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1 .Spartacus : the gladiator / Ben Kane.
Kane, Ben
London : Preface, 2012.
Summary: This book begins in the Thracian village to which Spartacus has returned after escaping from life as an auxiliary in the Roman army. Jealous of his attachment to Ariadne, a Dionysian priestess, the Thracian king betrays Spartacus to the Romans who take him, along with Ariadne, into captivity and to the school of gladiators at Capua. Against the background of the unbelievable brutality of gladiatorial life, Spartacus and Crixus the Gaul plan the audacious overthrow of their Roman masters. They escape and flee to Vesuvius, where they recruit and train an army of escaped slaves that will have to face the conquerors of the known world, the most successful deadly army in all of history in a battle that will set in motion the legend that is Spartacus.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2817467864%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert

2 .This is life / Dan Rhodes.
Rhodes, Dan, 1972-
Edinburgh : Canongate, 2012.
Summary: This is Life is a missing baby mystery and an enchanted Parisian adventure. Hand in hand with lovable heroine Aurelie Renard, you will see life as you've never seen it before, discover the key to great art, witness the true cost of love, and learn how all these things may be controlled by the in-breath of a cormorant. Chock-full of charming characters and hilarious set-pieces this is a hugely enjoyable novel that will make you see life anew.
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3 .The gathering of the lost / Helen Lowe.
Lowe, Helen, 1971-
London : Orbit, 2012.
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4 .Distant thunder / T.D. Griggs.
Griggs, T. D.
London : Orion, 2012.
Summary: This is the story about a forbidden love, a vow of revenge and an empire on the brink of war. Set at the end of the nineteenth century, this sweeping, epic love story traces the doomed relationship of two young people against the backdrop of a British Empire bracing itself against political opposition. As a boy, Frank had to leave his beloved India when his mother was assaulted by a British officer and accidentally shot when Frank tried to intervene. After his father dies of shame and a broken heart, Frank must make his way to England, sustained only by the determination to revenge himself on the man responsible for destroying his family as soon as he's old enough to become a soldier himself. Grace is the privileged daughter of an industrial magnate, but following her heart and her head makes her a champion of those oppressed by masters of the empire like her father, and so she too finds she has lost her family. As the pair fall in love, there is only one thing standing in the way of true happiness - Frank's vow of revenge.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2817467868%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert

5 .The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry / Rachel Joyce.
Joyce, Rachel
London : Doubleday, 2012.
Summary: When Harold Fry leaves home one morning to post a letter, with his wife hoovering upstairs, he has no idea that he is about to walk from one end of the country to the other. He has no hiking boots or map, let alone a compass, waterproof or mobile phone.
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6 .Ice force / Matt Lynn.
Lynn, Matthew
London : Headline, 2012.
Summary: A plane carrying a Russian oil billionaire has crashed mysteriously in the Arctic in the middle of a brutal winter. Nobody knows why, nor can they locate the aircraft's black box.
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7 .Never apologise, never explain / James Craig.
Craig, James, 1964-
London : Robinson, 2012.
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8 .Dirt / David Vann.
Vann, David
Melbourne, Vic. : Text Publishing, 2012.
Summary: The year is 1985, and twenty-two-year-old Galen lives with his emotionally dependent mother in a secluded old house surrounded by a walnut orchard in a suburb of Sacramento. He doesn't know who his father is, his abusive grandfather is dead, and his grandmother, losing her memory, has been shipped off to a nursing home. Galen and his mother survive on the family's trust fund--old money that his aunt, Helen, and seventeen-year-old cousin, Jennifer, are determined to get their hands on. Galen, a New Age believer who considers himself an old soul, yearns for transformation: to free himself from the corporeal, to be as weightless as air, to walk on water. But he's powerless to stop the manic binges that overtake him, leading him to fixate on forbidden desires. A prisoner of his body, he is obsessed with thoughts of the boldly flirtatious Jennifer and dreams of shedding himself of the clinging mother whose fears and needs weigh him down.
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9 .The man who forgot his wife / John O'Farrell.
O'Farrell, John
London : Doubleday, 2011.
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10 .The incident / Kenneth Macleod.
Macleod, Kenneth, 1972-
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2012.
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11 .The stag and hen weekend / Mike Gayle.
Gayle, Mike
London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2012.
Summary: This is the story of Phil and Helen, a couple in their thirties about to commit their lives to one another -- that is of course if they can just manage to get through their respective stag and hen weekends (his: Amsterdam; hers: a country house and day spa in the Peak District) without falling apart.
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12 .The book of madness and cures / Regina O'Melveny.
O'Melveny, Regina
London : John Murray, 2012.
Summary: Gabriella Mondini is a rarity in 16th century Venice, she's a woman who practices medicine. Her father, a renowned physician, has provided her entree to this all-male profession, and inspired in her a shared mission to understand the secrets of the human body. Then her father disappears and Gabriella faces a crisis: without her father's patronage, she is no longer permitted to treat her patients. So she sets out across Europe to find her father. Following clues from his occasional enigmatic letters, Gabriella crosses Switzerland, Germany and France, entering strange and forbidding cities. She travels to Scotland, the Netherlands, and finally to Morocco. In each new land, she uncovers details of her father's unexplained flight, and opens new mysteries of her own. Not just the mysteries of ailments and treatments, but the ultimate mysteries of mortality, love, and the timeless human spirit. Filled with medical lore and sensuous, vivid details of Renaissance life, The Book of Madness and Cures is an intoxicating, unforgetable debut.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2817467876%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert

13 .After the lockout / Darran McCann.
McCann, Darran
London : Fourth Estate, 2012.
Summary: November 1917. With tensions in Ireland, war in Europe and revolution in Russia, Victor Lennon returns to his home village after a long exile. Radicalised by his experiences in the Dublin Lockout and Easter Rising, Victor is a hero to many but a danger to some. Those closest to Victor know his true nature: his father, Pius, now drinking himself to death; his oldest friend, Charlie, wounded in the trenches; and the love of his life, Maggie, who he left behind years before. But soon Victor and the fearsome parish priest, Stanislaus Benedict, are on a collision course, with the very souls of the people caught between religion and socialism.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2817467877%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert

14 .The revelations / Alex Preston.
Preston, Alex, 1979-
London : Faber, 2012.
Summary: A group of young people are searching for meaning in a dark and directionless world. The Course, a religious movement led by a charismatic priest, seems at first to offer everything the friends have been looking for: a community of bright, thoughtful, beautiful people. But as they are drawn deeper into the Course, money, sex and God collide, threatening to rip them apart. This gripping novel of ideas lays bare a world where the advancement of a movement becomes more important than the lives of its followers.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2817467878%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert

15 .The great game / Lavie Tidhar.
Tidhar, Lavie
Nottingham, UK : Angry Robot, 2012.
Summary: When Mycroft Holmes is murdered in London, it is up to retired shadow executive Smith to track down his killer--and stumble on the greatest conspiracy of his life. Strange forces are stirring into life around the globe, and in the shadow game of spies nothing is certain.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2817467879%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert

16 .An unexpected guest / by Anne Korkeakivi.
Roston Korkeakivi, Anne
Sydney, N.S.W. : Fourth Estate, 2012.
Summary: Clare Moorhouse is an American in Paris who has been leading a graceful life abroad. There are pleasures to being married to a high-ranking diplomat, but there are also appearances to be upheld and responsibilities to be executed-like tonight's unexpected dinner party, one crucial to her husband's career.
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17 .Eleanor & Park / Rainbow Rowell.
Rowell, Rainbow
London : Orion, 2012.
Summary: This is a sweet, moving novel about two misfits finding love in the most unexpected of places. Meet Eleanor. She's just moved to a new town, is struggling to make friends and is finding it even harder living under the same roof as her dysfunctional family. When she first meets Park, she thinks he's obnoxious. Meet Park. He's liked by everyone but has never felt liked he fitted in. He loves his family but feels like they don't understand him. When he first meets Eleanor, he thinks she is weird. It is hate at first sight. But as they suffer each other's company in silence on the bus rides from and to home every day, Eleanor and Park realise that first impressions can be deceiving.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2817467881%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert

18 .The day of the lie / William Brodrick.
Brodrick, William, 1960-
London : Little, Brown, 2012.
Summary: They came for me in November nineteen fifty-one and took me to Mokotow prison. Cambridge, the present day. And out of the past, a cry for help: Father Anselm, the brilliant Benedictine, receives a visit from an old friend with a dangerous story to tell - the story of a woman betrayed by time, fate, and someone close to her ...someone still unknown. As a young woman, Roza Mojeska was part of an underground resistance group in Communist Poland. But after her arrest, a Stasi officer makes her a devil's bargain - and in the dark of a government prison, a terrible choice is made. Now, fifty years later, Anselm is called upon to investigate both Roza's story and a mystery dating back to the early 1980s, in the icy grip of the Cold War. And as he peels back years of history, decades of secrets, a half-century of lies, he exposes a truth that an entire generation was killed to keep hidden.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2817467882%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert

19 .The departed / Shiloh Walker.
Walker, Shiloh
Berkley Sensation trade paperback ed.
New York : Berkley Sensation, c2012.
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20 .Mary Bennet / Jennifer Paynter.
Paynter, Jennifer
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
Camberwell, Vic. : Penguin Group (Australia), 2012.
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21 .Winter at death's hotel / Kenneth Cameron.
Cameron, Kenneth M., 1931-
London : Orion, 2011.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2817467885%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert


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