Fiction

Jacques Deza is back in London and once again working for the secret intelligence agency run by his old Oxford friend Bernard Tupra. Deza finds himself increasingly under the spell...

With a sparkling lyricism, House of Given reflects on the gentle insistence of love. Despite the strains and impositions people place upon it, especially within the close confines of family...

An unforgettable WWII love story inspired by the arrival of the US troops in Wellington. Wellington, 1942. Lorna's brothers are overseas fighting for their lives, and as war rages in...

A bushfire in Dell's childhood still haunts her. She dreams up new starts, but her spilling stories cannot over-write the past. Evvie dances into Dell's life. She has run as...

Las Vegas, Nevada. Young Australian computer programmer Daniel Carter has arrived at the heart of the American war machine - the drone program at Creech Air Force Base, Indian Springs....

The original serial version of Ada Cambridge's best known novel A Marked Man . Following the fortunes of Richard Delavel as a rebellious Oxford undergraduate in 1850s England and a...

The best of colonial Australian romance fiction is collected in this anthology. The Anthology of Colonial Australian Romance Fiction collects captivating stories of love and passion, longing and regret. In...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * In this "grab-a-reader-by-the-shoulders suspense story" ( The Washington Post ) from "the master of the legal thriller" ( USA Today ), an innocent man...

A twisty psychological thriller about the dark side of female friendship, obsession, and revenge from the New York Times bestselling author of the "intense, captivating, and astonishing" ( New York...

WINNER OF THE BARRY AWARD FOR BEST FIRST MYSTERY/CRIME NOVEL " Sleeping Bear is...one of those rare novels that keeps getting better and better and better. Remember the author's name-Connor...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE International Booker-nominated virtuoso Hwang Sok-yong is back with another powerful story--an epic tale that threads together a century of Korean history. In contemporary...

A town that doesn't want to be found. A countess who rules over the memories of an entire community. A hole in the earth that threatens to drag them all...

When Natalie Raines, famous Broadway star, is found in her home in Closter, New Jersey, dying from a gunshot wound, her former husband, Gregg Aldrich, whom she was in the...

At the age of forty-three, the narrator abandons her marriage, her apartment and her successful legal career as a public defender to re-emerge as an out lesbian and a writer....

A dark and epic feminist retelling that boldly reclaims the myth of the most formidable and feared witch in Ancient Greece Medea longs for a different life. Since childhood, she...

In 1942 Cilka Klein is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, and forces her...

A town gripped by fear. A woman accused of witchcraft. Who can save Pale Harbor from itself? Maine, 1846 . Gabriel Stone is desperate to escape the ghosts that haunt...

Past loves are like ghosts. They haunt you forever. The stunning new novel from the bestselling author of The Masterpiece and Tuscan Rose. I was war-weary, sad and officially divorced...

THE BOOK EVERYONE IS DEVOURING . . . 'Stuart Neville at his considerable best . . . This is a book you will not forget in a hurry and which...

From the bestselling author of The Nurses' War comes this charming, funny, pointed look at the golden years of radio broadcasting in post-war Australia, celebrating the extraordinary unseen women who...

"John Barron was once a top detective in the Los Angeles Police Department's elite 5-2 Squad. A deadly shootout with fellow officers changed his world forever. " "" "Taking a...

A wealthy, young woman wishes to write a book about her life. But in 1355, the notion of a female wanting to record her experiences and thoughts is not just...

A rich, immersive novel about war, memory and loss, spanning three generations of one family BAD RELATIONS tells the story of a family fractured by history, geography and desire. On...

Bestselling historian Alison Weir brings Elizabeth I to vivid life in a novel of intrigue, sex, plots, mysteries and tragedies, with all the colour and pageantry of the Tudor court....

It was quite silent in the scrub. No breeze stirred the leaves and no bird moved, except for the kite hawks wheeling silently, eternally, high in the hot air. She...

'If you know where to look, kiddo, the world is full of magic and monsters.' Six-year-old Henry believes his life is a fairytale. He's a Star Prince, his mum is...

From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of Life of Pi comes a modern and imaginative retelling of the epic Trojan War. 'Stunningly imagined' Kirkus Reviews 'The past is never done...

There's no such thing as safety in numbers ... Rachel and Rory Sullivan decide to celebrate making it through a difficult year by taking their teenagers, Emmet and Bridie, to...

After more than ten years away, Australian soap star Ellie Hughes returns to the small country town of Hope Junction, determined to remain anonymous while caring for her injured godmother,...

Magic is murder when dying is part of the act Down-at-heel Glasgow conjurer William Wilson is booked for a string of cabaret shows in Berlin and hopes his luck is...

Sometimes love hurts. Sometimes love kills... It's 1920 and Britain is trying to move on after World War 1. Clementine, who nursed on the front and suffered her own losses,...

A TALE OF CATS, CAKES AND ASTROLOGY FOR READERS OF BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD Humans are stars in their own right, Mizuki. Every one of them. THE #1 INTERNATIONALLY...

**Longlisted for the Prix Goncourt 2022** From the bestselling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog comes the story of one man's promise to keep a secret that may hold...

"T he Man Who Loved Dogs , by Cuban author Leonardo Padura, is a stunning novel, chronicling the evisceration of the Communist dream and one of the most "ruthless, calculated...

Phil Hamnet and his wife Anna are taking a last voyage on his cargo ship before the impending birth of their twins. Off the shores of Indoneisa, however their ship...

This dyed-in-the-wool country girl will do anything to protect the home she loves... A fast-paced, heartwarming rural romance from a USA Today bestselling Australian author. Entrusted with running her grandfather's...

One irrepressible city girl plus a by-the-numbers accountant = a tricky equation... For city vet Isabella Passmore, the opportunity to pet-sit in the country knocks at the perfect time. Bring...

A stunning evocation of Australian life through the war to the 1950s, this novel is intimate and sweeping, immediate and dreamlike - a magical rendering of darkness and joy, and...

'Jim Harrison is a writer with immortality in him.' The Sunday Times 'Set in the heart of America, his stories move with random power and reach, in the manner of...

Against the backdrop of Japan's invasion of China in the late 1930s to the Tokyowar crimes trials in 1946 a drama of comples human relationships unfolds. Meira Chand's new novel...

When narcotics cop Jack Walsh accidentally kills the son of Mafia boss Johnny D'Angelo in a drunken road accident his life is effectively over. But when he comes out of...

TELL NO ONE Siberia 1939. Lena Orlova plans a daring escape from a grim Soviet gulag to the one place in Russia's icy wilderness she knows is safe: a cave...

London, 1732. William Hogarth is called to a murder scene. A woman lies dead, her unborn child ripped from her body. It is a warning. Hogarth painted the future King...

Roma is the story of the ancient city of Rome, from its mythic beginnings as a campsite along a trade route to its emergence as the centre of the most...