An unmissable psychological dark academia thriller: Saltburn meets Lucy Clarke's The Hike'Beautiful scenery, well-plotted secrets and a pace that is conducive to losing your entire day' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Clever and twisty' Jackie KablerThey all share a secret. But only one knows the truth. Who will be the first to break?Tess enters the prestigious and exclusive Ravensthorpe Writing Col...

Blacklisted begins with Phoenix Lawyer. A once highly decorated detective and profiler, now he is bound to a desk because of his bungling of a high profile serial killer case. Unhappy and depressed, he was too busy wallowing in his own misery to keep up with current events, until one day he gets a shot at redemption. Sent out to a crime scene, he learns something shocking: there is another serial killer in Whitefish, Montana.As he begins his investigation, he is determined...

From the book: "Whenever I see a girl with a gold bikini, I think of Princess Leia. Here on the Gold Coast, gold bikinis are common, so I think of Princess Leia a lot." Eighteen-year-old Olivia Grace has deferred her law degree and ducked out of her friends' gap-year tour of Asia. Instead, she's fulfilling her childhood dream of becoming a private investigator, following in the footsteps of Nancy Drew and Veronica Mars - who taught her everything she knows, including a solid line in quick-...

A delightfully funny and inspiring novel about a very modern pilgrimage, and one woman's chance to rediscover what she's lost.'I watch the highway go by and ponder my situation. I am on the run from my husband’s divorce lawyer, my mojo is still missing in action and my demon ex-lover is lurking . . . But, all things considered, my pilgrimage is going well . . .'Arkie used to be a trendspotter, running a successful business advising companies on ‘th...

A charming and witty tale about finding your voice, discovering love ... and crab sex.Have you ever felt the need to start again? Dumped by text message, Edie flees Sydney for the refuge of her childhood home, taking only a wilting bonsai as a reminder of her failure. But in this small coastal town, shy, awkward Edie has always lived in the shadow of her surf champion father. How can she move on from her ex - and from her past? Her best friend and life-coach, Sally, is full of dubio...

Lisa Walker is the author of seven novels in women’s fiction and cosy crime genres, published in Australia by HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, and two small presses. Two were also published by Harper360 in the US and UK, and one has been optioned for film. Her recent cosy crime novel was shortlisted for the Australian Davitt Awards in two categories.She has also been published in The Guardian, the Big Issue and the Sydney Morning Herald, and has had a radio pla...

A classic fish-out-of-water romantic comedy -- can a city-slicker fall for a wildlife ranger?Can a city bird change her feathers? PR whizz Cassandra Daley isn't afraid of using all the dirty tricks of the trade to spin a story her way. A glitzy city-slicker, she has never given much thought to wildlife until she loses a PR war with a potoroo. Sacked and disgraced, she flees the city for an anonymous bolt hole. But small-town Beechville has other plans for her. Feral pigs, a snake in...

Tom Brungar grew up in a comfortable Norwegian environment. He became a ski champion for the Norwegian King’s Ski team. He was destined to have the perfect life… with the perfect wife… and the perfect corporate job. But, the pressure of his perfect world… led him to drug abuse… and to a secret life where he was forced to be an international drug courier… captured and imprisoned in Mexico… Tom suffered five years of torture inhumane ...

'ONE OF THOSE REMARKABLE BOOKS THAT SNEAK UP ON YOU. SURPRISING AND BEAUTIFUL.'-- Eliza Henry Jones, author of In the Quiet, Ache and P is for PearlCan romance only be found in Paris, the city of love?Happiness (Happy) Glasshas been a loner since moving to Brisbane and yet still dreams about living in Pariswith her best friend Rosie after they finish Year Twelve. But Rosie hasn't been terribly reliable late...

Olivia Grace, recently retired teen PI, has her priorities sorted. Pass first-year law, look after her little sister, and persuade her parents to come back from a Nepali monastery to resume ... well, parenting. But after Olivia's friend Abbey goes missing in Byron Bay, a short drive from Olivia's Gold Coast home, she can't sit back and study Torts. It's time to go undercover as hippie-chick Nansea, in hippie-chic Byron Bay, hub of influencers and international tourism, and home of yoga, su...

A Peculiar Kind Of Love is a coming-of-age inspirational life story revolving around a lively and witty young lady named Drewlynn L. McCain (Drew for short).Drew has always had an interesting life; just at the age of four, Drew's mother, Joy Rivers, abandoned her at a pier in Texas, only to be found by some locals, then shipped off to live with Curtis and Shelia Jones, her foster parents. These two humans were almost as bad as Drew's absent parents; not only did they mock her for b...

Who doesn’t love superheroes? Many of them have the power to lift heavy objects, fly long distances, see through thick walls, or even to go back through time. And they are always, always on the side of good.While superheroes may appear to be extraordinary people who only exist in comic books or television screens, the truth is that there are heroes everywhere you may look. Also, while some superheroes might be fictional, their stories all ring with truth about some important life l...