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New Non Fiction Titles

Katherine Mansfield's Europe by Redmer Yska

 

Beautifully written and illustrated with maps and stunning photography, Katherine Mansfield's Europe is part travelogue, part literary biography, part detective story and part ghost story. Guided by Mansfield's journals and letters, Redmer Yska pursues the traces of her restless journeying in Europe.

The Crossing by Sophie Matterson

 

In 2020, at the age of thirty-one, Sophie Matterson set out to walk her five camels from Shark Bay in Western Australia to Byron Bay on the east coast. Her thirteen-month solo crossing was the ultimate test of resilience and self-sufficiency - with each state in various forms of lockdowns, Sophie would often walk for weeks without seeing another soul.

The Power of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

 

The follow-up to the international bestseller The Hidden Life of Trees, offering compelling insights into the lungs of our planet and the fragility of our intertwined futures. Trees can survive without humans, but we can't live without trees. 

Ultra-Processed People by Chris van Tulleken

 

Ultra Processed People is a fast paced and eye-opening book which reveals the true cause of both obesity and poor health; ultra-processed food - or UPF. Threaded throughout is a highly engaging personal account of the author's own confused relationship with UPF as a doctor, parent and sibling.

The Great British Sewing Bee: The Skills

 

Interspersed with expert tips and step-by-step illustrations, this book is an indispensable reference for intermediate sewers that will encourage you to take your dressmaking to the next level

Cook Clever by Shivi Ramoutar

 

Use ingenious supermarket-swap shortcuts and simple, low-cost ingredients for everyday feasts in a flash. Make the most of what you have using cleverly chosen ingredients to turn your fridge-raid into mouthwatering meals in moments. 

The Ulysses Contract by Michael Kemp

 

Avoid share market traps and create a watertight plan for long-term investment success. Whether that means spending time with friends and family, helping your children achieve their life goals or dispensing of debt, The Ulysses Contract demonstrates just how remarkably easy it can be for anyone to develop into a capable and successful investor.

The Parenting Revolution by Justin Coulson

 

Drawing on up-to-the-minute research in parenting science as well as studies of childhood development, he shows how our children thrive when we understand and meet their basic psychological needs; how our job is not to fix our kids, but to create an environment that supports their growth and development.

Knowing What We Know by Simon Winchester

 

Here is award-winning writer Simon Winchester's brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how technology continues to change our lives and our minds. 

The Frontier Below by Jeff Maynard

 

Written by a world expert on the history of diving, learn about the succession of contraptions invented to go deeper and stay longer underwater. This book reveals a story of human endeavour that took 2,000 years to travel seven miles deep, before investigating the future of ocean exploration.

New Fiction Titles

Identity by Nora Roberts

 

Former Army brat Morgan Albright has finally planted roots near Baltimore. Her friend and roommate Nina helps her make the mortgage payments. But after they host their first dinner party - attended by Luke, the flirtatious IT guy - her world is shattered. 

Fractal Noise by Christopher Paolini

 

July 25th, 2234: The crew of the Adamura discovers the anomaly. On the seemingly uninhabited planet Talos VII: a circular pit, 50 kilometers wide. Its curve not of nature, but design. Now, a small team must land and journey on foot across the surface to learn who built the hole and why. 

A Home Among the Snow Gums by Stella Quinn

 

Hannah Cody grew up sunny, carefree and loved in the Snowy Mountains town of Hanrahan, but a vicious prank at university in Sydney changed that. Instead of studying medicine, she moved to a small regional centre, switched to veterinary science and swore off romance for life. 

The Money Club by Fiona Lowe

 

Izzy Harrington's fiancé is a successful entrepreneur and everyone's friend, but today she's waiting for him to get home so she can tell him they're over. Except Brad never arrives. 

Where Light Meets Water by Susan Paterson

 

A moving debut traversing nineteenth-century London, Melbourne and New Zealand's rugged South Island,  exploring the power of art to transform a life, to connect us to others, and to nurture us through grief. New Zealand author.

Arthur and Teddy are Coming Out by Ryan Love

 

When 79-year-old Arthur Edwards gathers his family together to share some important news, no one is prepared for the bombshell he drops: he's gay, and after a lifetime in the closet, he's finally ready to come out. Arthur's 21-year-old grandson, Teddy, has a secret of his own.

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

 

Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general - also known as her tough-as-talons mother - has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders.

Sparrow by James Hynes

 

Meet Jacob - aka Sparrow - a boy slave in a brothel in the Spanish city of New Carthage in the last years of pagan Rome. Raised in a brothel at the edge of a dying empire, a boy of no known origin creates his own identity. Through meticulous research and bold imagination, Hynes brings the entirety of the Roman city to vivid, brutal life.

For You and Only You by Caroline Kepnes

 

Book 4 in the Joe Goldberg series. Invited to join a tight-knit writing fellowship at Harvard, Joe thinks he's finally found a place where talent matters more than pedigree. 

The Story of the Forest by Linda Grant

 

1913. A young and recklessly innocent girl, Mina, goes out into the forest on the edge of the Baltic sea and meets a gang of rowdy young men with revolution on their minds. The adventure leads to flight, emigration and a new land, a new language and the pursuit of idealism or happiness - in Liverpool. 

Don't Look Back by Jo Spain

 

For one week, everything in Luke Miller's life is perfect. Surprised with a belated honeymoon by his wife, Rose, he's had seven days with her in a Caribbean paradise. It's more than he ever thought he'd deserve. But as they pack their bags, Rose breaks down.

The Swiss Nurse by Mario Escobar

 

Based on the true story of an astonishingly brave woman who saved hundreds of mothers and their children during the Spanish Civil War and WWII.

The Secret Book of Flora Lee by Patti Callahan Henry


1939: Fourteen-year-old Hazel and five-year-old Flora are evacuated from London to a rural village to escape the horrors of the Second World War. Living with the Aberdeen family in a charming stone cottage, Hazel distracts her young sister with a fairy tale about a magical land, a secret place they can escape to that is all their own: Whisperwood. 

The Rush by Michelle Prak

 

The first drops start to fall when Quinn spies the body. With no reception and nothing but an empty road for miles, does she stop to help or keep driving to safety? 

A Pen Dipped in Poison by J. M. Hall

 

Retired schoolteachers Liz, Pat and Thelma are back at their usual table at the Thirsk Garden Centre café with a brand-new mystery to solve. Follows A spoonful of murder.

Death Under a Little Sky by Stig Abell

 

For years, Jake Jackson has been a high-flying detective in the city. But then one day he receives a letter from his reclusive uncle - he has left Jake his property in the middle of the countryside. For Jake, it is the perfect opportunity for a fresh start. 

Broken Light by Joanne Harris

 

Bernie Moon has given her life to other people: her husband, her son, her friends (who are these days, mostly online). At nineteen she was full of dreams and ambitions; now almost fifty, and going through the menopause, she's fading, fast. 

Ascension by Nicholas Binge

 

When a mountain mysteriously appears in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a group of scientists are sent to investigate and discover what is at the summit. 

8 Lives of a Century-old Trickster by Mirinae Lee

 

At the Golden Sunset retirement home, it is not unusual for residents to invent stories. So when elderly Ms Mook first begins to unspool her memories, the obituarist listening to her is sceptical. Stories of captivity, friendship, murder, adventure, assumed identities and spying. 

Ghostly Game by Christine Feehan

Book 19 in the GhostWalker series

Gideon "Eagle" Carpenter is used to rolling with the punches life has thrown at him. It's the only thing that's kept him alive. He and his team of GhostWalkers have seen and experienced it all. 

New Young Adult Titles

The Iron Vow by Julie Kagawa

 

Join this final epic journey into worlds where imagination knows no boundaries... After leaping through the portal to Evenfall, Meghan and her companions find themselves in a terrifying new world where Nightmares roam and glamour is nearly nonexistent.

Extasia by Claire Legrand

 

Her name is unimportant. All you must know is that today she will become one of the four saints of Haven. The elders will mark her and place the red hood on her head. With her sisters, she will stand against the evil power that lives beneath the black mountain.

A Hunger of Thorns by Lili Wilkinson

 

Odette always hungered for forbidden, dangerous magic, and now she's missing, and everyone believes she's dead. Everyone except Maude.

Sunshine by Jarrett Krosoczka

 

When Jarrett Krosoczka was in high school, he was part of a program that sent students to be counselors at a camp for seriously ill kids and their families. Going into it, Jarrett was worried: But instead of the shadow of death, Jarrett found the hope and determination that gets people through the most troubled of times. He learned about the captivity of illness…but he also learned about the freedom a safe space can bring.

Lord of the Fly Fest by Goldy Moldavsky

 

Rafi lands a ticket for Fly Fest, the hottest ticket in town. But a trip to a dream island soon turns into a nightmare.

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