The good, the bad and the bookish

Subtitled A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance , this second collection of essays by the brilliant author of Complications doesn’t disappoint. ...

Reeling from the death of his partner, a shooting for which he blames himself, Nate Burke’s left his job as Baltimore cop to be the first Ch...

The world’s largest supercollider was designed by a Nobel laureate to recreate the very moment of the big bang but nobody knows for sure wha...

24 Hours opens with the kidnapping of a young boy, who is safely returned to his family after a ransom is paid, with the warning that they...

Lizzie Buckley’s life looks perfect – she has two beautiful twins (one of each), a gorgeous husband, upper crust in-laws, and a beautiful ho...

Eddie Profitt isn’t much regarded by his teachers or classmates, but his father and his best friend Billy (the smartest kid in school) see t...

Paul Fisher’s older brother Erik is a star – big in high school football, he dominates wherever they go. Paul, a soccer player, somewhat wee...

In July 1953 a party girl drove off in her brand new Chevy and was never seen again. Thirty-five years later her daughter wants closure so h...

Kitty Heaney, oldest daughter of three girls and two boys, is a little disappointed when her beau, Julian, is shipped overseas to fight with...

When Sandy Shortt was eight her neighbour and schoolmate Jenny-May Butler vanished without a trace from the smallest county in Ireland. Sand...

As Navy SEAL team 18 prepare to go head-to-head with Troubleshooters Incorporated, a private industry organization headed by the SEAL’s ex-c...

Following explorations of death and scientific investigations into the afterlife, Roach turns her attention to sex, specifically the “curiou...

LA therapist and police consultant Alex Delaware is with Milo or, as the LAPD have recently titled him, Special Case Investigator, Lieutenan...

When she makes a rash declaration to the new king of the Unseelie Court, a young pixie changeling is sent on an impossible quest. Despondent...

Ever since the death of her mother, when Alice realised that bad things could happen, she’s played it safe. She works at Carmichael Music, w...

When sent to Italy to trace the whereabouts of a very old and dangerous artefact a retriever finds herself in a dire situation. The artefact...

Martha Brazil (rhymes with frazzle) has a lot on her plate – her brother’s a manipulative (is there any other kind?) drug user, her mother t...

Cherub agents James and Lauren Adams are on a mission together – along with close friend Kyle Blueman and controller Zara Asker, James and L...

When shape shifting mechanic Mercy Thompson’s mentor (and former boss) is arrested on murder charges, she can’t help but investigate the cas...

1929 has begun with a heat wave, particularly ferocious even for Melbourne, and Phryne Fisher’s not enjoying her first real experience with ...

A retriever specialises in finding things of a magical nature that have gone missing and returning them, discretely, efficiently and with no...

Good girl Audrey Porter has decided to break it off with her sometime hook up, school hunk Luke DeSalvio – she’s madly in love with him, but...

Gordon’s life is going nowhere fast – an insecure asthmatic with a small penis and a newly acquired tobacco habit, he quits his job in a dri...

Katie Nash’s story, begun in Durable Goods and Joy School , continues - it's 1961, and Katie now lives in the mid-West with her warm st...

Although Holly and Mark have been together for two years, their parents are worried about their differences (she’s Catholic, he’s Jewish, ne...

Ellie Haskell is at something of a loose end – her lovely husband, chef Ben, has taken their three children to an old-fashioned holiday camp...

An abused wife fakes her death and runs. She eventually reaches a small island where she feels safe to settle down. She opens up a small bus...

When the torrential flooding of a river in Vermont kills their twin daughters, Laura and Terry Shedon stay together, somehow. Terry, a state...

Tom and Pippa are idyllically happy - since their first meeting they knew they were right for each other, and after almost twenty years toge...

An Australian-based cult has been linked with the ec-terrorist group Help Earth (an organisation already linked to to over 200 deaths since ...