Ian RANKIN
A Question of blood
Orion
ANG RP RAN
Two seventeen-year-olds are killed by an ex-Army loner who has gone off the rails. As Detective Inspector John Rebus puts it, ’there’s no mystery ... except the why’. But this question takes Rebus into the heart of a shattered community. Ex-Army himself, Rebus becomes fascinated by the killer, and finds he is not alone. Army investigators are on the scene, and won’t be shaken off.

Kathy REICH
Grave secrets
Arrow
ANG RP REI
Dr. Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist for the medical examiners in Montreal and North Carolina, departs from home turf to journey to Guatemala, where her skills will be tested to the limit. She’ll work on one of the more heartbreaking cases of her career, searching the remains of mass graves for the bodies of women and children.

Arundhati ROY
The God of small things
Flamingo
ANG R ROY
Set against a background of political turbulence in Kerala, this novel tells the story of twins Esthappen and Rahel. Amongst the vats of banana jam and heaps of peppercorns in their grandmother’s factory they try to craft a childhood for themselves amidst what constitutes their family.

Hubert SELBY
Waiting Period
Marion Boyars
ANG R SEL
A man pulls back from the brink of suicide when his application to buy a gun with which to shoot himself is delayed. Instead of throwing his life away, he decides to spend all his time and effort disposing of those who he feels deserve to die.

Will SELF
Dorian : an imitation
Penguin
ANG R SEL
It is 1981 and the "Royal Broodmare", as Henry Wotton calls her, is about to be married. Wotton, an uneasy homosexual and an egregious drug-addict, and his friend Baz have found a remarkable young man Dorian Gray, the epitome of male beauty. 16 years later and the Princess is dead. As the stock market soars and their T-cell counts plummet, what has happened to Henry, Baz and Dorian ?