The good, the bad and the bookish

Therapist Jessie Maddox, thirty eight, married to a faithful and responsible banker sixteen years her senior, has everything she could ask f...

Subtitled "The Science of Shopping", this accessible and absorbing work, written by the field's founder, is a fascinating insi...

George Verney fled from Brisbane in the aftermath of the Inquiry, an investigation into corruption that tore the state apart. Content to wor...

Best dipped in and out of over a period of days, this eclectic collection of nagging questions (why do the pockets of new jeans sometimes h...

When Caerphilly's small but exotic zoo is forced into bankruptcy, the inhabitants are farmed out to local households. Meg's father b...

Rita Marrone loves her father, poker, and the law. She also loves her live-in boyfriend, Paul, and through him has managed to become embroil...

Caerphilly's been hit by the eXtreme croquet rage, and the grounds near Meg and Michael's rambling farm house are perfect - steep hi...

Meg and Michael have finally found a house they can afford, close to the university where he works, and with space for her iron mongery work...

Lucy's happily engaged, Autumn has a new boyfriend, Chantal's hoping to save her marriage, and Nadia's husband's stopped gam...

Meg Langslow and her now-fiancé Michael are comfortably ensconced in a hotel - if you don't count the fans on the balcony outside their ...

Framed as a series of interviews with veteran robopsychologist Susan Calvin, I, Robot collects Asimov’s robot short stories in one volume. ...

Generations of historians have risked their reputations, their sanity and even their lives to learn the true story behind the legend of Drac...

Lucy Lombard's life is in flux - she works as an office temp, and her boyfriend Marcus hasn't asked her to move in yet. But a consta...

When she found her coven slaughtered by the Vatican's witch hunters, the remaining member called upon Lilith, the original Goddess, for ...

Gordon McKenna’s life has been on hold since his beloved older sister Georgia was diagnosed with cancer. They know she’s going to die, and s...

Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, her husband Emerson (the Father of Curses) and their family – both blood and extended – have returned to Egypt ...

Meg Langslow’s working part-time at her brother’s new business, Mutant Wizards. His board game, Lawyers from Hell, created when he was suppo...

After years of fighting off suitors more interested in her fortune than her, a young heiress is pleased to consider herself firmly on the sh...

In a world where fictional books are forbidden because they cause discord and unhappiness, where possession of them is a crime, Guy Montag’s...

Flight attendant Hailey Lane’s birthday goes from spectacular – a cancelled trip means she can get home unexpectedly early, home to her capt...

Hired to find a missing teenaged boy in Doraville, North Carolina, Harper Connelly discovers the burial site of her first serial killer – as...

Teenager Evie Decker’s life was uneventful until the night she heard Drumsticks Casey being interviewed on a late night radio show. Somethin...

Vince Luca’s just like any other teen – he’s trying to find his own identity as he navigates his final year of high school. But it’s not tha...

Former financial expert Becky Brandon (nee Bloomwood) has everything she ever wanted – a great job as personal shopper in London’s newest up...

Middle school student Peter’s parents were expecting their first natural child, an event prompting them to reveal for the first time that he...

Blacksmith Meg Langstow’s allowed herself to participate in Yorktown’s annual civil war reenactment, running a booth with her wares. Usually...

Another of the peerless Phryne Fisher mysteries. In this one Phryne goes undercover on a luxury cruise in order to catch a jewel thief. Toge...

Some months after the awful events of her mother’s wedding, Meg Langstow and her boyfriend Michael are ready for a short break from her rath...

Turing Hopper, possibly the world’s first sentient Artificial Intelligence Personality, has another murder to solve – that of systems engine...

Dominic Gordon’s father’s never liked him – Dom’s grades aren’t good enough, he’s not interested in or any good at science, and Dom’s love o...