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Winner of the Allen & Unwin Fiction Prize 2023. After surviving a brutal attack, Auckland cop DS Honey Chalmers has returned to her hometown to care for her mother. The remote coastal settlement of He Kino holds complicated memories for Honey, not least the tragic suicide of her younger sister...

Meet Detective Matthew Venn. From Ann Cleeves, the Sunday Times bestselling creator of Vera Stanhope and Shetland's Jimmy Perez, The Long Call is the number one bestselling first novel in the Two Rivers series. Read by Ben Aldridge, star of ITV's hit TV adaptation. 'Clever, compassionate and...

Welcome to Ballycove, the home of Corrigan Mills... Set against the backdrop of the beautiful Irish countryside the famed Corrigan Mills are run by the seemingly perfect Corrigan family, but every family has its secrets, and they don't always stay hidden. Ada has forever lived her life in her sister's shadow. Wanting only to please her mother and take over the family business, now Ada has to take a look at what her heart really wants. Callie has a flourishing international career and a man who loves her dearly, she appears to have it all.

Kit Porterfield is coping with the upheaval of her personal life when another shock blindsides her. Maxine Meadows, an aunt she never knew existed, has bequeathed to her a rustic campground in Maine. With it comes a long-buried family secret that Kit’s late mother took great pains to hide for her entire life.

In this standalone and companion novel to the The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek series, our heroine for the ages, legendary book woman, Cussy Lovett, returns home. A powerful testament of strength, survival, and the magic of the printed word, The Mountains We Call Home is wrapped into a vivid...

Steven McAllister is a villain. Once a villain, always a villain, right? There's no one I hate more in our small town, and now that my dad is his boss, I can't avoid him. And maybe… maybe I don't want to. Because the more I get to know him, I realize there's more to him than I thought. With...

Running the Ambrose Tavern and Boarding House with his brother, Paxton knew everyone in Calaway Crossing. So, when a strange woman showed up at the bar one night, he knew she wasn’t a local. Elaina Quintero was the new paramedic. Hired to sit in an ambulance five days a week. She loved her job, but she hated where it had taken her. This middle of nowhere town was not where she wanted to be.

Call me Cy. I’m ten an’ live with Mama an’ Daddy on our farm outside o’ town. Don’t much happen around here, s’you probly ain’t never heard of it. I ain’t got no other family, but in 1921 I got me a friend who moved here. We b’came friends on account o’ us havin’ the same first name. They ain’t too many people name o’ Cyril. He was born on a plantation an’ when his mama an’ him was freed, they left. But he come back after his wife passed an’ he retired.

Sonny and Clara Myers struggle on their Kansas farm in the late 1930s, a time the Lord gave up on: their land's gone dry, barren, and worthless; the bankers are greedy and hungry, trying to squeeze them and other farmers out of their homes; and, on top of that, their marriage is in trouble. The couple can struggle or surrender and hightail it to California like most of the others. Sonny refuses to abandon the family farm, so Clara takes off westward in their old battered truck. Alone on the farm and determined to get back Clara and the good old days, Sonny comes up with an idea....