Collection: Fiction

Rome is in peril. The old order is changing - and Centurion Aurelius Castus has been summoned back from Britain, to find himself caught up in a treasonous conspiracy threatening to bring down the Emperor Constantine.

The man emerged from the mist, right in front of Cathy Weaver's car. He was running from killers who were closing in on him. Cathy had no choice - either pick him up or he dies. Victor Holland's story sounded like the ravings of a mad man...

Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair...features as bunched as kissed fingertips, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just desserts. An aunt convinces Quoyle and his two emotionally disturbed da...

Luc and Lisette Ravens - a former French resistance fighter and a one-time British spy - have somehow survived the war, but recovering from the horrors of those years is a challenge. Casting their fate to the winds, they sail to Tasmania...

An ex-boxer and ex-paratrooper, Joe once had meaning in his life. Then he lost everything, and now he is a hitman for London's most vicious criminals. Brenda was the only woman who ever loved him, and now Joe wants revenge on her killers.

Gilbertus Albans has founded the Mentat School, a place where humans can learn the efficient techniques of thinking machines. But Gilbertus walks an uneasy line between his own convictions and compromises in order to survive the Butlerian fanatics...

In a renovated Italian palace, the Junoesque figure of Mrs Aldwinkle moves among her guests. Deliciously satirical this story mocks those who dare to posture or feign sophistication [Jacket] Has an introduction by David Bradshaw.

From the South Australian vineyards of the 1850s to mega-budget movie-making in modern-day New York, Araluen tells the story of one man's quest for wealth and position and its shattering effect on succeeding generations.

A 16th century locket threads two stories together in this saga set in and around Darwin. The locket becomes a symbol of strength as the owner, a Dutch noblewoman struggles to survive the tragic wreck of the Batavia off the West Australian coast...

It was a time when refugees seized with both hands the chance for freedom. From war-torn Europe they came to the mountains of Australia to help realise a dream: the mighty Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme...