Collection: Adult fiction

Birdsville, outback Queensland: the most remote town in the world, population 110. What the people lack in numbers they make up for in community spirit. When midwife and emergency nurse Phoebe McFadden fled her family dramas at age sixteen, she thought she'd left Birdsville for good. But when her...

1926. Running a theatre may appear to be all about the showbiz, but times are hard at The Empire. Following a turbulent period Jack Treadwell, erstwhile proprietor, his mother Lillian, and his playwright wife Grace, know they need to get things back on track - and how better than with the annual ...

Alexis Hert isn't a hero, and she certainly isn't a god. All she's ever been is a survivor. But the Fates disagree. When a blood test leads to her admittance at the Spartan War Academy, she'll have to do more than merely survive. Alexis will have to claim her birthright: immortality. But immortal...

For twenty years, Sciona has devoted every waking moment to the study of magic, fuelled by a mad desire to achieve the impossible, to become the first woman ever admitted to the High Magistry at the University of Magics and Industry. When Sciona finally achieves her ambition and becomes a highmag...

As hunger grips the Warsaw ghetto, is a cannibal loose on the streets? January 1943. Warsaw. City of the dead. In the ghetto, the last fifty thousand Jews await their fate, but, unlike those who preceded them to the death camps, these Jews are prepared to fight. Jan Kalisz, Kripo investigator and...

James Larwood's life is perfect - until a single mistake sees him lose everything. When James is released from prison, he is penniless and potentially homeless. Enter James' tradie brother, Larry, who employs him as a cleaner and starts a factory Book Club to try and get his brother back on his f...

Ever since Catherine and her mother Ann opened the doors of their bookshop in a small town on Ireland's west coast, they have been living their dream. And this festive season promises to be their biggest ever, with a celebrity chef due to arrive for an exclusive book signing. But when some seemin...

Anya's carefully planned life has spun out of control overnight. Lost, confused and desperate, she seeks refuge at her brother's house. She is determined to leave her past heartbreak behind and take control of her life. Little does she know that the boy she's always loved - but now despises - has...

What happens when a quirky Australian town faces the imminent arrival of a huge fiery comet? Do the residents embrace all possibilities or run like hell?

When barrister Gabriel Ward steps out of his rooms at exactly two minutes to seven on a sunny May morning in 1901, his mind is so full of his latest case the disputed authorship of bestselling children's book Millie the Temple Church Mouse that he scarcely registers the body of the Lord Chief Jus...