BACK ON TUESDAY
Author: David Gilmour
ISBN: 1-55278-591-2
Price: $14.95
Fiction

Back on Tuesday is the savagely funny story of Eugene H., a failed, womanizing writer from Toronto.

After a nasty flare-up with his ex-wife, he snatches their five-year-old daughter from school and flees to Jamaica. Over the next eighteen hours he muddles over his life, fumes, plots, drinks rum, regrets, reminisces, encounters a young woman with grey eyes, a coffin maker, a black Napoleon on this motorcycle ... and a host of other creatures from the Jamaican night.

Daivid Gilmour: Winner of the Governor general's Award for A Perfect Day to Go to China.

BAD BEHAVIOUR
Author: Sheila O’Flanagan
ISBN: 9780755332168 / 9780755332175
PRICE: $37.94 / $24.95
Fiction

Darcey and Nieve were the closest and best of friends, through school, as neighbours, travelling round Europe: this was a friendship for life. Until Nieve, returning from Europe a little later than her friend, stole the heart of Aidan, the boy Darcey had fallen in love with in her absence. Aidan was going to propose the very night Nieve caught his eye, and Darcey knew it. For the next ten years she's haunted by the memory of her humiliation. No business success - and there are many - no comfort her warm if eccentric family can offer, not even marriage to Neil, can console her. And then the invitation comes: to the wedding of Aidan and Nieve, neither of whom she's seen since they left Ireland for life in the USA. They're coming home to have the wedding of a lifetime at Ireland's most expensive hotel. Will Darcey be there? Will there be fireworks? And can the past be put to rest at last?

BETWEEN TRAINS
Author: Barry Callaghan
ISBN: 978-1-55278-631-4
Price: $29.95
Fiction

Callaghan’s characters include gangsters and princes of the Church: murderous children and survivors of the concentration camps; farmers yearning for the rapture and the idle rich learning to be feckless; a blues singer and a soldier who is a sniper.

These people, though they have no faith, try desperately to believe; though their hearts have been broken they try desperately to love; though they feel forgotten they try desperately to tell their stories.

THE BIG OVER EASY
Author: Jasper Fforde
ISBN: 0340835672 / 0340835664
Price: $24.95 (trade), $29.95 (hc), $34.95 (collector’s edition)
Fiction

"It looks like he died from injuries sustained during the fall ..."

Number One bestselling author Jasper Fforde begins an effervescent new series.
It’s Easter in Reading — a bad time for eggs — and no one can remember the last sunny day. Oviod D-class nursery celebrity Humpty Stuyvesant Van Dumpty III, minor baronet, ex-convict and former millionaire philanthropist is found shattered to death beneath a wall in a shabby area of town.

Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and Sergeant Mary Mary, grappling with a sinister plot involving cross-border money laundering, bullion smuggling and the cut and thrust world of international chiropody, are on a case that could make — or break –— their careers.

And on top of all that, the Jellyman is coming to town ...

Billy's Best Bottles - WINES FOR 2008
Author: Billy Munnelly
ISBN:9781552786833
PRICE:$21.95
Non Fiction


"A lively, peppy book. Let it fall open at any page and you'll be entertained and educated"

Everyone needs a little help with wine shopping – everyone needs a copy of Billy's Best.

Billy's Best Bottles – Wines for 2008 is the most user-friendly wine book available. Munnelly's picks are easily found in the liquor store, and each wine featured is shown with its label. All wines are classified by MOOD – a novel approach that makes shopping dead-easy. Half of the selections (there are over 200) cost less than $13, and some cost less than $10. Because Munnelly uses everyday language to interpret wine his book is useful to everyone, especially the novice.  Billy says "If I didn't write it, and someone else did, I'd buy this book. And copies for my friends too. Why waste, time, money and brain cells trying to figure out the crazy wine world when someone else has done all the work for you? I don’t try to tell you everything about wine, just the bits that are important and useful. I want to offer you the best times, not impress you with tons of wine crap." Besides tips on what to buy this colourful handbook also contains down-to-earth information about pairing wine and food, planning a party, and basic do's and don'ts. Munnelly also gives a country-by-country analysis of what's going on in the world of wine and offers straight-ahead answers to the most frequently asked questions about wine. With loyal followers coast to coast, Billy's handy guide has become an eagerly anticipated favourite.

BLENHEIM
Author: Lady Henrietta Spencer Churchill
ISBN: 1-55278-528-9
Price: $60.00
Non Fiction

Blenheim Palace was built for Henrietta Spencer-Churchill's great ancestor, the military leader John Churchill, and his charismatic and powerful wife Sarah Jennings, who became the first Duke and Duchess of Marlborough. It was a gift from Queen Anne and a grateful nation after Marlborough saved Europe from total domination by Louis XIV in the early 1700s.

Blenheim is one of the most important buildings in Europe, and the only palace in England that is still lived in as a family home. As a palace and monument, Blenheim is spectacularly successful. Acknowledged as the finest example of Baroque architecture in Britain, the palace is decorated and furnished to an equally lavish standard and houses furniture and art from all over Europe — as the English King George III enviously remarked "we have nothing to equal this."

But the real story of Blenheim lies with the Spencer-Churchill family, who have lived in it for the past 300 years, and theirs is a story as turbulent, fascinating and momentous as the conflicts that surrounded its origins. In the first book about Blenheim ever written by one of the family, Blenheim is filled with anecdotes, gossip, and intrigue, tracing the story of a glamorous dynasty from 1700 to modern times. This is the inside story, pieced together from the family archives, showing how the personalities of each Duke and Duchess — from John, the very first war hero and Sarah, his strong-willed, beautiful bride — have influenced the progress of the great house through the centuries.

Blenheim also has interesting tales to tell apart from the ducal dynasty; a small back bedroom was the birthplace of World War II leader Sir Winston Churchill, and the palace has also been home to some controversial figures from history; including the late Diana, Princess of Wales's ancestors, the glamorous heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt, Winston's New Yorker mother Jennie Jerome, and more recently, shipping heiress Christina Onassis.

Henrietta's portrait of life at Blenheim is the first, modern, clear and varied picture of how each generation has lived in the house, covering their daily activities, and noting how the house has changed and evolved from an architectural and decorative perspective. Within each section, self-contained features give the book the feel of a private family album, showing family letters, photographs and private papers.

BLOOD AND HONEY
Author: Graham Hurley
ISBN: 0-75285-1012 / 0-978-0-75287-8010
PRICE: $24.95 / $10.99
Fiction

Faraday and Winter are back to face their most horrifying test yet.

The discovery of a headless body below cliffs on the Isle of Wight throws DI Joe Faraday into a crime built from lives ruined both at home and abroad, a legacy of violence inflicted by people and society. Graham Hurley's uniquely powerful police procedural series reaches a peak of excellence as it depicts our modern world as a place where terrifying pressures combine to create unlikely killers and even more unlikely saviours.

BLOOD RED SNOW WHITE
Author: Marcus Sedgwick
ISBN:9781842551844
PRICE:$19.95
Children

Fairy tale, spy thriller, love story – one man’s life during the last days of the Romanovs.  The Russian Revolution saw the fall of the Tsars and the rise of the Bolsheviks and is undoubtedly one of the richest periods in history.  Arthur Ransome was there.  He was a writer, accused of being a  spy, perhaps even a double agent, and he left England behind and fell in love with Russia and a Russian woman, Evgenia.  His story is brilliantly retold in three interlinked parts.

THE BODY SHAPE BIBLE
Author: Susannah Constantine and Trinny Woodall
ISBN: 9780297844549 / 9780297853404
PRICE: $39.94 / $29.95
Fashion/Self Help

Trinny and Susannah analyse the 10 classic women’s body shapes and advise on key garments, best looks, age considerations and how to make the most of what you have.

BROTHER FISH
Author: Bryce Courtenay
ISBN: 1-55278-536-X / 1-55278-592-0
Price: $34.95 / $11.99
Fiction

Brother Fish is an Australian saga spanning eighty years and four continents. Inspired by real events, Bryce Courtenay's new novel tells the story of three people from vastly differing backgrounds. All they have in common is a tough beginning in life.

Jack McKenzie is a harmonica player, soldier, dreamer and small-time professional fisherman from a tiny island in Bass Strait. Nicole Lenoir-Jourdan is a strong-willed woman hiding from an ambiguous past in Shanghai. Larger than life, Private Jimmy Oldcorn was once a street kid and leader of a New York gang. Together, they reap a vast and not always legitimate fortune from the sea.

Brother Fish is an inspiring human drama of three lives brought together and changed forever by the extraordinary events of recent history. But most of all it is about the power of friendship and love.

BROTHER GRIMM
Author: Craig Russell
ISBN: 1-55278-577-7 / 978-1-55278-6246
Price: $24.95 / $10.99
Fiction

Trinny and Susannah analyse the 10 classic women’s body shapes and advise on key garments, best looks, age considerations and how to make the most of what you have.

THE BURMA EFFECT
Author: Michael E. Rose
ISBN: 1-55278-601-3
Price: $24.95
Fiction

In the latest Frank Delaney thriller, the Montreal-based investigative journalist and sometime spy is assigned by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service to locate one of their agents who has gone missing in Bangkok. The search for Nathan Kellner, a bohemian bon vivant with a taste for young women and a variety of illicit substances, brings Delaney first to London, then to Thailand and Burma, where evidence points to an elaborate plot to destabilize the Burmese military regime.

Untangling that plot thrusts Delaney directly into the line of fire between the generals at the head of Burma's all-powerful junta and those who would use any means to see them overthrown.

Delaney discovers, too late, that the driving force in this bizarre and increasingly dangerous game is not just money and politics but Kellner's apparent obsession with Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. That obsession with Asia's most famous woman leads eventually to Kellner's catastrophic downfall and to a potentially explosive international incident which only Delaney may be able to defuse.