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Grace, a young linguist, plans a trip to Sicily to research Italian dialects. Travelling alone, she hopes for six weeks of total immersion in the language, food and social dynamics of Palermo. Then she'll be joined by her long-term partner and barrister, Jack, for the holiday he needs after his first major trial.But when Grace rents a room in writer Nico's apartment, what was intended as a period of study and internal reflection takes a different turn. Moving gently at first, Nico and Grace talk and prepare meals together, and he opens the door to the local experience she craves. As they spend more and more time together, however, Grace and Nico's conversations turn thrillingly intimate. And all the while, Jack's arrival in Sicily draws
nearer.

Slip
(Modern & contemporary fiction)
Abbey Lay
$34.99

For Marco and Mia, Sasha and Theo, Richie and Adam, the one constant in life after college together has been change. New jobs. New cities. New spouses. New children. Through it all, one thing they thought would always stay the same is their friendship. But time has a way of breaking even the strongest bonds, and testing what we thought we knew. As Ginder wondrously weaves us through the lives of these characters, from the overcrowded apartment parties of their twenties to the destination wedding crippled by high expectations and dreaded exes of their thirties, fortieth birthday parties that ring in a new decade and new problems, and backyard barbecues with too many toddlers and not enough
wine, So Old, So Young is a resonant, funny, and deeply moving novel about the growing pains of adulthood, and a celebration of how love can shift, stumble, and grow into something bigger than we ever could have imagined.

So Old So Young
(Modern & contemporary fiction)
Grant Ginder
$34.99

What a lovely home I found myself plummeting toward. . .
Not for the first time in fact, for the 343rd time Jill 'Doll' Blaine finds herself crashing down to earth, head-first, rear-up, to accompany her latest charge into the afterlife. She soon realises however that this man is not quite like the others.
For powerful oil tycoon K.J. Boone will not be consoled, because he has nothing to regret. He lived a big, bold life, and the world is better for it - isn't it?
As death approaches, a cast of worldly and otherworldly visitors arrive. Crowds of
people and animals alive and dead materialise, birds swarm the dying man's room, and associates from decades past show up, all clamouring for a reckoning.

Vigil
(Coping with death & bereavement)
George Saunders
$32.99

Corinne Gray’s life is falling apart. When homicide detective Kyle Nazarian unexpectedly knocks on her door on a rainy morning, she knows why. He wants to talk about her son, Ben.
An average teen in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, Ben is dating his first girlfriend and trying to find an after-school job. But as his luck sours, he’s increasingly drawn into shadowy corners of the internet.
This is Corinne’s chance to finally explain how her sweet-natured child, who loved history and dreamed of swimming for Olympic gold, grew up to do the unthinkable. What really happened to Ben? And could
anyone have prevented it?
Kyle, meanwhile, is grappling with his own crisis both at home and at work. Torn between his duties and a growing sympathy for Corinne, Kyle must decide how far he’s willing to go in his pursuit of justice.

Like, Follow, Die
(Crime & mystery)
Ashley Blunt
$34.99

In the village of Kiln Creek in the Victorian Highlands, a ghost gum falls in a storm. Tangled in its roots are the bones of a small child and the tattered remains of her clothing, including a pair of bright-red sneakers.
Single mum Jude Mees is in her early forties and struggling to get her business off the ground while raising her ten-year-old daughter, Katie, and managing a fractious relationship with her controlling ex-husband. But when Jude learns that her mother, Nance, who still lives alone on the family property at Kiln Creek, is showing troubling signs of dementia, she has no option other than to return and check on her.
And indeed, all is not well at the farm. Nance is slowly drifting off into her own world, and there are other disturbing occurrences. Strange smells, inexplicably wet footprints, a voice in the night. As her daughter starts to sleepwalk and Jude's nightmares take over her days, she begins to wonder whether her imagination is out of control or if something more sinister is happening ...

What The Bones Know
(Modern & contemporary fiction)
Kirstyn McDermott
$32.99

Famous, wealthy Anna Finbow, standing in court, accusing therapist Jean Guest of brainwashing her daughter Mary to access to her trust fund.Jean, claiming that the dark memories she's helped Mary uncover are real. That therapy has offered her a chance to finally heal.I'll tell you now that you shouldn't believe either of them.Only I can tell you the truth. But everything I say is in her defence.An fiercely intelligent psychological thriller of obsessive friendship, toxic families and courtroom politics, from an exceptional new talent.

In Her Defence
(Political / legal thriller)
Phillippa Malicka
$34.99

After a series of tragic events, Nicole leaves Sydney and her tight-knit immigrant family to build a new life for herself in London. Two years later though, when her visa is almost up, she heads back to her hometown, where everything is the same – but things are different.
Loved-up with a happy-go-lucky football coach and still planning on returning to London, Nicole reconnects with family, friends and more – and finds herself longing for what she once had.
Torn between continents and loyalties, Nicole has to decide what she truly wants for herself – a decision that will affect the
rest of her life.

Home is where the heart is … but what if your heart is torn in two?

Something New
(Modern & contemporary fiction)
Alex Sarkis
$34.99

Aubrey is not what she seems. She's young, beautiful, romantic, obsessive and ... a vampire. All she wants is to be human again, and failing that, she wants to die. But the problem is, she can't. Not by stake through the heart or holy water or crucifix or garlic or fire. And she'd know, she's tried every method. Twice.
So she's stuck here on this earth, all alone. Even the vampire who made her has abandoned her.
But everything changes when, one fateful night, she meets Jonathan. He's everything Aubrey's ever dreamed of and, what's more, he's her soulmate. Her Bella–Edward story.
For the first time in 150 years, she has a reason to hope—eternal life might be bearable after all. So when Jonathan unexpectedly breaks up with her, she'll do anything to get him back.
But that's the exact moment Oscar, aristocratic douchebag and her long-gone sire, swoops back into her life. And he has other plans for her. Soon, she's thrown into a world of glamour, glitter, blood and hedonism, a world that has her questioning everything she knows to be true—about life, but also about herself.
A world where nothing is simple ... and no one is safe, either.

Aubrey Wants to Die
(Modern & contemporary fiction)
Pip Knight
$34.99

Lonely college student Minnie feels invisible until she stumbles upon HOURglass- America's new K-pop inspired boyband obsession. Soon she is memorising the lyrics to every song and staying up late to watch their livestreams, hoping that her favourite member, bad-boy Halo, will see her in the comments.
On the other side of the screen, Halo is also becoming addicted to the adoration from his fans, using their love to paper over the cracks of the tragic past he is determined to keep hidden.
But when Minnie is drawn to a shadowy fan community who believe they need to protect
the band members from a dark conspiracy, the line between fandom and obsession begins to blur...

Superfan
(Modern & contemporary fiction)
Jenny Zhang
$34.99

There is a girl in a basement. The door has stopped opening. The light is gone. Stranger is trapped in the dark, with only her imagination and the scribbles on the wall left by long-dead girls to keep her company. Nearly out of food and water, she makes one last attempt to escape. But if the door opens at last, will it mean salvation, or only the beginning of her fight to survive? Audrey is a search and rescue expert who never stopped looking for her best friend, Janie, who disappeared when they were teenagers. Janie used to love the local legend of a forest witch who saves girls from bad men, but Audrey knows now that for every one saved, there's always another one lost. When she stumbles upon evidence in the forest
that a teenage runaway might have actually been kidnapped from land belonging to the town's most prominent family, she must dig through decades of secrets to reveal the biggest one of all: what happened to the girls before?

The Girls Before
(Thriller / suspense)
Kate Marshall
$34.99

Ed is in trouble with the yakuza. He's gambled away all his money and his family is at risk.But just as he's about to lose everything, he receives an offer he can't refuse.
A reclusive billionaire is looking for a private chef. The only catch- she has some. . . unusual tastes.
As he prepares delicious dishes - fresh crab salad with a panko crumb, lamb shank dripping in red wine juice, sweet, fluffy souffle pancakes - he realizes that each meal is a test, a challenge to satisfy an insatiable appetite.
Caught up in a world more sinister than he could ever have imagined, Ed finds himself entangled in another debt.
As the stakes grow, he must make a choice.Will he stay hungry? Or will he be greedy?
Dinner is served.Eat Up.

Greedy(Thriller / suspense)Callie Kazumi$34.99

You're the love of Esther's life. You just don't know it yet...
Esther first sees Ted walking in a park in London. They lock eyes and for a fraction of a second, she feels something she's never felt before.
She starts by reading up about his life in Canada and his work as an actor. Then she watches every interview with him online. It isn't long before she's joined Ted's fan site online where her and the 'Tedettes' stalk his every move.
When Ted gets a new celebrity girlfriend, Esther decides that things have gone far
enough. She leaves her husband, takes all their savings, and buys a one-way ticket to Canada.
After all, Ted might not know it yet, but they are meant to be together - he just needs a little bit of persuading...

Esther is Now Following You(Thriller / suspense)Tanya Sweeney$34.99

The Sisterhood Rules-
1. Never let a man come between you2. Share all your secrets3. Live life to the fullest - girls just wanna have funFor twin sisters Isabel and Verity, the sisterhood rules were shattered when Verity had an affair with Izzy's husband. Unforgivable, right? Devastated by her sister's betrayal, Izzy casts Verity into social Siberia.But when their mother goes missing, Verity and Izzy are forced to come together again to find her. And then the estranged sisters' problems only get bigger. Their mother has a new younger lover and where there's a will -
he'd clearly like to be in it.
Can they stop their mother making a dreadful mistake? And in doing so find a way to bury the pain of the past?

The Sisterhood Rules(Modern & contemporary fiction)Kathy Lette$34.99

Once a fearless SAS hero, Andy 'Deadman' Bird now battles the harsh streets of London after a catastrophic mission stripped him of his hearing, career, home, and marriage. His only solace is Tyson, his fiercely loyal and battle-tested dog. When fate thrusts them into the path of a chilling alleyway murder, Andy and Tyson become the next targets. Who are these relentless hunters, and what dangerous secrets are they willing to kill for? Desperate and cornered, Andy reaches out to his former brothers-in-arms - a team who owe him their very lives. But as they unravel a sinister web of organised crime and deadly political plots, who will be saving who this time?

Underdogs(Thriller / suspense)Stephen Leather$34.99

And The Corpse Wore Tartan(Crime & mystery)Stuart MacBride$32.99

FBI Agent Gardner Camden is an analytical genius with an affinity for puzzles. He and his squad of brilliant yet quirky agents make up the Patterns and Recognition (PAR) unit, the FBI's hidden edge, brought in for cases that no one else can solve.
PAR's latest case involves a militia group stockpiling weapons. When their confidential informant in the case is killed, it quickly becomes clear that the militia did not kill him.
As the squad looks into the evidence surrounding his murder, an unidentified man is caught on camera with their informant. This mystery man's picture is connected to
another case at the FBI, an unsolved series of murdered women, buried in the ground in north Florida. Could they have uncovered a serial killer? And if so, what is his connection to their C.I.?
As PAR juggles an investigation into both the dead women and the militia, they enroll a new informant, only to find the case escalating in dangerous ways. How will PAR handle a case that increasingly looks like a terrorist plot? And in the serial case, with no puzzles or witnesses, and few leads, how will a group set up to decode riddles be successful?

Inside Man(Crime & mystery)John McMahon$34.99

Former soldier. Deadly enemies. One fight for survival.
In a deadly game of cat and mouse, former Australian Infantry soldier Cable Martin faces his most dangerous mission yet: taking down a ruthless enemy — a rogue faction of ex-Australian Special Forces operatives who will stop at nothing to achieve their twisted goals.
When a chance encounter with an old comrade drags Cable into the shadows of modern crime, he finds himself hunted by Jack — an enigmatic and relentless leader hardened by the brutal battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq. Expert killers forged
by war, Jack and his team thrive on the thrill of the hunt, and Cable is their next target.
Outmatched and outgunned, Cable must rely on every ounce of his military training and instincts to survive. But these are no ordinary foes — they are predators who exploit weakness and kill without mercy.

Blood Hike(Espionage & spy thriller)Peter O'Hanlon$32.99

A Sydney Opera House production of The Rocky Horror Show ends in tragedy when a stage prop kills Hollywood star Dane Cooder in a spectacularly gruesome fashion. The whole theatre, including his wife and co-star Angelique Swan, watch in horror.
The death is ruled an accident, but Dick Sonntag, disgraced journalist with online gossip site WTF, disagrees. Sonntag is in the audience that night and investigates further. He launches a smash-hit podcast about the celebrity death and, due to the public outcry, the case is reopened.
At the same time, a small boy is kidnapped and held for ransom.
Detective Harry Stiles is brought in to lead both cases. She despises Sonntag: the last time they crossed paths, he derailed her investigation involving police corruption. Will Harry’s artificial intelligence skills help them pin down the culprits this time?
As the investigations unfold, Sonntag and Stiles uncover affairs, dark secrets and blackmail against the backdrop of Sydney Harbour.

Staged (Thriller / suspense)John M. Green$34.99

Berlin 1932: With Germany in chaos, Monika Varády, a young Bavarian actress, arrives in the capital with high hopes - to one day, just maybe, be a great star of the stage and screen.
But with the rise to power of Hitler and his brutal Nazi regime, the theatre scene falls under the control of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, becoming a minefield of political machinations that Monika, in love with a Bolshevik Jewish actor, must now navigate. As her star rises from the smoky bars of the demi-monde to the city's prestigious stages, most dangerous of all is Goebbels himself who takes a more-than-artistic interest in her.
While staying true to her beliefs and to those she loves, Monika must employ all the skills of her craft to outwit Goebbels and with her close friends, to resist the regime's attempts to rewrite German theatre and culture, by hiding in plain sight - even in the glare of the spotlight.

The Woman in The Spotlight(Historical fiction)J.R. Lonie$34.99

Western Australia, 1958- here, for generations, the MacBrides have lived on a remote sheep station, Meredith Downs. A million acres, it's an ocean of arid land.
One ordinary day, on a lonely road, patriarch Phil MacBride swerves to avoid a kangaroo. In seconds, the lives of his entire family are shattered.
Then, instead of leaving them to heal, fate comes back for them in a twist of consequences that will cause one of them to lose their life, and another to sacrifice theirs for the sake of an innocent child. Matt, the youngest MacBride, is plunged into a moral and emotional journey for which there is no
map, no guide, as he is forced to choose between love and duty, sacrifice and happiness.

A Far-Flung Life
(Modern & contemporary fiction)
M.L. Stedman
$34.99

Everyone has secrets. Some are worse than others.
Influencer and baking sensation April Masterson knows the secret to the perfect gooey brownies. Or how to make key lime squares that will melt in your mouth. But if you keep watching her offline, you may find out some other secrets about April. Secrets she'd rather you didn't know.
Like... Where did her son go when he snuck out late at night? What was she doing with the local soccer coach behind fogged windows?
And what's buried in her backyard?
April's secrets are enough to destroy her.
I'll make sure of that.

Want to Know a Secret?
(Thriller / suspense)
Freida McFadden
$34.99

Can a woman gifted with the power of healing survive in a world that burns what it cannot understand?
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 change the course of history.In a world that fears what it cannot explain, a story shared is the most potent magic of all.

The Names of a Hare
(Historical fiction)
Bernice Barry
$34.99

It's the mid-1960s and Lillian Wells is a clever teenager with a daring pixie cut, tangerine mini-dress and new boyfriend, Jim, who works at the brewery. Even better, he lives across the road, so she's never far from her bee-hived, high-heeled single mother Winnie, who is prone to attacks of the nerves. But Lillian harbours secret dreams of going to art school in London. When she gets in, how will she tell her mother - and Jim - that she's leaving Abingdon - and them?
Forty years later, Lillian's own daughter Rachel is heading off to university, but Lillian is not sure either of them are ready. She sees herself and Winnie in Rachel, who is ambitious and intelligent, but also prone to
nervous habits. As Lillian tries to bite her tongue about Rachel's symptoms, she is reminded of what everyone in Abingdon used to say- It's a short road to Longbrook... the local institution for the mentally ill. Lillian knows this is all too true, but in a family where secrets run through generations like the rushing waters of the local river, can she bring herself to break the cycle and tell Rachel the truth about her past?

A Short Road to Longbrook
(Modern & contemporary fiction)
Bethan Roberts
$34.99

Morally flexible best mates and private investigators Alice and Teddy pride themselves on fixing every kind of mess imaginable, no questions asked. So, when they're tasked with locating the recently-stolen ashes of long-dead celebrity tennis player Ashley “Perry” Perrineau, it should be a routine job.
But it quickly becomes clear that everyone who knew Perry is keeping secrets: his accountant despises Perry's widower; the sculptor of his statue is hiding something in her studio; his ex-doubles partner is a compulsive liar; and his mother is obsessed with preserving his legacy and her image at all costs.
Alice and Teddy will need to travel up and down Melbourne’s Mornington Peninsula – all while avoiding more than one person on their tail – to uncover the truth and keep the body count from rising. But will they and the people they love survive what they find?

Old Games
(Crime & mystery)
Fiona Hardy
$34.99

Wren Paisley is living her dream: she’s a successful author and poet, she adores the New York brownstone she calls home and she’s about to marry the love of her life. But everything changes when her fiancée, Lucy, dies in a tragic car crash that leaves a young bystander paralysed. Unable to escape the media frenzy, Wren goes on a road trip, winding up in the charming small town of Everston, Colorado.
It feels fortuitous when she learns that the local library hosts a grief support group that reads, of all things, poetry. Hesitantly, she joins, and slowly begins to build community with the other members, including: Henry, a librarian mourning the loss of his brother;
Emerson, a young woman recovering from a life-altering car accident; and Olivia, a complicated reporter who gives Wren butterflies. Finally, she can breathe again, and maybe even love again.
But how long can Wren keep her old life in the rear-view? Will she be able to build a new life in Everston, or will it all come crashing down when old truths come to light?

The Last Poem
Courtney Peppernell
$34.99

The Gambler
(Thriller / suspense)
J.P. Pomare
$34.99

Bruce College, a private school in a leafy Melbourne suburb, is a place for winners. Affectionately known as Bruisers, its boys' football program has a reputation for pumping out superstars. But when its girls' team pushes for glory, sixteen-year-old Grace Dooley is left with a catastrophic brain injury, and her parents want someone held accountable. The school points the finger at the coach, Brick Hannaford, a former professional player who is struggling with the legacy of his lauded, 300-game career. Brick says he was coaching the kids exactly as the parents and school demanded: hard.
In a rut, questioning her single-minded pursuit of a career at the expense of her
personal life, lawyer Romola Cross takes on Brick's case. She soon finds herself caught up in the complex and disturbing fallout of school sport turned toxic. As Romola investigates the reasons Grace played that day, she begins to understand the pressures bearing down on the girl - from peers, teachers, coach and parents. But who should take responsibility?What will the Court's judgment be? And, once the case is over, will Romola find what she's been searching for?

Smother
(Modern & contemporary fiction)
Eve Thomson
$34.99

Rebel-in-a-smock-dress Barri Brown has spent years slaving away as an English teacher in Guernsey, covering for colleagues with kids and barely tolerating the unhygienic staffroom etiquette. With a distant family and a husband who has just vanished along with her life savings, Barri dreams of escape. Her wild plan? Pretend she's having a baby and use the paid year off work to start over somewhere new. And so Barri tells the school she's pregnant, orders seven bumps on the internet and sets the wheels in motion for her great pregnancy heist. All she has to do is blag it until she can disappear for good, without getting caught and being sent to prison for fraud. How hard could it be? On a small island like
Guernsey: nightmarish. Especially when her student, fifteen-year-old irredeemable troublemaker Callum, discovers her secret. To make matters worse, Barri's fake pregnancy forces her to make genuine connections with friends and family for the first time in years and she begins to understand the true cost of her deception. It turns out scamming your way to a better life is harder when you start liking the life you're supposed to escape from . . .

Motherfaker
(Modern & contemporary fiction)
Anna Brook-Mitchell
$34.99

Early in life, Ruth survived a series of devastating events: Her little brother died from a childhood illness, her mother died of grief, and then her father was shot by the police right in front of their home. In the years following her father’s murder, Ruth pushes her past underground. She changes her name and moves to Kentucky, marries a man named Myron, and together they raise a kid. It’s been two decades, and she is, by outside measures, living a good life—but why doesn’t it feel good? When her marriage comes to a sudden end, their house burns down in the middle of the night, and she learns that her estranged sister has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Ruth is jolted back into action. She flees again, this
time back to her home state of California, with her nonbinary teenager in tow, perhaps ready at last to face her pain and retrieve her former self.

Trigger Warning
(Modern & contemporary fiction)
Jacinda Townsend
$32.99

EVERYBODY KNOWS THE STORY. NOBODY KNOWS THE TRUTH...
Lucy Golden is a true crime icon, infamous for killing someone as a teenager while escaping a California cult led by her father.
Twenty years later, still coasting on the original success of the memoir she wrote after her acquittal, Lucy knows that her story is always just once news cycle away from obscurity, even as online trolls are asking questions that threaten to tear her life apart.
So when a hot-shot documentary filmmaker decides to make her case his next subject, Lucy sees a chance to silence her doubters
once and for all.
As filming begins, and she returns to face her own past trauma in the California desert, long-buried secrets collide with present-day threats. Just how far will Lucy go to protect the story she's been telling - and selling - all along?

Paper Cut(Modern & contemporary fiction)Rachel Taff$34.99

EVERYONE THINKS THEY KNOW WHAT HAPPENED . . .The Sharaf family is the picture of success. They arrived in America as refugees with nothing more than the clothes on their backs. And now, after years of hard work, they live in the most exclusive neighbourhood, their growing family attending the most prestigious schools. Zorah, the eldest daughter, is the apple of her father's eye.But when Zorah dies in an unthinkable tragedy, the family is thrust into the court of public opinion. There is talk that the Sharafs' happy household was anything but, and soon the veneer of the model immigrant family starts to crumble.
Those who knew her best - and those who never met her - all have an opinion on who Zorah really was, and what really happened to her . . .

Good People(Modern & contemporary fiction)Patmeena Sabit$34.99

When a young woman is found dead at her kitchen table - with DNA belonging to her ex-boyfriend at the scene - psychologist Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis assume it's an open-and-shut case.
But the guy has an airtight alibi. Could an enemy from his shady past have framed him?
Many miles away, a former LAPD officer is found brutally murdered in her garage. Her co-workers knew her as meticulously organized, but her house is full of junk and meaningless objects - except for the envelopes full of cash hidden within the chaos...
But as Alex and Milo dig deeper, they discover shocking links between the victims. It soon becomes clear they have a complicated - and deadly - puzzle to solve.

Jigsaw(Thriller / suspense)Jonathan Kellerman$34.99

Four friends, two pregnancies and the mother of all awkward situations...
Hillary and her partner are eager for a baby, their sex life dictated by the automated texts from their fertility agency, MotherWorld.
Her best friend Maggie is a single mother living her best life, enjoying a healthy relationship with her ex, and a healthy appetite on the dating apps.
With her youngest now at school, Shelley is returning to the office, hoping to prove her value at the gold-star advertising agency she works for.
Meanwhile, midwife Virginia has made a career of helping other people have babies, but is suddenly yearning for one of her own. With no partner in sight, she cooks up an unhinged plan...

Seed(Modern & contemporary fiction)Elisabeth Easther$34.99

It's 1961 and the Queen is planning her state visit to Italy aboard Britannia. But before she goes, an unreliable witness claims to have seen a brutal murder from the royal train. Did it really happen, and could the victim be a missing friend of Princess Margaret's new husband, Tony Armstrong Jones?
The Queen and her assistant private secretary, Joan McGraw, get to work on their second joint investigation, little imagining that this time it will take them all the way to Venice in a tale of spies, lies and Cold War skulduggery.

The Queen Who Came in From The Cold(Crime & mystery)S.J. Bennett$32.99

The Bastards aren't afraid of anything.It's the mid-nineties, and in the small, shitty coastal town of Vincent, four girls - each hailing from single-mother, multi-sibling families, form a band: The Bastards. Friends since they were children, they consider themselves 'forgettable girls' - distracted, disillusioned, and desperate to escape the fates of their mothers.Winning the Battle of the Bands is their ticket out - they might not have talent, but they can play three chords and scream until their vocal folds burst out of their throats - and nobody wants it more than them.But when lead singer Lily Lucid quits, and accuses their idolized music teacher of sexual assault, the three remaining girls are
left with nothing. They'll do anything to keep their dream alive, even if it means sacrificing school, Lily and their mothers. But how far out of control can they spin before there's no turning back?

In Bloom (Modern & contemporary fiction)Liz Allan$34.99

When Yakov Holtzman arrives in Melbourne - about as far away as he can possibly get from the graveyard that is Europe - he puts behind him the years he spent in the forests of Lithuania as a leader of the resistance, fighting the Nazis. He has come to join his brother - his only surviving family member - and start a new life as the watchmaker he once was.
Yakov looks for solace - and love - in the fragile, traumatised community of Jewish refugees taking root in a new land. But when swastikas, threats and, most frightening of all, the faces of old enemies appear on the streets of suburban St Kilda, his new-found peace is shattered.
Fierce instincts are reawakened in Yakov, and he knows he must act. But how can justice - or revenge - best be served? And will Yakov's drive to destroy his enemies overtake him too, and leave his new life in ruins?

The Watchmaker's War(Historical fiction)Danny Ben-Moshe$34.99

By the time Laura and Olivia notice the headlights tailing them through the hills, it’s too late. What seems, at first, like a case of road rage quickly unfolds into a heart-pounding chase – and a battle for survival. Who are the men in the truck? What do they want? And can Laura and Olivia outrun – and outsmart – them long enough to call for help, even if it means taking their chances in the hills on foot? As their situation grows more perilous, the girls realize that the real terror has only just begun. But flight won’t save them from their pursuers. If they’re going to make it home alive, they'll have to fight . . .

Run on Red(Thriller / suspense)Noelle W. Ihli$34.99

Detective Lana Cohen thought she had found a slice of peace on the sun-drenched Gold Coast, but her respite is shattered when a severed hand is found on a local beach.
As the investigation unfolds, Lanaa is thrust into an uneasy partnership with an off-the-rails Internal Investigations cop ‘Miami’ Vince Walters, and a mysterious Melbourne private investigator Ewan Hayes. It soon becomes clear the new casino is bustling with shady types willing to lose it all, the glitzy shopping centres are rife with shoplifting and the gaudy nightlife is still full of corruption and drugs.

The Casino (Crime & mystery)Iain Ryan$34.99

So when an invitation arrives from his two closest friends, Celia and Adam Murphy, to join them at their house in Greece, he jumps at it.
It may be harsh and unwelcoming on the Mani Peninsula but Matt determines to stay there for the whole summer and to write his much put-off screen-play.
But then the Murphys plus children arrive, and a wealthy newcomer to the area starts throwing loud and lavish parties in his big house across the bay.
As the nights become hotter and the parties wilder, everyone's motivations darken. Envy
rises, resentments grow - until a terrible accident stops the summer in its tracks.
At least, it looks like an accident...

Dead Heat 
(Thriller / suspense)
Sabine Durrant
$34.99

Maisie and Charlie meet at a life-drawing session as undergraduates- she's the model, he's an artist. Their immediate connection carries them across two decades as they navigate the slippery dynamics of friendship, estrangement and family.
Maisie's story is every woman's, and Emily Lighezzolo's bold debut interrogates the collision of art and gaze, desire and consent, muse and meaning. This is a love story. At its core- a woman's body - seen, touched, loved, hated, commodified and reclaimed. Life Drawing is an award-winning and unflinching novel for our times.

Life Drawing
(Coping with death & bereavement)
Emily Lighezzolo
$34.99

How To Get Away With Murder
(Modern & contemporary fiction)
Rebecca Philipson
$34.99

As winter descends and the city fills with the scent of woodsmoke, a young transcriber follows the same routine each day. She collects tapes from a ghostwriter's office, stops for an espresso and croissant, and returns home to type out the voices of strangers - stories that will become someone else's novels. Her solitary life is predictable, unremarkable ... until the day she hears something different on the tapes- a message meant only for her.
Across the city, two women, Laura and Naomi, accidentally swap coats at a department store cafe. This brief encounter sparks something electric and strange, and soon, Laura has moved in with Naomi. As
the days pass, she begins to mirror her more and more closely - her gestures, her habits, her very essence. Slowly, deliberately, Laura starts to take over Naomi's life.
Meanwhile, the transcriber makes a disturbing discovery- she is beginning to disappear ...

Body Double
(Fiction in translation)
Hanna Johansson
$29.99

In Greengully, the perfect suburb with perfect parents, nothing is quite as it seems. Chrissy, the teacher who always has the answers, can't understand why her clueless male colleague just scored the job she deserved. Jenny, the perennial class mum, is desperate to hide her son's escalating behaviour from the other parents. Estelle insists her daughter Harmony is a delight-despite mounting evidence to the contrary. And Viv, the quiet one, carries a secret so dark it could destroy everything she loves.
As friendships strain and facades crack, The Mother of All Calamities exposes the lies we tell ourselves and the masks we wear for others. Sharp-eyed and utterly relatable, it
asks: What would happen if we all stopped pretending everything was fine?

The Mother of All Calamities
(Modern & contemporary fiction)
Lisa Moule
$34.99

CC Cilento's best memories are of spending every summer holiday running wild in and out of the Friend family beach house with her cousins, James, Ollie, Felix and Lily. It's the next best thing to having brothers and sisters. They've continued the summer tradition into adulthood, getting together at the shack with its absolute beach frontage.
But now a bombshell has dropped: the four Friend siblings have officially inherited the property - along with an unexpected fifth share to CC. What starts out as the perfect gift, and a way of keeping the family connected forever, quickly devolves into an emotional power struggle. Half of them want to keep the legacy intact, while the others
want to sell - and each side will do anything to make it happen. Soon, CC can't tell friend from foe.
When a body is found on the shack's beach, has this family dispute turned deadly?

The Drowning
(Crime & mystery)
Fiona Lowe
$32.99

High Hill Manor has a secret.The prestigious boarding school attracted the brightest students. But that was before the head girl Emily Asbourne was found – dead – on the ground below the belltower.
A long list of suspects.Chloe Carter joined in the final year. Things went badly wrong back in London, and she was desperate for a new start. She had her own reasons to hate Emily, but she wasn’t the only one.
A much-loved music teacher is charged with murder.Two decades pass, and Chloe greets Mr Aides at the prison gates on the day of his
release. She is ready to tell all. But sharing secrets is a dangerous business – and comes with a high price.

What I Told My Friends
(Modern & contemporary fiction)
Alice Leigh
$32.99

Greece, 1960. Rough weather at sea leaves a group of strangers stranded on the idyllic island of Utakos, all guests of the only local hotel.
Nothing could prepare them for what happens next: Edith Mander, a quiet British tourist, is found dead inside the beach cabana.
At first it appears to be a clear suicide, but Ormond Basil, an out-of-work actor best-known for playing Sherlock Holmes in his glory days, suspects foul play.
Accustomed to seeing Ormond as the greatest detective of all time on the big
screen, the other guests enlist him to solve the mystery. But can he do it before the killer strikes again?

The Final Problem
(Classic crime)
Arturo Perez-Reverte
$34.99

Rome, 1953. David is young, handsome, charismatic, and sworn to celibacy. He is freshly ordained, and about to return to England to begin life as a priest. Devotion to God is all he’s ever known, and all he thinks he ever will. In London, Margaret is entangled in an impossible love affair. Increasingly drawn to the Church, she sets out to join the new revolutions of sex and faith. Decades later, Margaret is being cared for by her grandson who has just discovered the strange truth of his family history. So begins a story of forbidden love and ardent faith, of devotion and sacrifice, as the consequences of this unlikely union play out across the generations.

A Private Man
(Modern & contemporary fiction)
Stephanie Quia
$34.99

A woman arrives in Geneva, the first stop in a train journey through the country of her father's birth. She yearns to be outside time - untethered and alone - but she soon becomes immersed in the stories resonating all around her.She visits a museum and stares into the oversized, disco-ball eyes of an insect, unsettled by the intimacy, 'like looking into the facial pores of a lover'. Later, she will tiptoe through the snow to find a portrait of James Baldwin on the window shutter of a chalet, his features rendered in rows of silver staples shot into timber.She will find traces of Mary Shelley and Fleur Jaeggy; android pioneers in eighteenth-century Neuchatel; Charlie Chaplin, Patricia
Highsmith, and striking workers drilling through the earth to create the vast Gotthard Tunnel; Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary as they summit Everest; Lenin and the Dada artists in early twentieth-century Zurich.

On Not Climbing Mountains
(Modern & contemporary fiction)
Claire Thomas
$32.99

What happened to the dog walker who found the body?
Glasgow, 1979.
Twelve-year-old Janey won't take her dog, Sid Vicious, for a walk. Not anymore. It's Sid's fault she found the murdered woman.
Janey claims she can't remember what she saw at the abandoned railway, but the police think she's hiding something. And they're not the only ones interested.
Fear and rumour rip through the tight-knit community of Possilpark. Janey and her nana, Maggie, are dragged into the hunt for a
murderer. And Maggie's struggle to keep her beloved granddaughter safe becomes ever more desperate.
Because Janey's memories can't stay hidden forever.
And neither can the killer...

A Bad, Bad Place(Crime & mystery)Frances Crawford$34.99

Detectives Alex Cross and John Sampson must divide and conquer when they're sent to investigate two serious crimes.
In Washington DC, John Sampson stands in a crater in the middle of a street and calls in the bomb squad for a suspected terrorist attack.
In North Carolina, Alex Cross searches the apartment of a missing psychology grad student - his own son Damon. Has following in his famous father's footsteps made Damon a target?
From FBI headquarters to police stations, airplanes to murder scenes, the detectives
track crimes committed hundreds of miles apart.
It will take more than distance to weaken their unstoppable partnership.

Cross & Sampson(Thriller / suspense)James Patterson$34.99

The Cornish coast. A handsome smuggler. A love story for the ages.
Isabel has always been a woman of mystery. As a child of four, she appeared on the Cornish shore, soaking wet, unable to speak. The villagers believed she was brought from the sea, the daughter of a spirit.
Now, newly widowed, Isabel feels the ocean calling her to come back home.
And when Jack Carlyon, an injured smuggler, crosses her path, she is swept up into a love story that will test her courage, her reputation, and her heart. Jack plays a dangerous game, and there are those that
would hang him if they knew what he was. Isabel fights to make sense of the magical pull of the ocean and wants to protect Jack – but at what cost?
She is a daughter of the sea. He is a man of the land. Can they overcome the odds to be together?

The Sea Child(Historical fiction)Linda Wilgus$49.99

Eight years ago, James McCready was convicted of killing his partner, Gary Meadows. But McCready has always claimed that the stabbing was a tragic accident and, when fresh evidence comes to light, he wins his appeal for a retrial.
Detective Inspector Pat North is assigned to the reinvestigation. But when North discovers that her partner, Detective Superintendent Mike Walker, led the original police inquiry, their fledgling relationship is put to the test - particularly when she starts to suspect that he is covering something up.Could Walker have tampered with evidence to frame an innocent man? And if so, who is the real killer?

Appeal(Crime & mystery)Lynda La Plante$32.99

Every morning before sunrise, Lim Ah Hock opens the shutters of his small kitchen on Carpenter Street, lights an incense stick and prepares the best laksa soup in all of Kuching. According to Lim family legend, the laksa's secret ingredient - their ancestral broth - was gifted to them by a deity, who promised the family prosperity as long as the broth is passed down through the generations.
But Ah Hock is aging, and the broth's quality is fading. His only son, Wei Ming, has no interest in the family business, having spent eight years in Hong Kong trying to prove himself as a chef. Now, he's struggling with gambling debts, embroiled in a love triangle,
and the restaurant he's been left to run has lost its Global Restaurants Guild star.
Invited home to Malaysia for his father's 60th birthday, Wei Ming sees a chance to escape his troubles. But when old conflicts resurface and a local businessman threatens to destroy the family legacy, father and son are forced to ask themselves what truly matters.

Early Mornings at the Laksa Cafe(Modern & contemporary fiction)Janet Tay$34.99

There's a killer inside all of us...
After an elite criminal profiling unit is shut down amidst a storm of scandal and mismanagement, only one person emerges unscathed. Forensic psychologist Doctor Alexander Gregory has a reputation for being able to step inside the darkest minds to uncover whatever secrets lie hidden there and, soon enough, he finds himself drawn into the murky world of murder investigation.
In the beautiful hills of County Mayo, Ireland, a killer is on the loose. Panic has a stranglehold on its rural community and the Garda are running out of time. Gregory has sworn to follow a quiet life but, when the call
comes, can he refuse to help their desperate search for justice?

Impostor(Crime & mystery)LJ Ross$34.99

A stunning discovery.Courtney Gray's tranquil family vacation is shattered when she hears a blood-curdling scream from the lakeside cottage next door. There she finds the lifeless bodies of her brother and sister-in-law. Her teenage niece Reese is nowhere to be found, while her nephew Wyatt lies asleep upstairs, unharmed.A shocking investigation.As the police descend on the quiet resort town, disturbing secrets about Courtney's family start to emerge. When she learns that the town has secrets of its own, it makes her wonder if Reese is another victim in a brutal crime or if she's the killer.A truth no one could have imagined . . .
As Courtney begins to unravel the terrible mystery, she realizes that everyone around her has something to hide. And the closer she gets to the truth, the harder it is to see . . .

It's Not Her(Thriller / suspense)Mary Kubica$32.99

It's 1999, and Nikki Rose is the only Black editor on the staff of a prestigious fashion magazine she once thought would be her ticket to becoming a respected editor-in-chief. But after being told one too many times by her boss that ‘Black girls don’t sell magazines’, she quits to take over Sugar, a struggling hip-hop music and lifestyle magazine with untapped potential.
Thrown into an entirely new world of wealth, decadence and debauchery, Nikki has just six months to save Sugar – and her own dreams. As she pulls all-nighters at the office and parties with New York City’s most influential bad boys, Nikki must prove she has what it takes to lead. But her most
dangerous challenge is evading Alonzo Griffin, her married, powerful ex-lover and former boss, who is determined to destroy both her and Sugar.
Determined not to be beaten, Nikki leans on a circle of loyal friends and navigates unexpected romances that force her to reckon with what – and who – she truly wants.

If I Ruled the World(Modern & contemporary fiction)Amy DuBois Barnett$34.99

For months, Luke and his underground revolutionary group have been planning their biggest operation yet: kidnapping 23-year-old Adeline Woolsaw. They don’t want a ransom – they want to expose the Woolsaw Group, the source of Adeline’s parents’ enormous wealth, a vast yet largely anonymous company that runs everything from military bases and mental hospitals to commuter trains, call centres, and prisons.
But the revolutionaries get a shock when they bundle Adeline into their van. She’s about to go into labour. And she may not object to being kidnapped, if it allows her and the baby to escape her despotic parents.
It quickly becomes apparent that this is no ordinary child. He’s capable of setting off deadly weather events and summoning plagues of vermin. And that’s just the beginning. Luke discovers that Adeline’s parents engineered the pregnancy as part of a dark bargain with an ancient evil of nearly limitless power. Now the Woolsaws and their henchmen will stop at nothing to get the infant back, so they can establish an infernal new kingdom on Earth with their grandchild on the throne.

The CaptiveNed Beauman$42.99

Carwyn and Rhian - the last in a long family line of sheep farmers - are living out a brutal year in their hillside farm, deep in the mountains of Eryri, North Wales. When Carwyn stumbles across a stone circle and some sort of burial mound in one of the fields on their land, he quickly develops an obsession. His wife, Rhian, meanwhile, is confronted with the growing realization that the man with whom she shares her life and home is slowly becoming a frightening stranger. As the harsh mountain winter closes in, Rhian finds herself alone with her increasingly peculiar husband, the mountains, and the looming megalithic stones . . .

The Hill in the Dark Grove(Modern & contemporary fiction)Liam Higginson$34.99

It's a beautiful day to be alive, Bill Dickerson thought, seconds before he tumbled from the viaduct onto the jagged rocks below . . .
His awful death made national news. But still, one year on, Bill's widow Carol has received no explanation about what happened. Was it suicide? An accident? Maybe murder?
So Carol hires lawyer Ryan Bradley in her fight for justice. Ryan has just returned to the remote town of Nashville after ten years away, so he's in no position to turn down work.
Except the case seems hopeless from the
start. Bill's employer is denying responsibility, Carol's friends are shunning her, and the only witnesses - co-workers Gav Coates and Wati Reynolds - can shed no light on the tragic fall. Even Senior Sergeant 'Stinger' Nettle is too busy turning a blind eye to Wati's illegal schemes to dig deeper into the death.
But in small towns, nothing is quite what it seems. And for one Nashville resident the wrong question will come at a deadly price . . .

The First Law of the Bush(Thriller / suspense)Geoff Parkes$34.99