Collection: Fiction

As thick snow blankets Newcastle, boisterous crowds of Christmas revellers jostle onto the Metro. And Margaret Krukowski - sitting quietly in the middle of the busy train - is viciously murdered, though nobody sees the stabbing take place. Margaret's murderer is seemingly invisible; her killing m...

Aaron Sisson is a coal miner who abandons his wife and children and, with nothing but a flute and a little money, sets out in search of a life of greater personal integrity. His pilgrimage of self-discovery takes him to London, and later to Florence.

Mackenzie's daughter, Missy has been abducted during a family vacation. Evidence that she may have been murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Mack receives a note, apparently from God, inviting him back to the shack...

A policeman emerges horror-stricken from the Sydney home of the Kabbel family. Rudi the father is an immigrant from Eastern Europe. A contemporary Australia is interwoven with Rudi's wartime experiences and expectation of an independent Baltic State

When Reverend Josiah Crawley, the impoverished curate of Hogglestock, is accused of theft it causes a public scandal, sending shockwaves through the world of Barsetshire....

At the turn of 18th-century England, spirited Elizabeth Bennet copes with the suit of the snobbish Mr. Darcy while trying to sort out the romantic entanglements of two of her sisters, sweet and beautiful Jane and scatterbrained Lydia....

This volume contains all of Kafka's shorter fiction, from fragments, parables and sketches to longer tales. Together they reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought...

The belief that the past can be observed but never altered has always been at the core of time-travel theory - but it seems that the theory is wrong. 2060 Oxford Mr Dunworthy is attempting to find three missing needles in the haystack of history.

2008. A counter-terrorist operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister...

The murder comes - much to Slider's family's disgust - during his week off, saving him from the horrors of a trip to the shopping centre with his two older children. Philanthropist, Lionel Bygood, has been bashed in the head with a bronze statue...