Collection: ADULT FICTION

At the height of Australian summer, a serial killer known as The Shark stalks a coastal suburb, hunting young female swimmers. Afraid and furious at the failure of the police to protect them, two women fight back. Raych is grieving someone she'd have died to save, while Carmen hides her own distu...

A serial killer is on the loose in Richmond, Virginia. Three women have died, brutalised and strangled in their own bedroom. There is no pattern: the killer appears to strike at random - but always early on Saturday mornings. So when Dr Kay Scarpetta, chief medical officer, is awakened at 2.33 am...

Cornwall, 1628. A young girl guards a dangerous secret: she can leave her body and fly. Steeped in herbal lore and forbidden spells, the girl becomes a woman, while across the land whispers of witchcraft turn deadly. When witchfinder Matthew Hopkins sets out to hunt her down, their meeting will c...

Gem and Will grow up on a farm above the chasm and pool known as the Minstrels, a site where both are broken, each by the other. One will disappear. One will, eventually, be transformed. Through her encounters with people and through art, land and language, Gem is remade while the world outside c...

An award-winning and provocative novel about women's bodies, sex, autonomy - and the power of the image. Hypothetically, would you want to live forever but invisible, or a short life seen? Hypothetically, would you give up wine forever or sex for ten years? Hypothetically, would you show a friend...

It's 1977 and an air of restlessness has settled on the residents of Cambridge Road in Rochester, New York, a place long fuelled by the booming fortunes of Kodak and Xerox and, for some, the mores of the Catholic church. When Nina Larkin is given a copy of The Joy of Sex by her newly divorced fri...

When Imogen inherits a country house near Bath, she hopes for a fresh start with her partner, Josh. But an old box in the abandoned study hints at a secret from reclusive artist Dorothea Roe, last seen sixteen years ago. As rumours of Dorothea's murder surface, Imogen fears the gift may put her o...

Simmy is four months pregnant, working partly from home and partly from her Windermere florist shop when her husband Christopher asks her to take flowers to Eleanor Padgett. Eleanor has helped him in his auction house, as she is an expert in antique textiles. She lives near the church at Dacre, a...

Sabrina's dream Melbourne cafe is struggling, and her love life is no better. To meet the "boyfriend clause" in her parents' loan, she invents a fake partner - naming him after the rude, brooding writer next door. Chaos, a family trip to England, and undeniable attraction blur the line between pr...

In a land where an ancient prophecy is renewed every generation, two countries are trapped in a repeating cycle of war. But the cycle is broken, and destiny is beginning to unravel. Luminara, a palace servant, sneaks into the birthday party of the newly anointed ruler, Rianthran, where the two fo...