Dreaming in French by Vanessa McCausland

Saskia Wyle spent one sultry summer on Ile de Re when she was nineteen. The salt flats and sun-soaked beaches are now a distant memory, and one she made herself forget after an unspeakable tragedy. But the French heiress she befriended over twenty years ago has left half of her magnificent home to Saskia and the other half to Felix Allard, the now-reclusive film star living on the island. 

Juno Loves Legs by Karl Geary

Juno loves Legs. She's loved him since their first encounter at school in Dublin, when she fought the playground bullies for him. Her bright spirit makes his courage flare; his tenderness makes her safe. Together, they feel invincible, even if the world has other ideas. This is their story.

Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov 

Winner of the 2023 International Booker Prize

Enigmatic flaneur, Gaustine, opens a ‘clinic for the past’ that offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer’s sufferers: each floor reproduces a decade in minute detail, transporting patients back in time.

19 Claws and a Black Bird by Agustina Maria Bazterrica

In these tense, macabre stories, acclaimed author Agustina Bazterrica strikes to the dark heart of our desires, fears and fantasies.

Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Montserrat has always been overlooked. She's a talented sound editor, but she's left out of the boys' club running the film industry in '90s Mexico City. And she's all but invisible to her best friend, Tristán, a charming if faded soap opera star. Then Tristán discovers his new neighbor is the cult horror director Abel Urueta.

Code Name Faust by Gustaf Skördeman 

'What does Sara Nowak know?' This is the last question priest Jurgen Stiller is asked before he is executed by ex-terrorist Faust. Then the killer begins the hunt for Sara Nowak. 

Playing it Safe by Ashley Weaver

Book 3 in the Electra McDonnell series
As the Blitz continues to ravage London, Ellie McDonnell - formerly a safecracking thief, but currently determined to stay on the straight and narrow to help her country - is approached by British Intelligence officer Major Ramsey with a new assignment. 

Flags on the Bayou by James Lee Burke

In the Fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the Mississippi river. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate army is retreating toward Texas, and being replaced by Red Legs, irregulars commanded by a maniacal figure, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. 

Death at the Chateau by Ian Moore

Book 3 in the  Follet Valley mystery series

Richard Ainsworth's French B&B has been taken over by a production company shooting a historical film at the Château de Valençay. But everything grinds to a halt with the sudden passing of an actor under suspicious circumstances. 

Bloodwood Creek by Kerry McGinnis

When Emily's cousin Aspen goes missing somewhere in the Outback, no one seems to take it seriously, not even the police. After all, Aspen has a history of drug use and a string of broken relationships to her name. 

The Drowning Woman by Robyn Harding

Lee Gulliver never thought she'd find herself living on the streets - no one ever does - but when her restaurant fails, and she falls deeper into debt, she leaves her old life behind with nothing but her clothes and her Toyota Corolla. In Seattle, she parks in a secluded spot by the beach to lay low and plan her next move- until early one morning...

The Chateau by Jaclyn Goldis

Lady of the Chateau, Séraphine Demargelasse, has opened its elegant doors to her granddaughter Darcy and three friends. Twenty years earlier, the four girlfriends studied abroad together in France and visited the old woman on the weekends, creating the group's deep bond. 

Out of Nowhere by Sandra Brown

At a Texas county fair, amidst carousels and a bustling midway, children's book author Elle Portman is enjoying a rare night out with her favorite cowboy: her two-year-old son, Charlie. But just as they're about to head home, the unthinkable happens: a shooter opens fire into the crowd, causing widespread panic to erupt all around them. 

Talking at Night by Claire Daverley

Will and Rosie meet as teenagers. They're opposites in every way.  But over secret walks home and late-night phone calls, they become closer - destined to be one another's great love story. Until, one day, tragedy strikes, and their future together is shattered. 

Palazzo by Danielle Steel

After her parents perish in a tragic accident, Cosima Saverio assumes leadership of her family's haute couture Italian leather brand. While navigating the challenges of running a company at 23, Cosima must also maintain the elegant 400-year-old family palazzo in Venice and care for her younger siblings.

Beach Rivals by Georgie Tilney

Clare thought that by now she would have her life figured out. Instead, she's living with her parents, working a job she hates and has absolutely no idea what she wants to do with the rest of her life. When she sees a viral job advert for a three-month bookseller position on a Bali beach, she jumps at the chance. 

Misfire by T. Y. Euliano

Kadence, a new type of implanted defibrillator, misfires in a patient visiting University Hospital for a routine medical procedure -- causing the heart rhythm problem it's meant to correct. Dr. Kate Downey, an experienced anesthesiologist, resuscitates the patient, but she grows concerned for a loved one who recently received the same device. 

Murder Under a Red Moon by Harini Nagendra

Book 2 in the  Bangalore Detectives Club series 

When new bride Kaveri Murthy reluctantly agrees to investigate a minor crime to please her domineering mother-in-law--during the blood moon eclipse, no less--she doesn't expect, once again, to stumble upon a murder. 

Pardalita by Joana Estrela

16-year-old Raquel lives in a small town in Portugal and from afar sees Pardalita, a senior and a gifted artist who's moving to Lisbon to study in the fall. The two girls get to know each other while working on a play. And Raquel falls in love. ”Using a gorgeous blend of prose poems, illustrations, and graphic novel format, Estrela captures the feeling of being a teenager in a way that feels gentle, joyful, and real."

Good For Nothing by Mariam Ansar

Eman is the awkward girl whose favourite evenings are spent at home watching soaps with her Nani. Amir is the angry boy who won't talk about the brother he lost, but won't let his name be forgotten either. Kemi is fast and fierce and beautiful, and knows she deserves as good a shot as anyone else... As they spend more time together the three of them learn more about each other and themselves, and in the process realise the cause of Amir's brother's death isn't as it had once seemed.

In Nightfall by Suzanne Young

Theo and her brother, Marco,…spend the summer with their grandmother in the rainy beachside town of Nightfall, Oregon--population 846 souls. Their grandmother is superstitious and strangely antisocial. Upon their arrival she lays out the one house rule: always be home before dark. On their first day they meet the enigmatic Minnow and her friends who, though, beautiful, and charismatic are far from what they appear. And that one rule? Theo quickly realizes she should have listened to her grandmother. Because after dark, something emerges in Nightfall. And it doesn't plan to let her leave.

Heat by Jeff Goodell

The world is waking up to a new reality: once-in-a-century floods are now happening three times a year and bushfires are the new norm. The surface area of the Arctic's polar ice caps is rapidly decreasing, while Antarctica's largest ice shelf is crumbling. These are effects of the planet's increased temperature. Extreme heat is the most direct and deadly consequence of our hellbent consumption of fossil fuels. It is a first order threat that drives all other impacts of the climate crisis. 

Aircraft Engine Test Beds by Tony Buttler

During the late 1940s and into the 1950s, a number of British jet fighter and bomber aircraft were fitted with new, different or additional engines, both jet and rocket, to enable them to serve as test beds for those specific powerplants. These aircraft included fighters such as the de Havilland Vampire, Gloster Meteor and Javelin, and Hawker Hunter, the one-off Hawker P.1072 and the English Electric Canberra, Short Sperrin, Vickers Valiant and Avro Vulcan bombers. This slim, single volume also shows over 200 images, some of which are published here for the first time.

Sensational by Ashley Ward

Our senses are at the heart of how we navigate the world. Whittling this high-powered and deliciously varied palette down to just five does a great disservice to the sensory experience, Sensational argues. In fact, we could have as many as fifty-three - and they could explain such mysteries as why we kiss. Ashley Ward embarks on a sensory expedition to answer all these questions and more. Sensational is a surprising look at how our brains shape the way we interpret the world.

Man-Made by Tracey Spicer

'Mum, I want a robot slave.' Broadcaster Tracey Spicer had an epiphany when her young son uttered these six words. Is bigotry being embedded into our futures with the development of AI and robots? If so, who do we hold to account?  Who is the ultimate villain? Big Tech, whose titans refuse to spend money to fix the problem? The world's politicians, who lack the will to legislate? Or should we all be walking into a hall of mirrors and taking a good, hard look at ourselves? 

A Farming Life by Liz Harfull

A Farming Life shares the uplifting stories of women from six rural families as their resilience is tested by personal loss, illness, fractured relationships, natural disasters and the challenges that come with working in a traditionally male-dominated world. These women are all hands-on farmers - in fact, most are responsible for managing their own farms - and their defiance, tenacity and genuine humility shines through, as does their hope for the next generation of young women already lining up to follow in their footsteps. 

How to Grow the Flowers by Marianne Mogendorff

Flowers are something we are irresistibly drawn to and turn to at the milestone moments of our lives, at births, marriages and deaths, to connect with an estranged friend, to send love or say we're sorry. No matter the size of your garden, this practical, but approachable guide will instill the confidence in you to grow flowers to bring into your home and enjoy all year round.

The Fire of the Dragon by Ian Williams

In this thought-provoking and alarming book, veteran China specialist and foreign correspondent Ian Williams examines how China's aggressive foreign policy is arguably the biggest threat to our security and is a problem that not just the West - but the rest of the world - ignores at its peril.

Bathurst by Steve Normoyle

It's the Melbourne Cup of Australian motor racing. Every one of those first 60 years, of the Bathurst, is captured here in great pictures and fast-moving anecdotes. Follow all the legends - Brock, Moffat, Lowndes, Johnson, Skaife, Perkins, Grice, Whincup, Murphy, McLaughlin, Van Gisbergen and many more - around the Mount Panorama circuit.

Travellers to Unimaginable Lands by Dasha Kiper

Exploring the complex and profound psychology of caregiving, illuminating how the healthy brain's biases and intuitions make caring for people with dementia disorders so profoundly and inherently difficult. Blending neuroscience, psychology, philosophy and literature with beautifully observed case studies, Kiper illuminates the underlying mental mechanisms behind carers' experiences, dispels the myth of the perfect caregiver and, in the process, opens the door to understanding and forgiveness.