The good, the bad and the bookish

As the title suggests this book looks at the forgotten meanings and origins of customs, traditions, superstitions and phrases. Where the mea...

Ex-CIA agent Ben Hardin was burned by the fallout from Watergate and is now working for his former colleague, Gunnarsson as an investigator ...

His mother died a couple of years ago, and Matt is devastated to learn that his father is also going to die, in just a few days. Though Matt...

Daniel Canty has worked hard to rise himself from the lowly station of second son of a tenant farmer to doctor, barrister and landed squire ...

Oceanographer Mike Trevelyan never understood the rivalry his younger brother Mark always felt – all he knew was that Mark was consumed by t...

Haematologist Dr Groopman has seen a lot of patients over the thirty years of his practice. In this book he uses clinical cases to illustrat...

Tanya Starling could tell when her wealthy boyfriend Dennis came home that he was about to begin to become cheap, say no, deny her things. W...

Edwina Saltmarsh's life is uneventful - she lives in a small country town where nothing ever happens, has parents who care more about wh...

Following their greatest battle, where the darklings' plan for Rex was unveiled and very nearly succeeded, the Midnighters should be jub...

Jessica's discovered what her Midnight gift is, and is getting to know her fellow Midnighters better: Rex, the seer; Dess, a polymath; h...

In 1996 journalist, broadcaster and columnist John Diamond first wrote of his concern about cancer – he had a throat lump that he was afraid...

Jessica and her family have just moved from Chicago to the small town of Bixby, Oklahoma for her mother's work. Her first day of school ...

When Kill Me opens, White’s nameless protagonist is racing down the road in his beloved Porsche 911 – though he notices a series of men wit...

Corinna's back in her second adventure - this time there are no vampires or bondage outfits (which I know I didn't allude to in the ...

Corinna Chapman, accountant turned baker, is very happy with her second life - sure,she has to get up at 4AM five days a week, but the work ...

Josie, the oldest of three children, comes home from college to find her father gone, her younger brother morose, her tempestuous sister act...

Two years old at the birth of the new century, Guilford Law is fourteen when the world changes forever. Overnight a swathe of Europe was rep...

When a werewolf/vampire crossbreed’s twin brother goes missing her search for him uncovers a major supernatural conspiracy. Somebody is clon...

Cal Leandros and his older half-brother Niko have spent the last four years on the run – ever since Cal, the bastard spawn of a woman who’d ...

Rachel White, the only child of proper parents and a life-long good girl, has played second-fiddle to her best friend and then-neighbour, th...

When his parents decided to move to Geneva just before Dan’s final year of high school, he was given three options – spend a year in Switzer...

On Christmas Eve, 2002, Indian-born, US-trained surgeon Jayant Patel received an offer to work at Bundaberg Hospital in north Queensland. A ...

When a ghost tour operator sees the spirit of her friend and college on the night she is murdered nobody believes her except for a civilian ...

In 1936, in the midst of the Golden Age of Aviation, pilot Peter Billson competed in the London to Cape Town Air Race. After refuelling in A...

Sutherland addresses pretty much every aspect of the novel, from its evolution through the future incarnations (will e-books ever replace pa...

Subtitled Essays from the Heart of a Physician , this collection of previously published columns contains a series of loosely linked anecdot...

Some decades after a nuclear accident it becomes apparent that humanity is in trouble – fewer and fewer children are being born, not nearly ...

Eleven-year-old George’s life is dead boring – there’s nothing fun to do in Witchfield, except creeping, where you and your mates sneak thro...

This sumptuous collection is a baker’s dozen of Phryne Fisher short stories, spanning the breadth of her existence thus far. In each the cha...

Twelve-year-old Isabel Wyatt’s the oldest, and with her dad away building the Great Ocean Road, and her mother cleaning rich people’s houses...