Collection: Fiction

Jude Fawley, poor and working class longs to study at the university fo Christminster, but he is rebuffed and trapped in a loveless marriage. He falls in love with his unconventional cousin Sue Bridehead.

1947. Charlie Berlin rejoins the police force. Sent to investigate robberies in rural Victoria, he soon discovers that World War II has changed even the most ordinary of places and people. He goes to Albury-Wodonga but suspects he's being set up to fail

Galway private investigator Jack Taylor confronts an evil coterie named Headstone, who have committed a series of random, insane, violent crimes in Galway, Ireland...

Relationship with tribes, especially Cadigal, and settlement of First Fleet around 1789; violent conflict; capture, treatment and death of Arabanoo; small pox epidemic.

Mademoiselle Stangerson retires to bed in the Yellow Room. Suddenly revolver shots echo through the house and she screams for help. Her father and a servant run to the locked room where they find the wounded girl - alone...

Camp Bastion: SAS trooper Tom Buckingham finds himself drummed out of the regiment. Tom's unique services are quickly snapped up by charismatic entrepreneur, Vernon Rolt, a powerful billionaire with political ambitions and a questionable agenda...

March, 1918. The Great War is grinding slowly to its bloody finale. Detective Inspector Ernest Hardcastle, head of the Whitehall Division of the Metropolitan Police, is called to a body is recovered from the Thames. His widow is a good-time girl....

A Faust-like and magical story of the humanization of a middle-aged misanthrope. This self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf can also be seen as a plea for rigorous self-examination

Environmental conservancy advocate Shayne and big city cop Tanner join forces to uncover the truth behind Tanner's uncle's death. When Shaye becomes a killer's target, Tanner realises he'd give up anything to protect her - including his life...

Once upon a time that was called 1828, there was a man named William Buelow Gould, a convict in Van Dieman's Land who fell in love with a black woman and discovered too late that to love is not safe...