The good, the bad and the bookish

Evan Casher's life is pretty close to perfect - his career as a documentary film maker's taking off and he's waking from a passi...

Felix Castor has a unique gift - he can not only see ghosts, he can cause them to leave this plane thorough music. He earns his living pipin...

On the surface Brenda seems straightforward enough – an older woman who likes everything just so, she came to the sleepy seaside town of Whi...

This is the first of the Three Days novels, and is told predominantly from the third person perspective of Alain Beastfriend, a fourteen yea...

In February 2005 a conservative Melbourne mother of two (an adult daughter from her first marriage, and a young son from her second) was rep...

During the night before she turns eleven, a landmark birthday, Penelope inexplicably loses her hearing. Although a tragedy, this ends up be...

Former espionage agent Alan Stewart left the service after an operation went bad and he learned the "double agent" he killed was a...

In 1993, Berliner Daniel Krauchner was mostly content. An only child of a happy, financially secure family, he excelled at soccer, and thriv...

Returning to the University from the Lightening Tower, the triumphant group are stunned to find Grattan Street deserted, the University wall...

Flushed with success at returning Blackbird (formerly the Realm of the Rat) to its citizenry, Bran and his followers have returned to the Un...

The first coroner for the county of Devon, an ex-crusader appointed by Richard the Lionheart, takes on his first case when an unidentified b...

Scathe is the Mouth of the Oracle – cursed, empathic, unable to touch another human without killing them, he survives on the offerings citiz...

Bad Kitty is well aimed at its target audience of young teen girls. I, however, am not in that demographic and found this story of teenaged...

After writer Martin Smythe survived the horrors of Morbing Vyle [1] he’s hot on the trail of the evil vicar involved. Delving through the m...

White West Indian David Wyatt, on loan from the Meteorological Office is working with the US Navy on the Caribbean island of San Fernandez. ...

When Skip Cuddy, freshly released from ten months in jail as the unwitting wheelman in a botched convenience store robbery, finds a box in t...

Paralegal Taylor Lockwood really wants to play jazz piano, but works as a paralegal to appease her lawyer father and plays piano at night to...

Jonah Stem's a medical student - physically and mentally exhausted from long hours at the bedside, he stumbles out into the New York nig...

When Sarah bursts out of dense shrubbery, petrified, she is taken in by three Travellers, who are making their way through the territories s...

Buff young Garvey Quinn's an actor with a role on one of Australia's favourite medical dramas. He's happy with his career, and t...

After the death of his wild and promiscuous first wife, all the Earl of Ravenwood wants from his second wife is an heir and no trouble, so h...

The children of the sewers that run beneath Melbourne are feral. Known as the Cave Rats, they turn on, and feed on, anyone and anything they...

When freelance geologist Bob Boyd heads to Fort Farrell, a logging town in the heart of British Columbia, he's stunned to discover the m...

In early 2005 the Australian media was filled with stories about an Indian-trained surgeon who had been linked with an increasing number of ...

A grieving family seeking solace takes up residence in an aged manor house in picturesque county side. Almost immediately they are subjected...

In 2004 Frank Warren distributed 5,000 postcards, at subway stations, art galleries and in books. He asked people to write down and mail the...

Middle daughter Izzy Spellman's a second generation PI. After a lifetime of intrigue and surveillance, eluding tails and hiding her pers...

In a world where bonded pairs must avert natural disasters a conscientious woman is bonded to a notoriously flighty man. The pair are the on...

In 1984 the medical journal Obstetrics and Gynecology published a paper that would initiate an investigation into one of the greatest medic...

When Harper Connelly was fifteen she was struck by lightning. Resuscitated by her step-brother Tolliver, ever since she's been able to f...