Collection: Fiction

In 1836 a woman leaving Australia for England believes she is leaving behind her a multitude of vices but the ship upon which she is sailing will never reach its destination, and there are ahead of her ordeals more trying than those she is leaving...

Twelve years ago, one fateful event drove three sisters apart. Now Cassie has returned to Washington with her daughter. Though her sisters don't live far away, she doesn't expect to see them. But one day, Cassie receives a letter from Karen...

What if you began to suspect your child of an unspeakable crime? When Dawn introduces her family to her new boyfriend, Rud, they hide their unsettled feelings because they're glad that Dawn has blossomed. Then Dawn's parents are savagely beaten...

Follow the moving stories of four women as they are drawn into a spiritual formation journey at a retreat centre: Hannah, a pastor who doesn't realise how exhausted she is. Meg, a widow and recent empty-nester who is haunted by her past. Mara, a woman who has experienced a lifetime of rejection a...

It's January 1941, and the Blitz is devastating England. A weary Harry Hopkins, President Roosevelt's most trusted advisor, is sent to London and comes face to face with the Prime Minister and an attractive young female driver Leonara Finch...

1882: Since Sidney Grice's last case led an innocent men to the gallows, business has been light. Then an eccentric member of a Final Death Society has the temerity to die on his study floor. Finally Sidney and March have an investigation to mount...

Luke and Anna decide on a sea-change. They leave the city, fleeing a past and a future that fill them with fear. On the coast they discover a natural world that is both destructive and rejuvenating. Events sweep them up and they must confront what they have tried to put behind them.

While delivering a message to her father, Florentino Ariza spots the barely pubescent Fermina Daza and immediately falls in love. What follows is the story of a passion that extends over 50 years, as Fermina is courted solely by letter...

When four old University friends set off into the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic Circle, they aim to briefly escape the problems of their lives and reconnect with one another. But when Luke, the only man still single and living a precarious existence, finds he has little left in common wit...

Motivated by advancing age, loneliness, latent guilt and a sense of unfinished business, the erstwhile Witches of Eastwick return to their former Rhode Island coastal town in this sequel to the 1984 novel....