Collection: Fiction

Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off the coast Italy, Catch-22 is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because 1000s of people he has never even met keep trying to kill him....

Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. Two Millennium journalists about to expose the truth about the sex trade in Sweden are brutally murdered, and Salander's prints are on the weapon....

The Quest continues the story of the Warlock, Taita, wise in the lore of the ancient Gods and a master of magic and the supernatural. Egypt is struck by a series of terrible plagues that cripple the Kingdom, and then the ultimate disaster follows.

Ranging over a period of some six years, the story is set during the late 1930s and early 1940s; but it is not so much a tale of this period as Herbert's analysis and indictment of the steps by which we came to the Australia of today.

Spanning three generations, Capricornia tells the story of Australia's North. It is a story of whites and Aborigines and Asians, of chance relationships that can form bonds for life, of dispossession, murder and betrayal....

The last words Jamie Ball hears from his fiancee, Logan Somerville, are in a terrified mobile phone call. She has just driven into the underground car park beneath the flats where they live in Brighton. Then she screams and the phone goes dead...

When a cabdriver finds that his drunken passenger has been murdered, Samuel Gorby is called in to investigate the killing...

Set in the goldfields of Australia and the Omeo disaster, it is seen not only through the eyes of the immigrant gentry, but also from the stand-point of Gerty Hillyar, who believes England is a nasty, cold ugly and dirty place.

The Ridge and the River is a vigorous, straightforward story of an Australian commando patrol, a handful of men threading their way through the jungle for a few memorable days that span a lifetime of violence, terror, hope and despair.

1952. Almost a decade since defeat at Dunkirk marked the end of Britain's war and the beginning of an uneasy peace. The swastika flies from the Sahara to the Indian Ocean. Autobahns bisect the jungle and the brutal presence of the SS is everywhere.