Collection: Fiction

The more startling for the economy of its prose and plot, this novel's story, set among the manicured lawns and euphemisms of Whispering Glades Memorial Park in Hollywood, satirizes the American way of death and offers Waugh's memento mori.

This book includes thirteen short stories published by F. Scott Fitzgerald in Esquire, together with the entire Pat Hobby series - seventeen stories about an aging screenwriter scrambling to make a living in Hollywood during the 1930s.

Catherine Coombs, Cat, has finally come to the end of herself. She wants to make amends to those she has hurt. Her quest takes her to Nantucket, where the women she once called family still live. Despite her sins, will they welcome her again?

Dickens' third novel, published in 1839, was a vivid and powerful protest against cruelty to children, and the descriptions of Mr Squeers and his wicked boarding school were to be instrumental in securing educational reform in the early Victorian period.

Percy Drummond's life changes when he meets village girl Gwyneth Barrie. Then Percy catches the eye of his beautiful cousin, Florilyn, and an unexpected request from Percy's uncle changes the future for all three.

Who was John Smith? What was the mystery surrounding his past? Why did he elect to live alone in the bush? The time is the outbreak of the Great War, the place a small town in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney.

Ruby Cardel has the semblance of a normal life, a loving boyfriend, a fulfilling career, but in one terrible moment, her life unravels. The discovery that the death of her sister, Jamie, was not an accident makes her question all she has known...

When a woman confesses to Father Will, one of the monk-constables at Maddleskirk Abbey, that she has committed murder, he can do nothing but absolve her from her sin. When a body is found in the nearby woodland, his moral dilemma grows...

Set in Sydney in the early 1900s, it contrasts the lives of two larrikins, Jonah and Chook, as they graduate from their 'push', marry and make their ways in the world....