Life class
by Pat Barker
The lives of a group of art students in London are transformed by the outbreak of the Great War in 1914. A new novel by the Booker prize winner and author of the Regeneration trilogy.
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If you liked school, you’ll love work
by Irvine Welsh
A new collection of short stories by the author of Trainspotting, now based in Dublin
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Land of the Headless
by Adam Roberts
A science fiction novel about a fundamentalist society which punishes those found guilty of immorality by beheading, but the headless are then fitted with a neck valve, ordinator and basic sensory equipment, and sent out into the world again.
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Lean Mean Thirteen
by Janet Evanovich
The thirteenth in the series featuring private eye Stephanie Plum. Plum’s former husband Dickie Orr is found dead, and she is drawn into a fast-paced and dangerous adventure.
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Bedtime Eyes
by Amy Yamada
Three linked novellas by an exciting contemporary author from Japan, each involving the relationship between a Japanese woman and an African-American man. Published in Japan in 1985, this is the first English translation.
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End Games
by Michael Dibdin
The last novel to feature Italian police inspector Aurelio Zen, as Dibdin died last April. Zen, a Venetian, is doing duty for an injured colleague in Calabria, in the toe of Italy , and finds it hard to break through the code of silence which binds together a traditional and tightly-knit community.
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The Camel Bookmobile
by Masha Hamilton
Every week a train of camels arrives in an African village bringing the world of books and reading to the scattered inhabitants of the bush. Every book must be returned each week or else the bookmobile will come no more. One week a book is stolen. Inspired by a real-life mobile library service in Kenya .
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Rules for Saying Goodbye
by Katherine Taylor
Twelve-year old Katherine is enrolled in a prep school far away from the provincial town where she has spent her childhood, and takes on the difficult job of growing up.
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