CRIME
Clarke, Mary Higgins
We'll meet again
About two women who are best friends, one of whom is charged (and convicted)
of a murder the other may have committed.
Dexter, Colin
The remorseful day
The final Inspector Morse novel. A year after Yvonne Harrison's murder,
Morse is asked to reinvestigate the crime. He refuses but seems to be
carrying out his own private enquiries. When Lewis learns that Morse was
once friendly with her, he begins to suspect that Morse knows more about
her death than anyone else ...
GENERAL
Brookner, Anita
Undue influence
Claire is 29 and lives alone in Marylebone. She is content with life,
although she recognises she has become more reserved and independent since
her wild student days. Her life changes when she embarks on an affair
with a widower.
Patterson, Glenn
The International
A single day in the 1967 in the International Hotel, Belfast.
HISTORICAL
Kent, Alexander
Second to none
Features Captain Adam Bolitho who, still grieving for his uncle, Sir Richard,
is given command of the newly commissioned frigate "Unrivalled" and ordered
to the Mediterranean.
Pownall, David
The catalogue of men
During the last decades of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I Miguel is washed
ashore on the south coast of England and befriended by William Shakespeare.
Together they become involved in Lord Cecil's network of intrigue.
HUMOROUS
Idle, Eric
The road to Mars
A story of comedians on a vaudeville circuit, an examination of the nature
of comedy, a romantic love story and a thriller set in space in the twenty-second
century.
Weir, Arabella
Onwards and upwards
Three people are friends at school and remain friends despite their adult
stresses.
SAGA
Cox, Josephine
Somewhere, someday
Kelly finds herself thinking about the past, in particular what happened
in the autumn of 1877 and how it destroyed her family. Then she realises
that the only way she will ever be free of her past is to confront it.
Staples, Mary Jane
Bright day, dark night
In summer 1941 David Adams and Kate Trimble, an evacuee from London, meet
in Devon. But as they become closer, an incident occurs which brings home
to them the dark intrigues of wartime and gives everyone a devastating
shock.
SCI - FI/FANTASY
Feist, Raymond E
Krondor: The assassins
The assassin's guild returns to Krondor, seemingly killing without purpose
or pattern. Squire James and Lieutenant William Condoin are plummeted
into a dark world of politics and murder as they try to prevent all-out
war
SHORT STORIES
King, Stephen
Hearts in Atlantis
Four stories which are shadowed by the American experience in Vietnam.
Tremain, R
Evangelista's fan and other stories
A collection of short stories which take the reader from Regency London
to a hospital room in Hampshire, to the battlefield of Agincourt in 1415
...
THRILLER
Francis, Dick
Second wind
A popular British weather forecaster is offered a Caribbean hurricane-chasing
ride in a small aeroplane as a holiday diversion, but he learns more secrets
than he should, and back home he faces threats and dangers as deadly as
any hurricane.
Seymour, Gerald
Archangel
Running a small errand for the British intelligence service turns into
a nightmare for a young man when he is arrested by the Soviet secret police
and sentenced to fifteen years in a labour camp.
