Hostage - Clare Mackintosh
The atmosphere on board the inaugural non-stop flight from London to Sydney is electric. Mina is one of a hand-picked team of flight attendants chosen for the landmark journey.
But the plane has barely taken off when Mina receives a chilling note from an anonymous passenger, someone intent on ensuring the plane never reaches its destination.
The New Climate War : the fight to take back our planet - Michael E. Mann (Non-fiction)
A renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to deflect blame and responsibility and delay action on climate change, and offers a battle plan for how we can save the planet.
Beyond Black - Hilary Mantel
Alison is a medium. But what she hears is sometimes just too dark to pass on. She mostly tells her clients what they want to hear.
Colette, her manager and side-kick, makes the bookings and gets Alison on stage. And then there's Morris, Alison's foul-mouthed and obscene Spirit Guide.
Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant.
Into this atmosphere of distrust and need comes Thomas Cromwell, first as Wolsey's clerk, and later his successor.
Snowdrops - A.D. Miller
'Snowdrops' is a chilling story of love and moral freefall - of the corruption, by a corrupt society, of a corruptible young man.
It is taut, intense and has a momentum as irresistible to the reader as the moral danger that first enchants, then threatens to overwhelm, its narrator.