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‘She wasn’t the first and she wouldn’t be the last; swallowed into the deep, dark recesses of the King Country bush, never to be seen again.’It’s January 1983. During his university summer break, Ryan Bradley returns to the remote town of Nashville in New Zealand’s rugged King Country.It’s a bitt...

What would you do if you found out you'd been raising another couple's child - and they've been raising yours?Fourteen years ago, Kelsey and Raf Maccioni left hospital with their newborn daughter, Ammy. Days later, Shona and Nathan James welcomed the birth of their son, Zac.The only thing the two...

When serial dater Winifred Darling – Fred – is asked to be the maid of honour at her mother’s sixth wedding, she’s determined to do everything in her power to stop it. As the author of a forthcoming book called 21 Rules for Not Catching Feelings, she knows better than most about the perils of fal...

Someone is stalking gold hunters. Now a bushman is stalking them . . .Terry Drage is not the first amateur gold prospector to rock up to the Murchison Hotel, brag about an exciting discovery – and then vanish into thin air. But Gabe Ahern is determined he will be the last.No one knows the land ar...

Australia's crusaders for women's voting rights and the radical feminists of the 1970s changed lives across the country and around the globe. But what about the generation in between?Throughout the twentieth century, a group of trailblazing women writers challenged the nation's status quo. Miles ...

'Love, passion, drama, violence, menace and peril, and characters you fall in love with!’ – Santa Montefiore, author of Shadows in the MoonlightThe mystery of St Kilda's residents are all revealed in the epic conclusion to Karen Swan's historical series set in Scotland. Jayne Ferguson has always ...

'In my brief breath of life, might I find a way to fit light to paper?'In a land of ethereal beauty, within a culture soaked in myth, a young woman discovers the story that will change her life.In 2003, seventeen-year-old Australian exchange student Hannah Kent arrives at Keflavík Airport in the ...

An intimate psychological portrait inspired by the true story of a notorious cult leader.bearcat: a large, tree-dwelling mammal; 1920s slang for a fiery girl or woman.1987. Family is everything to Anne. Our Messiah. And Anne demands everything from The Family; their loyalty, their money, even the...

Welcome to Green River. Five families on an annual camping trip, a mothers' group of fourteen years, children starting to look like adults, a father with his own mysterious agenda...He Would Never is the book you'll be talking about this season, a searing page-turner about the bonds we forge in t...

Swamped with endless notifications and growing to-do lists, we all feel the pressure of a culture that prizes being busy over being present. This 'time anxiety' isn't just for the overly ambitious-it's a daily reality for parents juggling work and family, students trying to balance grades and hea...