Collection: Fiction

Everyone knows the story of Elizabeth Bennet, who married Mr Darcy in Pride and Prejudice. But what about Elizabeth's sister Mary? Master storyteller Colleen McCullough imagines a life for Mary Bennet twenty years after the events of Jane Austen's novel.

A teenage girl on her way home from a night out reports stumbling across a body. But during the subsequent search, no body is found. Due to her drunken state, the police are sceptical of her story. Only DI Joe Plantagenet is inclined to believe her.

Renting a house on the Florida coast after a crippling accident and ending his marriage, millionaire Edgar Freemantle creates paintings that have a power that cannot be controlled. They lead him to discover unsettling elements from his landlady's past....

Lily and Ceily are only seven and twelve when their mother is cruelly taken from them, leaving them at the mercy of the Church and the authorities. When Father Flitter's people arrive to take the children into care, they resist and a riot breaks out...

1968. The leafy Holloman suburb of Carew is being terrorised by a series of vivious rapes and when a victim finally speaks out the rapes escalate to murder. Captain Carmine Delmonico and his team must make use of every resource at their disposal.

When Judge Raymond Fogletree and his secretary fail to appear for a trial and panicked clerks call for an FBI investigation, a murder case ensues and culminates in the imprisonment of a lawyer who tells the story of who killed the judge and why...

Subject: 1846. Newly arrived from England, Thomas Baker is young, penniless and alone. Eager to make his mark on this strange new place called South Australia, he accepts work as an overseer on a distant sheep property, believing this will be the opportunity he seeks. But when Thomas's path cross...

Agnieszka loves her valley home. But the Wood stands on the border, full of malevolent power, its shadow lies over her life. Her people rely on the wizard known only as the Dragon to keep its powers at bay. But he demands a terrible price for his help...

Outer eastern suburbs of Perth. A story of eight year old Amanda, whose father is in prison, and Rattuwat, a Thai man burying his daughter in a strange land. They abandon their broken-down car on the way to the prison's visiting hour

In northern Iceland, 1829, Agnes Magnusdottir is condemned to death for her part in the brutal murder of two men. Agnes is sent to wait out the months leading up to her execution on the farm of district officer Jon Jonsson and his family...