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Antoni Jach takes us to a party where memories, locations, sacred cows and perspectives collide as guests reminisce, talk, tell stories, disagree, remember and recall in 'A Midsummer Party'.Malta is a small island with a big history. The Knights of St John built underground passages which were used to take refuge through the bombing in WW11. It is where a great art work is in a cathedral and where a young girl and a pilot learn they share an interest in ‘The Art Lovers’ by Fiona McInstosh.

The world of corporate high finance is not dissimilar to the underworld of crime and corruption where murder and intrigue abound in Chris Hammer's novel, 'Full Circle'.How can Navy continue to be a top student, loyal friend and model daughter if she doesn’t pass this exam, but is this who she really wants to be?  Balli Kaur Jaswal has written an insightful and humorous coming of age story in ‘The Unpronounceables’

Halloween  is a festival of the dead but a possum watches from a garden as plastic props become pollution and lead to the death of real animals in a rhyming illustrated book by Maree Coote’s ‘Possum Tragic: a tale of pumpkins and plastic’. David Greagg takes us on a romp through the practices, language and mores of 15th Century England in his novel, 'Harry the Fifth'. There are anachronisms suggesting how little we have changed and anthropomorphic points of view which also add a touch of variety and spice.

The very notions of reality and perception are challenged in Valerie Ng's debut novel, ‘Driver Driver’, as Oscar embarks on a search for his friend.          Ruth a commercial litigation lawyer with a big case and thinks she is so lucky to have found such a great apartment in an art deco block but when people die and she becomes the suspect her job and her innocence are at stake in Joanna Jenkins social satire ‘Bad Neighbours’.

Love and wine can share a similar vocabulary – the pop of first meeting and then the sit, sip and savour in a good relationship, it’s about quality not quantity, but that’s not all you will learn in this clever romance comedy ‘A Study in Sparkling’ by Jodi McAlister.                'The Hurt' is an elegaic coming-of-age memoir by Catherine de Saint Phalle touching on the relationships and experiences that shape our lives.