A string of brutal killings and decapitations has the local police puzzled, leading armchair detective Gervase Fen to seek answers from a cast of eccentric villagers.
As an active people-watcher, August ritually sits in a cafe with his notebook until the seemingly carefree and confident Julie enters the café and he finds himself inspired enough to give love a second chance.
Originally released as "Mama Mia! What a Climb!", this is the autobiography of Vincenzo Russo, from a distant Italian country town of the 1950s to present-day Adelaide, told as a series of letters to his late wife.
They say it takes a village to raise a child. How many characters does it take to bring two people together, when they are separated by age, class and education?
Jodie Picoult's 25th novel looks at abortion in America, pro-choice vs anti-choice, but through the narrative of a hostage situation at an abortion clinic.
Ten months after a former detective's life is destroyed by a series of devastating losses, a stranger pulls him back down a path of crime he never thought he would go down again.
Harley Spark is a normal 13-year-old boy until he has an overwhelming urge to pick up and take home a Chinese vase. Then weird things begin to happen.
When Dr Voth comes across an old manuscript from 1724, he becomes obsessed with the life of a 12-year-old orphan girl who was sold into servitude and grew to become one of history's most notorious and wanted transexual thieves.
Private investigator and deliciously alluring courtesan Heloise Chancey poses as a nursemaid to investigate the murder of two members of the Lovejoy family in Victorian London.
Four brutal murders, a city living in fear, a killer on the streets...Prime Suspect's Jane Tennison returns in the 4th book in the bestselling Tennison series, from the doyenne of crime fiction.
In the year 2028, Australia has gone to Hell in a handbasket as the Liberal party face their first real election challenge in a long, long time by a grassroots party where everyone is named Ned Ludd.
Nic is an early teen, dealing with a change of home and schools. Moving to a remote Australian homestead, she searches for information about her mother who died when she was born.
Nine-year-old Samuel begins to suspect foul play when he wakes one morning to be told by his housekeeper that his Mother had to go away on an overseas trip without any prior warning or saying goodbye.
A book aimed at educating today’s children on the brave women who became pilots in World War 2 despite little or no recognition.
Catherine Rayner, a life member of the Brontë Society, has combined facts with imagined incidents and dialogue to produce a detailed picture of the childhoods of the famous Brontës.
An ambitious young cop suspects there's more to random, horrific murders in her small town and stumbles upon the first known a serial killer whose M.O. is constantly changing . . .
Laurel awakes in a warehouse to find the words “GET OUT” written on her arm. With no memory of who she is, she must fight to survive and uncover the mystery of her identity, as well as who is hunting her and why.
Costume designer Wendy Cork talks about her latest project, Ladies in Black.
The lives of five ordinary people living in Melbourne as they ponder how they got to this point in their lives and how they struggle to improve their situation.
An exploration of the British and Russian royal families and their politics from 1894 to the Russian Revolution of 1917, using diary entries, headlines of the day, and letters written by courtiers and extended family.