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Author: Sara Gruen

This is a great, glorious, big-hearted novel set in a travelling circus touring the backblocks of America during the Great Depression of the early 1930s. It's a story of love and hate, trains and circuses, dwarves and fa ...

Author: Marina Lewycka

Marina Lewycka explores the clash of the generations in one extremely colourful family in her comic novel "Various Pets Alive and Dead". For twenty years Doro and Marcus lived in a commune, convinced lentils and free lov ...

Author: Nick Earls

This collection of stories showcase the calibre and versatility of Nick Earls at his perceptive best. An Australian wine-maker tries to crack the Taiwanese market. Two holiday-makers in Spain decide to tell a lie about e ...

Author: Ann Whitehead

Eleven-year-old Marina and her beloved parents are travelling to a new life in Australia. But illness quickly spreads through their ship and before they have reached their new home, Marina has been left an orphan. Taken ...

Author: Gail Jones

An exquisite and moving new novel from this master storyteller.

On a radiant day in Sydney, four adults converge on Circular Quay, site of the iconic Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Crowds of tourists ...

Author: Mandy Magro

At nineteen, Molly Jones has the world at her feet. Then one drunken night she falls into bed with Mark, a cowboy just passing through. By the time Molly realises she's pregnant, Mark is long gone. Now, at twenty-six, Mo ...

Author: Mead Richelle & Richelle Mead

BOUND BY LOVE, BUT SWORN TO KILL . . . GUARDIAN ROSE HATHAWAY'S LIFE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME. The recent attack on St. Vladimir's Academy devastated the entire Moroi world. Many are dead. And, for the few victims carried ...

Author: Stuart B. MacBride

Terrifying serial killer thriller set in the gritty Glasgow of the near future, from the bestselling author of the Logan McRae series. There are worse things than the death penalty! They call them halfheads: convicted cr ...

Author: Joseph Conrad

A haunting and hugely influential Modernist masterpiece, the "Penguin Classics" edition of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" is edited with an introduction by Owen Knowles. Conrad's narrator Marlow, a seaman and wander ...

Author: Benita Brown

Village girl Linda Bellwood has always been in awe of the glamorous Hylton family. So when they hire her as companion to the grandmother, she's thrilled. However, when her friendship with the youngest son Florian blossom ...

Author: Duncan Falconer

When elite operative John Stratton is sent to Yemen by the Secret Intelligence Service to track down a suspected al-Qaeda cell, he thinks he knows what he is dealing with. But when he and his colleagues get captured by S ...

Author: Iain Gale

Superb war novelist, Iain Gale, moves into the twentieth century and World War Two, telling the story of the eleven days that would change the course of history. There are some battles that change the course of history: ...

Author: Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Lucy Jorik's the daughter of a former U.S. President . . . Meg Koranda's the offspring of legends . . . One of them is about to marry Mr. Irresistible--Ted Beaudine--the favorite son of Wynette, Texas . . . The other ...

Author: Susan Lewis

Eva Montgomery is at the peak of her career when she is viciously attacked by a stalker. While still traumatised, she makes the biggest mistake of her life - one she can never turn back from. Sixteen years later, Eva has ...

Author: Mary Kay Andrews

After her boss is caught in a political scandal, fledgling Washington lobbyist Dempsey Jo Killebrew is left broke, unemployed, and homeless. Out of options, she reluctantly accepts her father's offer to help turn Bird ...

Author: Charles Todd

A love triangle turned deadly sends Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge to Hampton Regis, a small harbor town on the southern coast of England simmering with secrets. Accused of attacking a former lover's husband, an ol ...

Author: Dan James

A Doomed Voyage: April 14th 1912. The maiden voyage of the world's most luxurious passenger liner, Titanic. A Dark Past: Each passenger has their own reason to make the crossing, but for former Special Branch police offi ...

Author: Beverly Jenkins

This title is another high-stakes historical romance from award-winning romance author Beverly Jenkins.

Author: Caroline Smailes

'Haunting, heartfelt and beautiful' CHRIS CLEAVE Nina, her son Christopher in tow, flies to Malta for one last visit with her aging parents. Her previous attempt to see them ended in tears. Disowned for falling pregnant ...

Author: Jamie M Saul

Light of Day is a powerful and illuminating novel about love, loss, and the unforeseeable darkness that lurks around the corners of everyday life.

Respected professor Jack Owens brought his son, Danny, to Gilbert, I ...