From the author of The Art of Inheriting Secrets comes an emotional new tale of two sisters, an ocean of lies, and a search for the truth.Her sister has been dead for 15 years when she sees her on the TV news....Josie Bianci was killed years ago on a train during a terrorist attack. Gone forever. It’s what her sister, Kit, an ER doctor in Santa Cruz, has always believed. Yet all it takes is a few heart-wrenching seconds to upend Kit’s worl...

Near the rugged Australian coastline beaten by the winds of the wild, great Southern Ocean sits a forgotten stationmaster's cottage holding secrets of a tragic love story.These are secrets Christie Ryan knows nothing about when she unexpectedly inherits her estranged grandmother's cottage in the small seaside town of Rivers End. There, Christie finds love letters that have remained unopened for close to 50 years. The letters tell of a great-aunt she never knew exis...

Jessamine is a long way from home. Her home in the Midwest, that is, not New Zealand, where she grew up. She ran from her husband in Kansas, a former military man whose long silences and cutting words were tearing her apart, leaving everything behind to live on an overgrown piece of property she'd inherited somewhere in Virginia.Thank goodness for book groups. And libraries. When she starts work at the Bent River County Public Library, she is optimistic about her future. But confus...

It's autumn 1963, and there's a dark cloud hanging over London. Literally.The thick, impenetrable smog is the perfect cover for a killer who's stalking the streets, not that traffic warden, Gabriella Farnsworth, knows that when she's approached by three young boys who say they've found a body.When her boyfriend, Detective Sergeant James Archer, gets assigned the case, he begins to build a picture of the killer's patterns and becomes increasingly nervous eve...

Will love survive the storm on the horizon?It was family ties that led Christie Ryan to River's End, the small seaside town on the rugged Australian coastline. But it's her heart that is telling her to stay.Bequeathed her grandmother's cottage, Christie is ready to put the past behind her for a chance at a future with local artist, Martin. When Martin is approached by a secretive stranger for a portrait, he accepts, eager to build a nest egg for his life with Christie....

Herrick Hall doesn’t let anything go without a fight. Least of all its masters’ dead wives …After a dalliance with another woman leaves her reputation in shambles, Josephine Carter is banished to the isolated manor to serve as lady’s companion to Herrick’s mistress. Lady Nora Blake is a headstrong, capricious woman who spends her days convalescing from a mysterious illness—and her nights witnessing her imminent death over and over. Shackled to her side, Josephine is certain life co...

An entertaining tour of the seemingly simple formula guiding the search for extraterrestrial intelligenceCloudy with a Chance of Starships takes listeners on an irreverent expedition through the marvelous world of astrobiology, using as a guide the most important equation in science since E=mc2. With an irresistible blend of wit, insight, and the latest cutting-edge research, Seven Rasmussen looks at the thrilling possibilities of life in the cosmos throug...

What role did the queen play in governor-general Sir John Kerr’s plans to dismiss prime minister Gough Whitlam in 1975, unleashing one of the most divisive episodes in Australia’s political history? And why weren’t we told?Under the cover of being designated as private correspondence, the letters between the queen and the governor-general about the dismissal have been locked away for decades in the National Archives of Australia, and embargoed by the queen—potentia...

A romance on an epic, generation-spanning scale, Mae Marvel’s The Guest Book delivers the authors’ signature heart, sapphic steam, and humor in a book you’ll curl up with and never forget.The whole world believes Cosima Frank’s life has been a fairytale. Now she’s trying to live up to the overwhelming legacy left to her by her late mother, the Queen of Hollywood. As the pressure begins to build, Cosima does the only thing she can think of: run straight to the inn w...

It's the summer of 1963, and Gabriella Farnsworth is a newly minted London traffic warden.She's used to temper tantrums, swearing, and threats, but finding a dead body is an entirely new low.She isn't interested in getting more involved than she already is in the investigation into the man she found's death. But when a few days later, she stumbles over a second body lying feet away from where she found the first, she can't avoid it.She knows the str...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTIONThe darkly comic new novel from the bestselling author of The Portable Veblen'Incredibly funny and very moving’ BELLA MACKIE'A blissful novel that I want to give to everyone I love’ NINA STIBBE‘Even funnier, even more romantic than McKenzie’s wonderful last’ KAREN JOY FOWLERPenny Rush has problems. Freshly divorce...

Could an historic house hold the key to their happiness?The small seaside town of Rivers End is abuzz with the upcoming wedding of Christie Ryan and local artist, Martin, to be held at historic Palmerston House. Once home to Christie's ancestors but lost in a poker game in the 1850s, it's now an inviting bed and breakfast.When a stranger arrives to stay at Palmerston House and starts asking questions around town, Christie begins to wonder about the history ...