Collection: Fiction

Rosie's mother is a cruel woman and has Rosie's kind and loving father wrapped around her finger. Though John Tanner does his best to protect her, Rosie often bears the brunt of her mother's rage. And his protection can't last forever...

Banned in India before publication, this immense novel by Booker Prize-winner Rushdie ( Midnight's Children ) pits Good against Evil in a whimsical and fantastic tale.

A story of revolutionaries set in Swizerland and Russia. Conrad's intention was to render not so much the political but the psychological state of Russia in 1911...

Landing in the army hospital after a plane crash, Major Jack Novak tries to win the heart of army nurse Lieutenant Ruth Doherty, but Jack soon realizes that he has his work cut out for him as he tries to break down her defenses

In Aspen, Colorado, whitewater guide Dani Haller comes upon the dead body of a friend. Trey Watkin's death is ruled an accident. Finding evidence that seems to back up her suspicions that it wasn't, she takes her case to police chief, Wade Dunn...

When the horribly mutilated body of a were-panther is found outside Merlotte's bar, even though Sookie never cared that much for the victim, no one deserves such a horrible death, so she agrees to use her telepathic talent to track down the murderer.

Six-year-old Peekay, born in the 1930s in a South Africa divided by racism and hatred, one day learns that small can beat big. He discovers that nothing can defeat the determination to be true to yourself; this is the power of one...

In 1918, after the Great War, two Australian soldiers join the British army to help fight the Bolshevik forces in northern Russia. Almost a century later, two bodies are unearthed in the small Australian country town of Valley View....

In the lonely woods around Grizzly Falls, Montana, four bodies have been discovered. Detectives Selena Alvarez and Regan Pescoli have nothing to go on but a killer's cryptic notes, and the unsettling knowledge that there is much worse to come...

In the midst of Sarah and Frank's wedding preparations, Sarah accompanies her mother on a condolence call to the Upper West Side, where Charles Fairfax, the son of family friends, has died unexpectedly after suffering from a mysterious disease.

Forensic archeologist Ruth Galloway investigates her most heart-stopping case to date after an old university friend and fellow archeologist is murdered in an arson attack...

Every cop gets angry when a police officer is killed. And Lieutenant Eve Dallas is no exception. But Amarylis Coltraine was also in a relationship with one of Eve's closest colleagues, so she throws every resource she has into finding the killer....

Raina Vernay is a slave to her brother-in-law's brutal bidding in a seedy Louisiana saloon. At the end of her rope, Ty Kincaid arrives in town and her mind starts churning a plan. She longs to find the father she's never known?

Detective duo Tommy and Tuppence Beresford apply their wits, charms, and adventurous spirits to a menacing mystery that spells certain poisonous death for a missing lady at the hands of dangerous unknown foe

Aspiring doctor Christina Price promised herself she was never going back to Townsville. But when a twist of fate lands her in a Townsville army base clinic, she must confront past hurts if she wants to succeed and, just maybe, find love.

A nameless victim. An unknown killer. An impossible case for Monika Paniatowski. Before she can even begin to track down the killer of the old woman dumped by the lonely canal, Monika Paniatowski needs to find out who she is - and no one seems to know. Even when her daughter Louisa provides the v...

As three different women meet in their local knitting store, A Good Yarn, they find strength in friendship to help them through their problems. As the three women's lives intersect, they realise that the best surprises in life and love still lie ahead.

Australian-born Dr. Olivia Walker is an Oxford academic with a reputation as one of the world's leading Crusade historians and she's risked everything on finding one of the most famous swords in history - Durendal.

When Mariah's daughter, Faith develops stigmata and begins to perform miraculous healings, Mariah wonders if she might indeed be seeing God. As word spreads Mariah and Faith are caught in a media circus that threatens what little stability they have left.

Nicholas Bracewell, the stage manager for the London theater troupe Westfield's Men, has some problems on his hands. Protecting them from whatever sinister curse has befallen them is almost too much for Nick but he will stop at nothing...