Collection: Fiction

On the eve of the First World War, Fleurette, the only daughter of the wealthy Delacroix perfume dynasty, is being forced to marry a man she loathes, Aimery De Lasset, head of the pre-eminent perfume manufacturer in France.

In 1890s Texas when two very different men enter Jessica's life, will she choose to pursue her dreams of adventure or follow the gentle urgings of her heart?

After Inspector Kurt Wallander moves into a new house, he makes an upsetting discovery: there is an entire corpse buried in a shallow grave in the garden. Wallander is soon drawn into the search for the truth about his new home, and its previous owner.

Cliff Hardy is hired by entrepreneur and one-time pistol-shooting champion Timothy Greenhall to investigate the death of his troubled son. Soon Hardy is pitched into a world of crooked cops, outlaw bikies and honest police trying to clean the stables.

A man and his young son traverse a blasted American landscape, covered with the ashes of 'the late world'. The man can still remember the time before but not the boy. There is nothing for them except survival, and the last vestiges of their own humanity..

Subject: During an anti-clerical purge in Mexico, a priest is hunted like a hare. But compassion and humanity force him along the road to his destiny, reluctant to abandon those who need him, and those he cares for....

'Shoot all the bluejays you want, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird'. This is a lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this story - a black man charged with raping a white girl in the Deep South...

For Nina Moore, the rare marshland flanking the beautiful Bunyip River is the most precious place on earth. Her dream is to buy Billabong Bend and protect it forever, but she's not the only one with designs on the land...

Sophie interviews Ethan for the local newspaper and he is impressed with her intelligence and astounded by her beauty. She's intrigued with him but fears he will reject her if he learns about her shadowed past. Suddenly, Ethan's past catches up with him.

Motherless since she was five, Mirabel Cutler was raised by her father to be a lady. But when he dies suddenly, Mirabel finds herself cast out on the street by her ruthless stepmother. She is taken to a place of refuge by sea captain, Jack Starke.