LITERARY FICTION: While Stella Miles Franklin took on the world, her beloved sister Linda led a short, domestic life as a wife, mother and sister. In a remarkable, genre-bending debut novel Amy Brown thrillingly reimagines those two lives – and her own – to explore and explode the contradictions embedded in brilliant careers and a woman’s place in the world.
CRIME: Five old friends reunite for an idyllic glamping holiday on the rugged Cornwall coast, but tensions rise when a storm leaves them stranded and someone goes missing.
NON-FICTION: Highly respected ABC anchor, bestselling author and hit podcaster Leigh Sales interviews the cream of Australian journalists about their craft – how (and why) they bring us the stories that inform our lives.
FICTION: In this sisterly PS, I Love You, an introverted young woman is saddled with fulfilling her late sister’s final wish: completing her bucket list while millions of people follow along online.
THRILLER: The 'unputdownable' [Erin Kelly] new thriller from the bestselling author of psychological suspense.
THRILLER: Bestselling author Armando Lucas Correa strikes out in a bold new direction with a psychological thriller about a young woman afflicted with ‘motion blindness’, who becomes convinced that her next-door neighbour is going to be murdered.
ROM-COM: This summer, one woman is going after what she wants and nothing will stand in her way – not even the handsome man next door...
HISTORY: From the bestselling author of The Lost City of Z, now a major film starring Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller and Robert Pattison, comes a true-life murder story which became one of the FBI’s first major homicide investigations.
HISTORICAL FICTION: From the bestselling author of Code Name Hélène comes a gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-century midwife who investigates a shocking murder that unhinges her small community.
PERSONAL GROWTH: Unorthodox meets Start with Why: how escaping a cult led Debbie Haski-Leventhal to become a ‘professor of purpose’ and master the art of finding personal meaning in life.
HISTORICAL FICTION: In 15th century China two women are born under the same sign, the Metal Snake. But life will take the friends on very different paths.
MEMOIR: The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope.
THRILLER: bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with a high-stakes thriller featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan who, following a series of bizarre disappearances on the islands of Turks and Caicos, enters a sinister labyrinth in which a new technology may wreak worldwide havoc
THRILLER: Out on the wet roads, tensions arise among four backpackers on their way to Darwin. They haven’t prepared for this kind of weather and the flooding isn’t the only threat on the horizon …
THRILLER: The deadly cat-and-mouse thriller from the international bestselling author.
THRILLER: From Canberra to Moscow to Beijing, Killer Traitor Spy uncovers the new lines of espionage in the twenty-first century. It proclaims Ayliffe as a master of the genre.
HISTORICAL FICTION: Where Light Meets Water is a multi-stranded novel of love – of a man and a woman, of a sailor and the sea, and of an artist and his gift.
NON-FICTION: Fact-filled and furiously funny, this is a must-read not just for young people wondering why they’ve been given such a raw deal, but for anyone with an interest in how we’re making our collective future impossible.
FICTION: Three women, drawn together by impossible circumstances, will discover that the greatest comfort can often be found in the mess.
THRILLER: Can Sid get to the bottom of what’s going on before he too becomes a victim, while, at the same time, saving his marriage?