Long Island by Colm Tóibín
Category: New Arrivals
Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony's parents. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis, now in her forties with two teen ...Show more
The Studio Girls by Lisa Ireland
Category: Poppies Hot Picks This Month
The Studio Girls is a sumptuous, nostalgic journey back to the glamorous Golden Age of cinema and the intoxicating world of Tinsel Town, where nothing is quite what it seems . . . 'Fans of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo will love Lisa Ireland's cinematic new novel. Set in the Golden Age of Hollywood, ...Show more
The Last Devil To Die (#4 Thursday Murder Club) by Richard Osman
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Thursday Murder Club Ser.
Shocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club. An old friend in the antiques business has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing. As the gang springs into action they encounter art forgers, online fraudsters and drug dealers, as well as heartache close to home. With ...Show more
Saltblood by Francesca De Tores
Category: Fiction
In a rented room outside Plymouth in 1685, a daughter is born as her half-brother is dying. Her mother makes a decision: Mary will become Mark, and Ma will continue to collect his inheritance money. Mary's dual existence as Mark will lead to a role as a footman in a grand house, serving a French mistres ...Show more
The Coast Road by Alan Murrin
Category: Poppies Hot Picks This Month
'Alan Murrin writes with the calm, poetic fluency of the best of Irish writers ... A stonkingly good novel. Just read it' SARAH WINMAN, bestselling author of Still Life 'It will no doubt be a bestseller' GILLIAN ANDERSON, GRAZIA It's 1994 in County Donegal, Ireland, and everyone is talking about Colet ...Show more
Lioness by Emily Perkins
Category: Fiction
Winner of the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Award for Fiction. From humble beginnings, Therese has let herself grow used to a life of luxury after marrying into an empire-building family. But when rumours of corruption gather around her husband's latest development, the social opprobrium is shocking, th ...Show more
The Two Loves of Sophie Strom by Sam Taylor
Category: Fiction
A timeless, heart-wrenching story about love in the face of indoctrination and tragedy - perfect for fans of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, The Lovely Bones, and Life After Life. A house fire, Vienna, 1933: thirteen-year-old Max is orphaned, disfigured and adopted by an Aryan family who change his ide ...Show more
Five Broken Blades by Mai Corland
Category: New Arrivals
Five ruthless killers. Five deadly motives. One King - who must die. Six of Crows meets She Who Became the Sun in a feast of treason and seduction set against a dazzling fantasy backdrop of Korean history and folklore. Five ruthless killers. Five deadly motives. One King - who must die. Game of Thrones ...Show more
Free by Meg Keneally
Category: Poppies Hot Picks This Month
From horse thief to the merchant queen of Sydney Cove - how did one woman rise so far? 'It is a harsh land - yes, for you especially - but people can also rise here ...' Born into poverty in eighteenth-century England, her future was predetermined. But throughout her life Molly Thistle refused to follow ...Show more
Why Do Horses Run? by Cameron Stewart
Category: Poppies Hot Picks This Month
COLLINS BOOKSELLERS - FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH A lyrical and profound debut novel that celebrates the kindness of strangers and those living in pain who recognise that in others. He walked not feeling he was connected to the earth, but on the edge of something he couldn't reach. He pushed on through ...Show more
Bright Objects by Ruby Todd
Category: Poppies Hot Picks This Month
January 1997: In the small town of Jericho, New South Wales, Sylvia Knight is losing hope that the person who killed her husband will ever face justice. Since the night of the hit-and-run, her world has been shrouded in hazy darkness-until she meets Theo St John, the discoverer of a rare comet soon to b ...Show more
The Light Eaters by Zoë Schlanger
Category: Fiction
A narrative investigation into the new science of plant intelligence and sentience, from National Association of Science Writers Award winner and Livingston Award finalist Zoe Schlanger'. Look at the green organism across the room or through the window: the potted plant, or the grass, or a tree. Think h ...Show more