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Amsterdam, July 1929. At nine o’clock in the evening, the SS Boskoop set sail carrying Friedrich, a Berlin doctor, his lover Dore and fifteen other third-class passengers, all crammed inside five dank cabins. Fleeing Europe’s political and economic unrest, their final destination was the Galápago...

One evening in 2009 April Balascio was searching online, as she had been every night, for unsolved murders in the towns where her family had lived growing up, when she stumbled across the latest investigations into the ‘Sweetheart Murders’ cold case. All at once, the buried memories of her father...

Two children dressed in rags are discovered ransacking a grocery store on the edge of town.They bare their teeth. They growl. They claim to have been raised by wolves.Where did these children come from? Who are their parents?And can they learn to live when they have only ever been taught to survive?

Summoned from his medical practice in China by a bevy of anxious aunts, Alain Roig returns to his Catalan hometown to discover he has been nominated by family members with vested interests in the ancestral property to prevent an impending marriage between his cold, ascetic cousin Xavier and Madel...

Orphaned 12-year-old Tigg is the Bandicoot Bushranger, the youngest bushranger on the Ballarat goldfields in 1859.When a robbery goes wrong, Tigg must flee in disguise as one of the tens of thousands of Chinese men and boys braving heat, thirst, starvation and murderous attacks on the long road f...

Paige White kayaked across the lake each morning at dawn. Someone was watching her. Many someones watched her online. But was anyone with her the day she was found?Paige White's beautiful life is documented closely for her thousands of followers: lakeside picnics, breakfasts with her daughter, su...

A hundred years ago, Genevieve and Oliver spent an amazing weekend together in Riverswood manor. They wished they could stay there forever … and then their wish came true.Blessed with immortality but trapped for eternity, the two former lovers are now thoroughly tired of one another’s company. Th...

When former journalist turned café owner Kate Jackson abandons her six-month-old baby and disappears without a word, the quirky offshore community of Cook's Basin quickly steps in to salvage a delicate and difficult situation.But even the best intentions can go horribly awry.Relationships are tes...

In 2027, Emily is deciding whether to take advantage of a new health service that promises a healthier, stronger baby through gene editing. There’s plenty in her family tree that she would like to protect her unborn child against.But not everybody loves the so-called designer baby technology.Deca...

All Things Seen and Unseen follows Alex Nguyen, an isolated, chronically ill university student in her early 20s. After a suicide attempt and subsequent lengthy hospitalisation, she finds herself without a job, kicked out of campus housing, unable to afford school and still struggling in the afte...