The girl in white was supposed to be a ghost. Then her body was found at the bottom of the folly.Everyone in Thorncombe knows the legend of the murdered bride who haunts the woods—a girl in a white dress who lures the unwary to their deaths. Most dismiss it as folklore.Until Halloween.The morning after a party in the haunted woods, a teenage girl is discovered dead. Dressed in white. Her body carefully arranged beneath an ancient stone folly.

An utterly riveting, moving and poignant memoir of grief and loss that will speak to anyone who's ever lost someone they love.'An Ocean and a Day is a gift for those who have suffered the loss of someone so dearly loved. Much like Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, it offers a glimmer of hope in a seemingly endless well of sorrow.' Books+PublishingIn 2014, author Hannah Richell was living a happy and fulfilled life in Syd...

An utterly riveting, moving and poignant memoir of grief and loss that will speak to anyone who's ever lost someone they love.'An Ocean and a Day is a gift for those who have suffered the loss of someone so dearly loved. Much like Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, it offers a glimmer of hope in a seemingly endless well of sorrow.' Books+PublishingIn 2014, author Hannah Richell was living a happy and fulfilled life in Syd...

A remote glamping retreat.A storm that cuts off all escape.And one guest who vanishes without a trace.Max and Annie Kingsley thought they were starting over.After leaving London behind, they move to the rugged Cornish coast with their twelve-year-old son to launch a luxury glamping retreat. Before opening to the public, they invite three old university friends and their families for a weekend getaway.I...

**'**[a] beautifully written novel that brims with art, beauty, love, family, passion and secrets' - Books+PublishingTwo summers, decades apart. T****wo women whose lives are forever entwined. And a house that holds the secrets that could free them both.At twenty-six, Lillian feels ancient and exhausted. Her marriage to Charles Oberon has not turned out the way she thought it would. To her it seems she is just anot...

The river can take you home. But the river can also drag you under...'It's something she learned years ago - the hard way - and that she knows she will never forget: even the sweetest fruit will fall and rot into the earth, eventually. No matter how deep you bury the pain, the bones of it will rise up to haunt you ... like the echoes of a summer's night, like the river flowing relentlessly on its course.'Margot Sorrell didn't want to go home. She h...

'Moving and deeply suspenseful' - Sydney Morning HeraldEvery family has its secrets.Some are small, like telling a white lie or snooping through a private drawer. Others are more serious, like infidelity and betrayal. And some secrets are so terrible they must be hidden away in a deep, dark place, for if they ever came to light, they would surely tear a family apart...The Tides are a family full of secrets. Returning to Cli...

'an engrossing and clever tale' - Anita Shreve, author of The Weight of WaterThe stunning new novel from the author of the bestselling Secrets of the Tides. A captivating story of secrets, tragedy, lies and betrayal.No one knew one lost year would cast such a long shadow...On a sultry summer's day in 1980, five friends stumble upon an abandoned lakeside cottage hidden deep in the English countrysid...

Shortlisted for the 2024 Ned Kelly Awards, Best International Crime FictionYou are invited to:The Search PartyJoin six old friends for one wild weekend at Cornwall’s newest glamping spot.The guests:The anxious hosts with everything at stake.The boho hippies concealing a private darkness.The TV celebrity with his hot new wife and an even hotter temper.The exhausted new parents with a secret to hide....

A girl in white is found dead beneath an ancient folly—and a small town's darkest legend suddenly becomes terrifyingly real.From the bestselling author hailed as “the new master of the atmospheric thriller” comes a chilling crime novel packed with twists, secrets and small-town suspense.On Halloween night, a party in the woods ends in tragedy.By sunrise, a young woman is dead.Her body lies at the foot of an ancient stone folly, care...

The Tides are a family with dark secrets. Haunted by the events of one tragic day ten years ago, they are each, in their own way, struggling to move forwards with their lives.Dora, the youngest daughter, lives in a ramshackle East End warehouse with her artist boyfriend Dan. Dora is doing a good job of skating across the surface of her life - but when she discovers she is pregnant the news leaves her shaken and staring back at the darkness of a long-held guilt.Returning to ...

**'**[a] beautifully written novel that brims with art, beauty, love, family, passion and secrets' - Books+PublishingTwo summers, decades apart. T****wo women whose lives are forever entwined. And a house that holds the secrets that could free them both.At twenty-six, Lillian feels ancient and exhausted. Her marriage to Charles Oberon has not turned out the way she thought it would. To her it seems...