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'Serrailler, Hill's brilliant detective, is the central character in the great writer's crime fiction novels' CAMILLA, DUCHESS OF CORNWALLPEOPLE ARE GOING MISSING. ONLY ONE THING LINKS THEIR CASES.THEY ALL DISAPPEAR...

As Will saw her smile he hugged her closer, and then his lips were on hers and he was kissing her as if his life depended on it, and all...

In 1913, when she was 54 years old, Daisy Bates went to live in the deserts of South Australia. And there she stayed, with occasional interruptions, for almost 30 years....

'This is Antjie Samuel reporting from Ladybrand'. For more than two years Antjie Krog worked in acute engagement with the many voices that arose in and around South Africa's Truth...

Adrift in lives of possibility and limitation, the flawed, struggling and sympathetic characters of these desperate, eerie stories seek refuge from meaninglessness and boredom in love, art, friendship, drugs, and...

WINNER OF THE 2014 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT AWARDWINNER OF THE 2016 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS PEOPLE'S CHOICE WINNER OF THE 2016 WESTERN AUSTRALIA PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS PEOPLE'S CHOICEFor nearly...

Neuroscientist Dr Yvonne Churcher has problems in the world beyond her lab. One of her students, James, a dangerously attractive anti-science protestor, has set out to challenge her entire philosophy...

An unfaithful husband goes out to buy flowers for his wife, while across town a new couple, both survivors of difficult childhoods, find comfort together in other people's apartments. On...

Brilliantly plotted, "Gotham Tragic" is a pitch-perfect send-up of money and celebrity culture. It's not a black comedy so much as a red, white, and blue one, and the next...

Experience World War 2 through the eyes of two very different women in this captivating New York Times bestseller by the author of The Guest Book."A beautifully written, thought-provoking novel."-Kathryn...

From the author of the international bestseller, Red Azalea, comes the stirring, croucally charged story of the woman known as 'the white-boned demon' - the ambitious wife of Chairman Mao...

Attracted and repelled by the bright lights of literary fame and the vicissitudes of love, Sevigne discovers that his classic writerly dream has a different and darker reality than he...

All Maggie, Russell, and Henry wanted out of their last college vacation was to get drunk and play archaeologist in an old house in the woods outside of town. When...

Nobody in our class pays attention to Daisy Albright and I think she likes it that way.But when I'm sent to work in the headmaster's office every day with Daisy...

At twenty-three, Ruth Saunders headed west with her seventy-year-old grandma in tow, hoping to be hired as a television writer. Four years later, she's hit the jackpot when she gets...

From the bestselling author of Beatrice comes a mesmerising novel of loss, memory and the love of a mother for her child. It is 1970, and Greta is a young...

Everyone deserves a Christmas treat...The annual Wheaton gingerbread exhibit (a model village made of gingerbread) and grotto has been an important part of the sleepy Cotswold hamlet's Christmas celebrations for...

'This is a book for all Christmas fans. I devoured this book and I adored it. It was like having a comfort blanket around me at all times.' Amazon reviewer...

'A total joy' Matt Haig 'Very, very funny' Sara Pascoe 'Thought-provoking' Daily Mail 'Unputdownable' Marian Keyes Fearless, frank and for anyone who's ever doubted themselves, So Lucky is the straight-talking...

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERFor seventy years, Josef Weber has been hiding in plain sight.He is a pillar of his local community.He is also a murderer.When Josef decides to confess, it...

The Accidental Medium is the first book in a hilarious series from Tracy Whitwell featuring Tanz, the accidental medium who, with the help of the dead, is about to become...

'Spooky and hilarious' - Mandasue Heller on The Accidental MediumSet in Newcastle, Gin Palace rejoins Tanz, the Accidental Medium and an unwilling crime solver, as she grows accustomed to her...

The WORLDWIDE Bestseller. A novel of Ancient Egypt from the bestselling author of River God. Wilbur Smith is a master at the helm of one of the greatest stories of...

Two choices. One destiny. A love story you'll never forget... December 2005. On a cold winter's night, nineteen-year-old Ben is having the time of his life at university. He's about...

Sterling is arrested one morning without having done anything wrong. Plunged into a terrifying and nonsensical world, Sterling - with the help of their three best friends - must defy...

Gemma Goodeve is travelling to London for an audition for a West End play when her train is involved in a head-on collision. There is great loss of life and...

'A magical, magnificent novel, that amounts to a secret history of an America we think we know, but never really knew' Marlon JamesThe people of Salt Point are afraid of...

The funny, sharply observed and life-affirming Radio 2 Book Club pick.'Hilarious and touching' DAILY MAIL'Warm, humane, funny and sad . . . Absolute pleasure reading' MARIAN KEYES'Hilariously funny' ROSAMUND LUPTON'Absorbing,...