Snapback by Bob Harvey

A series of news-breaking events. An innocent bystander with a camera. A devastating backlash. Invading people’s privacy can have serious repercussions, as amateur photographer Matt Holmes is about to find out. Within a few days of acquiring a new camera, Matt becomes a key witness to a string of news-breaking events, including an attempted suicide by a well-known comedian from Richmond Bridge, a warehouse fire, a jewel robbery and a kidnap, his dramatic photographs suddenly given prominence in the national press. But Matt’s moment of fame takes a sinister turn as suspicions are aroused by his prolific scoops and his accidental intrusions make him a target for revenge.

As Matt looks back over his collection of photographs he makes discoveries that put everything into focus and he realises that his ultimate fate rests on the simple truth that nothing is ever quite what it seems.

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The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty

On a summer’s day in 1922 Cora Carlisle boards a train from Wichita, Kansas, to New York City, leaving behind a marriage that’s not as perfect as it seems and a past that she buried long ago. She is charged with the care of a stunning young girl with a jet-black fringe and eyes wild and wise beyond her fifteen years. This girl is hungry for stardom and Cora for something she doesn’t yet know. Cora will be many things in her lifetime – an orphan, a mother, a wife, a mistress – but in New York she is a chaperone and her life is about to change. It is here under the bright lights of Broadway, in a time when prohibition reigns and speakeasies with their forbidden whispers behind closed doors thrive, that Cora finds what she has been searching for. It is here, in a time when illicit thrills and daring glamour sizzle beneath the laws of propriety that her life truly begins. It is here that Cora and her charge, Louise Brooks, take their first steps towards their dreams.

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Something Borrowed by Emily Griffin

Rachel has always played by the rules and is the “Good Girl.”

She’s a hard working attorney at a Manhattan law firm and a diligent Maid of Honour to her best friend Darcy, who seems to live a charmed life. Since school, Rachel has been happy to sit on the sidelines and watch Darcy shine, quietly accepting her role.

That is until her thirtieth birthday, when Rachel confesses her feelings to Darcy’s fiancé and is both horrified and thrilled when he tells her that he feels the same way.

As the wedding gets nearer, events spiral out of control and Rachel finds that she must make a choice between right and wrong and that the lines between the two are sometimes blurry. She discovers that sometimes you have to risk everything to be true to yourself.

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The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom

Eddie, a war veteran, thinks he has lived an uninspired life. When an accident kills him on his 83rd birthday, he wakes in the afterlife to find that Heaven is not a destination but a place where your life is explained by five people, some you knew and some who may be strangers. One by one, Eddie’s five people revisit their connections and the mystery of Eddie’s ‘meaningless’ life and reveal the haunting secret behind the question, ‘why was I here?’

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Who is Mr Satoshi by Jonathan Lee

On the day his mother dies, reclusive photographer Rob Fossick – forty-one and already in the twilight of his career – finds among her belongings an unexplained package addressed to a ‘Mr Satoshi.’

So begins a quest that will propel Rob, anxious and unprepared, into the urban maelstrom of Tokyo. With the help of a colourful group of new acquaintances – a vigilant octogenarian; a beautiful ‘love hotel’ receptionist; an ex-sumo wrestler obsessed with Dolly Parton – the scene seems set for him to unravel the secrets surrounding Mr Satoshi’s identity. But until he has faced his own demons, and begun to reconnect with the world around him, the answers Rob craves will remain tantalisingly beyond his reach.

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