Collection: Adult Fiction

Maggie Bird's 'book group' is an unusual one -- a group of retired spies living an anonymous life in the seaside town of Purity. And this summer they plan little more than 'reading' (whilst sipping martinis), and some gentle birdwatching. But trouble is just around the corner as the summer guests...

Twenty-seven-year-old screenwriter Elle has the chance of a lifetime to write a big-budget movie set in New York City. The only problem? She's had writer's block for months, and her screenplay is due at the end of the summer. In a desperate attempt at inspiration, Elle ends up back in the city sh...

In January 1989, Birdie wakes to the news she's been waiting eighteen years to hear. Jimmy Maguire, the man who killed her sister, has been freed from jail. Birdie leaves for London with a gun and a plan: to find him and make him pay. But this is a story with two sides. For Jimmy knew Birdie a lo...

As one of only a handful of female medical graduates working at the Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, Clara Heywood refuses to be denied the chance to become a surgeon because of her sex. As her male colleagues, including her unofficial fiance Edward, head off to war, Clara grapples with a sense ...

Lexi is looking for no-strings-attached fun with a stranger. She deserves one night for herself, doesn't she? Zeke is looking for love. But for one night with a woman like Lexi, he'll break his rules. Sparks fly at the pub, one passionate kiss leads to another and they end up stumbling home to th...

We haven't always lived like this... Fin grew up by an observatory, learning about telescopes and planets, inspired by the passions of her parents, then leaders in their fields of astrophotography and astronomy. Those days are long over. Now Fin, her mother, Dianella, and a band of outliers live ...

Rule One: Travel can only occur to a point within your lifetime. Rule Two: You can only travel for ninety seconds. Rule Three: You can only observe. The rules cannot be broken. This is not the story you think you know. And the rules are only the beginning. The Third Rule of Time Travel is a rivet...

England, 1940. Evelyne Redfern, known as "The Parisian Orphan" as a child, is working on the line at a munitions factory in wartime London. When Mr. Fletcher, one of her father's old friends, spots Evelyne on a night out, Evelyne finds herself plunged into the world of Prime Minister Winston Chur...

A heartwarming and evocative novel of love, friendship and family, where hope overcomes all - even terrible hospital coffee. Andie has no memory of the man who pushed her out of the way of a speeding car. A week before Corals biggest career highlight, her mum has a fall. And the last thing Mara w...

On the glittering island of Capri, anything can be a mirage. But one thing is true- there's nothing deadlier than a family with everything to lose . . . The world was shocked by playwright Sarah Lingate's death thirty years ago at an opulent, white-washed villa on the island of Capri. Absolved of...