Collection: Fiction

In the Victorian town of Mitrefò, tobacco is grown, an Italian cinema and café open, and people travel back and forth from Italy. A boy fishes, wanders the countryside and watches a community form, with its joys, scandals and shared understandings. Interspersed with this are the 'grotesques' - in...

A wheelchair-bound artist is preyed on by a stalker; a young taxi driver breaks the law daily for mysterious reasons; a glass artist's marriage is at breaking point; a journalist invests in a business destroying the relationships of everyone he loves; an artist discovers she is trapped in an impo...

Anna wants to escape. Preferably to the other side of the world. She belongs in the prestigious studentship program at London's National Portrait Gallery. Not Sydney, in an office resembling a cleaning cupboard. But her London opportunity is torn to shreds. The shredder? Englishman Dr Perry, Anna...

Based on true events, this gripping historical novel set in Norway and Sweden in 1940, follows one of the first female US Ministers, Daisy Harriman, and her niece as the two are unexpectedly caught up in the German invasion of Norway. Cleo Jaffray was an American. A war in Europe had nothing to d...

Sumptuous and addictive, An Education in Malice is a dark academia tale of blood, secrets and insatiable hungers from S.T. Gibson, author of the cult hit A Dowry of Blood. Deep in the forgotten hills of Massachusetts stands Saint Perpetua’s College. Isolated and ancient, it is not a place for t...

When we opened Sherlock Tomes people warned us that we'd made a terrible mistake. The one thing they didn't warn us about was the murders . . . The Bookshop Detectives are on the case! In this rollicking new adventure, Garth and Eloise (and Stevie) must sniff out a prolific poisoner ahead of a vi...

War has come. The fire god Hseth is leading an unstoppable army south, consuming everything in her path. Middren's only hope of survival is to unify allies and old foes against a common enemy. Elo navigates an uneasy alliance with Arren; his friend, his enemy, and his king. Now they each must dec...

Ed Truman's family is falling apart. His daughter Ally is being targeted by an alt-right incel organisation, Men Together. His house is being picketed, former clients are accusing him of sexual assault, his son won't speak to him. And then Ally disappears. Frantic, Ed suspects that Men Together h...

Disembarking on Ellis Island, Francesca arrives on the shores of America with her sights set on a better life than the one she left in Italy. That same day, aspiring linguist Alma reports to her first day of work at the immigrant processing center. Ellis, though, is not the refuge it first appear...

Tatiana Caldwell's childhood in London is idyllic and filled with the love of doting parents. But when they die in quick succession, she's left heartbroken and destitute, and at seventeen emigrates to Sydney in 1864, determined to build a new, financially secure life for herself. After an apprent...

Welcome to Kent, 1797. Following many years apart, Jane Austen is set to spend the summer with her estranged brother, Neddy. As heir to wealthy widow Mrs Knight's fortune, it is imperative that Neddy stays in his benefactor's good graces. The financial security of Jane's entire family depend on h...

Zeke and Lexi thought it would just be a night of fun. They had no intentions of seeing each other again. Going back home with a stranger seems like a perfect escape from their problems. But a miscommunication in the dark night means no one tied the houseboat to the dock. The next morning, Zeke a...

It’s lonely out on the cliffs of Marlborough Head. Lonely and dangerous. When a body washes up on the rocks below, everyone assumes it must be brutish Edward Parker. Weeks ago, he slipped over the cliff’s edge. Never to be seen again. But on closer inspection, it’s not him. The dead man is Pat Du...

Meet Rina Martin, a retired actress with a taste for tea, gardening and crime solving.She played a TV sleuth for years, but now she has to do it for real.One glorious morning, Rina heads out for a stroll along Frampton promenade, where all is picture-perfect . . .Until she spots something that st...

Meet Rina Martin, a retired actress with a taste for tea, gardening and crime solving. She played a TV sleuth for years, but now she has to do it for real. There's something strange about the scene . . . Famous artist Elaine appears to have passed peacefully in her sleep as she rested against an ...

Meet Rina Martin, a retired actress with a taste for tea, gardening and crime solving. She played a TV sleuth for years, but now she has to do it for real. A stunning wedding in a country house hotel. Fourteen guests. One killer. Rina's friend Bridie Duggan is tying the knot - at her dream venue....

Meet Rina Martin, a retired actress with a taste for tea, gardening and crime solving. She played a TV sleuth for years, but now she has to do it for real. A body in the library - and a killer caught red-handed at the scene? Hammy acting, lazy scripting and dastardly suspects - Rina's no...

When Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children's mean girl discovers her talent for finding absolutely anything, new student Antsy searches for a way back to the Shop Where Lost Things Go to be sure Vineta and Hudson are keeping their promise.

In a world fractured by belief, the gods lay claim to the Ever - ancient magic that sustains the Known World. But the Ever is failing, and the gods have turned their wrath on the Ever Blessed, those gifted with access to its power. Captain Elva, warrior princess of Vettona, is her realm's last ho...

Renee Taylor is planning to stay the minimum amount of time in her remote hometown - only as long as her mum needs her, then she is fleeing back to her real life in Brisbane. Seconded to the town's sleepy police station, Renee is pretty sure work will hold nothing more exciting than delivering sp...