West Sussex County Council: New Fiction

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• General Fiction
• Crime
• Thriller
• Science Fiction and Fantasy
• Saga

New fiction available from your local library

To reserve any of theses titles go to the library catalogue

Wilderness by Samantha Harvey

It's Jake's birthday. He is sitting in a small plane, being flown over the landscape that has been the backdrop to his life. Now he is in his early 60s, and he isn't quite the man he used to be. He has lost his wife, his son is in prison, and he is about to lose his past. Jake has Alzheimer's.

Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laura Viera Rigler

Courtney Stone has always felt she might have been better suited to life in Jane Austen's England. One evening, having drifted off to sleep after self-medicating with pizza and Absolut, Courtney wakes up in 19th-century England, in the bed of a girl called Jane Mansfield. Slowly, she realises that this is no dream.

The Blue Handbag by Fiona Robyn

After 40 years of happy marriage, Leonard thought he knew his wife Rose as well as he knew himself. It's only after her sudden death that he finds her old handbag, which contains a mystery he can't ignore. Accompanied by Lily, his wife's childhood friend, Leonard becomes a reluctant detective as his whole life starts to unravel.