Collection: Fiction

Leo Maxwell is a criminal defense attorney on the lookout for the big case that will make his reputation. When a mysterious woman hires him to defend her brother on a murder charge he thinks he may have found it. But things are not what they seem...

This timeless classic Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which book paper burns. Mr Bradbury is a book burner who suddenly discovers that books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out silently when put to the torch.

Sergeant Hamish Macbeth receives a report from a woman who has been brutally attacked and the criminal is on the loose. But upon further investigation, Hamish discovers that she was lying about the crime. Then she is found murdered...

1890's Colorado and Texas. Marty answers an advertisement for a 'Loan Star bride' and leaves her Texas ranch and heads to Denver to a marriage of convenience to Jake. But when love starts to soften their hearts, will their arrangement change?

'The Art of the Engine Driver' is the story of one evening in the lives of the residents of a new outer Melbourne suburb. On this hot summer's night the old and the new, diesel and steam, town and country all collide and nobody is left unaffected....

Emily Oliphant has ditched her abusive husband and embarked on her own adventure, renovating a dilapidated property and starting up her own business. But she is still too scarred by her past to form any romantic attachments...

Would a man really use his dying breath to play Russian roulette with his soul? If what Fred Howard revealed under the seal of confession is true, then a grave miscarriage of justice has been allowed to lie festering for over twenty years.

Kelly Roberts finds refuge in the cattle country of northern Australia, but when tragedy strikes she is forced to find a new life for herself and her children outside of Rainsford Station. She retreats to Evergreen Springs in Queensland's far north...

Three children wake up in a basement room. They have been drugged and taken from their beds in the middle of the night. Now they are alone. Where are their parents? Who can they trust? The family has been betrayed to the government...

Meet Morris Bellamy, a reader so obsessed by novelist John Rothstein, the reclusive genius who created the fictional character Jimmy Gold, that he is prepared to kill for a trove of notebooks containing at least one more Gold novel...