Collection: Fiction

Bookish boys and taciturn men, strong women and wayward sons, fathers and daughters, lovers and husbands, here are their stories, whole lives brought vividly into focus...A beautiful, richly satisfying collection by David Malouf...

When a wealthy society woman asks Lachie to lead the search for her missing daughter, he reluctantly agrees. Early indications are that the woman's captors are hiding her in the Pilliga region, meaning Lachie must return to his roots to save her...

Businessman Hunter Alden Jr. thinks he has it all: a beautiful wife, a teenage son and billions in the bank. However his life is turned upside-down when he finds the severed head of his chauffeur, stuffed into a bag painted with his son's initials...

1890's Minnesota. Emmalyne and Tavin are separated by duty yet bonded by love, but can they dare to dream that God could heal a decade-long wound and change the hearts of those who would stand in the way of true love?

When Bill Masen wakes up in his hospital bed, he has reason to be grateful for the bandages that covered his eyes the night before. For he finds a population rendered helpless by blindness, a population at the mercy of the Triffids...

To the masses he's a folk hero, but to the establishment he's the most wanted man in the British Empire. When the authorities bring in an army of police to catch him, Ned plans a showdown at Glenrowan, making him a hero to the Australian underclass

Inevitably, the two young men are drawn to the war, and into the mud and horror of the trenches of Armentieres. Alone on the beach, their friend Imogen, wildlife photographer, must acknowledge for all three of them that the past cannot be held...

Told with robust humour and rollicking satire, Rudd's stories are as fresh and entertaining now as they were at the turn of the century.

Sally was living in an idyllic South African farmstead with her teenage daughter Gigi. When Sally is murdered, Gigi is alone in the world. But as Sally watches over Gigi, events take a darker turn when a cousin develops an obsession with black magic.

1859. St Mary's Church, Spondon. A little girl playing hide-and-seek jumps into a freshly-dug grave to find a dead man already occupying it. It is the body of a senior director of the Midland Railway. Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming investigate.