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1 .Mad River / Sandford, John. [TP]
Sandford, John
London, UK : Simon & Schuster (us & Uk), 2012.
Summary: Bonnie and Clyde, they thought. And what's-his-name, the sidekick. Three teenagers with dead-end lives, and chips on their shoulders, and guns. The first person they killed was a highway patrolman. The second was a woman during a robbery.
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2 .The Lawgiver / Wouk, Herman.
Wouk, Herman
London, UK : Simon & Schuster (us & Uk), 2012.
Summary: For more than 50 years, Herman Wouk has dreamed of writing a novel about the life of Moses Finally, at the age of 96, he has found an ingeniously witty way to tell the tale of The Lawgiver, a romantic and suspenseful epistolary novel about a group of people trying to make a movie about Moses in the present day.
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3 .Nine Days / Jordan, Toni. [TP]
Jordan, Toni
Melbourne, A : Text Publishing, 2012.
Summary: It is 1939 and although Australia is about to go to war, it doesn't quite realise yet that the situation is serious. Deep in the working-class Melbourne suburb of Richmond it is business - your own and everyone else's - as usual. And young Kip Westaway, failed scholar and stablehand, is living the most important day of his life.
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4 .Fishing for Tigers / Maguire, Emily. [TP]
Maguire, Emily
Sydney, A : Pan Macmillan Australia, 2012.
Summary: Six years ago, Mischa Reese left her abusive husband and suffocating life in California and reinvented herself in steamy, chaotic Hanoi. In Vietnam, she finds satisfying work and enjoys a life of relative luxury and personal freedom.
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5 .Dominion / Sansom, C J. [TP]
Sansom, C J.
London, UK : Pan Macmillan Australia, 2012.
Summary: The Great Smog, London, 1952. A dense, choking fog engulfs the city and beneath it, history is re-written. Spring 1940. The world is on the brink of the biggest war ever known. At a meeting at Downing Street, Britain's leaders decide who is to succeed the exhausted appeaser Chamberlain.
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6 .The Trader's Dream / Jacobs, Anna.
Jacobs, Anna
London, UK : Hodder Headline, 2012.
Summary: Bram Deagan dreams of bringing his family from Ireland to join him in Australia, where he now runs a successful trading business. But when a typhus epidemic strikes Ireland, it leaves the Deagan family decimated. And, with other family members scattered round the world, it is left to Maura Deagan to look after her orphaned nieces and nephew.
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7 .The Bone Bed / Cornwell, Patricia.
Cornwell, Patricia
UNKNOWN : Little Brown (us & Uk), 2012.
Summary: Patricia Cornwells most recent bestsellers include Red Mist, Port Mortuary, and Portrait of a Killer: Jack the RipperCase Closed. Her earlier works include Postmortemthe only novel to win five major crime awards in a single yearand Cruel and Unusual, which won Britains prestigious Gold Dagger Award for the best crime novel of 1993.
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8 .Untitled / Cole, Martina.
Cole, Martina
London, UK : Headline Publishing, 2012.
Summary: The sensational new novel from the phenomenon that is Martina Cole. The No. 1 bestselling author's new novel is a guaranteed unputdownable read with all the hallmarks which make Martina Cole's books so utterly unforgettable - shocking, hard-hitting, haunting and completely riveting.
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9 .The Investigation [hardback]
Claudel, Philippe
New York, USA Nan A. Talese 2012.
Summary: A dystopian critique of the darkly comic nature of the human condition follows an unremarkable man's investigation into a series of suicides in a sprawling complex of an unnamed town, where he is hampered by rudeness, regulations and a growing sense that he is being watched. By the award-winning author of By a Slow River . 15,000 first printing.
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10 .The Woman Who Dived into the Heart of the World [paperback]
Berman, Sabina
London, UK Simon & Schuster 2012.
Summary: In the wake of her sister's death, Isabelle moves from her home in California to her birthplace in Mexico to take over the running of the family tuna company. There, she discovers a wild child - a thing with no name, who turns out to be the autistic niece she never knew she had
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11 .Return of the Spirit: A Novel [paperback]
al-Hakim, Tawfiq
Boulder, US Lynne Rienner 2012.
Summary: The story of a young, patriotic artist and his extended family in 1918-1919 Egypt, ending with events surrounding the 1919 revolution
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12 .The Silver Dark Sea [paperback]
Fletcher, Susan
London, UK Fourth Estate 2012.
Summary: "...He was not drowning, or asking for help. He simply floated. He seemed to smile, as he floated there. And then he raised his arms - he raised them above him, pressed his palms together as if he was in prayer - and he threw those arms forwards to that his fingertips broke the water and his head and body followed in an arc.
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13 .The Dinner [paperback]
Koch, Herman
Melbourne, Vic Text Publishing 2012.
Summary: Paul Lohman and his wife Claire are going out to dinner with Paul's brother Serge, a charismatic and ambitious politician, and his wife Babette. Paul knows the evening will not be fun.
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14 .Walking Home [hardback]
Armitage, Simon
London, UK Faber & Faber 2012.
Summary: Join Simon Armitage on his heroic, hilarious and moving feat to walk the Penine Way without a penny in his pocket.
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15 .Farewell: A Mansion in Occupied Istanbul [hardback]
Kulin, Ayse
New York, USA W.W. Norton 2012.
Summary: A sweeping story of the final collapse of the Ottoman Empire over the course of the First World War, Farewell is a novel of one particular family living in one particular house during these historic events.
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16 .The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D. [hardback]
Bernier, Nichole
New York, USA Crown 2012.
Summary: Inheriting her best friend's diaries after a tragic accident, Kate learns unknown aspects of her late friend's life, from her deeply troubled childhood and complicated relationship with her mother to her struggles as an artist and feelings of powerlessness as a wife and parent, which culminated in a belief-challenging affair.
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17 .Swimming to Elba [hardback]
Avallone, Silvia
New York, USA Viking 2012.
Summary: A sensually charged novel about two girls growing up fast in a failing industrial town on the coast of Italy Anna and Francesca are on the brink of everything: high school, adulthood, and the edge of ambition in their provincial town.
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