Collection: Adult Fiction

Jessica looked around uneasily. The bush that had seemed so benign and beautiful only minutes before now seemed sinister. Twenty years ago, ornithology student Jessica Weston filmed a lyrebird mimicking the dying screams of a woman in the Barrington Tops National Park. Terrified, she took her rec...

The true story of one of history's unsung heroes: Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, the only woman to lead a resistance network in WWII France. Morocco, 1928. Eighteen-year-old Frenchwoman Marie-Madeleine is not the kind of woman who goes through life sitting down, something her new husband can attest. H...

In Argus, North Dakota, a fraught wedding is taking place. Gary Geist, a terrified young man set to inherit two farms, is desperate to marry Kismet Poe. Gary thinks Kismet is the answer to all of his problems; Kismet can't even imagine her future, let alone the kind of future Gary might offer. Du...

Intelligent, beautiful Alexandra Bouvier was raised believing she could achieve anything. But when the First World War breaks out in 1914, and both her parents are killed while volunteering on the front lines, Alex's world collapses. Supported by her loving grandmother, Alex is determined to carr...

What if being true to yourself means hurting everyone around you? Brynn is a claustrophobic suburban mother on the brink . . . Eric, her husband, is transforming in dark and dangerous ways . . . Their daughter, Jenny, can't fathom the storm coming her way . . . When Brynn awakes from a coma speak...

As a new decade begins, hopeless romantic and big dreamer Ellen is finally moving on from her hometown. In Galway she takes a job in a bookshop, and somewhere between the dusty bookshelves and the quiet afternoons, a bookseller called Ben finds a place in her heart. Fast forward, and the bright l...

An insufferable housemate, and her toughest acting role yet. One moment, actress Indigo James is on the verge of success in LA; the next, she's back in Sydney, housesitting an enormous, demanding labradoodle named George. To make matters worse, she's stuck with an unexpected housemate, the insuff...

Lottie Fairchild has two loves: history and, well, history. She's fascinated by the legends of love and curses handed down through her family. Owner of a little antique shop in small country town Banalla, Lottie is on the committee that is about to launch a new festival celebrating local history,...

It's New Year's Eve in Edinburgh when Emily sees Nicky. Or at least she thinks she does. He looks, laughs, and moves just like Nicky. But how can that be? Nicky died when they were teenagers, in an accident on a remote road up in the Highlands... didn't he? A week later, Emily sees the man again....

1990: Indu and Vijay leave India for Australia, seeking a better life. But the move isn't easy on anyone. Not gentle Indu, who becomes even further estranged from her family, nor the ambitious Vijay, who finds himself unmoored in a culture he doesn't understand. At the centre is Archana, their qu...