Collection: Fiction

The story of Matthew Flinders and his bride Ann Chappell. He left her behind for 9 yrs as he carried out great feats of seamanship and navigation, charting much of Australia's coastline, being shipwrecked and later held prisoner by the French on Mauritius

Left by harrowing circumstances to fend for herself in the great capital of a foreign country, Lucy Snowe achieves by degrees an authentic independence from both outer necessity and inward grief.

Will Bertie ever get away from his overbearing mother? And will we say goodbye to a Scotland Street resident Angus Lordie and his gold-toothed dog Cyril as a jaunt to the hills of Tuscany beckons?...

Hauled to a field hospital in northern France in 1916, an American woman wakes from unconsciousness with an almost complete loss of memory: she knows only that she can drive an ambulance, she can draw and her name is Stella Bain...

The small house at Allington is one of Trollope's gentlest and most delightful heroines. the social background and political satire of the story are presented with all this author's usual acuity and broad sympathy.

When facing injustice, the residents of New York City's tenements turn to midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy to protect their rights. The two must track down a cruel criminal preying on the hopes and dreams of innocent women.

Waverly Bryson's life is officially perfect: She's engaged to her gorgeous boyfriend, Jake. Her TV show and store are successful. What could go wrong? Drama follows Waverly wherever she goes and her trip down the aisle is set to be no different

When Susanna's heart for the poor and Ben's disillusionment with British rule cross paths in 1763 Massachusetts, the two find themselves bound in a dangerous fight for justice.

In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, blond classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that develops leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls.

Impoverished sisters Gladys and Annie Barnes live in a modest cottage in the backstreets of Highate with Mr Fisher, a mild but eccentric old man living secretively in the attic above them. Their lives are thrown into turmoil when a new landlord arrives

Sydney, 1942 - the bombing of Darwin and the surprise attack on Sydney Harbour by Japanese midget submarines. Through the eyes of Father Frank Darragh, a young priest, we see into the hearts of people fearing the end of life as we know it.

Most police duos run on trust, loyalty and the desire to see killers in court. But Detective Frank Bennett's partner, Eden Archer, has nothing to offer him but darkness and danger. And now Eden is about to head undercover to find three missing girls.

Follow three friends Katey, Eve, and Tinker from their chance meeting at a jazz club on New Year's Eve through a year of enlightening and occasionally tragic adventures.

Vera has cabin fever. Confined with her thoughts in the concrete tower of a New York hotel, she is haunted by her mother's reminders of what she should have been, and the desperate choices she faced as an unprotected single mother...

Days after Holmes and his arch-enemy Moriarty fall to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls, Pinkerton agent Frederick Chase arrives in Europe from New York. The death of Moriarty allows a fiendish new criminal mastermind to rise to take his place.

RAF flyer Alan Duncan comes home to the ancestral manor in Australia to tragedy. The parlour maid, Jessie Proctor, had committed suicide. Then Alan comes across her photograph and in a shock of recognition, triggers a lifetime of haunting memories....

When four seconds of video is captured halfway around the world and anonymously transmitted to D.C., covert wheels are set in motion, and counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath is tapped to undertake the deadliest assignment of his career.

Down on her luck, Josette takes a job with a local paranormal group as a photographer and camerawoman. But when her group accidentally releases something truly evil into the world, they are forced to call in reinforcement...

Rose was a cook for Himmler, a confidante to Hitler, and a friend of Simone de Beauvoir. This novel tells the epic tale of an inspiring, resilient Marseillaise chef who embodies the sentiment of what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.

Becky Brandon (nee Bloomwood) and her daughter have joined husband Luke in LA. Luke is there to help manage the career of famous actress Sage Seymour, and Becky wants to be Sage's personal stylist, and every A-list celebrity in Hollywood!