Collection: Fiction

From the author of Who Is Maud Dixon? comes a gripping thriller about Clare Bast, a young mother drawn into New York's elite art world. After discovering a valuable painting, she becomes entangled in a murder and art theft case. With suspicion falling on her, Clare must uncover the truth to save ...

London, 1946. Amid postwar hardship, Inspector Bliss enlists bookseller Gabriel Book, an amateur sleuth. With his quirky circle, Book solves crimes while chasing a mystery from his past. A warm, witty tale of murder, secrets, and the love of books.

In the hope of salvaging their relationship, Miranda and Richard become caretakers of a remote island lighthouse off the coast of Tasmania. Richard wants to shake up the malaise that had him falling into an affair, Miranda wants to understand what has changed and to recover from a diving accident...

Fig trees flower within their own fruit, isn't that the ultimate form of protection? Newcastle is a regional city where people have proven again and again that they are prepared to fight for what they need to protect.

Crackling with the tension of a thriller, Mother Waters is a deeply beautiful and strange debut about ambition, grief, love and the myths we weave both about ourselves and the natural world by a hauntingly powerful new voice. On the morning of her wedding anniversary, Charlie walks out of her hou...

May, 1945: After fighting to liberate Europe from the Nazis, Tito's Yugoslav Army and Allied forces have come to a tense standoff in the city of Trieste. Every day, locals with fascist and Nazi ties are disappearing, arrested by Yugoslav soldiers. Meanwhile the Allies watch on, reluctant to becom...

Tess wants nothing more than for her upcoming society wedding to overshadow the failure of her first marriage. Her fiance, Warren, a steady soon-to-be state senator, is nothing like her first husband. Tess's relationship with working-class artist Peter was a passionate crash-and-burn and a chapte...

In a town scarred by floodwaters, the past refuses to stay buried. When a catastrophic flood rips through the rural town of Birradurra, a shocking cold case is discovered. Unearthed from the mud are the skeletal remains of a baby.

A genius heist. Three unlikely senior suspects. The Picasso Ransom is a hilarious Aussie cosy crime, perfect for readers of Richard Osman and Benjamin Stevenson.'Can we try escaping just a little slower?'Fact: In 1986, Picasso's Weeping Woman was stolen from the National Gallery of Victoria.

Their first kiss was not without technical shortcomings. His glasses bumped against the bridge of her nose and her back pressed uncomfortably against the edge of a filing cabinet. But as she inhaled the scent of his aftershave, Nadia was struck with the kind of certainty that only visits upon twe...