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1 .Going postal / Terry Pratchett
Pratchett, Terry
London : Corgi, 2005
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2 .Tuesday's Child / Michaels, Fern.
Michaels, Fern
Beverly Hills, US : Baker & Taylor, 2012.
Summary: On the eve of her retirement, Georgia attorney Mikala Aulani is as vivacious and vibrant as ever, eagerly anticipating a happy future with her partner, Ben. But if Kala has learned anything in thirty-five years of practicing law, its that the truth can always surprise you
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3 .The Next Best Thing / Weiner, Jennifer. [TP]
Weiner, Jennifer
London, UK : Simon & Schuster (us & Uk), 2012.
Summary: At twenty-three, Ruth Saunders headed west with her seventy-year-old grandma in tow, hoping to be hired as a television writer. Four years later, shes hit the jackpot when she gets The Call: the sitcom she wrote, The Next Best Thing, has gotten the green light, and Ruthies going to be the show-runner.
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4 .A Stark and Wormy Knight / Williams, Tad.
Williams, Tad
Burton, US : Baker & Taylor, 2012.
Summary: Tad Williams is an acknowledged master of the multi-volume epic. Through such popular series as Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn and Otherland, he has acquired a huge and devoted body of readers who eagerly await each new publication. A Stark and Wormy Knight offers those readers something both special and surprising:
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5 .Red Star Burning / Freemantle, Brian.
Freemantle, Brian
New York, US : Baker & Taylor, 2012.
Summary: MI5 toleratesCharlie because hes their best field agent. What no one knows is that he is married to Natalia Fedova, a colonel in the FSB, the Russian intelligence successor to the KGB. It's a secret that could landher in front of a firing squad, andhim landin jail for life.
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6 .Little Night / Rice, Luanne.
Rice, Luanne
New York, US : Baker & Taylor, 2012.
Summary: An emotionally gripping family drama from beloved New York Times bestseller Luanne Rice Clare Burke's life took a devastating turn when she tried to protect her sister, Anne, from an abusive and controlling husband and ended up serving prison time for assault.
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7 .It Was a Very Bad Year / Randisi, Robert J.
Randisi, Robert J.
Sutton, UK : Severn House (uk), 2012.
Summary: Eddie Gianelli is helping a friend's wife get out from under a blackmailer when news comes through that JFK has been assassinated. Frank Sinatra was a close friend of JFK and the Rat Pack - including Eddie - rally round to give Frank moral support.
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8 .Stolen Prey / Sandford, John. [TP]
Sandford, John
London, UK : Simon & Schuster, 2012.
Summary: Lucas Davenport has seen many terrible murder scenes. This is one of the worst. In the small Minnesota town of Deephaven, an entire family has been killedhusband, wife, two daughters, dogs.
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9 .The Eagle of the Twelfth / Scott, M C.
Scott, M C.
London, UK : Bantam Books (uk + Us + Aust), 2012.
Summary: Demalion of Macedon never wanted to be a legionary. An unwilling recruit, he is appalled to be posted to the infamous XIIth legion, notorious for its ill luck.
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10 .The Lower River / Theroux, Paul.
Theroux, Paul
London, UK : Penguin Books Australia, 2012.
Summary: Ellis Hock never believed he would ever return to Africa - to his isolated village where he was happiest. He runs an old-fashioned menswear store in a small town in Massachusetts but still dreams of his eden in Africa, the four years he spent in Malawi with the Peace Corps, cut short when he had to return to take over the family business.
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11 .Gone Astray / Rowden, Jean.
Rowden, Jean
London, UK : Robert Hale, 2012.
Summary: It's every policeman's worst nightmare: a little girl has been abducted, and Falbrough CID can find no trace of her. The department's newest detective, Constable "Thorny" Deepbriar, one-time village bobby, already has his hands full.
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12 .Lord Mord [paperback]
Urban, Milos
London, UK Peter Owen Publishers 2012.
Summary: A Bulgakov-like cocktail of romance, murder, and mystery are conjured up in this existential thriller set in the Czech capital This witty, inventive Gothic novel tells the story of Count Arco, a keen fencer and debauched womanizer in 19th century Prague
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13 .Other Lives But Mine [paperback]
Carrere, Emmanuel
London, UK Serpent's Tail 2012.
Summary: The night before the wave, I remember that Hlne and I talked about separating. It wouldn't be complicated; we didn't live together, hadn't had a child, and were even able to see ourselves remaining friends, and yet, it was sad.
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14 .March Was Made Of Yarn: Writers Respond to Japan's Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Meltdown [paperback]
Various
London, UK Harvill Secker 2012.
Summary: 11th March 2011. An earthquake occurring off the north-eastern coast of Japan - magnitude 9.0, duration six minutes - unleashed a 50-foot tsunami that slammed its way ashore, rushing inland six miles, crushing all in its path. This collection features writers who seek to explore the impact of this catastrophe through a variety of different means.
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15 .Breathless [paperback]
Sward, Anna
Eastbourne, UK Quercus 2012.
Summary: Lo's parents did not plan for her. They were not married and never loved each other. Lo is raised by her extended family in a ramshackle house they share in southern Sweden. She enjoys a sheltered, idyllic, safe childhood, but everything changes when, at six years old, she makes a new friend. Lukas
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16 .Three Strong Women [hardback]
Ndiaye, Marie
London, UK MacLehose Press 2012.
Summary: Forty-year-old Norah leaves Paris, her family and her career as a lawyer to visit her father in Dakar. It is an uncomfortable reunion - she is asked to use her skills as a lawyer to get her brother out of prison - and ultimately the trip drives her to the very edge of madness.
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17 .Snake Ropes [hardback]
Richards, Jess
London, UK Sceptre 2012.
Summary: 'No-one here goes to the main land, and no-one wants to. Our boats aren't strong enough, we dun know the way, them can't understand us, we're fine as we are. We have so many reasons; them stretch as wide as the distance to cross to take us there.'The day the tall men come from the mainland to trade, Mary's little brother goes missing.
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18 .Drowned [hardback]
Bohman, Therese
Millers Point, A Murdoch Books 2012.
Summary: Drowned, set in the idyllic countryside during a short-lived Swedish summer, gets under ones skin from the first page, creating an atmosphere of foreboding in which even the perfume of freshly picked vegetables roasting in the kitchen becomes ominous.
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19 .The Eyes of Lira Kazan [paperback]
Joly, Eva
London, UK Bitter Lemon Press 2012.
Summary: In Lagos operatives of the Norwegian secret service extract Nwankwo, head of financial investigations for the Nigerian government, and deliver him to London. Felix, a junior prosecutor in Nice, is called to investigate the violent death of the wife of a powerful banker based in the Faroe Islands. His investigation takes him to London. In St.
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20 .The Third Day [paperback]
Boukhobza, Chochana
Eastbourne, UK Quercus 2012.
Summary: A leading Israeli musician and her protege return to Jerusalem for three days to perform with the Philharmonic Orchestra. Both women - one a gifted young cellist, one a Holocaust survivor saved by her extraordinary musical talent - have been in America for some time, are quickly caught up in tangled threads from former lives
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21 .Sarmada [hardback]
Azzam, Fadi
Talib, Adam, Translator
London, UK Haus Publishing 2012.
Summary: Set in the Druze area, this title presents a declaration of love for tolerance and for the peaceful coexistence of the many religious groups that live there in close proximity. The Druze baptise their children and celebrate Christian holidays; however, the priests regularly collect money to build houses for Muslims and Druze alike.
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22 .Enma the Immortal [paperback]
Nakamura, Fumi
New York, US Random House Uk + Us 2012.
Summary: In the 19th century, feudal Japan was only a few steps away from the Meiji Revolution. A low-class samurai turned revolutionly fighter named Amane desperately attempts to elude the clutches of the Shogunate's Special Police Unit--the infamous Shinsengumi.
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23 .The Voice of the Spirits: A Commandant De Palma Investigation (Commandant De Palma Investigates) [paperback]
Bonnot, Xavier-Marie
Eastbourne, UK Quercus 2012.
Summary: When Commandant Michel de Palma follows an anonymous tip-off to a gated mansion by the coast, he finds a body whose face is obscured by a fearsome tribal mask, beneath it a mysterious wound that could not have been caused by a bullet.
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24 .The Minotaur's Head: An Eberhard Mock Investigation (Eberhard Mock) [hardback]
Krajewski, Marek
London, UK MacLehose Press 2012.
Summary: When Abwehr Captain Eberhard Mock is called from his New Year's Eve revelries to attend a particularly grisly crime scene, his notoriously robust stomach is turned. A young girl - and suspected spy - who arrived by train from France just days before, has been found dead in her hotel room, the flesh torn from her cheek by her assailant's teeth.
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25 .A Death in the Family [paperback]
Knausgaard, Karl Ove
London, UK Harvill Press 2012.
Summary: In this utterly remarkable novel Karl Ove Knausgaard writes with painful honesty about his childhood and teenage years, his infatuation with rock music, his relationship with his loving yet almost invisible mother and his distant and unpredictable father, and his bewilderment and grief on his father's death.
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26 .Beirut39: New Writing from the Arab World [paperback]
Shimon, Samuel, Editor
London, UK Bloomsbury 2012.
Summary: Beirut39 is a Hay Festival project which aims to select and celebrate 39 of the best young Arab writers as a centrepiece of the Beirut World Capital festivities in April 2010.
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27 .Life! Death! Prizes! [paperback]
May, Stephen
London, UK Bloomsbury 2012.
Summary: I ask Oscar how I could be a better guardian and he does his special concentrating face.'Well,' the little philosopher says at last. 'You should send me to bed earlier. I shouldn't eat so many chips and you shouldn't let me watch so many 12 and 15 DVDs. And you should get a cleaner in.
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