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Sri Lanka, 2009. Decades of civil war and bloodshed are being brought to an end at last—by any means necessary. In the capital, Colombo, tenacious journalist Ameena Fernando is murdered, execution-style, on a busy street near her home, with no witnesses. With pressure growing to find Ameena’s kil...

Prince of spin and life of the party, Baz King, is missing. Nine years ago, at an innocent summer barbecue in Melbourne, everything imploded. For the Kings and the four other young families there that fateful day marriages fractured, friendships crumbled and lives were upended.Nothing would ever ...

A heartwarming story of second chances, baby alpacas, and knitting a fractured family back together. From the 2023 RuBY award-winning author of The Library at Wagtail Ridge. These ladies know a perfect match when they see one...Bree Johnston has given up trying to be the perfect lawyer. It's time...

A warm, funny and surprising love story about one woman's journey to find out who she really is - as if Richard Curtis watched Seachange, shared a cold beer with Dolly Alderton, and together they wrote The Time Traveller's Wife. This is a magical love story. Where, despite what I have just told y...

Single Mum Kate Wilde has escaped an abusive marriage and hasn't had a holiday in years, so when she wins a five-day trip to Paris to learn about perfume - in a competition she can't remember entering - it's a dream come true. Or is it?Almost as soon as she arrives, Kate's ex texts with evidence ...

In a newly liberated Berlin, two women are inexplicably drawn together - one a pampered Baroness suffering from a mental health crisis, the other a fearless circus performer creating the biggest spectacle of her career.A murder, a police investigation and a search into the past send both women de...

Bree Johnston has given up trying to be the perfect lawyer. It’s time to focus on her own dreams, so she decides to leave the city and set up an alpaca farm and wool shop. Her grandmother Rose might be her only supporter, but that’s fine. Bree’s done trying to win her parents’ approval.She finds ...

Bronte needs a place to lie low. She posted a drunken rant that went horrifically viral. Now – jobless, friendless and broke – she’s forced to volunteer as a carer on an isolated rural property. She won’t be paid for looking after dementia sufferer Nell, but at least she’ll have a place to stay.B...

First rule of rescue: don't create another casualty.Grace Disher is about to face every teacher's worst nightmare.Three of her students are going to die.On a high school camping trip, three boys slip away for an ocean swim. By the time Grace catches up, the perilous surf conditions are overwhelmi...

In her monstrous Aspect, straight-laced Angela is a flameproof fire-breathing demon. At her school that’s perfectly normal – what isn’t is that most of the time she prefers her plain old human form, content to be in the background. But now Angela’s piano skills have somehow earned her a spot in t...