Collection: Fiction

Sally Piper, a young journalist, is sent to Moonlight Plains to cover the story of Luke, a cattleman who is restoring his grandmother's homestead. What they uncover together is a shocking secret that has been kept safe for more than seventy years.

In 1950, a young doctor, Norton Perina signs up to go to a remote Micronesian island in search of a rumoured lost tribe. It is a success, locating not only the tribe but also a group of forest dwellers who turn out to be fantastically long-lived...

Sydney, 1978. Jane worships her older cousin Angie. Then Angie is murdered. Jane and her family are shattered. Thirty years later, a journalist arrives with questions about the tragic event. But whose version of Angie's story is the real one?

Years ago, fourteen-year-old Scarlett Rainsford vanished without a trace. Not finding her was one of the biggest regrets of DCI Louisa Smith's career. When Scarlett is discovered back in her home town, Lou is determined to find out what happened to her.

Jackie loves her family. Sure, her teenagers can be stroppy. Her husband a little lazy. And providing round-the-clock care for her Alzheimers-ridden mother is exhausting. All Jackie wants is for her children to have a brighter future than she did...

Austria, 1944. Jakob, a gypsy boy runs, as he has been told to do. With shoes of sack cloth, still bloodstained with another's blood, a stone clutched in one hand, a small wooden box in the other. He runs blindly, full of fear, empty of hope.

Kinsey Millhone is poking her nose into everyone's dirty laundry as she joins up with a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde in an Our Gang comedy that will take her halfway across the country and leave her with a major headache and an empty bank balance.

A man makes a grisly discovery by the River Lea in London and soon DCI Jack Hawksworth and his team, under enormous pressure from politicians and the public, begin their investigation which takes them into the murky world of human organ trading.

It is 1914. George Farrell is heartbroken to find that Miss Violet is already promised to another man, Lieutenant Edmund Lyne. George escapes his heartbreak by joining the patriotic rush to war, only to find that his past is not so easily avoided.

When her happy life in 1991 Croatia is shattered by civil war, ten-year-old Ana Juric is embroiled in a world of guerilla warfare and child soldiers before making a daring escape to America, where years later she struggles to hide her past.