Collection: Fiction

When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802,701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realises that these beautiful people are simply re...

It's the late 1960s in Ireland. Nora Webster is living in a small town, looking after her four children, trying to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. Slowly, through the gift of music and friendship, she finds a way of starting again.

'Crazy rich asians' is the outrageously funny debut novel about three super-rich, pedigreed Chinese families and the gossip, backbiting, and scheming that occurs when the heir to one of the most massive fortunes in Asia brings home his ABC (American-born Chinese) girlfriend to the wedding of the ...

Charles Parnell Cassidy - he could have been a conman or a cardinal so he became a little of both. The perfect paradigm of an Irish politician, he was a hearty breed of man who went after power and money and got them - every way he could.

The body of a beautiful blonde is found in the library of Gossington Hall. What the young woman was doing in the quiet village of St. Mary Mead is precisely what Jane Marple means to find out. Amid rumors of scandal, Miss Marple baits a clever trap...

Carla Roberts lives alone in the top of a highrise building in Hackney, then she is found brutally murdered. Meanwhile, Samson Segal, an unemployed thirty-something has taken to spying on his neighbours, particularly beautiful Gillian Ward...

In death, as in life, Elizabeth Hunter remains a callous, destructive vivisector of the lives around her, as her son and daughter convene at her deathbed in a Sydney suburb, and her housekeeper, nurses and solicitor dance attendance...

Pandora English is a go-between between the living and the dead, a gift that comes with frightening responsibility. In this story, Pandora must deal with a dress designing spider goddess, who seeks revenge when her designs are criticised.

Amelie, deaf since birth, was born to SS commander Gerhardt Schlick and his wife Kristine. Wanting to maintain his status as one of the Reich's genetically elite, he plots to dispose of Amelie and her mother. Kristine asks her friend Rachel for help.

Set in the future, this novel follows the life of mute teenager, Oblivia, the victim of gang-rape by petrol-sniffing youths, to her marriage to Warren Finch, the first Aboriginal president of Australia and her elevation to the position of First Lady.