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Subtitled Coming Out From the Silence , this 1994 collection of young adult short stories covers an array of gay and lesbian (not so much bi...

Chris and Mig have been plagued by their father's Aunt Maria ever since his car plunged over a cliff when he was on his way to visit her...

Tom Jericho is brought to the attention of the world when a spider-like alien who walked up to the main enterance of the Royal Ontario Museu...

His ship badly damaged by the Cetagandans, Miles (as Admiral Naismith) needs repairs, although for some reason funds are in short supply. Wh...

Invited to a four day extravaganza billed as the Last Best party of 1928, Phryne Fisher is undecided about attending - until she starts to r...

Jake Sullivan's adult life has been overshadowed by two interlinked facts - it was a petty argument with his father at the age of sevent...

Ex-army chick Charlie Fox teaches self-defence to all comers, but especially the women at a local refuge. She's drawn into a police inve...

When a country bred lady finds a naked, unconscious man in a ditch and takes him home to nurse back to health, she falls in love for the fir...

Psychology professor Heather Davis has been part of the team trying to decode the signal that's been coming in from Alpha Centauri, one ...

Miles has been imprisoned in an off-world Prisoner of War camp - set upon by an organised band of fellow inmates, he is stripped of his clot...

Falkiner-Rose interviewed over a hundred Australian women about their ideas about how they manage money and what their thoughts and feelings...

Will Self was billed at the hottest young novelist in England at the time this was published; a novelist, reviewer and columnist, Self is co...

Anne Fadiman was reading a copy of CS Lewis's The Horse and His Boy (the fifth in the Chronicles of Narnia) to her eight year old son o...

I'm not even going to try to describe the plot this time! Suffice it to to say that Brookmyre manages to combine an inept band of mercen...

An ad director keen to create something spectacular and original, a tyre manufacturer keep to add his own imprint, a pregnant wife who talks...

At thirty nine Rachael Weiss had something of a midlife jolt - failing to live up to her promise as gifted (based on a test when she was six...

Naked, almost frozen and lost in a snowy wilderness, Joanne Bladwin - Warden of Weather and Fire, former djinn returned human, lover of a dj...

Sue McCluskey's marriage is tense - her husband is unhappy about his semi-employed status and seems put out that she's the primary i...

Only nine months til the end of the millennium and the end of the world is being prematurely hailed across the globe - nowhere more so than ...

This prequel to You: On a Diet , is a comprehensive overview of how the human body works, with an emphasis on age and disease prevention. St...

Lexi, a mid-twenties wage slave stood up by her loser boyfriend again , is coming to the end of pretty much her worst day ever. The followin...

Small town librarian Ophelia is happy with an unobtrusive life, though she does keep herself to herself – after the events of four years ago...

Financial planner Melanie Banks fell for pro footballer Dan Swain as soon as they met - she was a student making ends meet as a waitress, he...

Jane Fleming's life seems to have passed her by - once a hip, happening punk, her unexpected pregnancy saw her staidly married to Tom, a...

Best friends Rachel, Mariel and Jenny have daughters only a few months apart. Not long after the youngest was born, one of them proposed a v...

Genny Haviland is on trial for murder - the prosecution say she killed her lover, legendary artist Slade Gabriel, to save her father's g...

When Jenna Solitaire, nineteen year old college student and author of this allegedly autobiographical novel, returns home after burying her ...

After a life threatening incident a man starts experiencing the, increasingly vivid, memories of two other men in vastly different times. Wh...

Blood spatter analyst Dexter Morgan is used to his life the way it is - incapable of experiencing emotion, he goes to great efforts to pass ...

In 2001 Sjolander read an article about competition entering that said “if you aren’t winning you’re not trying hard enough” – she began dev...