Collection: Fiction

A picture of a young woman, Sybylla Melvyn, who hungers for life and love in the harsh outback plains of New South Wales in the late nineteenth century

Set and written in the United States, this novel covers the turbulent times just prior to America's entry into World War 1 and focuses on a particular group of people and how these times affected their lives.

When she is hired to write lyrics for a contestant in the talent competition for the Miss Teen Queen America pageant, Jaine Austen is plunged into a nightmare of vicious stage mums, exacting judges and trash-talking teens after a catfight turns deadly.

Arriving in Bath for a funeral, Jack Swann finds many reasons for staying: to protect his sister from the mysterious Lockhart, to find the man who might lead him to his father's killer and to end the reign of terror by Wicks, the local underworld boss...

Three young women from aristocratic families, Linda, Polly and Fanny are dedicated to the pursuit of love and attempt to break free of convention as war descends on Europe. Their quest brings heartache, disappointment, but also contentment...

Rich Manning and Jamie Warren have always been friends - and nothing but friends. However, that changes when Jamie asks Rich to father the child she so desperately wants. Rich agrees - if she'll marry him...

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.