SMSA (Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts)
New Book Highlights
ANIMAL STORIES
| Cameron, W. Bruce | A dog’s way home |
Return to top
BIOGRAPHY
| Brown, Craig | Ma’am darling |
| Bythell, Shaun | The diary of a bookseller |
| Craig, Mary W. | A tangled web |
| Evans, Gareth | Incorrigible optimist |
| Veitch, Michael | Barney Greatrex |
| Rudd, Kevin | Not for the faint-hearted |
| Sami, Osamah | Good Muslim boy |
| Thwaite, Ann | Goodbye Christopher Robin |
Return to top
GENERAL FICTION
| Allende, Isabel | In the midst of winter |
| Arikawa, Hiro | The travelling cat chronicles |
| Child, Lee | The midnight line |
| Cooper, Mike | The downside |
| Cussler, Clive | Typhoon fury |
| Didierlaurent, Jean-Paul | The rest of their lives |
| Duenas, Maria | A vineyard in Andalusia |
| England, Caroline | Beneath the skin |
| Erdrich, Louise | Future home of the living god |
| Fforde, Katie | The Christmas stocking and other stories |
| Ford, Jamie | Love and other consolation prizes |
| Furnivall, Kate | The betrayal |
| Garner, Helen | Stories |
| Geary, Karl | Montpelier Parade |
| Hanks, Tom | Uncommon type |
| Hayes-McCoy, Felicity | The mistletoe matchmaker |
| Hewitt, Kate | A mother like mine |
| Howard, Sandra | The consequence of love |
| Jarlvi, Jessica | When I wake up |
| Jensen, Louise | The surrogate |
| Johns, Rachael | The greatest gift |
| Joyce, Jennifer | The little bed & breakfast by the sea |
| Lagioia, Nicola | Ferocity |
| Lake, Alex | Copycat |
| Lelic, Simon | The house |
| Li, Isabelle | A Chinese affair |
| Lynch, Paul | Grace |
| Macomber, Debbie | Any dream will do |
| Martin, Tony | Deadly kerfuffle |
| Mayer, Chloe | The boy made of snow |
| McCall Smith, Alexander | The good pilot Peter Woodhouse |
| McDonald, Fleur | Suddenly one summer |
| McDonald, Roger | A sea-chase |
| Miller, Alex | The passage of love |
| Miscellaneous | Ghosts of Christmas past |
| Miscellaneous | The best Australian stories 2017 |
| Mitchell, Fiona | The maid’s room |
| Morrissey, Di | The red coast |
| Murnane, Gerald | Border districts |
| Patric, A. S. | Atlantic black |
| Pearl, Nancy | George & Lizzie |
| Ritter, Krysten | Bonfire |
| Thynne, Jane | Faith and beauty |
| Wand, Zosia | Trust me |
| Weiner, Matthew | Heather, the totality |
| Wilson, Laura | The other woman |
Atlantic black / A. S. Patric
Seventeen-year-old Katerina is an ambassador’s daughter on the precipice of womanhood. Travelling on board the transatlantic ocean liner RMS Aquitania en route to her beloved father and brother, Katerina is closely escorted by her neurotic, domineering mother. When her mother experiences a severe psychotic break and is heavily sedated, Katerina is left to freely roam the glamourous, seedy environment of the ship. In a series of ambiguous encounters, Katerina drifts through the Aquitania’s claustrophobic corridors in search of pleasure and meaning, and finds herself by turns bewildered, tormented and seduced by the ship’s lurid cast of characters. Set across a single night—New Year’s Eve 1938, and the increasingly hallucinatory early morning hours that follow—the novel’s pervasive air of menace is propelled not only by the endless dark waves of the Atlantic, but by the threat of impending violence as World War II looms. Stylistically, Atlantic Black is dense and visceral. Patric is able to shift rapidly and absorbingly between the surreal, the sexual and the grotesque, and fans of his Miles Franklin Award-winning novel Black Rock White City will enjoy returning to his tender, psychologically acute prose. (Books and Publishing, 30 August 2017)
Return to top
HISTORICAL FICTION
| Cornwell, Bernard | Fools and mortals |
| Harris, Jane | Sugar money |
| Jackson, Douglas | Glory of Rome |
| Purcell, Laura | The silent companions |
| Scarrow, Simon | Day of the Caesars |
| Slattery, Luke | Mrs M |
| Stockwin, Julian | The Baltic prize |
| Tiraboschi, Roberto | The apothecary’s shop |
Return to top
MYSTERY
| Black, Cara | Murder in Saint-Germain |
| Brightwell, Emily | Mrs. Jeffries and the one who got away |
| Brody, Frances | Death in the stars |
| Burnet, Graeme Macrae | The accident on the A35 |
| Chapman, Julia | Date with malice |
| Clark, Mary Higgins | Every breath you take |
| Evanovich, Janet | Hardcore 24 |
| Finch, Charles | The inheritance |
| Frear, Caz | Sweet little lies |
| Griffiths, Elly | The vanishing box |
| Hall, Rachel Howzell | City of saviors |
| Hamdy, Adam | Freefall |
| James, P. D. | Sleep no more |
| Jardine, Quintin | State secrets |
| Jennings, Maureen | Vices of my blood |
| Kellerman, Faye | Killing season |
| Kernick, Simon | Hanged man |
| Kirk, Margaret | Shadow man |
| Lees, Julian | The burnings |
| Lovegrove, James | Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell shadows |
| MacBride, Stuart | Now we are dead |
| Marston, Edward | A Christmas railway mystery |
| Miscellaneous | Deadlier |
| Morgan, Lorna Nicholl | The death box |
| Nesser, Hakan | The darkest day |
| Noon, Jeff | A man of shadows |
| Novak, Brenda | Hello again |
| Patterson, James | The people vs. Alex Cross |
| Rendell, Ruth | A spot of folly |
| Rose, Karen | Edge of darkness |
| Sandford, John | Deep freeze |
| Snoekstra, Anna | Little secrets |
| Spain, Jo | Beneath the surface |
| Sutton, William | Lawless and the house of electricity |
| Todd, Charles | A casualty of war |
| Warner, Dave | Clear to the horizon |
| Weaver, Ashley | The essence of malice |
The accident on the A35 / Graeme Macrae Burnet
Shades of Simenon haunt this compelling literary detective novel from Graeme Macrae Burnet. Georges Gorski, police chief in a small town in Alsace, becomes enmeshed in an investigation of what appears to be an unremarkable road accident, in which a local solicitor is killed. The lawyer’s wife, Lucette, and teenage son Raymond, are unruffled by his death; Lucette even seems to have the hots for Gorski. For his part, dumped by his wife, living with his elderly mother, and prone to drinking alone, Gorski is receptive to her overtures despite the obvious transgression. As discrepancies in the evidence mount, the mystery of what the lawyer was doing in the hours before his death turns an accident into a homicide investigation. Briskly written within an unobtrusive literary frame, this seductive novel works on multiple levels. (Sydney Morning Herald, 7 December 2017)
Return to top
NON FICTION
| Burdick, Alan | Why time flies | 529.2 BURD |
| Clune, Brian | Hollywood Obscura | 364.152 CLUN |
| Connelly, Joan Breton | The Parthenon enigma | 726.12 CONN |
| Donelly, Beau | The woman who fooled the world | 364.163 DONE |
| Dougherty, Kerrie Anne | Australia in space | 500.5 DOUG |
| Fidler, Richard | Saga land | 839.6 FIDL |
| Garner, Helen | True stories | 823.3 GARN |
| Griffith Review | The Novella Project V | 828 GRIF |
| Jones, Will | How to read modern buildings | 724 JONE |
| Lorblanchet, Michel | The first artists | 709.011 LORB |
| Magnusson, Margareta | The gentle art of Swedish death cleaning | 646.7 MAGN |
| Monteath, Peter | Escape artist | 940.547 MONT |
| Schubach, Kay | Perfect stranger | 362.829 SCHU |
| Weir, Alison | Queens of the conquest | 942.030 WEIR |
Return to top
ROMANCE
| Palmer, Diana | Wyoming winter |
| Roberts, Nora | The Stars of Mithra |
Return to top
SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY
| Brookmyre, Christopher | Places in the darkness |
| Campbell, Jen, | The beginning of the world in the middle of the night |
| Donaldson, Stephen | Seventh decimate |
| Hill, Joe | Strange weather |
| Khan, Ausma Zehanat | The bloodprint |
| Miscellaneous | The book of swords |
| Pullman, Philip | La belle sauvage |
| Sanderson, Brandon | Oathbringer |
| Weeks, Brent | Perfect shadow |
| Weir, Andy | Artemis |
Return to top
New additions to eBooks at SMSA
EBOOKS
| General novels | Fridlund, Emily | History of wolves |
| General novels | Michaels, Fern | Mistletoe magic |
| General novels | Raabe, Melanie | The stranger |
| Historical fiction | Boyd, Natasha | The indigo girl |
| Mystery | Berenson, Laurien | Wagging through the snow |
| Mystery | Burnet, Graeme Macrae | The accident on the A35 |
| Mystery | Connelly, Michael | Two kinds of truth |
| Mystery | Delany, Vicki | Rest ye murdered gentlemen |
| Mystery | Lapena, Shari | A stranger in the house |
| Mystery | MacBride, Stuart | Now we are dead |
| Non fiction | Fidler, Richard | Saga land |
| Science fiction and fantasy | Arden, Katherine | The bear and the nightingale |
| Travel | Lawrence, Katrina | Paris dreaming |
Return to top
AUDIOBOOKS
| General novels | Ashley, Phillipa | Christmas at the Cornish Café |
| Mystery | Frost, Jacqueline | Twelve slays of Christmas |
Return to top
New Books — December 2017
3The new books for December 2017 are now available to borrow, with new ebooks and audiobooks.
We hope you enjoy them!
- New books may be borrowed for a period of two weeks only and may not be renewed.
- Books remain listed as “New Books” for two months.
Search the Library Catalogue
New Books by Genre
Animal Stories
Biography
Classics
Cooking
Craft
Gardening
General Fiction
Historical Fiction
Mystery
Non Fiction
Poetry
Romance
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Travel
New eBooks, etc.
Enews Signups |
Get started with eBooks and Audiobooks today
