Collection: Fiction

Portraying social life in fashionable Bath and centred around Catherine Morland, this novel ridicules the popular tales of romance and terror and contrasts with these the normal realities of life...

At the turn of 18th-century England, spirited Elizabeth Bennet copes with the suit of the snobbish Mr. Darcy while trying to sort out the romantic entanglements of two of her sisters, sweet and beautiful Jane and scatterbrained Lydia.

Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her behaviour leaves her open to gossip...

Challenged by Imperial bodyguards, enemy battleships, merciless bounty hunters and brain-eating parasites, Luke Skywalker plunges into a high-stakes espionage operation that will push his abilities as a Rebel fighter and would-be Jedi to the limit.

It was a cloudless summer day in the year 1900. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of three girls climbed into the blaze of the afternoon sun, pressing on through the scrub into the shadows of the secluded vol...

The quintessential bushranging adventure tale, Robbery Under Arms, has been an Australian classic virtually since it first appeared in book form in 1888.

This work is an historical novel of high adventure set in the south west of England during 1685. Told through the life of young farmer, John Ridd, it is a moving love story of a man determined to right wrongs and win the heart and hand of Lorna Doone....

For the Term of His Natural Life, written by Marcus Clarke, was published in the Australian Journal (1870-1872) and as a novel in 1874. It is the best known novelisation of life as a convict in early Australian history. At times relying on seemingly implausible coincidences, the story follows the...

Heathcliff, an orphan, is raised by Mr Earnshaw as one of his own children. Hindley despises him, but wild Cathy becomes his constant companion, and he falls violently in love with her. When she will not marry him, his vengeance ruins them all...

Richard Hannay, who despite claiming to be an ordinary fellow, is caught up in the dramatic and dangerous race against a plot to devastate the British war effort.