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Lou Connor wants to escape her emotionally crass family and life of poverty, so she travels from Sydney to the USA as an exchange student. But her host-family, the Hardings who live in a prefabricated mansion in a nameless Chicago suburb are in suffocating pursuit of...
Huge floodwaters have engulfed a remote Victorian goldfield, reducing the prospect of digging up a fortune from very slim to impossible, and adding disease to the many possibilities of sudden death in harsh conditions. As sickness starts to take its toll and calls mount...
Michael, a psychiatrist, is trying to put his life together after a brain tumour. His lawyer wife Elizabeth is wrestling with her new role as carer and breadwinner. Their teenage children are acting out the chaos their parents refuse to confront. This is the story of...
In 1947, two years after witnessing the death of a young Jewish woman in Poland, Charlie Berlin has rejoined the police force a different man. Sent to investigate a spate of robberies in rural Victoria, he soon discovers that World War II has changed even the most...
I'm a lucky woman, thinks Susanna Greenfield. And why wouldn't she? She has a happy, loving family and a solid career. But beneath the carefully maintained surface, seismic forces are at work. Fault lines are forming, not only in Susanna, but within each member of her...
At the end of the Great War, two young men find themselves far from home, with everything to gain or everything to lose . . . Charismatic womaniser Jack Bryant has the world at his feet, but when trouble catches up with him he's forced to flee Penzance. Honest Ned...
'Startlingly good...It divines riddles of mortality' The Age Mr Scobie's arrival at the nursing home of St Christopher and St Jude and descent into the clutches of Matron Hyacinth Price is accidental. Adrift in his own memories but preserving a gentle politesse, Mr...
'Anything McGinnis writes begs to be read aloud around a campfire.' COUNTRY STYLE Billy Martin runs from home, burying his past in the quest for a future. He finds it in Queensland's spectacular Gulf Country, on the sprawling cattle runs. The Gulf breeds tough men,...
Discover the realunderbelly of the golden mile, Kings Cross, in Love Machine by Clint Caward. Kings Cross is a circus of desire, and Spencer has a ringside seat. In an underground sex shop he sees it all: the buck's parties and streetwalkers, the drunks and the...
On a January morning in 1930, in an island mission off the Queensland coast, the superintendent goes on a rampage that rips the community apart. Afterwards, only a few are free to leave, but even back on the mainland they cannot escape the effects of the brutality...
In the glossy world of footballers' WAGs, love is the toughest game of all . . . Jean Bennett, aspiring jewellery designer, knows as much about football as she does astrophysics. But when she moves to the bright lights of Sydney and falls in love with star footballer...
Two women, bound by a shocking event, drawn to a vast and beautiful country they cannot forget. Kate Carrington has cut all ties with Africa, the land of her birth. Her past is buried alongside her missionary parents, the last reminders locked safely away in the...
'A fantastic book in all senses of that word' Sydney Morning Herald The Professor is married to Hazel, a diligent and generous (but rather plain) woman. She is so close to her twin, Chloe, that both women live under one roof with the Professor. Back from an overseas...
When Isabelle Barnes leaves home one morning, never to return, the streets of country Carwell are awash with rumour and innuendo. And her bewildered daughter, Abbie, is left to find her way in the world without her mother's guiding hand. Four years later,...
It's not every day of the week that a girl from Muckadilla comes to Brisbane to join the Navy, but it's World War II and Lulla Riddel can see herself in those Navy whites. However, she promptly discovers that they can't use short-sighted strawberry blondes, so it's just...
Betrayals by Lillith St Crow is a supernatural heart stopper full of all the best kind of paranormal beasties around. A must read for fans of Urban Fantasy fiction. Y. A. Reads No more little miss nice girl. The Real World is a frightening place. Just ask...
Shortlisted for the 2010 National Book Award (USA) and the 2010 Commonwealth Writers' Prize 'It is like being alive at the time Dickens was writing, I think he's that good. This novel is right up there with his best. It is an amazingly ambitious, ingenious, clever,...
Born on the rugged Dargo High Plains and raisedby her cattleman father, Emily Flanaghan has lost her way in life. Locked in an unhappy marriage in the suburbs, Emily misses the high country with a fierce ache. To make mattersworse, her heritage is under threat....
'Two brothers, one woman and a virus make Red Queen, an Australian apocalyptic novel, a compelling read.' Sunday Tasmanian 'Riveting, atmospheric and tautly written, Red Queen is a remarkable debut.' Michael Robotham Red Queen is a cracker of a thriller.' Vogue DEEP...
After Hannah Atkins, the magazine world's most unlikely beauty editor, is dumped for the local TV weather girl, she adopts some hardcore rules to attain the Perfect Life. She will learn how to blend her eye makeup so she doesn't resemble an over-emotional beauty queen....
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