Item category 1: FICTION

After thirty years in a convent, Nora Breen has thrown off her habit. Her fellow sister Frieda has gone missing and it's up to Nora to find her. Nora's only clue is that Frieda was last seen at Gulls Nest boarding house. So she travels down to the seaside town of Gore-on-Sea, takes a room and set...

Soho 1962. When Rory Sheehan decides he wants Maggie Riley as his own, her fate is sealed. Luca Romano knows all too well that what Rory wants, Rory gets. And the violence that erupts between their rival gangs is just the start of it. Thomas Johnson owes Rory big time, and he must deny his feelin...

Four great stones once stood on a remote Scottish headland - the Sisters of Skara. Legend has it they were raised by a grieving father, to guide his abducted daughters home. A curse was placed on anyone who laid the stones low: their family, too, would be scattered to the winds, never to find the...

Max Grimes is homeless, living on the streets of Auckland - among the forgotten, the invisible. But now someone is hunting the homeless, killing them one by one. No one cares. Except Max. Trying to put his shattered life back together, Max is pulled into a deadly game when a face from his past re...

The year is 2086. Climate collapse, famine and war have left the world in ruins. In the shadow of the Alpha-Omega regime - descendants of the super-rich architects of disaster - sixteen-year-old Boo Ashworth and her uncle risk everything to save what's left of human knowledge, hiding the last sur...

Em has lived a quiet life with her complicated mother, and is now looking for love and a potential escape from her small hometown. When a masked man kidnaps her in the dark of night, though, she is drawn into a terrifying world. Jodie has been trying to forget a troubling time in her life, pourin...

Noah Cork has just published the scoop of a lifetime: the white-hot true-crime book of the cold-blooded killer who slipped an unfolding murder mystery into his mailbox. But if this is his moment of triumph, then why is the tin roof being ripped from the walls of his reality? Why are skeletons sta...

Can one small note give her the courage to find a new path? One Note. One Act of kindness. Her new beginning is closer than she thinks. Kate gave up her dreams of being a painter years ago. But six little words pinned to the noticeboard of her local café could change her path forever. 'To be, or ...

Securing his heir... by making her a yuletide bride! Spanish property tycoon Rocco Mancini doesn't make acquisitions without doing his due diligence. Secretly assessing his potential new business venture shouldn't take long. However, that's before his laser focus is tantalizingly diverted by empl...

A quiet street holds deadly secrets... Chloe Tomson wants a quiet life. A new home, a new street, and no more drama - she's had more than her share. But the moment she steps in to help her elderly neighbour during a violent altercation, the peace she craves begins to crumble. The street seems fri...