Collection: Fiction

Emily Oliphant's life finally seems to be settling down. Her new boyfriend Jake has joined her on the farm and they are looking forward to starting their life together. But where Emily is involved, life doesn't tend to run smoothly for long...

From the windswept tranquillity of a Manx village to the brutal abduction of child soldiers in Africa, the lives of Thomas Post and Azalea Lewis intertwine as they try to untangle the mystery of Azalea's past.

Murder doesn't stop for Thanksgiving. An ungrateful son decides to stop the nagging from his parents - by ending their lives. A desperate Eve needs to identify the next victim on the murderer's long list, so she can stop the killing spree...

One by one the boys begin to fall. In 1914, a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorious war'.

When Anne Elliot turned down Captain Wentworth's proposal of marriage, she allowed herself to be 'persuaded' by her family's conviction of his unworthiness. From that time onwards her life has been governed by duty...

David Malouf's new novel Ransom enagages with enduring questions posed by the ancient Greeks, in particular Homer's Iliad and the story that involves King Priam and Achilles and Hector and Patroclus...

In 1972, two seconds were added to time. It was in order to balance clock time with the movement of the earth. Byron Hemming knew this because James Lowe had told him and James was the cleverest boy at school. But how could time change?

Rachel is a wolf expert in self-elected exile in Idaho, avoiding an emotionally exhausting family. What tempts her home to the Lake district is a controversial scheme to reintroduce the first wild wolves into Britain in 350 years.

Chief Prosecutor Sigurd Halvorsrud's wife is found dead in the family living room. She has been brutally decapitated. Then a journalist at one of Oslo's largest newspapers is found beheaded. Detective Inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen investigates.

A new Englander of humble origins, Charity Royall is swept into a torrid love affair with an artistically inclined young man from New York City, but her dreams of a future with him are thwarted