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It’s 1983 in Thatcher’s Britain. Alec Johnston has left his comfortable family home in Cardiff and taken a flat with bikers Minto, Stobes and Black. There he meets Sindy, Minto’s strange and vulnerable young girlfriend. When she starts to view Alec as a possible saviour from her abusive...Read more

Only When I Scream

A killer with unfinished business…

The one who got away…

A man with a tragic family secret…

Ivy is tested to the limits of her training during an art conservation that is anything but typical. But has she got what it takes to stay alive when the man...Read more

The Calabrian

Two men. One woman. A new country.

Danielli Romero is happy to start afresh in Australia and leave behind the old ways of the ndrangheta, the powerful Calabrian mafia. Lucciano "Lucky" Mammone is determined to bring la mala vita – the evil life – with him and enforce it at the...Read more

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More food will be produced in the next fifty years than all the food consumed throughout our history.

It will create enormous wealth for the food industry and turn diabetes into the biggest killer disease on earth.

But how will we feed a population explosion...Read more

The Gulf Between

Under the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, love, lies and disenchantment lead to a menacing showdown in this suspense-filled novel.

A foreigner is seriously injured not far from Julia's safe Queenstown hideaway.

Why does he have her name in his wallet?

His...Read more

Private Prosecution

Andrew Deacon is young, fit and single, a junior prosecutor at the WA DPP with a bright future and a sense of entitlement to match.

That future starts to look darker when he spends the night with an attractive stranger, Lily Constantine, and she is found murdered in her...Read more

A Dark So Deadly

Welcome to the Misfit Mob…

It’s where Police Scotland dumps the officers it can’t get rid of, but wants to: the outcasts, the troublemakers, the compromised. Officers like DC Callum MacGregor, lumbered with all the boring go-nowhere cases. So when an ancient mummy turns up at the...Read more

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Tranquil Bay

Emily, eight months pregnant, and her partner Cam return to Tranquil Bay, a small seaside town in New Zealand, to attend her dad’s 60th birthday bash. She hasn’t been back home since the tragic death of her younger sister Sarah ten years earlier.

The town and old friends she’s...Read more

Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes

'People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.'

At the time of his death in 2015, award-winning and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett was working on his finest story yet - his own.

At six years old, Terry was told by his...Read more

The Registrar

Dedicated and ambitious, Emma Swann is about to start a gruelling year as a surgical registrar at the prestigious Mount teaching hospital. She's excited to join her adored older brother Andy in pursuing the same career as their father, an eminent surgeon who made his name at The Mount....Read more

Finding Fabi

When brilliant but emotionally-tortured New York journalist Bec Corelli learns her father has died mysteriously on vacation in India, she walks out on her job and heads to Delhi. Pharmaceutical CEO Ernst Reiniger, facing ruin over a failed drug, has hatched a chilling plan to save his 300-...Read more

Darkness Runs Deep

In the darkest hour, a blood-soaked teenager flees the rural Gerandaroo football oval. Eight months later, Bess, a young teacher, returns home to Gerandaroo.Read more

El Flamingo

Winner of the Best Adult Fiction Book at the 2024 New Zealand Book Lovers Awards.

With no role in sight and nothing to lose, actor Lou Galloway leaves Los Angeles and heads to Mexico to drown his sorrows in cheap mezcal. But, after a round too many, he soon ends up at a grandiose...Read more

Kill Yours, Kill Mine

Mia's grief counselling practice, The Pleiades, is named for the seven sisters from Greek mythology who were the companions of the Goddess of the Hunt—and who, in some stories, die of grief or are killed to be saved from attackers.

Mia has been gathering broken women together for...Read more

Madame Brussels

A must-read biography of an enigmatic personality who helped shape early Melbourne

Madame Brussels, the most legendary brothel keeper in nineteenth-century Melbourne, is still remembered and celebrated today. But until now, little has been known about Caroline Hodgson, the...Read more

In a Place of Darkness

Detective Constable Angus MacVicar has just landed his dream job – transferred out of uniform and assigned to Oldcastle’s biggest ongoing murder Operation Telegram, hunting the 'Fortnight Killer'.

Every two weeks another couple is targeted. One victim is left at the scene, their...Read more

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The Jibe

Ella Hampton makes a mayday call from Aurora on the Hauraki Gulf saying her husband has been lost overboard during a jibe (gybe) manoeuvre. A body identified as Dean Hampton washes up with a gash to the head and other injuries. The coroner rules it an accident.

Amy...Read more

The Bluff

People like Dash didn't die. He was only what? Mid-thirties? Well off. Adored. By some anyway. World at his feet. Well, Myddle at his feet, which was his world.

Ruth Dawson has taken a break from big city law to fill in for a few months for an old mate in Myddle. How...Read more

Because a White Man'll Never Do It

Kevin Gilbert's powerful expose of past and present race relations in Australia is an alarming story of land theft, attempted racial extermination, oppression, denial of human rights, slavery, ridicule, denigration, inequality and paternalism.

First published in 1973, Gilbert's...Read more

Salaryman Unbound

Iwasaki Shiro, a 46 year old salaryman in Tokyo is having a midlife crisis. Unexceptional in his IT job, he works in the shadow of his boss’s charisma. His children are embarrassed by his mediocrity and his wife rarely thinks of him as an individual. He has nothing to show for decades of...Read more

Azazel

Emily thought her ordeal was over after she escaped a brutal kidnapping. She's wrong. He's coming for her again.

The body Detective Rose is looking at bears a striking resemblance to Emily, a woman who survived a horrific, sexually motivated abduction five years ago. Her fear...Read more

Fallen

There was an eerie silence in the packed courtroom as everyone looked towards the foreman of the jury. 'Guilty' he pronounced five times. 

The third most senior Catholic cleric in the world had been found guilty of sex crimes against children, bringing shame to the Church on a...Read more

Murder Comes to U3A

A suspected serial killer stalks the ranks of the local U3A branch.Read more

Welcome to Bellevue

“Welcome to Bellevue, where the mountains meet the sea…”

Harry awakes on a ferry with no memory of how he came to be there. The boat is bound for Bellevue, a place he has never heard of. When he goes ashore, his attempts to leave are thwarted.

Feeling trapped and...Read more

Scorpions in Stilettos

Caught in a compromising position, Clara AKA Flat White, the classy, conservative career girl of the Trinity Trio, struggles as her carefully constructed life comes crashing down around her.

Juggling a complicated love life, a career with bullying managers, a domineering mother...Read more

The Vanishing Act

Respectable appearances can hide the blackest of secrets.

The Vanishing Act is a spicy tale of intrigue set in 1960s New Zealand, where society’s constraints and the laws of the day made outcasts of lesbians and prostitutes.

Rosemary Cawley is used...Read more

The Good Mother

Sarah Calhoun is a regular Sydney soccer mum, but she's keeping terrifying secrets from everyone she loves . . . and her past is about to catch up with her.

When two men from Northern Ireland hunt her down, she's forced to return to Belfast to testify at a murder trial. Caught...Read more

Beyond Year Zero

A  gritty, pacey crime thriller set in the dark heart of Cambodia.

Cambodia – seething hotbed of desperation and vice. The Khmer Rouge fighters are long dead but their murderous legacy has left a population gripped by violence. Into this cauldron of psychosis and trauma steps...Read more

Lie Hunter

Ever been lied to? Ever told a lie?

Everybody lies. Lying is part of our every-day lives and it’s not all bad. But when lies are told with the intent to harm, recognising the deception is a crucial skill we can all use.

Dr David Craig has written an easy-to-read...Read more

The Fallen Leaves

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The 'Fallen Leaves' of the title are 'The people who have drawn blanks in the lottery of life...the friendless and the lonely, the wounded and the lost'.

The novel follows the fortunes of four women, all in one way or another 'fallen leaves', who are linked by their relationships...Read more

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