind by Loraine Peck

Book 2 in the Johnny Novak series 

Amy and Johnny Novak have fled to a seaside town in northern New South Wales. They want a fresh start with their eleven-year-old son Sasha, and Amy is determined to shake off the legacy of Johnny's criminal family. But it's hard to outrun the Novaks. 

Ukulele of Death by E. J. Copperman

After losing their parents when they were just babies, private investigators Fran and Ken Stein now specialize in helping adoptees find their birth parents. So when a client asks them for help finding her father, with her only clue a rare ukulele, the case is a little weird, sure, but it's nothing they can't handle. 

The Island by Katrine Engberg

Book 4 in the Korner and Werner series

Jeppe Korner, on leave from the police force and nursing a broken heart, has taken refuge on the island of Bornholm for the winter. 

The Detective by Ajay Chowdhury

Book 3 in the Detective Kamil Rahman mystery series.

On the verge of a four-billion-dollar deal, a tech entrepreneur from Shoreditch is found dead in a construction site, which leads to the discovery of three skeletons over a hundred years old. 

The Mother by T. M. Logan

A woman attends a funeral, standing in the shadows and watching in agony as her sons grieve. But she is unable to comfort them - or reveal her secret. 

The Only Survivors by Megan Miranda

Ten years ago, a tragic accident tore through a community. Ever since, the nine survivors, just teenagers at the time, have met on the anniversary to remember those they lost. They made a promise to keep each other safe from harm. 

The Lock-Up by John Banville

Book 2 of the Strafford and Quirke mystery series

1950s Dublin, in a lock-up garage in the city, the body of a young woman is discovered, an apparent suicide. But pathologist Dr Quirke and Detective Inspector Strafford soon suspect foul play.

Wild Dogs by Michael Trant

In the drought-ridden rangelands of Western Australia, Gabe Ahern makes his living trapping wild dogs for local station owners. Still coming to terms with his wife's death - and the part he played in it - the old bushman leads a solitary life. Until one morning

A House With Good Bones by T. Kingfisher

A contemporary Southern Gothic from a master of modern horror that explores the deep, dark roots of family and in which grandma's ghost haunting your house may be the least of your worries

The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz

A science fiction epic for our times and a love letter to our future, The Terraformers will take you on a journey spanning thousands of years and exploring the triumphs, strife, and hope that find us wherever we make our home.

The Scourge Between Stars by Ness Brown

A tense, claustrophobic sci-fi/horror blend set aboard a doomed generation ship harboring something terrible within its walls. 

Infinity Gate by M. R. Carey

Book 1 of The Pandominion series.
The Pandominion: a political and trading alliance of a million worlds, except that they're really just the one world, Earth, in many different realities. And when an AI threat arises that could destroy everything the Pandominion has built, they'll eradicate it by whatever means necessary

Standing Heavy by Gauz

Sharply satirical, political and poignant, Standing Heavy is a searingly witty deconstruction of colonial legacies and capitalist consumption, an unprecedented and unforgettable account of everything that passes under a security guard's gaze.

If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga

Winner of the Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize

 In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobrakheit meet at a café in Cairo. 

Mustique Island by Sarah McCoy

It's January 1972, but the sun is white-hot when Willy May Michael's boat first kisses the dock of Mustique Isle. Tucked into the southernmost curve of the Caribbean, Mustique is a private island that has become a haven for the wealthy and privileged. 

This Place of Wonder by Barbara O'Neal

When famous chef Augustus Beauvais dies suddenly, he leaves behind four women who must grapple with their feelings of anger and loss and find a way to move on with their lives.

The Red Bird Sings by Aoife Fitzpatrick

West Virginia, 1897. When young Zona Heaster Shue dies only a few months after her wedding, her mother Mary Jane becomes convinced that Zona was murdered - and by none other than her husband, Trout, the handsome blacksmith beloved in their small Southern town. 

The Dream Builders by Oindrila Mukherjee

Creative writing professor Maneka Roy has not returned to India in years, and when she arrives in her home country to mourn the loss of her mother, she finds herself in a new world. 

Eye of the Storm by Hilary Jones

Sequel to Frontline.

The 1918 armistice has ended the war in Europe. But as the 1920s roars to life, it is an age of social change, excess, shellshock and ghosts. Having shown courage and strength on the battlefield, Will and Grace are back in the UK and working at the cutting edge of modern medicine. 

Hold My Girl by Charlene Carr

A heart-wrenching novel about two women whose eggs are switched during IVF. 

The Anniversary by Stephanie Bishop

Novelist J.B. Blackwood is on a cruise with her husband Patrick, celebrating their wedding anniversary. Her former professor, Patrick is much older than J.B. Though when they met, he seemed somehow ageless, as all new gods appear in the eyes of those who worship them. 

The Book of Eve by Meg Clothier

Beatrice is the convent's librarian. For years, she has shunned the company of her sisters, finding solace only with her manuscripts. Then, one carnival night, two women, bleeding and stricken, are abandoned outside the convent's walls. 

How to be Remembered by Michael Thompson

On an ordinary night in an ordinary year, Tommy's parents wake in a home without toys and diapers, without photos of their baby scattered about, and without any idea that the small child asleep in his crib is theirs. That's because Tommy is a boy destined to never be remembered. 

This Other Eden by Paul Harding

From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a profoundly moving story of an island refuge, and a community of outcasts living on borrowed time. 

Children of Paradise by Camilla Grudova

When Holly applies for a job at the Paradise - one of the city's oldest cinemas, squashed into the ground floor of a block of flats - she thinks it will be like any other shift work. 

The Dog of the North by Elizabeth McKenzie

Penny Rush has problems. Her marriage is over; she's quit her job. Her mother and stepfather went missing in the Australian outback five years ago; her mentally unbalanced father provokes her; her grandmother Dr. Pincer keeps experiments in the refrigerator and something worse in the woodshed. 

Homesick by Jennifer Croft

Sisters Amy and Zoe grow up in Oklahoma where they are homeschooled for an unexpected reason: Zoe suffers from debilitating and mysterious seizures, spending her childhood in hospitals as she undergoes surgeries.

A Wild & True Relation by Kim Sherwood

During the Great Storm of 1703, smuggler Tom West confronts his lover Grace for betraying him to the Revenue. Leaving Grace's cottage in flames, he takes her orphaned daughter on board ship disguised as a boy to join his crew.

Our Hideous Progeny by C. E. McGill

Mary is the great-niece of Victor Frankenstein. She knows her great uncle disappeared under mysterious circumstances in the Arctic, but she doesn't know why or how... 

Shy by Max Porter

Things keep slipping up for Shy. All he wants is sex, spliffs and his own turntables, and for all the red noise in his mind to disappear. But again and again he spirals past his senses and ends up with his head in his hands and carnage around him. 

Nothing Special by Nicole Flattery

Seventeen-year-old Mae lives in a run-down apartment with her alcoholic mother and her mother's sometimes-boyfriend, Mikey. When she drops out, she is presented with a job offer that will remake her world entirely: she is hired as a typist for the artist Andy Warhol

After The Rain by Aisling Smith

Malti Fortune is uneasy. She has turned away from her birthplace of Fiji to make a new life in Melbourne. But all that she thought was certain is now in danger of being swept away.

Thirsty Animals by Rachelle Atalla

 With water supply in the Scottish cities drying up, Aida is forced back home to live with her mum at their rural farm. For now, they are safe with just enough to get by. Yet at the border, tensions are close to breaking point.

Not Worth YourTears by Sarah Delany

A secret meet cute, enemies to lovers, grumpy hero, second chance romance. New Zealand author.

The Bone Shard War by Andrea Stewart

Book 3 in The drowning empire series

Lin Sukai has won her first victory as Emperor, but the future of the Phoenix Empire hangs in the balance--and Lin is dangerously short of allies. 

Sonnets For Albert by Anthony Joseph

These jazz-inflected poems explore the impact of being the son of a mostly absent father and, though weighted with emotion, are as masterfully poised as the man they depict. Author will be at Auckland Writers Festival.

Night Angel Nemesis by Brent Weeks

Book 1 of The Kylar Chronicles 

After the war that cost him so much, Kylar Stern is broken and alone. He's determined not to kill again, but an impending amnesty will pardon the one murderer he can't let walk free.