Item category 1: FICTION

Matthew Gunn had trailed his quarry through the waterless hell of the Nevada desert, up to the snow-covered crags of the High Sierras. In his wake was a trail of blood which tainted his footsteps and marked him as a killer. Now he finally approached the culmination of his long pursuit - vengeance!

Jocelyn Fuller is never happier than when she is surrounded by books. After spending her teenage years working Saturdays at Buckland Library, she's thrilled to be offered a full-time position there when she leaves school. It's not long before she's moving to London to take up a place at Library S...

Richard has made a big mistake and is feeling sorry for himself as he travels north. When changing horses at a coaching inn, he encounters a young lady in distress and he feels sympathy for another person in difficulties. Unfortunately, as he tries to help her, things just keep going wrong and, i...

A bomb at his book launch. Gunfire in his hometown. Someone wants journalist Martin Scarsden dead. Fleeing for his life into the outback, he learns that nowhere is safe. The killers are closing in, and it's all he can do to survive. But who wants to kill him - and why? With nowhere left to run, ...

Sydney, 1980s: Belle Fitzgerald, young, rich and spirited, lives in Kings Cross, the city's bohemian heart. When she learns of plans to demolish her street and evict its residents, she commits to fighting the development, even though this brings her up against the Cross's crime lords and their co...

Queenscliff, Victoria, 1951. It's a cold Monday morning. Midwinter. A deserted beach. No swimmers in sight. And there on the sand, a neat pile of clothes. Almost like a coded message waiting to be deciphered. Detective Sergeant Stephen Minter, an Austrian-born Cockney Jew, always destined to be a...

Trainee psychiatrist Doctor Hannah Wright is back where she worked as an intern: the general hospital. This time, instead of dealing with patients' broken bodies, she's tackling their mental health issues, with a roving commission to cover the medical, surgical and obstetric wards. All the while ...

Sunset Hall, a house-share for the old and unusual, is gearing up as energetically as its aged inhabitants can for Bernadette's big wedding day. However, with the RSVPs comes an anonymous note that threatens to cast a pall over the upcoming festivities. Agnes is in (somewhat begrudging) wedding p...

Oxford, 1920. For the first time in its history, the world's most famous university has admitted female students. Giddy with dreams of equality, education and emancipation, four young women move into neighbouring rooms on Corridor Eight. They are from all walks of life, and are thrown into an unl...

May 1942. Thousands of American GIs are stationed across eastern England building airfields to bomb Germany. Cambridge is a 'liberty town' - a hot spot for Yanks on leave. DI Eden Brooke is called to the aerodrome five miles east of the city when the remains of an airman, identified by his dog ta...