New General Fiction titles
152937359X
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: John Murray
Resource type: Physical
Note: 1982, Northern Ireland, Nuala Malin struggles to stay connected, to her husband, to motherhood, to the smallness of her life in the belly of a place that is built on hate and stagnation. Her daughter Sam and baby son PJ keep her tethered to this life she doesn't want. She finds unexpected refuge with a seventeen-year-old boy, but this relationship is only temporary. When her chance to leave comes, she takes it.
1398519111
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK Ltd
Resource type: Physical
Note: In Oceania, whoever you are, Big Brother is always watching you and trust is a luxury that no one has. Julia is the seemingly perfect example of what women in Oceania should be: dutiful, useful, subservient, meek. But Julia hides a secret. A secret that would lead to her death if it is discovered. For Julia is part of the underground movement called The Sisterhood, whose main goal is to find members of The Brotherhood, the anti-Party vigilante group, and help them to overthrow Big Brother. Only then can everyone be truly free.
1529366933
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Coronet
Resource type: Physical
Note: From the outside, Lorna has everything sorted. A cool job in radio, a home to call her own, plenty of friends. And anyone would be happy to attend their school reunion if they'd had the kind of post-adolescent glow up she's managed to pull off. Library Lorna is no more, and this new Lorna is 100%, definitely over her teenage crush on Finn, the most
304p ; 200mm
1398706213
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Orion Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: As a kid, Nina O'Brien spent all her summers at her grandparents' cabin by the beach at Stepping Stone Bay. Long, sunny days full of fun and laughter with her best friends, Leo, the boy from the boatyard next door, his older brother, Adrian, and local girl Maeve - and, as Nina grew older, the magic of falling in love with Leo. But one summer night everything changed for them all.
0008528837
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: The Borough Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: Teenagers Efe and Sam first meet in London in the 1990s. Years later the best friends are married. Their love story couldn't seem more perfect. But Sam wants to start a family. Efe wants to be free from children to focus on her dreams. When an unplanned pregnancy forces them to confront their differences, Efe and Sam must discover if what they really want is still each other...
1398521140
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK Ltd
Resource type: Physical
Note: Denver Jones is a hotshot twenty-something attorney working in L.A. Carolyn Henderson is P.A to a powerful and very married Senator in Washington with whom she is having an affair. And Annabelle Maestro - daughter of two movie stars - has carved out a career for herself in New York, with the help of her cocaine addicted boyfriend, as the madame of choice for discerning famous men. Then there is Bobby Santangelo Stanislopolous, the Kennedyesque son of Lucky Santangelo. Back in the day he went to high school with Denver, Carolyn and Annabelle. When Annabelle's mother is found shot to death in her Beverly Hills mansion, the friends are thrown together, and secrets from the past have a way of coming back to haunt them.
1529342155
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Resource type: Physical
Note: The world is running out of water. Aida is forced back home to live on the farm with her mum. For now, they are safe with enough to get by. But Aida's life continues to change. The service station she works at grows emptier with each day, and suspicious strangers arrive on the farm who are beginning to overstay their welcome.
368p ; 240mm
1472294289
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Headline Review
Resource type: Physical
Note: She played for love. She fought for freedom. Inspired by incredible true events, 'The Lost Song of Paris' is a heart-wrenching story of lost love, danger, and espionage and one remarkable woman's bravery in World War Two.
1529096340
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Mantle
Resource type: Physical
Note: Meet Art and Mimi Brotherton. Devoted siblings and housemates, they're bound together by the tragic death of their parents. They agree on not quite everything. Art thinks people are incapable of making sensible decisions, especially when it comes to love. That's what algorithms are for. Mimi knows her brother is a mathematical genius, but thinks maths is not the answer to everything, especially when it comes to love.
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.
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.
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;
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.
1529017254
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Picador
Resource type: Physical
Note: Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep sea mission that ended in catastrophe. It soon becomes clear, though, that Leah may have come back wrong.
1472150910
Hardback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Corsair
Resource type: Physical
Note: It's 2010. Staggeringly successful and brilliant tech entrepreneur Bix Bouton is desperate for a new idea. He's forty, with four kids, and restless when he stumbles into a conversation with mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or 'externalising' memory.
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1398502251
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK Ltd
Resource type: Physical
Note: Eliza Acton, despite having never before boiled an egg, became one of the world's most successful cookery writers. Her story is fascinating, uplifting and inspiring. With recipes that leap to life from the page, 'The Language of Food' explores the enduring struggle for female freedom, the creativity and quiet joy of cooking and the poetry of food.
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.
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.
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.