Collection: Fiction

George Smiley, who is a troubled man of infinite compassion, is also a single-mindedly ruthless adversary as a spy. The scene which he enters is a Cold War landscape of moles and lamplighters, scalp-hunters and pavement artists, where men are turned...

From within the womb, Sal and Brian's unborn child relates his experiences: multiple threats to his existence, including the apparent end of his parents' marriage and his father's desire to have him aborted.(Nancy Pearl)

It's 1954 and Bernie finds himself flown back to Berlin to work for the French or hang for murder. Bernie's job is simple: to meet and greet POWs returning from Germany and snag one Edgard de Boudel, a French war criminal and member of the French SS

It's Friday, April 2. Daphne Darling knows that she should be celebrating her stepdaughter, Una's 17th birthday, but it's hard, because the date also marks the one-year anniversary of her husband Finn's death...

Doctor Zhivago is the epic novel of Russia in the throes of revolution and one of the greatest love stories ever told. Yuri Zhivago, physician and poet, wrestles with the new order and confronts the anguish of being torn between the love of two women...

Working as a consigliere to the Bartolo crime family, former crime kingpin Joe Coughlin, who has everything - money, power, anonymity and a beautiful mistress - is forced to pay for his lifetime of sin when the dark truth of his past emerges.

Every year three friends go on holiday together to a remote Swedish island. But this year, a terrible series of tragedies will unfold, seemingly random, all somehow connected. Detective Superintendant Anders Knutas investigates...

Acacia is feeling at a loss in her life in Sydney when news that her mother is ill takes her back to her childhood home of Alice Springs. Acacia is offered a job setting up a school and teaching at an Aboriginal outstation...

While helping her mother move house Natalie finds a little box containing a Burmese artefact. When she learns its history through a letter left by her great great uncle, it ignites an interest in its country of origin and her uncle's unfulfilled plans...

In the wake of victory at Oudenarde, Captain Daniel Rawson takes a leading role in the allies' new strategy, to invade further into French territory and take siege of Lille.