The good, the bad and the bookish

From the back of the book- Do you cross your fingers, touch wood or avoid walking under ladders? If someone offered to replace your old tedd...

From the back of the book- True, I am but a mere maidservant from a great house, snatched from a wretched existence of poverty and desperati...

A retelling of Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur . From the author's note on the text- I have tried my best to convert Malory...

Although he knew it was possible, Connor never believed his parents would make him an Unwind, until he found the paperwork. He plans to run...

Cassia has looked forward to being Matched for as long as she can remember - and that it's scheduled for her seventeenth birthday makes ...

From the back of the book The Romans are landing in Britannia... Cartimandua, the young woman destined to rule the great tribe of the Brigan...

Meg Koranda has a lot in common with her best friend, Lucy Jorick - both the daughters of famous parents, they have reacted quite differentl...

From the back of the book- Most weight-loss books advocate that creating your best body is all about diet and exercise. Exercise scientist ...

The first thing Thomas is aware of is the noise - a boom, then a horrible crushing, grinding, scraping sound that reverberated through his b...

Juliet was fifteen, Clementine just eight, and their three sisters Miranda, Eliza and Sadie strung like beads between them, when Tessa died ...

From the back of the book- Natasha Blake is a detective with a difference. She's an ancestor detective, an ambitious young genealogist...

This collection of short fiction covers a range of topics but has several universal themes, chief of which is female relationships; this is ...

From the back of the book- As if a head for business and a nose for trouble aren't enough to distinguish Lavinia Lake from other women, ...

Lady Emma Wells-Finch is on a mission – ostensibly in Texas to research one of St Gert’s Old Girls, in truth she has a far more important ai...

From the cover: Dr. Vincent Lam's literary debut delivers an unflinching portrait of his profession, following a group of four ambitious...

Lou Arrendale is a bioinfomatics expert. Though high functioning, he and his colleagues in Section A are also among the last people in Secti...

Ella Canfield is a slightly nervous evolutionary biologist. Part of her nervousness is because her project is fairly left of centre - she...

Early in his life child prodigy Colin fell into a habit that became a defining characteristic - he had an extremely short-lived relationship...

Murder on a Midsummer Night From the back of the book- Melbourne 1929. The year starts off for glamorous private investigator with a rather ...

From the back of the book: Harper Blaine was slogging along as a small time PI when a two bit perp's savage assault left her dead. For ...

A woman's infamous past is preventing her daughter from attaining a suitable match. Her pragmatic solution is to buy the girl a husban...

A time travelling serial killer is on the loose in a small town with a genetically engineered warrior hot on his trail. Knowing he has only...

The death of an elderly woman sends quiet ripples throughout her tiny community. Her sister copes with her loss by reading her sibling's...

Eighteen-year-old Quentin has always had a mild crush on his neighbour Margo - once close, their paths diverged when they were eight and dis...

Although a young woman's death is ruled a suicide her sorority sisters are certain she was murdered. They request the help of their alum...

Hiring newcomer Gretchen was an even better decision than the Elm Creek Quilters initially realised, for she comes with a husband adept at w...

Gin Bombay loves her work, and (mostly) loves her family - both are unusual, and they're inextricably intertwined, for though Gin is a s...