Collection: Fiction

Set in the post-Great War Long Island/New York world of the rich. The narrator, Nick Carraway, sympathetically records the pathos of Gatsby's romantic dream which founders on the reality of corruption, and the cutting edge of violence...

Arkie used to be a trendspotter, running a successful business advising companies on the next big thing. Until she lost her marriage and her mojo along with it. Her eccentric new friend Haruko suggests an Australian trip, to all the Big Things...

Devastated by the death of her boyfriend after a routine surgery, fourth-year medical student Lynn Pierce investigates the accident and discovers a string of suspicious deaths at the hospital.

Flying together on a storm-ravaged night, a gifted surgeon facing a painful separation from his wife and a young magazine writer on her way to her wedding are plunged into a life-and-death ordeal. As the days turn into weeks on the unforgiving mountain, the two heal from their physical wounds eve...

Set in Tasmania and Melbourne, the story traces the development of a sensitive and introspective boy through the trials, the passions and the discoveries of adolescence, from the green island of innocence to the big smoke on the mainland and back again.

In the first story Kadra is a demon slayer from another world. When the king of Demons escapes through a mysterious portal, Kadra follows and finds herself in modern day New York. The second story tells of a kingdom plagued by tragedy...

What happens when the person sitting next to you on a plane is destined to change your life? Especially when they're your opposite in every way. On a flight from London to Chicago, each finds something in the other they didnt even realise they needed.

An all-expense-paid week at a luxury villa in Jamaica - a lifetime opportunity for a group of old college friends. All four women are desperate not just for a reunion, but for an escape. But a powerful hurricane nearing the island forces re-evaluations.

Pru Plum is the owner of a famous Mayfair bakery. Few would believe that this elegant woman turned sixty-six last year. But Pru is not the confident, successful businesswoman she appears. She will do anything to protect the secrets of her past...