Collection: Fiction

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.

After witnessing a terrible coal mining accident, Detective Isaac Bell hunts for the high-level saboteurs he believes are responsible...

Set against a background of the war in the Horn of Africa, it charts the experiences of a group of travelers and tells of an Australian journalist who wants to prove that the Ethiopians are gun-running.

A bunch of hobby farmers living in small town rural Queensland share a common address, they have christened 'Lantana Lane'. Despite their whinges about their lot, they wouldn't leave it for the world. A close-up of the life in a small farming community

1930's Germany - Widowers Nicholas and Alex are raising their children alone and lead contented lives until a long-buried secret about Nicolas's ancestry threatens his family's safety. To survive, they must flee to America with their Lipizzaner, Pegasus.

Spring, 1728. A young, well-dressed man is dragged through the streets of London to the gallows at Tyburn. He tries to remain calm. His name is Tom Hawkins and he is innocent. Somehow he has to prove it, before the rope squeezes the life out of him.