New General Fiction titles
1911590650 
Paperback 
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: For years, the residents of Lake Haven, Wisconsin ignored the whispered troubles about the Chao family, if only to keep eating at the best restaurant in town. But when tyrannical patriarch 'Big' Leo Chao is found frozen to death in the family's meat freezer, scandalous events force the community to turn its attention to the three Chao sons.
1529367069 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Hodder
Resource type: Physical
Note: There is something wrong with Mathilda. She's still reeling from the blow of a gut-punch break up and grieving the death of a loved one. But that's not it. She's cried all her tears, mastered her crow pose and thrown out every last reminder of him. But that's not helping.
0008464049 
Paperback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers
Resource type: Physical
Note: Nick: Failed writer. Failed husband. Dog owner. Bee: Serial dater. Dress maker. Pringles enthusiast. One day, their paths cross over a misdirected email. The connection is instant, electric. They feel like they've known each other all their lives. Nick buys a new suit, gets on a train.
0571367615 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Resource type: Physical
Note: He handed the easel to the boatman, reaching down the pier wall towards the sea. Mr Lloyd has decided to travel to the island by boat without engine - the authentic experience. Unbeknownst to him, Mr Masson will also soon be arriving for the summer.
1801107580 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Aria
Resource type: Physical
Note: Georgina is a sensible 26-year-old with a routine: schedule dates with long-term boyfriend; teach piano to inept children; and repeat until dead. Perfect. But when one night she deviates from her usual timetable and sees the indie lesbian pop band Phase, Georgina realises: she longs to play her own music again; she wants to be just like them;
0241991730 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: I still dream, every night, of Polneath on fire. Smoke unfurling out of an upper window and a hectic orange light cascading across the lawn. By day, Ivy Boscawen mourns the loss of her son Tim in the Great War. But by night she mourns another boy - one whose death decades ago haunts her still.
1783789522 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Granta Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Pol suffers from a very rare hormonal disorder that ages him erratically; when he was 13, his body aged ten years overnight, and now in his early 30s, he still has the outward appearance of a 23-year-old.
0857308343 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Verve Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Mallika is a painfully shy young woman growing up in the heart of a close-knit, sometimes stifling New Delhi colony. Though she is surrounded by love, her life is complicated by secrets that she, her mother and her aunt work hard to keep.
1838779221 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Zaffre
Resource type: Physical
Note: When Ada and Fraser find themselves freelancing from the same cafe together every day, they strike up a mutually beneficial friendship. Fraser saves her the best biscuits and Ada protects the best table when he's running late. As they work side-by-side Ada can't help but notice how attractive Fraser is, and how well they get along.
1982156414 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Gallery Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Faith Eden's brief foray into motherhood is marked by tragedy. Distraught that her baby was ripped away from her, she is determined to get little Paula back from the wealthy family who adopted her. Her brother, Trevor, is also anxious to get the baby back and will do anything necessary to do so.
074902920X 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Allison & Busby Limited
Resource type: Physical
Note: 1941, Estonia. As Stalin's brutal Red Army crushes everything in its path, Katarina battles to protect her grandmother's precious legacy - the weaving of gossamer lace shawls stitched with intricate patterns that tell the stories passed down through generations.
1787704335 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Europa Editions
Resource type: Physical
Note: A baby weighing 15 pounds is born in the depths of winter but named 'Girl of Spring'. A storm brings down the roof of a ramshackle restaurant to reveal a hidden fortune. These are just some of the events that set Myeong-Kwan Cheong's beautifully crafted, wild world in motion.
0751585181 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Sphere
Resource type: Physical
Note: Bellbird River, 1998. Teacher and single-mum Alex has arrived in the small town of Belllbird River after escaping the city in search of a change of pace and the chance to reconnect with her young daughter. Across town, well-known matriarch Victoria and her globe-trotting, opera-singing cousin Gabrielle find themselves at a crossroads in their perso
1472289641 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Wildfire
Resource type: Physical
Note: Treasure and her mother lost everything when Treasure's daddy died. Haggling for scraps in the market, Treasure meets a spirit who promises to bring her father back - but she has to do something for him first. Ozoemena has an itch in the middle of her back that can't be scratched. An itch that speaks to her patrilineal destiny, to defend her people by becoming a leopard. Her father impressed upon her what an honour this was before he vanished, but it's one she couldn't want less.
1526657139 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Resource type: Physical
Note: Alexander Solloch, NDR Kultur Maria and Josef live with their children in a valley in westernmost Austria. When the First World War breaks out and Josef is drafted into the army, Maria is left to provide for her family alone. Every day is a struggle against starvation, the harsh alpine climate and the hostile nearby villagers who see Maria as little more than a beautiful temptress out for the men left behind. But when a red-haired stranger arrives in the village, Maria feels happiness seep back into her life and she faces a choice whose consequences will affect the lives of her family for generations to come.
1838856048 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Canongate
Resource type: Physical
Note: A dazzling story of modern Nigeria and two families caught in the riptides of wealth, power, romantic obsession and political corruption. Eniola is tall for his age, a boy who looks like a man. His father has lost his job, so Eniola spends his days running errands for the local tailor, collecting newspapers and begging, dreaming of a big future.Wuraola is a golden girl, the perfect child of a wealthy family. Now an exhausted young doctor in her first year of practice, she is beloved by Kunle, the volatile son of family friends.When a local politician takes an interest in Eniola and sudden violence shatters a family party, Wuraola and Eniola's lives become intertwined.
0571365698 
Paperback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Resource type: Physical
Note: Guatemala, 1954. A CIA-supported military coup topples the government. Behind this violent act is a lie passed off as truth, which forever changed the development of Latin America: that those in power encouraged the spread of Soviet communism in the Americas. Mario Vargas Llosa has written a drama on a world stage, in which some persecutors end up
304p ; 200mm
1529367891 
Paperback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Sceptre
Resource type: Physical
Note: David has a mind that never stops running. He reads Dante and Moby Dick, he sinks into Hemingway and battles with Milton. But on Florida's Gulf Coast, one can slip into deep water unconsciously; at the age of fourteen, David runs away from home to pursue a girl and, on his journey, tries crack cocaine for the first time. He's hooked instantly and spends the next decade fighting his way out of jail and rehab. Though he reaches a tenuous sobriety, it is only when he takes a literature class at the local community college that something within him ignites.
1529429323 
Paperback
Year: 2022
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Arcadia Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Set on the streets of Brixton, south London, BRENTON BROWN is a fatal love story about a man who never got over his first love, a perfect love with his half-sister Juliet that has left him unable to form any real relationships since they both decided it must end.
1529428858 
Paperback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Arcadia Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: South London in the 1980s. Sixteen-year-old Brenton Brown is the mixed-race child of a mother he has never met. He's been living in a children's home all his life, and when he is unexpectedly reunited with his mother, Cynthia, his whole world seems poised to change.The best thing happens: Brenton has a family at last.And then the worst: Brenton falls in love with his beautiful half-sister, Juliet.