A powerful and shocking novel inspired by the author's time at the infamous Parramatta Girls' Home.The graffiti on the holding room wall says it all: 'Gunyah is hell on earth'. And Ellen's about to find out why.Ellen was never the daughter her mother wanted. Patent leather shoes and frilly dresses just weren't her thing and, at age fourteen, she's ready to leave school and find her own way. No one is going to stop her from going where she wants, doing what ...

A mother's greatest fear. A wife's worst nightmare. What would you do?When two technology-related disasters hit within days of each other, Paula knows her comfortable suburban life has been irrevocably blown apart. One involves the public shaming of her teenage daughter, the other is a discovery about her husband that shocks her to her core. With her world unravelling around her, Paula does the only thing that makes any sense to her: she runs away from it all.She pulls her ...

Even the perfect family can fall apart. This compelling, emotional debut from Dawn Barker now includes a bonus sample of her new book, Let Her Go.An unforgettable novel that brings to life a new mother's worst fears.Tony is worried. His wife, Anna, isn't coping with their newborn. Anna had wanted a child so badly and, when Jack was born, they were both so happy. They'd come home from the hospital a family. Was it really only six weeks ago?B...

Winner of the 2014 Australian Romance Readers Award for favourite romantic suspense.When Darcy Fletcher drags a handsome sailor from a stricken yacht, she finds herself drawn into his mysterious world. Having saved his life, can she now rescue him from his dark past? Or will that endanger all she holds most dear?Noah, keeper of the peace and guardian of the Banskia Cove secrets, can't tell Darcy the real reason this man has washed up on their shores. If she understood the lin...

When Sarah Murphy returns to Australia she desperately needs a break from her high-powered London life. And though mystified by her grandmother's dying wish for her ashes to be scattered under 'the wishing tree' on the banks of the Negallan River, she sets out to do just that.While searching for the wishing tree, Sarah stays in the small township of Negallan. It's there that she finally has some time to relax and unwind, there that she finds herself drawn to a handsome local farmer...

What happens when six pampered Westerners on a spiritual retreat in Bali end up fighting for their lives? A gripping novel from the bestselling author of The Mothers' Group.A breathtaking new novel from the bestselling author of The Mothers' Group and Wife on the Run.Six strangers from across the world meet on the tropical island of Bali to attend a course designed to help them face their fears. Their backgrounds are as diverse as...

A passionate Australian tale of love and courage.Laura McRae is beautiful, gifted and madly in love - until at eighteen her life is shattered in a few brief moments. Soon it is wartime, a time of racketeering and high stakes - and impulsive marriages. Falling into the arms of Eddie Ashworth seems to be the love Laura has dreamed of but is her new husband really the man he seems?All she can cling to is her talent for fashion and her determination never to be poor again; a talent and determi...

Is someone or something trying to drive Jessica Pearce insane? Could it be the hereditary factor of insanity in her family tree? Is it Simon, her doctor husband? Or is something darker and more sinister happening to her on Norfolk Island?Jessica Pearce is a successful Perth barrister, until she suffers an emotional breakdown three weeks after the death of her son. In an attempt to heal Jessica and her husband, Simon moves to Norfolk Island for a six month break away from their hectic world...

A heart-wrenching story from the bestselling author of The Throwaway Children.Thirteen-year-old Lisa has escaped from Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport. She arrives in London unable to speak a word of English, her few belongings crammed into a small suitcase. Among them is one precious photograph of the family she has left behind.Lonely and homesick, Lisa is adopted by a childless couple. But when the Blitz blows her new home apa...

A Sunday Times Bestseller England’s Forgotten Queens‘O’Brien cleverly intertwines the personal and political in this enjoyable, gripping tale.’-The TimesHer children or her crownFrance, 1399: The Duke of Brittany is dead and his widow, Joanna of Navarre, has inherited control of their land – a testament to her intellect, integrity and political prowess.Then comes an unprecedented proposal fro...

Escaping the PastBilly Martin runs from home, burying his past in the quest for a future. He finds it in Queensland's spectacular Gulf Country, on the sprawling cattle runs.Embracing the LandThe Gulf breeds tough men, and Billy is quickly drawn to the excitement and adventure of working with the fiery cattleman and ex-con Blake Reilly and his daughter Jo.Billy finds mateship, danger and romance in the Gulf, but he also finds...

A clear-eyed, insightful and wildly entertaining look into the complicated, emotional world of mothers and their teenage daughters by the acclaimed author of Into My Arms, Last Summer and After the Fall.Four mothers. Four teenage daughters.An isolated tropical paradise with no internet or mobile phone reception.What could possibly go wrong?There's tension, bitchiness, bullying, sex, drunken confessions, bad behavio...