Collection: Fiction

Relationship with tribes, especially Cadigal, and settlement of First Fleet around 1789; violent conflict; capture, treatment and death of Arabanoo; small pox epidemic.

Mademoiselle Stangerson retires to bed in the Yellow Room. Suddenly revolver shots echo through the house and she screams for help. Her father and a servant run to the locked room where they find the wounded girl - alone...

Camp Bastion: SAS trooper Tom Buckingham finds himself drummed out of the regiment. Tom's unique services are quickly snapped up by charismatic entrepreneur, Vernon Rolt, a powerful billionaire with political ambitions and a questionable agenda...

March, 1918. The Great War is grinding slowly to its bloody finale. Detective Inspector Ernest Hardcastle, head of the Whitehall Division of the Metropolitan Police, is called to a body is recovered from the Thames. His widow is a good-time girl....

A Faust-like and magical story of the humanization of a middle-aged misanthrope. This self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf can also be seen as a plea for rigorous self-examination

Environmental conservancy advocate Shayne and big city cop Tanner join forces to uncover the truth behind Tanner's uncle's death. When Shaye becomes a killer's target, Tanner realises he'd give up anything to protect her - including his life...

Once upon a time that was called 1828, there was a man named William Buelow Gould, a convict in Van Dieman's Land who fell in love with a black woman and discovered too late that to love is not safe...

A young woman's struggle to save her family and her soul during the most extraordinary year of 1666, when plague suddenly visited a small Derbyshire village and the villagers, inspired by a charismatic preacher, elected to quarantine themselves...

Daisy can't believe her luck when her parents announce they're off on a midlife crisis gap year, leaving her in charge of their garden. Some peace and quiet in the countryside is just what she needs. Only, village life turns out to be anything but...

A mystery where the clues lurk in university libraries, old letters and dusty journals. Together with Roland Michell, a fellow academic and accidental sleuth, Maud Bailey discovers a love affair between two Victorian writers.....