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The Changi Brownlow

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THE CHANGI BROWNLOWBY ROLAND PERRY, HACHETTE AUSTRALIA, $35.

The Changi Brownlowis the moving and powerful story of Peter Chitty – a farm hand with unfathomable physical and mental fortitude from Snowy River country – who was one of seven in his family who volunteered to serve in World War II.

Set in the worst conditions imaginable – inside the infamous Changi prison in Singapore and on the Thai-Burma Railway – this is a story of courage and the invincibility of the human spirit. Chitty and a group of Aussie POWs created their own AFL competition in the prison, complete with a Brownlow Medal at the end of the season.

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Tigerlily’s Orchids

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TIGERLILY’S ORCHIDS BY RUTH RENDELL, HUTCHINSON, $32.95.

Ruth Rendell is such a master of mystery that not only is it impossible to guess the identity of the killer, for a long while it’s hard to figure out who is going to die.

Luckily, not one of the characters that live in the apartments of London’s Lichfield House is particularly likeable. Yet they all jump off the page: Stuart Font is vain, shallow and lazy; caretaker Wally Scurlock has a perverted passion; alcoholic Olwen Curtis has decided to drink herself to death; an aloof Asian family comes and goes at odd hours; and a beautiful but desperate young woman catches Stuart’s imagination, a woman he calls Tigerlily. Yet what’s happening in Tigerlily’s house? You’ll never guess.

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The Memory of Love

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THE MEMORY OF LOVE BY AMINATTA FORNA, BLOOMSBURY, $32.99.

Set in Sierra Leone, the book interweaves the story of two generations. Professor Elias Cole tells of life on campus in Freetown in the late 1960s, his passion for the beautiful Saffia and his relationship with her charismatic but dangerously politically active husband.

Listening to this unreliable narrative is Adrian Lockheart, an English psychologist escaping a stultifying life. All the characters are beautifully drawn, their experiences of a horrific war subtly told. As their stories unfold, their lives collide in surprising ways, bringing tragedy, truth and hope. The Memory Of Love is not a book to be hurried, but it will reward the reader who gives it the time and thought it deserves.

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The Whisperer

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THE WHISPERER BY DONATO CARRISI, ABACUS, $32.99.

The Whisperer, written by a newly discovered Italian writer, spent a year on Italy’s best-seller lists.

Dishevelled criminologist Goran Gavila and young policewoman Mila Vasquez are on the hunt for a child abductor. When six small severed arms are found buried in a forest, the search becomes frantic. Gavila’s team follows the clues into a dark world – and more than one of them is in deeper than first appears.

The plot is clever, perhaps tighter than Stieg Larsson’s novels, but the characters are not as sympathetic. A better comparison would be Val McDermid’s Tony Hill books. If you like your killers prolific and your detectives a little twisted, you’ll enjoy this.

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The Good Daughter

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THE GOOD DAUGHTER BY HONEY BROWN, VIKING, $32.95.VIKING, $39.95.

This novel is as Aussie as an old ute covered in orange dust and as menacing as a blue heeler gone rogue.

Rebecca Toyer is a good girl with a bad reputation. When her truckie stepfather leaves her alone for two weeks and a local woman goes missing, Rebecca begins to learn some hard lessons. She falls for the local bad boy, crosses the town drug dealer and discovers a long-hidden truth about herself – you can only hope that Rebecca has what it takes to cope.

The novel is filled with moments of almost unbearable tension – if it was on screen you’d be peering between your fingers. It’s a compelling read that would make a thrilling, gritty film.

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Arthur’s War

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ARTHUR’S WARBY ARTHUR BANCROFT WITH JOHN HARMAN, VIKING, $39.95.

An exceptional memoir by 19-year-old sailor Arthur Bancroft, whose secret diary tells a courageous story of mateship, survival and enduring love.

Arthur was not only a gifted writer, but also a cartoonist who illustrated letters to his sweetheart, Mirla, now his wife of 65 years. Her recollections appear as a refrain at the end of each chapter. Arthur’s voice is true blue: “You beauty!” he declared on being assigned to HMAS Perth.

It was when the ship set sail in 1942 for Java that Arthur’s war really began. Perth was struck by a torpedo and sunk in oil-slicked seas, and Arthur ended up as a Japanese POW. Stripped of their stinking oil-soaked rags, the POWS wore loin cloths for the next two and a half years, and lived on paltry rations of rice amid open sewers in extreme temperatures. Building the back-breaking Burma-Thailand railway, Arthur – whose shoeless childhood prepared him for the gruelling jungle marches – worked alongside an elephant with its date of birth, 1888, seared into its hide. It made Arthur feel secure, like “being in the shadow of the harbour bridge”. A charming read.

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The Search

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THE SEARCHBY NORA ROBERTS, PIATKUS, $32.99.

Since her first book,Irish Thoroughbred, was published by Silhouette in 1981, sassy mother-of-two Nora Roberts has notched up more than 200 novels and is an international best-seller.

The Search, book number 206 (she averages five a year), is meticulously crafted in Roberts’ effortless signature style, weaving romance and serial-killer crime into the wilderness of Washington’s Orcas Island.

The open-door, everyone-knows-your-business world of canine search and rescue volunteer Fiona Bristow and her dogs Peck, Bogart and Newman, is cruelly shattered by the unwelcome signs that the Red Scarf Killer is back and manipulating copycat murders from his prison cell. It is a genuinely gripping ride.

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A Thousand Splendid Suns

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A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNSBY KHALED HOSSEINI, BLOOMSBURY, $24.95.

Afghan-American novelist Hosseini follows up his best-sellingThe Kite Runnerwith another searing epic of Afghanistan in turmoil.

Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, loss and fate. With heart-wrenching power and suspense, Hosseini shows how a woman’s love for her family can move her to shocking and heroic acts of self-sacrifice, and that, in the end, it is love – or even the memory of love – that is often the key to survival.

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Sex & Stravinsky

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SEX & STRAVINSKY BY BARBARA TRAPIDO, BLOOMSBURY, $32.99.

This is Barbara Trapido’s seventh novel and a glorious read it is, with a cast of fabulously flawed characters, whose lives cross and re-cross over decades and continents as they chase their dreams, pick the wrong partners, madden their children, suffer the tyranny of monstrous parents, yet somehow emerge from the other side wiser and happier – though not at all better – people.

Trapido fans will recognise the ingredients, but this is one of her best. The novel focuses on two mismatched couples, each with discontented daughters. The link between them is a changeling called Jack, a pale-skinned boy born to a black maid, who coolly seizes every opportunity that comes his way. He gives steel to the story and a bittersweet tang to this funny, wise book.

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Inheritance

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Question I'm 14 and am attending my auntie's non-traditional wedding soon. I'm wearing a simple short white dress with silver heels. I was wondering, what jewellery would look best with it? Meg, via email.

INHERITANCE BY NICHOLAS SHAKESPEARE, HARVILL SECKER, $32.95.

Andy Larkham, a 30-something pen-pusher about to be dumped by his fiancée, is rushing to attend the funeral of his favourite schoolteacher.

He’s one of just two mourners. A stranger takes down their names after the service, though it turns out it’s the wrong man’s funeral. Within a week, Andy learns he’s inherited $31 million. He wrestles with his conscience, then starts spending, only to be confronted by the dead man’s only child and true heir, Jeanine.

A book of many strands, at its centre is the mystery of how a successful man can be so disappointed by life that he would play such a strange game with his fortune. Yet it’s also a love story, a vivid portrait of a con-artist and a cautionary tale about the perils of unexpected wealth.