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THE THRILLING NOVEL FROM THE WORLDWIDE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER and RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK On a plane bound for Sydney the unassuming woman from seat 4D walks down the aisle making unsettling predictions about the passengers. And six strangers find their...

France, 1915. An English nurse and German doctor fall in love. He is a prisoner of war; she has never cared for rules. Their love is visceral and urgent, forbidden and doomed, and it would have gone unrecorded if not for a series of drawings found more than a century later. At first the drawings seem insignificant, but the woman who finds them glimpses moments of intimacy and can't look away. The images become part of a puzzle she wants to solve: who were the lovers, what became of them, and what story of war was the artist trying to tell?

An eminent High Court Judge is forced to reckon her professional life and role as wife, mother, friend, and feminist when a devastating crisis hits home. Jessica is a recently appointed Judge in London, who grapples with balancing her demanding professional responsibilities with her roles as a...

Introducing the fabulous Ms Peregrine Fisher, niece of the famous Phryne Fisher, as seen on 7plus and Acorn tv Peregrine Fisher is unexpectedly summoned to a meeting of the Adventuresses' Club of the Antipodes, where she learns some incredible news. When fellow adventuress Florence Astor is...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the beloved author of Big Little Lies, Apples Never Fall, and The Husband’s Secret comes a moving novel of love, marriage, family, and trying to find certainty in a fragile world. “The premise is irresistible—a woman on a flight from Hobart to Sydney...

‘Brilliant. Each story takes us into a new world but the collection is bound together by a unified sensibility and a belief in the power of adaptability.’ Michael Billington ‘A fox could be a shape-shifter, a spirit being. It could appear in human form if this suited its purposes; it could...

If you knew when you were going to die, what would you do differently? It all begins on a flight from Hobart to Sydney. The flight will be smooth. It will land safely. Everyone who gets on the plane will get off the plane. But almost all of them will be changed forever. Because on this ordinary...

As the rest of the world lies sleeping, Eleanor straps her infant daughter, Amy, into the back of her car. This is the moment she knew must come, when they will walk out on her husband, Leon, and a marriage in ruins since his return from Vietnam. Together, she and Amy will journey to blue mountain, a place of enchantment and refuge that lit up Eleanor's childhood. As the car eats up the miles, so Eleanor's mind dives back into her fractured relationship with her mother, Kitty. Kitty who asked for so much from life, from love, from family. 

Shortlisted for the 2021 Prime Minister's Literary Awards ‘A fox could be a shape-shifter, a spirit being. It could appear in human form if this suited its purposes; it could come and go as it pleased, play tricks, lead men astray.’ A film director in Hackney with a fox problem in her garden...

The beloved Black River duology concludes in this spine-tingling, swoon-worthy vampire romance with an epic twist that will stay with readers forever. It’s Halloween in Black River, and the days are dark and cold. Four months have passed since the teenagers of White Mountain learned the truth...

1936: At nineteen, Kitty was ready to leave behind the stifling control of her parents and all those constantly telling her how to live her life. Work at the Wintonvale Repatriation Hospital was her escape and a chance to be someone else. Then she met soldier George Turner - and she heard her...

Tessa is a thoroughbred. A young, brilliant barrister from a working-class background now at the top of her game: defending, cross-examining and lighting up the shadows of doubt in any case. The law is a game and she is its most talented player. One sickening night, though, Tessa finds herself...

With electrifying boldness and fearlessness of vision, Holland-Batt confronts what it means to be mortal in an astonishing and deeply humane portrait of a father’s Parkinson’s Disease, and a daughter forged by grief. Opening and closing with startling elegies set in the charged moments before and after a death, and fearlessly probing the body’s animal endurance, appetites and metamorphoses, The Jaguar is marked by Holland-Batt’s lyric intensity and linguistic mastery, along with a stark new clarity of voice.

Twilight meets Shatter Me in a mystical new YA paranormal romance series – vampires are BACK.​ All seventeen-year-old Dusty wants is to escape into books and the wilderness that surrounds her mountain home. What she doesn’t know is that there’s something waiting for her in the shadows of...

The first book in a paranormal small-town mystery romance duology about a teenager who suddenly develops vampire tendencies and must do everything she can to keep her family and the boy she’s falling for safe – for fans of The Vampire Diaries, Twilight and The Raven Boys. All...