Collection: Fiction

In the spring of 1918, battlefield nurse Bess Crawford must now contend with hundreds of influenza patients as well. Then Bess discovers, concealed among the dead waiting for burial, the body of an officer who has been murdered...

Into the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'. As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, intervenes...

The Lonely Funerals team exists to make sure that no one goes to the grave unmourned. Posthumus takes this seriously. So when a Moroccan immigrant is found in the Prinsengracht canal in suspicious circumstances, Posthumus cannot let it go.

Three Blake sisters remain in the Swan River Colony in 1866 and two are quite happy to forge new lives for themselves there. The third, Xanthe, yearns to see the world. But can she persuade her beloved twin to let her go?

When two sisters return home for a visit after leaving the Amish world, both are troubled by the secrets, and the people, they left behind.

Expecting her first child, Izzy is unsettled when a young acquaintance's death is connected to an abandoned baby car seat and a hand-knitted blanket and seeks assistance from the Seaside Knitters

For Adam and Beth the first secret was just the beginning. You think you can imagine the worst thing that could happen to your family, but there are some secrets that change everything...

Phryne Fisher, talented and glamorous detective flies even higher, handling a murder, a kidnapping and the usual array of beautiful young men with style and consumate ease - and all before it's time to adjourn to the Queenscliffe hotel for breakfast...

When a new highway threatens to bypass the town of Rossmore and cut through Whitethorn Woods, everyone has a passionate opinion about whether the town will benefit or suffer. But young Father Flynn is most concerned with the fate of St. Ann's Well, which is set at the edge of the woods and slated...

On the surface Elsie Jones, country music star, has it all. But after a brush with death she is forced to re-evaluate her life. Events take her back to her home town in the wheat belt of NSW, where she reconnects with her childhood friend Tara Green.

Professionally sidelined, away from his wife, and partnered up with a young rookie named Tess, maverick Federal Agent John Corey is running surveillance on a group of Russian U.N. delegates in New York City. But then his subjects slip the net...

Contains selections from the Jungle books and Soldiers three. More than twenty stories, fifty poems and three essays.

In a spaceship that can travel at the speed of light, Ulysse, a journalist, sets off from Earth for the nearest solar system. He finds there a planet which resembles his own, but on Soror humans are hunted by a civilised race of primates.

In The Doll, a waterlogged notebook is washed ashore. Its pages tell a dark story of obsession and jealousy. But the fate of its narrator is a mystery. Many of the stories in this haunting collection have only recently been discovered.

Craig Gisto has promised Eliza Moss that his elite team at Private Sydney will investigate the disappearance of her father. After all, as CEO of a high-profile research company, Eric Moss shouldn't be difficult to find...

Mr. Polly is an ordinary middle-aged man who is tired of his wife's nagging and his job as the owner of a regional gentleman's outfitters. He concludes that the only way to escape is by burning his shop to the ground and killing himself

Arthur Dent is surprised to find himself living in a miserable cave on prehistoric Earth. Things get suddenly worse, and he discovers that the galaxy is big and bewildering. Most things that happen in it are staggeringly unfair...

It's New York in the 1940's, where the martinis flow from cocktail hour till breakfast at Tiffany's. And nice girls don't, except Holly Golightly. Pursued by Mafia gangsters and playboy millionaires.

As Briony studies an old photo album from her mother's new home, a letter falls out. Reading the words that follow, Briony is seized with a stunning realisation: her mother lied about what happened to her beloved grandmother Tessa all those years ago...

Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth.