Collection: Fiction

Night shifts. Endless patients. Amy's med-school dreams clash with reality: low pay, grueling hours, sick patients, and a hesitant boyfriend. Friendships and resilience keep her goingbut when everything goes wrong, will it be enough? A Little Unwell is a darkly funny, emotionally powerful medical...

After a devastating loss, Janine and her husband move from Manchester to a quiet Lancashire village for a fresh start. When a local woman vanishes, Janinefrozen by writer's blockbegins investigating. As secrets unravel, she uncovers unsettling parallels to her own life, and a truth that could des...

When 72-year-old Elizabeth sees a dead body her own on a park bench, she knows it's a sign that it's time for her to make some big changes in her life. She has recently moved into the heavily regimented nursing home The Cloisters and, after becoming a widow, has lost all sense of herself and her ...

Morris Warner is withering away. After the sudden death of his husband, Fred, he has shut himself off from the world. No more going to movies with friends, or swims in Lake Michigan, instead preferring the quiet loneliness of his history books and Jeopardy episodes with only the cat to hear his a...

Banished from Sydney to "find the real bush," young writer Henry Lawson seeks inspiration but instead faces myth, politics, and madness along the Darling River. Henry Goes Bush reimagines his 1892 exile as a surreal, action-packed journey through creativity, colonialism, and the quest for identity.

Spencer Hawkins never expected to find himself in front of a reality TV crew, let alone as a contestant on Love on the Land. Spencer joins the show to shake up his quiet life as an English teacher and a bee-keeper, but the cameras bring chaos and scripted drama, leaving him questioning whether he...

A man on the edge. A woman hell-bent on revenge. A cheating husband. A desperate wife. A property empire on the brink of collapse. A family at loggerheads. A predator hiding in plain sight. Who will sink and who will swim?

Flick Atherton loves the country towns where she lives, her work with migratory birds and the bond she shares with her late brother's daughter. The last thing she needs is a man telling her what to do. Particularly the arrogant, frighteningly competent Norwegian air-force pilot Sebastien Thorsen.

Five people take part in a study of precognitive dreaming, but the future they all dream of is a nightmare. Eleven years later, the dream creature they released creeps into all their lives in shapes they don't realise are dreams. When it brings the five together again, far worse will be loosed on...

Who do you trust when you can't trust the one you love? Four years on from the devastating loss of their first child, Lauren and Alex De Vale are finally the proud parents of new baby, Charlotte. However, as Lauren, who struggled to bond with her late son, is now riddled with anxiety upon her ret...