Fiction

In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more than twenty years earlier: standing by the window...

Melancholy I-II is a fictional invocation of the nineteenth-century Norwegian artist Lars Hertervig, who painted luminous landscapes, suffered mental ill-ness and died poor in 1902. In this wild, feverish narrative,...

Housewife Natsumi leads a small, unremarkable life in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and two sons:she does the laundry, goes on trips to the supermarket, visits friends and...

Having married her childhood sweetheart, Riko now finds herself trapped in a relationship that has been soured by infidelity. One day, by chance, she runs into her old friend Mr...

A tale of passion and romance between a Japanese schoolteacher and a doglike man, from the prize-winning author of The Last Children of Tokyo Mitsuko, a schoolteacher at the Kitamura...

A tale of modern Japan and old-fashioned romance. 'Enchanting, moving and funny in equal measure, this compelling love story is expertly crafted against a backdrop of modern Japanese culture' Stylist...

The Sunday Times Bestseller 'A full-spectrum triumph' - Guardian A sensational new novel from the bestselling author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho that tracks a group of privileged...

A moving novel from the bestselling author of HOW TO BE PARISIAN WHEREVER YOU ARE "A deeply moving book." -LEILA SLIMANI *** "A powerful exploration of family trauma." -LAUREN ELKIN...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER OF THE MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE WINNER OF THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE Teoh Yun Ling was seventeen years old when...

Terence Cave, owner of Cave Antiques, has already experienced the tragedies of his mother's suicide and his wife's murder when his teenage son, Reuben, is killed in a grotesque accident....

Berlin. 11 July 1986. They meet by chance on a bus. She is a young student, he is older and married. Theirs is an intense and sudden attraction, fuelled by...

FROM THE WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE Shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award for Best International Crime Fiction 2024 Birnam Wood is on the move... A landslide has closed the...

From the author of When We Cease to Understand the World : a thrilling, kaleidoscopic book about the destructive chaos lurking in the history of computing and AI 'Monstrously good......

An astonishing and moving novella about a misunderstood young girl, from the author of The Woman in the Purple Skirt - part of Pushkin's second Japanese Novella seriesOther people don't...

Under strange circumstances, a young girl loses her mother, and her father blindly invites his girlfriend into the home to care for her. On shaky new ground, the girl struggles,...

Tokyo, 1869. It is the dawn of the Meiji era in Japan, but the scars of the bloody recent civil war are yet to heal. The new regime struggles to...

An old friend of Kosuke Kindaichi's invites the scruffy detective to visit the remote mountain village of Onikobe in order to look into a twenty-year-old murder case. But no sooner...

Amid the rubble of post-war Tokyo, inside the grand Tsubaki house, a once-noble family is in mourning. The old viscount Tsubaki, a brooding, troubled composer, has been found dead. When...

Isolated in his Tokyo apartment, seventeen-year-old Haruo spends all his time online, researching the plight of the endangered Japanese crested ibis, Nipponia Nippon . Living on an allowance from his...

When Charles Swann first lays eyes on Odette de Crecy, he is indifferent to her beauty. Their paths continue to cross in the drawing rooms and theatres of Parisian high...

Out running an errand, Valeria Cossati gives in to a sudden impulse - she buys a shiny black notebook. She starts keeping a diary in secret, recording her concerns about...

A building full of secrets. A key that will unleash them all... The K Apartments for Ladies in Tokyo conceals a sinister past behind each door; a woman who has...

On the eve of the Great Purge, a horseman and horse mysteriously collapse in the middle of a race in Leningrad. Weary Detective Zaitsev, still raw from his last brush...

The members of a university mystery club decide to visit an island which was the site of a grisly, unsolved multiple murder the year before. They're looking forward to investigating...

Spark is a story about art and friendship, about countless bizarre drunken conversations and how far it's acceptable to go for a laugh. A novel about comedy that's as moving...

'I had never heard of Zweig until six or seven years ago, as all the books began to come back into print, and I more or less by chance bought...

Daisy Clayton's killer was never caught. In over ten years, there has been no breakthrough in her murder case. Detective Renee Ballard has faced everything the LAPD's notorious dusk-till-dawn graveyard...

Shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award for Best International Crime Fiction 2024 Defence attorney Mickey Haller has agreed to represent a woman who is in prison for killing her husband,...

Rene Ballard and the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit find a DNA link to a serial killer known as the Pillowcase Rapist. But when Ballard and her team move in on their...

Yuwonderie's seven founding families have lorded it over their district for a century, growing ever more rich and powerful. But now-in startling circumstances-one of their own is found dead in...

In September 1883, the South Australian town of Fairly huddles under strange, vivid sunsets. Six-year-old Denny Wallace has gone missing during a dust storm, and the whole town is intent...

'A timely, tense and important story that takes you to the heart of a toxic relationship, fighting to get free.' Michael Robotham Recently widowed, Miriam Duffy is a respectable North...

It's early in the wet season. A flock of crested terns sweeps into the bay and dives towards Batjani. The birds are saying the foreigners are coming, as they do...

Leah has a good life. She lives on the Drove, an inner-city cul-de-sac, with her husband, Moses, and their two children. She and her neighbours - the drovers - look...

Jenny Hayward cannot believe she's fifty years old, and a grandmother, with adult children! When did that happen? Not that long ago her three daughters were in school and Jenny...

Alice Croydon has the perfect life: she has a loving family and she's about to marry her high school sweetheart Finn. Alice couldn't be happier. Except for the occasional niggle...

'The very best historical fiction ... Williams' novel gives voice in a page-turning narrative to the compelling lives and experiences of two forgotten women of early colonial Australia.' Melissa Ashley,...

'Nobody does rural fiction quite like Fleur McDonald.' The Weekly Times Detective Dave Burrows is devastated. After an acrimonious divorce, Dave has no choice but to let his ex-wife and...

'Morton is such a clever writer, crafting a rich, absorbing and complex story.' The Advertiser Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a...

Forced away from the outback she both loves and loathes, bush pilot Amelia Fraser has lost everything - except her compassion. Running from tragedy, she finds herself in Settlers Bridge,...

LONGLISTED FOR THE STELLA PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE ABIA LITERARY FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR ' Rapture is astonishing - a scorching vision of a book. Drawing on history, legend,...

Nell Buchanan and Ivan Lucic are back - and Nell is thrown into her most emotionally fraught investigation yet. A controversial entrepreneur is murdered in a remote mountain valley, but...

Sometimes the end of the road is just the beginning As a kid brought up on a cattle property in the New England Tablelands, Reggie Macleod vowed she would swap...

'What do you want me to do?' Bosch asked. 'I want you to find someone for me,' Vance said. 'Someone who might never have existed'. Harry Bosch is LA's newest...

'A gripping, sinister - yet also wryly funny and realistic - crime thriller.' - Jane Caro 'A rollercoaster ride of peril and nail-biting tension.' - Vikki Petraitis 'Pheasants Nest is...

'Karly Lane is without question the queen of rural romances.' Cindy L Spear At twenty-nine years old, single, living in a very small country town, and working in the same...

'Another winning rural Aussie crime suspense tale.' Mrs B's Book Reviews 'I continue to appreciate that I always come away with some newfound knowledge. McDonald's effortless references to details about...

Things are finally looking up for the Lincoln Lawyer, Mickey Haller. After two years of wrong turns, he is back in the courtroom. When Hollywood lawyer Jerry Vincent dies, Haller...