Where the Light Goes by Sara Barnard

[Content Warning: Suicide]

To the world, Lizzie Beck is a superstar: famous, talented and beloved. To Emmy, she is simply Beth: her brilliant older sister, her idol. But then Beth takes her own life, and all the light in the world disappears. Now Emmy is lost. Amidst the media storm and overwhelming public grief, she must fight to save her own memories of her sister - and find out who she is without her. 

Belle of the Ball by Mari Costa

High-school senior and notorious wallflower Hawkins finally works up the courage to remove her mascot mask and ask out her longtime crush: Regina Moreno, head cheerleader, academic overachiever, and all-around popular girl. There's only one teensy little problem: Regina is already dating Chloe Kitagawa, athletic all-star.

Liar's Beach by Katie Cotugno

When Linden’s roommate Jasper invites him to spend the end of summer at his massive beachfront home, August House, Linden tries his best to fit in. Then someone is found unconscious in Jasper's pool, and everyone has something to hide - Jasper, his beautiful sister Eliza, their older brother Wells, and their friends. The accident is written off as just that - an accident - but Linden begins to wonder...

Lioness by Emily Perkins

From humble beginnings, Therese has let herself grow used to a life of luxury after marrying into an empire-building family. But when rumours of corruption gather around her husband's latest development, the social opprobrium is shocking, the fallout swift, and Therese begins to look at her privileged and insular world with new eyes. New Zealand author.

Kala by Colin Walsh

In the seaside town of Kinlough, on Ireland's west coast, three old friends are thrown together for the first time in years. They - Helen, Joe and Mush - were part of an original group of six inseparable teenagers in the summer of 2003, with motherless, reckless Kala Lanann as their group's white-hot centre. Soon after that summer's peak, Kala disappeared without a trace. 

In Memoriam by Alice Winn

It's 1914, and World War I is ceaselessly churning through thousands of young men on both sides of the fight. The violence of the front feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the rest of their classmates, all of whom are safely ensconced in their idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. 

The Air Raid Book Club by Annie Lyons

Inspired by true events. London 1938. Bookseller Gertie is preparing to sell up and move to the coast, until she is asked to take in a young Jewish refugee.

Wait For Me by Santa Montefiore

Based on the true story of Simon Jacobs.

Cornwall, 1944: When Rupert Dash is declared missing, presumed dead, his wife, Florence, is devastated. She can't accept that he has gone from her life forever, and so when she finds a poem called 'Wait for Me' hidden in an old book, she believes it's a sign from her husband. A promise that he will return to her. 

The Shadow Cabinet by Juno Dawson

In the second installment of Juno Dawson's fantasy trilogy, a group of childhood friends and witches must choose between what is right and what is easy if they have any hope of keeping their coven -- and their world -- from tearing apart forever. 

Just Between Us by Adele Parks

Kylie Gillingham's disappearance has gripped the nation: the woman with a shocking secret - married to two men at the same time - is missing, presumed dead. And both her husbands are suspects. DC Clements knows the dark side of human nature and that love can make people do treacherous things.

Everyone Here Is Lying by Shari Lapena

Secrets start to unravel in a family-friendly neighbourhood when a local girl goes missing. 

The Glasgow Smile by Chris Stuart

In a grimy graffiti-covered recess in one of Melbourne tangled inner city laneways, a woman is found murdered. 'Why would anyone want to kill her? She was so ordinary,' was the oft-repeated phrase DI Robbie Gray heard when the name of the deceased was revealed. New Zealand author.

Murder in the Family by Cara Hunter

It was a case that gripped the nation. In December 2003, Luke Ryder, the stepfather of acclaimed filmmaker Guy Howard (then aged 10), was found dead in the garden of their suburban family home. Luke Ryder's murder has never been solved. 

Cold Red by Chris Ryan

Following a controversial mission in Tajikistan, SAS loner Jamie 'Geordie' Carter has spent the past six months in Regiment purgatory. Now he's brought in from the cold and assigned to a new squadron. It's a fresh start for Carter. Or so it seems. 

Ghost Target by Andy McDermott

Alex Reeve was Operative 66. A special-ops soldier trained as a covert assassin in the UK's elite unit SC9, he was framed for treason and went on the run, hunted by his former comrades.

The Blood Line by Will Shindler

Book 4 in the DI Alex Finn series.

An ordinary day. An ordinary street. A gruesome delivery waiting on the doorstep that's going to set off a spine-chilling chain of events.

The Cuban Daughter by Soraya Lane

Book 2 in the  Lost daughters series.

When Claudia discovers that her grandmother was born at Hope’s House, a home for unmarried mothers, everything she thought she knew about her family is shattered in an instant.

The Second Murderer by Denise Mina

Mina becomes the first woman to recreate Raymond Chandler’s infamous detective, delivering a clever new take on Philip Marlowe, as well as a propulsive, dark, and witty mystery all its own.

The Paris Daughter by Kristin Harmel

Paris, 1939: Young mothers Elise and Juliette become fast friends the day they meet in the beautiful Bois de Boulogne. Though there is a shadow of war creeping across Europe, neither woman suspects that their lives are about to irrevocably change. 

The Paris Notebook by Tessa Harris

January 1939: At the end of the First World War, Doctor Viktor treated soldiers for psychological disorders. One of the patients was none other than Adolf Hitler. The notes in his possession declare Hitler unfit for office - a secret that could destroy the Führer's reputation and change the course of the war if exposed.

Mystic Ridge by Lucy Lever

Reading the tarot is in Claire's blood. It's a gift she inherited from her late mother. But her genius in helping others discover their path fails her when it comes to finding her own, especially once she learns of plans to bulldoze her carefully regenerated rainforest home and build a high-end wellness centre. She vows to rally her small community and save Mystic Ridge.

The Dog Encyclopedia

Explore the history and variety of our most faithful companions in this visual guide to over 400 different dog breeds. From Afghan Hounds to Yorkshire Terriers, from gun dogs to designer breeds - for centuries, dogs have been adored for their unswerving loyalty, and this new edition of The Dog Encyclopedia provides the perfect celebration of the special relationship that binds humans with our four-legged friends. 

Kiwis and Cortinas by Gordon Campbell

There was a time when every New Zealander either owned a Ford Cortina or had a parent, sister, brother, grandparent or friend who did. While we can't claim these hugely popular cars as our own, the Cortina's place in New Zealand motoring history makes it something of a Kiwi cultural icon. 

Surviving the Arctic Convoys by Charlie Erswell

Leading Seaman Charlie Erswell saw much more than his fair share of action during the Second World War. He was present at the 1942 landing in North Africa (Operation TORCH), D-Day and the liberation of Norway. But his main area of operations was that of the Arctic Convoys, escorting merchant ships taking essential war supplies to the Russian ports of Murmansk and Archangel. In addition to contending with relentless U-boat and Luftwaffe attacks, crews endured the extreme sea conditions and appalling weather. 

Cracked by Steven Hawley

This is the history of water control - its dams, diversions and canals, and just as importantly, the politics and power that evolved with them. Examples from the American West reveal that the costs of building and maintaining a sprawling water storage and delivery complex in an arid world - growing increasingly arid under the ravages of climate chaos - is well beyond the benefits furnished. Success stories from Patagonia and the Blue Heart of Europe point to a possible future where rivers run free, and the earth restores itself.

One of Them by Shaneel Lal

After escaping Fiji and moving to New Zealand as a teenager, Shaneel tried to keep their sexuality - and gender - to themself, but gradually found the courage to come out. One day, while Shaneel was volunteering at Auckland's Middlemore hospital, a church leader came up to them and offered to 'pray the gay away'. It was a lightbulb moment for Shaneel, who could not believe that the same practices that had scarred their childhood in Fiji were operating - and legal - in New Zealand. Determined to ensure others wouldn't have to go through what happened to them, Shaneel founded the Conversion Therapy Action Group, which lead the movement to ban conversion therapy in Aotearoa. 

Sisters in Captivity by Colin Burgess

The incredible account of Sister Betty Jeffrey OAM and the Australian war nurses who survived the bombing of evacuation ship SS Vyner Brooke in February 1942, and subsequently spent three years in Japanese prison camps in Sumatra. During those perilous years surviving in squalid conditions, Sister Jeffrey kept a secret diary of day-to-day events which, after the war, was turned into a hugely successful book and radio serial: White Coolies. She would often write of the powerful sisterhood that evolved as the prisoners of war took strength from each other, even forming a vocal orchestra. White Coolies was a major inspiration for the 1997 film Paradise Road.

The Essential Guide to Intermittent Fasting for Women by Megan Ramos

This guide to intermittent fasting for women includes step-by-step advice for preventing and reversing metabolic disease. As a teenager, Megan Ramos suffered from non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and polycystic ovarian syndrome. By her mid-twenties, she had developed type 2 diabetes. But everything changed within six months of giving up snacks, adopting a diet high in natural fats and low in carbs, and fasting regularly for short periods.

The Food Fix by Yumi Stynes

Since its launch, the 5 Minute Food Fix has consistently been among the most downloaded food podcasts in Australia and has spawned a vast collection of fans who tune in religiously for dinner inspiration. This book pulls together the best hits from the pod and some never-before-seen recipes, all of which have been tested - and re-tested - on the world's most unforgiving critics and cooked under the most trying circumstances (during life or whatever). 

The Battle of the Beams by Tom Whipple

War is coming, and it is to be a different kind of war. It will be fought, as expected, on land and sea and in the air. It will also be fought on the airwaves. It will be fought between scientists on both sides at the forefront of knowledge, and the agents and commandos they relied on to bolster that knowledge. Luckily there was one young engineer, Reginald Jones, helping the British government with their own scientific developments.