Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel .  In Bring up the Bodies, the sequel to the Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel explores one of the most mystifying and frightening episodes in English history: the destruction of Anne Boleyn.

By 1535, Thomas Cromwell is a chief Minister to Henry VIII.  His fortunes have risen with those of Anne Boleyn, Henry’s second wife, for whose sake Henry has broken with Rome and created his own church. But Henry’s actions have forced England into dangerous isolation, and Anne has failed to do what she promised: bear a son to secure the Tudor line.

The Mountain by Drusilla Modjeska.   In 1968, Leonard, an Oxford anthropologist, arrives in Papua New Guinea with his alluring Dutch wife, Rika. When Leonard leaves to film the remote villages high in the mountains, Rika becomes close to a Papuan and her life is changed forever.

This sweeping novel takes us deep into this fascinating country, whose culture and people cannot escape the march of modernity that threatens to overwhelm them.  From the bestselling author of The Orchard and Stravinsky’s Lunch.

Eleven Seasons by Paul D. Carter .  The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award winner 2012.

'Some guys are good at school and telling jokes or they have the latest stuff. Others are cricketers and basketball players: they can do things with the ball that make their classmates talk about them when they're not around. His thing is football. He becomes the centre of whichever team he plays for: he becomes the advantage.'

MELBOURNE, 1985. Jason Dalton sits on his bed and counts his football cards, dreaming of the day he too is immortalised in the public eye. He's young and gifted, a natural player who can do anything with the ball in his hand. If only everything else in his life was as obvious to him as playing.

GOLD COAST, 1991. The bottom has fallen out of Jason's life; he's now a high-school dropout, tired and wasted on the Gold Coast, with an explosive family secret still ringing in his ears. He needs to get his life back. But first he needs to find out who he is.

'A smashing book: heartfelt, tough-minded, occasionally shocking.' Geordie Williamson

The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman. 1926. Tom Sherbourne is a young lighthouse keeper on a remote island off Western Australia. The only inhabitants of Janus Rock, he and his wife Isabel live a quiet life, cocooned from the rest of the world.

One April morning a boat washes ashore carrying a dead man and a crying infant - and the path of the couple's lives hits an unthinkable crossroads.

Only years later do they discover the devastating consequences of the decision they made that day - as the baby's real story unfolds ...

Fifty Shades of Grey by E L James.   When literature student Anastasia Steele interviews successful entrepreneur Christian Grey, she finds him very attractive and deeply intimidating. Convinced that their meeting went badly, she tries to put him out of her mind – until he turns up at the store where she works part-time, and invites her out.

Unworldly and innocent, Ana is shocked to find she wants this man. And, when he warns her to keep her distance, it only makes her want him more.

But Grey is tormented by inner demons, and consumed by the need to control. As they embark on a passionate love affair, Ana discovers more about her own desires, as well as the dark secrets Grey keeps hidden away from public view …

Beastly Things by Donna Leon .  When a man is found stabbed to death floating in the canal, Commissario Brunetti is convinced he recognises him from somewhere. But with no identification on the body and no reports of people missing from the Venice area, it seems as if he has appeared from nowhere, and the case is at a dead end.

With a gripping case set before a harrowing exploration of the meat industry, Donna Leon's latest novel is a dark and compelling addition to the Brunetti series.

Waiting for Sunrise by William Boyd .  Moving from Vienna to London's west end, the battlefields of France and hotel rooms in Geneva, Waiting for Sunrise is a feverish and mesmerising journey into the human psyche.  It follows the story of Lysender Rief, a young English actor caught up in a lve affair in Vienna in 1913 and the dangerous theatre of wartime intelligence in London in 1914.

A thrilling, plot-twisting new novel set in Europe during the first world war, from the bestselling author of Any Human Heart, Restless and Ordinary Thunderstorms.

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins .  Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. But Katniss has been clse to death before--and survival, for her, is second nature. The Hunger Games is a searing novel set in a future with unsettling parallels to our present.

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