Collection: ADULT FICTION

"As fireflies dazzle like tiny glowing lanterns, tea maven Theodosia hosts an elegant evening tea on the patio of the Tangled Rose B and B. But in this gentle darkness an intruder has made their way in and slipped deadly drugs into the baked Alaska of Mrs. Van Courtland, one of Charleston's local...

A radical collection of reimagined fairytales from three incredible Australian authors. In the middle of a great famine, two siblings are cast out into a forest that holds both danger and beauty. Perpetual winter descends upon a giant's garden after rowdy children are shut out by a massive wall. ...

Melbourne teacher Netta Phillips is staring down the barrel of her fortieth birthday with her relationship in the bin, months of negative pregnancy tests and a mortgage she can't afford. Things really aren't going to plan. When she finds the childhood diary of celebrity musician Morrison 'Mo' Map...

Before the Anthropocene, the air pulsed with birdsong. Now, a silence is falling. Ava spends her days at The Department, rebuilding lost species from the remaining fragments of art and scientific data. Her dying mother thinks she should quit. So does her lover, and the sex workers who loiter outs...

Two hungry boys set out from their squat by a slow river on a not quite mythic quest for revenge. At the same time, a local pastor drives from his beachside home to visit a dying parishioner. What each means to the other will be revealed as brothers, Gark and Pell, run for their lives over one de...

What if the only way to save your brother's life was to become a spy? 1940, Sydney. World War II is raging across the globe. But so far, Frances Davies has managed to avoid the firsthand toils of combat. That all changes when her brother, Thomas, is reported MIA in Singapore. Frankie meets Leo, a...

My mother's first memory was more rooted in emotion than in any particular event. If she had to describe it, it would be the colour of blood. Spanning a century and four countries, Bound is the story of three generations of women trying to escape the legacy of their past. Each wants to escape to ...

When Cass leaves London with a fractured heart, she plans to settle in Australia, specifically in the beautiful area of Victoria coastline where she spent so many happy holidays. Yet when she arrives, her house is not quite what she'd envisaged - doing a place up is one thing, living with things ...

My name is Elinor Gilbert. And I am the Invisible Woman. No, not the kind who can walk through walls, or make a deck of cards look like it's shuffling itself. The other kind, facing uncertainty in middle age. Once a top FBI agent, Elinor had faded into obscurity, her past mistakes casting long sh...

A woman confronts the unquenchable half-life of passion, in a new novel by one of our most acclaimed and inventive writers of fiction. The things that hold life in place have been lifted off and put away. Uprooted by circumstance from city to deep countryside, a woman lives in temporary limbo, vi...