Collection: Fiction

Impoverished sisters Gladys and Annie Barnes live in a modest cottage in the backstreets of Highate with Mr Fisher, a mild but eccentric old man living secretively in the attic above them. Their lives are thrown into turmoil when a new landlord arrives

Sydney, 1942 - the bombing of Darwin and the surprise attack on Sydney Harbour by Japanese midget submarines. Through the eyes of Father Frank Darragh, a young priest, we see into the hearts of people fearing the end of life as we know it.

Most police duos run on trust, loyalty and the desire to see killers in court. But Detective Frank Bennett's partner, Eden Archer, has nothing to offer him but darkness and danger. And now Eden is about to head undercover to find three missing girls.

Follow three friends Katey, Eve, and Tinker from their chance meeting at a jazz club on New Year's Eve through a year of enlightening and occasionally tragic adventures.

Vera has cabin fever. Confined with her thoughts in the concrete tower of a New York hotel, she is haunted by her mother's reminders of what she should have been, and the desperate choices she faced as an unprotected single mother...

Days after Holmes and his arch-enemy Moriarty fall to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls, Pinkerton agent Frederick Chase arrives in Europe from New York. The death of Moriarty allows a fiendish new criminal mastermind to rise to take his place.

RAF flyer Alan Duncan comes home to the ancestral manor in Australia to tragedy. The parlour maid, Jessie Proctor, had committed suicide. Then Alan comes across her photograph and in a shock of recognition, triggers a lifetime of haunting memories....

When four seconds of video is captured halfway around the world and anonymously transmitted to D.C., covert wheels are set in motion, and counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath is tapped to undertake the deadliest assignment of his career.

Down on her luck, Josette takes a job with a local paranormal group as a photographer and camerawoman. But when her group accidentally releases something truly evil into the world, they are forced to call in reinforcement...

Rose was a cook for Himmler, a confidante to Hitler, and a friend of Simone de Beauvoir. This novel tells the epic tale of an inspiring, resilient Marseillaise chef who embodies the sentiment of what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.

Becky Brandon (nee Bloomwood) and her daughter have joined husband Luke in LA. Luke is there to help manage the career of famous actress Sage Seymour, and Becky wants to be Sage's personal stylist, and every A-list celebrity in Hollywood!

On a cattle station that stretches beyond the horizon, seven people are trapped by their history and the need to make a living. Trevor Wilkie, the good father, holds it all together, promising his sons a future he no longer believes in himself.

Sonja Kurtz is in Vietnam carrying out a personal revenge mission when her daughter sends a call for help. Emma, a student archaeologist on a dig in Namibia, has discovered a body dating back to the country's liberation war of the 1980s.

Call me Drood, Eddie Drood. My parents are missing in action. My grandfather has been murdered. And the future of my family lies in the iron grasp of the Lady Faire, an incredibly seductive, mysterious and powerful being...

Stalin's Soviet Union is an official paradise, where citizens live free from crime and fear one thing: the all-powerful state. Defending this system is security officer Leo Demidov. But when he dares to investigate a murder, he finds himself demoted...

Jack Kerouac's classic novel of freedom and longing defined what it meant to be 'Beat' and has inspired every generation since its initial publication more than 40 years ago. A classic story of the Beat Generation...

From the love affair between a missionary and the drunkard to the mystery surrounding a death at sea. This collection gives a warm and humourous insight into life in the colonies.

Subject: Set in a dystopian near future, the novel opens with Alex who, with his gang members (known as 'droogs') Pete, Georgie and Dim, roam the streets at night, committing violent crimes for fun. In contrast Alex also has a passion for classical music

Mma Ramotswe reached for the letter opener and slid its blade under the flap of he envelope. Inside was a flimsy piece of paper torn, it semed, from a cheap notebook. 'Fat lady: you watch out! And you too, the one with the big glasses.'...

Just as Zack Dylan is on the verge of winning it all on the popular TV show Fifteen Minutes, his choices lead him to the brink of personal disaster. Meanwhile, a former Fifteen Minutes winner is searching for meaning amidst her own private losses.