 Sorrows of an American by Siri Hustvedt $29.99 Hodder
An old family mystery, a fraught new romance and professional anxiety play havoc with the previously settled life of Erik. His sister Inga is also troubled - by a journalist who claims to possess damaging material about her. A complex and moving novel with real and sympathetic characters you'll continue to think about long after finishing the book. Buy now  Q & A / Slumdog Millionaire by Vikas Swarup $26.99 (Film edition) Black Swan
A boy who grew up in the chaos of Mumbai's slums has just become the winner of one billion rupees on a TV quiz show. But nobody believes he could have done it without cheating. Ram's story about his scramble through life reveal how his inventiveness in the face of extreme circumstances have seen him survive to
learn bitter facts - which relate directly to the twelve questions he faced. Buy now  Hustle by Will Ferguson $26.99 Vintage
Jack lives on his wits in a dead-end town, just hanging on as his prospects for the future darken. Into this world swing Virgil and Miss Rose, a pair of fast-talking swindlers who could talk the tail off a donkey. He falls in with them and together they embark on a series of scams across the American southwest, with ever-escalating financial and emotional stakes. Good fun. N.B. This book was published in a large format paperback last year as "Spanish Fly". Buy now |  The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley $38.99 Orion When a dead body is found in Colonel de Luce's cucumber patch, only his precocious daughter Flavia is up to the task of discovering the victim's identity and uncovering the conspiracy that lurks in the family's past. Having honed her chemistry skills concocting inventive revenges against her sisters in her basement laboratory, this is just the change she's been waiting for to really prove her superior abilities. Buy now  Love Me by Gemma Weekes $34.99
Chatto & Windus
Eden, twenty-something, directionless and insecure, knows only one thing for sure - she's hopelessly addicted to Zed, her ex. She hangs out at his gigs, dropping as many hints as she can without totally destroying her dignity. Their slowly revealed shared history suggests there is more to Zed's apparent disinterest than infatuation with "the new girl". Buy now  The Reader by Bernhard Schlink $27.99 (Film edition) Phoenix
A law student observing a trial in Germany is shocked to discover that the person in the dock is someone he knew years earlier. When Michael was fifteen, a chance meeting with Hanna had led to a clandestine affair which both elated and disturbed him. He struggles to reconcile the private woman he knew with the brutal reality now revealed to the world. Buy now |
 Blood Brothers by Jeff Hopkins-Weise $40.00 Penguin
Hopkins-Weise suggests that the foundation for the ANZAC legend was laid much earlier than usually supposed. He argues that the support nineteenth century European settlers required to protect themselves came mostly from colonial Australia, not from Britain - which had other military commitments.The Australian shipping and arms industries, cross-Tasman import/export and even the NZ Police Force had their origins in this early colonial alliance. Buy now  Embracing the Wide Sky by Daniel Tammet $39.99 Hodder
Tammet explores the idea that "autistic savant" thinking is only an extreme form of a type of thinking common to all - that in the common use of puns and metaphors there is a link to the spectrum of creativity and genius. A mixture of personal reflection, psychology, linguistics and neuroscience, this is a fascinating study of the potential of the human mind. Buy now |  Guilt About The Past by Bernhard Schlink $30.00 UQP In this book of essays, first delivered in the Weidenfeld lectures at Oxford, Schlink addresses some of the themes which imbue his fiction - how the past can cast a long shadow; dealing with collective guilt; the use of history to inform and influence moral behaviour and how to acknowledge but move on from war and injury. Buy now  The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne $21.99
(Film edition) Red Fox
Nine year old Bruno moves from a comfortable Berlin home to an isolated house where there is no-one to play with. One day he sees a boy on the other side of a wire fence. At first he is oblivious to the meaning of the striped pyjamas Shmuel wears, but as they become friends, his tragic circumstances are revealed. Buy now |
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