A much-loved mother, teacher and friend steps on a plane for an overseas adventure and is never seen again.When Marion Barter disappeared in 1997, police initially dismissed it as the actions of a divorced mother abandoning her family. In this book, the creators of the addictive global hit podcast The Lady Vanishes detail the winding investigation into Marion's disappearance, from tentative early police efforts to her daughter's 27-year search for answers....

A much-loved mother, teacher and friend steps on a plane for an overseas adventure and is never seen again.When Marion Barter disappeared in 1997, police initially dismissed it as the actions of a divorced mother abandoning her family. In this book, the creators of the addictive global hit podcast The Lady Vanishes detail the winding investigation into Marion's disappearance, from tentative early police efforts to her daughter's 27-year search for answers....

*A Book of the Year in The Times, Guardian, Good Housekeeping and iPaper* Winner of the CWA KAA Gold Dagger Award ‘Taut, elegant and heartbreaking’ Monica Ali ‘A brilliant character study of trauma, grief and survival’ Claire Fuller 'Wonderful… lives up to the hype’ Stephen King ‘Impossibly accomplished’ Chris Whitaker _________________________Isabel and Edward meet as te...

From award-winning journalist and writer Rick Morton comes Mean Streak, a gripping and horrifying account of how, over the course of four and a half years, Australia's government turned on its most vulnerable citizens.Winner of the 2025 Walkley Book AwardWinner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award 2025Winner of the People's Choice Prize Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award 2025

The brand new edge-of-your-seat thriller from the author of the smash hit No.1 bestseller The Woman in the Window.'Elegant, absorbing, full of Hitchcockian menace’ Lucy Foley‘I was mesmerized’ Lisa Jewell'Brilliantly plotted' Liz Nugent‘Fans of detective fiction will be thrilled!’ Shari LapenaA house filled with secrets…Young writer Nicky Hunter is summoned to the la...

A terrible accident burns down a family's life on the same day a murder is committed. From the ashes of these acts comes revelation, darkness, and the truth. Psychological suspense and profound family drama meet in this heartrending and original Australian novel.1975, Ballarat Alice is happy in her world and in return for her happiness the world is good to her. She has everything she needs - a lovely house and children, and a devoted husband. Even though her journa...

*A Book of the Year in The Times, Guardian, Good Housekeeping and iPaper* Winner of the CWA KAA Gold Dagger Award ‘Taut, elegant and heartbreaking’ Monica Ali ‘A brilliant character study of trauma, grief and survival’ Claire Fuller 'Wonderful… lives up to the hype’ Stephen King ‘Impossibly accomplished’ Chris Whitaker _________________________Isabel and Edward meet as te...

*The Sunday Times top ten bestseller**A Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month** Longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award and The Ian Fleming Steel Dagger CWA award! ******Is revenge the most lethal dose of all?‘Without a doubt the best crime thriller I’ve read this year … A story of loyalties and desperation. A brilliant read’ R...

An ICU nurse accidentally uncovers a patient’s frightening past in this riveting thriller.Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mum to a teenage daughter and working as a full-time nurse. While Meghan is on duty at the hospital one day, a patient named Caitlin arrives in a coma with a traumatic brain injury, after jumping from a bridge and plunging over twenty feet to the train tracks below. But when a witness comes forward with shocking ...

*The Sunday Times top ten bestseller**A Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month** Longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award and The Ian Fleming Steel Dagger CWA award! ******Is revenge the most lethal dose of all?‘Without a doubt the best crime thriller I’ve read this year … A story of loyalties and desperation. A brilliant read’ R...

Author of the bestselling and much-loved At the Foot of the Cherry Tree, Alli Parker, returns with another engrossing and moving novel of courage and conviction, Until the Red Leaves Fall.Emmy Darling has a secret. She has a few. Her lemon meringue pie is a recipe from a women's magazine, she's always wanted to be a playwright, and the best parts of her husband Sebastian's plays are the scenes she's written during edits. But when charismatic theatre impresario and...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye and The Rose Code returns with a haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse during the McCarthy era.Washington, D.C., 1950Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, an all-female boarding house in the heart of the US capital, where secrets hide behind respectable facades.But when the mysterious Grace March m...