Fiction

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...

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....

'Many years ago there lived in Zuchnow, in Russia, a man named Mendel Signer. He was pious, God-fearing and ordinary, an entirely commonplace Jew...' So Roth begins his novel about...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

'Keeps you gripped ... The perfect tonic for anyone who has had a difficult client.' RICHARD BEASLEY SC and author of Hell Has Harbour Views 'Everyone is going to say...

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...

'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...

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...

Meet Betty: storyteller, feminist, eternally curious and phenomenally old. On the eve of her hundredth birthday party, Betty tells us her story. Born into poverty in pre-war London, and growing...

'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...

Left alone on the vast cattle station with her baby while her husband, Alex, works the farm, Hallie Donaldson is having trouble adjusting to the flies, dust, snakes and isolation...

'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...

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...

'If you're looking for a gripping rural crime thriller, look no further. Deception Creek is an excellent addition to the Dave Burrows series and the perfect gift for the upcoming...

In the desolate outback town of Finnigans Gap, police struggle to maintain law and order. Thieves pillage opal mines, religious fanatics recruit vulnerable young people and billionaires do as they...

WINNER OF THE ABIA AWARD FOR GENERAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A murder mystery with a difference. Richly descriptive...a confident and courageous entry into the world of fiction and...

Shortlisted for the 2024 Stella Prize Three women. Three secrets. One weekend. Alison is an actress who no longer acts, Patrick a musician past his prime. The eccentric couple live...

'Such a fun read...Karly has smashed the contemporary fiction genre with Take Me Home .' - Beauty and Lace In the space of only a few days, Elle loses her...

'Wonderfully written, this is one of the best reads this year.' W oman's Day On the eve of the first world war, a little girl is found abandoned on a...

'Morton is masterful at controlling a story's flow and tension. Readers will not suspect the twist at the end.' - Publisher's Weekly 'Secrets told with exquisite timing.' - The Australian...

'Compelling . . . Morton's plotting is impeccable, and her finely wrought characters . . . are as surprised as readers will be by the astonishing conclusion.' - Publishers Weekly...

'A fresh and thrilling gothic mystery . . . Layers of deliciously surprising secrets' Library Journal Edie Burchill and her mother, Meredith, have never been close, but when a long-lost...

'Full of lovely writing, grand houses, snobbery, cruelty and passion, this compelling mystery-cum-love story . . . is utterly addictive . . . A brilliant debut.' Australian Women's Weekly Summer...

When Sassi Stapleton receives a middle-of-the-night phone call to tell her that her beloved grandmother is unwell, she quickly puts her job on hold, packs her ute and sets off...

'...a multi-faceted exploration of loss, grief, families, second chances and courage...I loved this!' Reading, Writing and Riesling Jason Weaver just wants to be left alone. It was a tough transition...

'...engaging and satisfying rural romance novel from bestselling author, Karly Lane.' Book'd Out 'Characters leap off the page and into your imagination, the settings are vivid, the narrative is fast...

WINNER - Best Fiction, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 'They kill us, they crucify us, they throw us to beasts in the arena, they sew our lips together and watch us...

'Nobody does rural fiction quite like Fleur McDonald.' The Weekly Times Returning to Perth after a near-fatal undercover case in outback Queensland, Dave Burrows, now a Detective Senior Constable in...

Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective he had an inspiring mentor, John Jack Thompson, who taught him to take the work personally and light the fire...