Collection: Fiction

The novel is set in Nethermere and is narrated by Cyril Beardsall, whose sister Lettie is involved in a love triangle with two young men, George and Leslie Temple. She eventually marries Leslie, even though she feels sexually drawn to George.

Henry Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's 'greatest short story writer'. This book contains fifty six of his classic short stories

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...