Collection: Fiction

From the South Australian vineyards of the 1850s to mega-budget movie-making in modern-day New York, Araluen tells the story of one man's quest for wealth and position and its shattering effect on succeeding generations.

A 16th century locket threads two stories together in this saga set in and around Darwin. The locket becomes a symbol of strength as the owner, a Dutch noblewoman struggles to survive the tragic wreck of the Batavia off the West Australian coast...

It was a time when refugees seized with both hands the chance for freedom. From war-torn Europe they came to the mountains of Australia to help realise a dream: the mighty Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme...

Oran, prince of Dalriada, has found that his future bride is not the sweet person of her letters, and seeks magic healer Blackthorn to solve his knotty problem. To save Oran from his treacherous nuptials, Blackthorn will need more than a little magic.

Twin boys grow up in the same family, in the same town. Dramatically different, they become bitter enemies, even as children: one good, one bad. When the prodigal son returns twenty years later, the brother's reunion will expose shocking revelations.

An epic story about indigenous Australia -the people, land and spirit. Set in the fictional town of Desperance, near the Gulf of Carpentaria, where the community is involved in a conflict with a large mining company....

July 1919. James Maxted's attempt to uncover the secret behind the death of his father, Sir Henry Maxted, murdered while serving as an adviser with the British delegation to the Paris peace conference, has seemingly ended in failure ..

Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother is hazardous...

A heavily pregnant young woman is leaving the shopping mall to head home on a horribly hot day in Texas. And then she is bundled into a car and kidnapped by a desperate young man. What does he want? Where are they going?

An investigation into a 1943 mission during which a U.S. destroyer vanished after it was deliberately sent into an obscured field of electromagnetic radiation finds Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon uncovering evidence of a dangerous super-weapon