Little Disasters by Sarah Vaughan
Liz and Jess have been friends for ten years, ever since they both started a family. When Jess arrives at hospital with a story that doesn’t add up, Liz is the doctor on call. Jess has devoted her life to family and home.
But she is holding so many secrets. As the truth begins to emerge, Liz is forced to question everything she thought she knew: about Jess, and about herself.
When something feels so personal, how do you stay professional?
The Motion of the Body Through Space by Lionel Shriver
Allergic to group activities of any kind, all her life Serenata has run, swum, and cycled.
As she contemplates surgery with dread, her previously sedentary husband Remington chooses this precise moment to discover exercise. Yet as he joins the cult of fitness, her once-modest husband burgeons into an unbearable narcissist.
When Remington announces his intention to compete in a legendarily gruelling triathlon Serenata is sure he’s going to end up injured or dead – but the stubbornness of an ageing man in Lycra is not to be underestimated.
The Satapur Moonstone by Sujata Massey
The delightfully clever Perveen Mistry, Bombay’s first female lawyer, returns in an adventure of treacherous palace intrigues and suspicious deaths.
India, 1922: A curse has fallen upon the kingdom of Satapur’s royal family, whose maharaja and his teenage son are both dead. The royal ladies are in dispute over the education of the young crown prince, and a lawyer’s counsel is required—but the maharanis live in purdah and do not speak to men.
Just one woman can help them: Perveen Mistry. Perveen is determined to bring peace to the royal house, but when she arrives, she finds that the Satapur palace is full of cold-blooded power plays and ancient vendettas.
Too late, she realises she has walked into a trap.
All Adults Here by Emma Straub
The ripple effects of choices linger for years and ultimately shape matriarch Astrid and her children.
As several generations grapple with their own truths, an opportunity to begin again ultimately draws them all closer.
This book asks the question, “Who is truth ultimately for, who benefits from it, and who does it hurt?”
Camino Winds by John Grisham
The follow up book to Camino Island, the thrilling book Camino Winds covers a murder in the middle of a hurricane. Just as Bruce Cable’s Bay Books is preparing for the return of bestselling author Mercer Mann, Hurricane Leo veers from its predicted course and heads straight for the island.
Florida’s governor orders a mandatory evacuation, but Bruce decides to stay and ride out the storm. The hurricane is devastating: homes and condos are levelled, hotels and storefronts ruined, streets flooded, and a dozen people lose their lives.
One of the apparent victims is Nelson Kerr, a friend of Bruce’s and an author of thrillers. But the nature of Nelson’s injuries suggests that the storm wasn’t the cause of his death: He has suffered several suspicious blows to the head.
The Inner Self by Hugh Mackay
Foundation member of the Australian Psychological Society, Hugh Mackay has had a 60-year career in social psychology and research.
The Inner Self is a book about the ways we hide from the truth about ourselves and the psychological freedom we enjoy when we finally face that most searching question of all: ‘Who am I, really?’
In his book Mackay explores our ‘top 20’ hiding places – from addiction to materialism, nostalgia to victimhood and explains how it is our fear of love’s demands that drive us into hiding.
