General Fiction

We begin in the UK when Martha is telling her father and sister that she, her husband Kit, her teenage daughter and young twin sons, are all emigrating to New Zealand 'to give the kids a better life' but really it's a move driven by Kit - to save him from sinking into a black depression following...

Two couples. One island. Will it be the honeymoon of their dreams or trouble in paradise?Emma doesn't believe in marriage. But after years of Tom asking, she is finally saying 'I do' to the love of her life. Now on a surprise honeymoon, suddenly Emma finds herself riding solo when Tom falls ill, ...

The country is in the midst of an uprising against the British Raj. Led by Gandhi's freedom fighters, the people rebel against the oppressive influence of the British monarchy. One teenage girl, however, has other matters on her mind. Princess Malvika Singh, otherwise known as the spoilt and misc...

The three women have been thrown together by the war and shared all sorts of good and bad times. Now their old lives seem dull in comparison. But not for long... Maggie and Nell are both 21 and full of hope and excitement. Iris, on the other hand, is feeling apprehensive about returning to civili...

Like how it is she's ended up working in an airport bar, Or why the flat she's owned for a year still doesn't feel like home. What Lou does know for certain is that something has to change. But does the stranger on her doorstep hold the answers Lou is searching for - or just more questions? But L...

Jessie Else disappeared the summer the Lambs came to Magpie Beach. Not that the two events were connected at all, in reality; only in my own head, in my own world. They marked for me the end of a certain quiet time and the start of a more complicated living.Magpie Beach is a quiet seaside town – ...

Restless, ambitious Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the Schutzruppe askari, the German colonial troops; after years away, he returns to his village to find his parents gone, and his sister Afiya given away. Hamza was not stolen, but was sold; he has come of age in the schutztruppe, at the ri...

On a warm, dreamlike mid-July day, Ella Simpson and her six-year-old daughter, Kitty, come upon an abandoned house. They hear a terrified scream from inside... and an owl flies out. That night, Ella can’t sleep. Has her mind been playing tricks on her ever since her miscarriage, as her husband, M...

Seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tender-hearted, balancing acerbic humour with sharp emotional depth, Afterparties offers an expansive portrait of the lives of Cambodian-Americans. As the children of refugees carve out radical new paths for themselves in California, they should...

When Louie joins his engineer father on a routine inspection of the pumping station in the Endlands, he's not expecting to be caught up in an earthquake. Nor is he prepared for the terrifying things uncovered in its wake.The curiously unsettling ways of the silent and strange Endlanders raise gho...