Collection: Fiction

As Briony studies an old photo album from her mother's new home, a letter falls out. Reading the words that follow, Briony is seized with a stunning realisation: her mother lied about what happened to her beloved grandmother Tessa all those years ago...

Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth.

After witnessing a terrible coal mining accident, Detective Isaac Bell hunts for the high-level saboteurs he believes are responsible...

Set against a background of the war in the Horn of Africa, it charts the experiences of a group of travelers and tells of an Australian journalist who wants to prove that the Ethiopians are gun-running.

A bunch of hobby farmers living in small town rural Queensland share a common address, they have christened 'Lantana Lane'. Despite their whinges about their lot, they wouldn't leave it for the world. A close-up of the life in a small farming community

1930's Germany - Widowers Nicholas and Alex are raising their children alone and lead contented lives until a long-buried secret about Nicolas's ancestry threatens his family's safety. To survive, they must flee to America with their Lipizzaner, Pegasus.

Spring, 1728. A young, well-dressed man is dragged through the streets of London to the gallows at Tyburn. He tries to remain calm. His name is Tom Hawkins and he is innocent. Somehow he has to prove it, before the rope squeezes the life out of him.

FBI agent Alex Cross is on vacation in Disneyland when he gets the call. Somebody is murdering Hollywood's A-list. Authorities fear this is only the beginning. Members of the A-list fear they're Mary Smith's next target...

Cassie Holloway moves to the little coastal town of Whitby Point, where she falls in love with Michael Aquino, the son of a local fishing family. But when the family patriarch dies, a devastating family secret threatens to destroy her dreams

The themes of Russian author Anton Chekhov's stories have as much relevance today as when they were written, and these new translations capture their spirit. The stories in this selection are among Chekhov's most poignant and lyrical.