New General Fiction titles
0008559368 
Paperback 
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: HQ Digital
Resource type: Physical
Note: When Luna loses her beloved mother, she's bereft: her mother was her only family, and without her Luna feels rootless. Then the chance discovery of a collection of letters in her mother's belongings sends her on an unexpected journey. Following a clue in the letters, Luna packs her bags and heads to Venice, to a gorgeous but faded bookshop overlooking the canals, hoping to uncover the truth about her mother's mysterious past. Will Luna find the answers she's looking for - and finally find the place she belongs?
0349726728 
Paperback 
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Abacus
Resource type: Physical
Note: Born to a well-known political family in Olinda, Brazil, Catarina grows up in the shadow of her dead aunt, Laura. Melissa, a South London native, is brought up by her mum and a crew of rebellious grandmothers.
1783789484 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Granta Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Micheal Burns lives alone in his family's bungalow at the end of Kerry Head in Ireland. It is a picturesque place, but the cliffs have a darker side to them: for generations they have been a suicide black spot. Micheal's mother saw the saving of these lost souls - these visitors - as her spiritual duty, and now, in the wreckage of his life, Micheal
272p ; 220mm
1398715549 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Orion Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Indi is exactly where she wants to be. She's successful, on the cusp of a promotion, and has a long-term boyfriend who is exactly her type on paper. There's just one issue, it's nearly her thirtieth and Will has yet to propose. What's worse, her younger sister announces that she's not coming back from her gap year and is getting married in four wee
336p ; 200mm
0857305786 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: No Exit Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: What war destroys, only love can heal. Elisabetta, Marco, and Sandro grow up as the best of friends despite their differences. Elisabetta is a feisty beauty who dreams of becoming a novelist; Marco the brash and athletic son in a family of professional cyclists; and Sandro a Jewish mathematics prodigy, kind-hearted and thoughtful, the son of a lawyer and a doctor.
1472158156 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Corsair
Resource type: Physical
Note: When Diane Aziz drives her oldest son, Walter, from LA to college, it will be her last parental act before falling into a deep depression. A single mother who maintains a wishful belief that her children can attain all the things she hasn't, she's worked hard to secure their future, gaining them illegal entry to an affluent public school.
1399713469 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Sceptre
Resource type: Physical
Note: Sam is 28, Swedish and spending the summer in London, working for a top marketing agency. Over the course of the sticky summer months, she falls hard for Lucas, a man she first met as a teenager. Lucas is working at a boutique clothing store whilst trying to get a foot on the corporate ladder, and struggling to hold the pieces of his life together.
0241611040 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Viking
Resource type: Physical
Note: Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, as a vicious civil war subsumes Sri Lanka, her dream takes her on a different path as she watches those around her, including her four beloved brothers and their best friend, get swept up in violent political ideologies and their consequences.
XX00422008 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Joanne lennox
Resource type: Physical
Note: The weather is fine, the English countryside is idyllic and serene. An extended family have booked a week's stay at a lakeside holiday park. It's meant to be a respite from the day to day struggles of life. However, the holiday is shaping up to be anything but restful.headteacher Joe is at breaking point, desperately searching for some meaning in his life. Meanwhile his wife Maggie is blissfully unaware that her marriage is about to implode.
XX00422005 
Paperback
Year: 2022
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Joanne Lennox
Resource type: Physical
Note: When her cheating husband has a serious motorbike accident, introverted Charisma has to learn to step back out into the world, with hilarious and poignant results. Charisma's safe, comfortable life is thrown into turmoil when her husband Benedict asks for a divorce and, on the same day, has a serious motorcycle accident.
1783786124 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Granta Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Berlin. 11 July 1986. They meet by chance on a bus. She is a young student, he is older and married. Theirs is an intense and sudden attraction, fuelled by a shared passion for music and art, and heightened by the secrecy they must maintain. But when she strays for a single night he cannot forgive her and a dangerous crack forms between them, opening up a space for cruelty, punishment and the exertion of power.
152941475X 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: MacLehose Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: One of Grossman's three great war novels, 'The People Immortal' is both a work of fiction and an important contribution to the Soviet war effort. Set during the catastrophic defeats of the war's first months, it tracks a Red Army regiment that wins a minor victory in eastern Belorussia but fails to exploit this success. A battalion is then entrusted with the task of slowing the German advance, and eventually encircled, before ultimately breaking out and joining with the rest of the Soviet forces.
0008605769 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: One More Chapter
Resource type: Physical
Note: 1938. One midnight in June, 15-year-old Lamorna Williams throws a message in a bottle into the Atlantic at Magic Cove, hoping to meet her one true love - and someone writes back. 1997. On the other side of the world, Lamorna tells her story to her 16-year-old great nephew Ethan inspiring him to do the same. But this time, his message isn't found for over twenty years.
1788169875 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Resource type: Physical
Note: It is a day of triumph for Appa and Amma, who have driven home a shiny new Honda Civic to show off to their neighbours in Blue Hills housing colony. But their eldest son Sreenath is behaving strangely, and his younger brother soon finds out why: a clip of Sreenath and his girlfriend Anita has been posted to a porn site, and is gaining traction.
0008611769 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: One More Chapter
Resource type: Physical
Note: Three friends set sail on a luxury cruise. will they be able to catch a husband on the open seas?
1782278060 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: London, 2029. Nerve gas is used to unleash a plague on the city. Lucy Stone is called in to investigate the gruesome murder of a scientist who might have held the key to an antidote.
1529068789 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Picador
Resource type: Physical
Note: Born under different stars, Protestant Mungo and Catholic James live in a hyper-masculine world. They are caught between two of Glasgow's housing estates where young working-class men divide themselves along sectarian lines, and fight territorial battles for the sake of reputation.
0349433119 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Piatkus
Resource type: Physical
Note: Fern Brookbanks has wasted far too much of her adult life thinking about Will Baxter. She spent just 24 hours in her early twenties with the aggravatingly attractive, idealistic artist, a chance encounter that spiraled into a daylong adventure in the city. The timing was wrong, but their connection was undeniable: they shared every secret, every dream, and made a pact to meet one year later. Fern showed up. Will didn't.
140918207X 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Orion Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Life on the island archipelago of Prospera is everything a person could hope for. Founded by the mythical genius known as the Designer, Prospera lies hidden from the horrors of a deteriorating outside world.
0063093669 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: HarperVia
Resource type: Physical
Note: Tokyo, 1938. Four amateur musicians passionate about Western classical music meet regularly at the Cultural Center to rehearse. Yu, a Japanese native, is an English teacher. His fellow musicians, Yanfen, Cheng, and Kang, are among the few Chinese students who have remained in the wake of the Japanese invasion of their homeland.