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A fugitive sister. A dangerous father. A terror cell hiding in plain sight. Kit McCarthy hasn't seen her identical twin sister, Billie, in more than a decade. The sisters don't see eye to eye, which is understandable, considering Kit's a police officer and Billie followed their violent father...

‘You're a stinkbug and they're worried if they come near you, your stench will get all over them and they won't be able to wash it off.' When Edith and a select group of employees at Winked advertising agency are sent to Consequi, an elite three-day work retreat in the remote mountains, she...

A riveting portrayal of female friendship, and the frayed boundary between loyalty and desire Mari and Elisabeth have been at the centre of each other’s lives for years. Close friends since university, they’re now drifting through their mid-twenties, working casual jobs and living in...

‘Mum, please. I need your help. I’ve done something stupid… They’re coming for me.’ Friday, one thirty p.m. Emily Barnes is finishing work for the week, ready for a break from her laptop. Then she receives a panicked voicemail from her son Zach, punctuated by a gunshot. By four p.m...

From Dancing with Bees author Anna Maynard, this big-hearted and relatable romance is a story of self-discovery, second chances, and learning to back yourself. Disciplined and pragmatic, Mary Roberts feels she's got her life under control. She's recently moved to Hobart, she's nearing the end of...

A thrillingly weird novel about art, obsession, and the feral nature of female creativity. Sabine is a conceptual artist whose latest show, Fuck You, Help Me, is about to launch, when her world begins to unravel. Stalked by a mysterious figure whose approaches grow increasingly threatening, she...

Accidental strangers or star-crossed lovers? Tom and Sophie are about to find out. Tom is a music student and aspiring songwriter. He wholeheartedly believes in meant to be and, more specifically, in his turbulent relationship with a far more successful recording artist. Even when her sudden...

Theft. Extortion. Dinner with Dad. Lola McKenzie never wanted to steal from her dodgy boss. But she also never wanted to be stuck in a dead-end job, paying off her dad's debts. So when she sees a bag of cash sitting around unattended at work, she figures it's time to make life a little easier...

Be your best self, even if it kills you. Sisters Annie and Clover have always been close. So when Annie turns up, heartbroken and jobless on Clover's doorstep, she happily takes her in. Sunny, optimistic Clover is living her best life on the Northern Beaches of Sydney. She’s attending...

A love-drunk Shakespeare enthusiast and a disillusioned Instagram baker try to kill each other at a wedding. They're supposed to be best friends so how did they end up here? Part 10 Things I Hate About You, part My Brilliant Friend, part Lena Dunham's Girls, Dream Girls explores female...

Sometimes the most important lessons are learnt at lunchtime Parks State High is a melting pot of misfits. There is Oliver Fish, the teen philosopher hiding a secret relationship; Dev Patel, hopelessly in love with the brilliant Maryam Fadel; and a staffroom thick with gossip, camaraderie and...

A new novel full of moral dilemmas and problematic characters from the author of The Opposite of Success. Bean had no intention of taking the money. Not at first… Bean Halloway, lone nobody in a family of ambitious somebodies, is still figuring out what she wants from her life. She always says...

A gripping crime fiction novel from the author of Everywhere We Look. Two couples - Annabelle and Luke, Des and Julianni - embark on a camping trip to K'gari, a picturesque island off Queensland's coast. Things have been tough lately, but this holiday is just what they need - white sands, clear...

A profoundly relatable debut novel about chasing your dreams and losing your ambition from a stunning new Australian voice. What happens when overnight the Next Big Thing becomes a nobody? Twenty-six-year-old Evelyn is well on her way to becoming an international opera star. . . until one night...

Three women. A baby rescued from the sea. Lives forever changed. When Sapphie, a passionate environmentalist, goes on a camping trip in the bush, she miraculously rescues a baby from the sea. The baby belongs to Candace, a charity worker struggling with new motherhood. The act of rescue throws...

A masterful and explosive crime novel that explores the mind of a killer and the power of a granddaughter's love, by Stella Prize longlisted and critically acclaimed author Mandy Beaumont, for those who love Emma Cline or Laura Elizabeth Woollett. That afternoon, when the police and then my...

A wry, tender and funny debut novel about art and love – and how the act of seeing lies at the heart of both. All Ellie Robertson has wanted to be since childhood is a painter: after all, that’s the easiest way to speak without actually having to say anything. But now she’s turning thirty...

It was as if the present and the past were linked: a spider’s web, wherein a shock to one strand could make the whole structure shake. The Kelly family’s idyllic holiday in the south of France is disturbed when Cass, a thirteen-year-old girl, goes missing. She’s discovered several hours...

For Ellen Whitfield, the betrothal of her dear friend Harriet to Ellen’s brother has brought both loss and solace. But when Harriet suddenly breaks off the engagement, ostensibly at the insistence of her deceased mother, Ellen is bewildered. And when she learns that Harriet is involved with a...

SHORTLISTED FOR NED KELLY AWARD FOR DEBUT CRIME FICTION Three friends travel to Marcoy, a regional town for a weekend away from family life. One year ago, a tragic incident splintered the group, and the women have seen little of each other since. Melissa has slept much of the past twelve months...