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A court case over whether a line of cancer-fighting cytokines belong to the patient from whom they were extracted or the doctor who's ma...

Successful architect Brad Denning seems to have it all - a loving wife, great young son, thriving career - but he lives with the permanent s...

The trip from Bombay to San Francisco brings Mary Russell three kinds of repetitious bad dreams - about objects flying through the air, a fr...

Simone Kirsch always wanted to be a cop, but her three years as a stripper made that impossible. Instead she takes the second best option an...

Twenty-nine year old Canadian Rose Darlen's writing her autobiography, which her Aunt Lovey always said should be called Double Duty or ...

Charged with discovering who is behind a series of major power failures, an Interpol agent teams up with a former art thief to retrieve a st...

It happens when newly-retired George is trying on a suit to wear to a friend's funeral - he notices a lesion on the top of his thigh and...

On a US research base in Antarctica two scientists vanish while undertaking a routine dive. Their last heard words were about hearing whistl...

A psychologist who has been studying near-death experiences teams up with a neurologist who has developed a way to induce them using psychoa...

The death of Nina Cattermole was a tragic accident - head butted by ( or possibly head butting) a horse during an anti-hunt protest, the car...

Note: My reading of this novel may have been influenced by recent exposure to Tepper's brilliant, incomparable The Fresco , so take tha...

Sydney forensic scientist Anya Crichton is still recovering from the events of the year before, which included a case which seriously damage...

Subtitled 31 Brutal Truths About the Publishing Industry , this US-authored book aims to give would-be authors some well needed advice about...

Benita Alvarez-Shipton lives in Alburqueque with her abusive, alcoholic husband. All her life she encouraged her children to seek an educati...

Ruined beyond hope and desperate to help her widowed sister and baby escape a deadly pursuer, a woman disguises herself as a highwayman and ...

This updated guide to all things Gallifreyan covers each episode from the pilot ("An Unearthly Child") in 1963 to the final episod...

A man and his young son make their way south, through the desolation of a post-apocalyptic US. On the way they search for food and fresh wat...

When the kidnappers of a teenage boy are found dead, the boy nowhere to be found, it's not clear if he's still abducted or on the ru...

The Australian-born daughter of the Australian-born daughter of an Italian migrant tells her amateur mathematician mother's story of he...

Identical twins Kathy and Kelly Frawley have just celebrated their third birthday when they are kidnapped one evening. The ransom is $8 mill...

Like all her friends, Jaz is hooked into the Surge through her earpods - the Surge tells her what's hot and what's not, minute to mi...

The third mystery involving librarian/archivist Claire Reynier begins with a reflection on the concern of many older, single people - dying ...

This is a collection of US critic and New Republic editor Seigel's columns (mostly) on the topic of TV - grouped into categories like Co...

This is an interesting peek into the world of Lemony Snickett, as described in the the first ten books of the now completed series. Gresh wr...

A millionaire music tycoon comes to a small town seeking to renew his spirit by reawakening the town’s magical centre. But this town has a l...

Divorced from the would-be-actor father of sixteen-year-old Tara, Amy Stewart's used to immersing herself in her role as a financial ana...

When a commuter plane crashes just after takeoff, Detective Peter Decker rushes to the scene to help. All aboard are killed, as are many in ...

Xan's a trader, sailing up and down the river to barter goods on behalf of her family. She slips between the dialects of each settlement...

Creepers are urban explorers - they covertly (and usually illegally) enter abandoned buildings and discover lost worlds hidden in plain view...

Murderer Michael McClelland has been locked away in a psychiatric institution since the grisly murders he committed in Privileged Informatio...