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It's open season at Penford Manor! But someone has murder in their sights...At Penford Manor, the guests are arriving to celebrate the start of the grouse-hunting season: lords and ladies, barons and baronesses, a Member of Parliament - and chemistry graduate turned detective, Miss Clara Vale, an...

'COULD NOT put it down! So brilliantly done and full of jaw dropping twists. It had me gripped... I stayed up until 4am to finish it. The ending blew my mind. This one is going to be a huge hit!!' @bookscoffeemorebooks, 5 stars The international bestselling author of THE WRONG DAUGHTER is back wi...

MURDER WON'T STAY BURIED.The brand-new 2025 thriller from award-winning crime writer William Hussey, author of Killing Jericho, the Genre-Busting Crime Novel of the Year award winner 2024 and Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year shortlisted breakout hit.While Scott Jericho is tasked wit...

'What does it mean to be on land that was taken from other people? Now that we know how the taking was done, what do we do with that knowledge?'Kate Grenville is no stranger to the past. Her success and fame as a writer exploded when she published The Secret River in 2005, a bestseller based on t...

Winner of the 2006 Davitt Award for Best Crime NovelOn 7 November 1974, a young English nanny named Sandra Rivett was killed in London's West End. Her employer, Lord Lucan, was accused of her murder. It was widely assumed he had mistaken her for his wife. Lord Lucan disappeared the night Sandra R...

When an unassuming young Melbourne woman bumped into a handsome naval lieutenant in a Colombo hotel swimming pool in 1926 she would never have dreamed of one day being the wife of an English duke with three castles. Demure but feisty Nell Stead and Alexander 'Mandy' Drogo Montagu, son of the nint...

A brilliant, fierce and compelling YA fantasy perfect for fans of The Prison Healer and Children of Blood and Bone, from the acclaimed, award-winning author of Living on Hope Street.OUR RESISTANCE IS POWERMa's tears wet my neck as I backed into our hut. I slumped into Pa's chair. His smell curled...

'The wicked Australian lovechild of Sally Rooney and Aubrey Plaza.' Chris Flynn, author of MammothI was active and agile. I was a champion. I was a witch. I was a winner. Christina is a single mother living in the Melbourne suburbs, but to her online clients she is the esteemed Dr Ruth Carlisle, ...

Radio young gun Alex York is used to knowing – and getting – exactly what she wants.But when she blows up her glamorous career and retreats to a tropical island, for the first time in her life she has no plan, no prospects and, increasingly, no money.Lured back to the real world by the breakfast ...

Lyrebirds are brilliant mimics, so if they mimic a woman screaming in terror and begging for her life, they have witnessed a crime. But how does a young, hung over PHD student and a wet behind the ears new detective, convince anyone that a native bird can be a reliable witness to a murder, especi...