Collection: Paperbacks

In the darkness before dawn, a London railway porter discovers a man's body as he unloads a special goods train from Yorkshire, all means of identification stripped away. Hitting a dead end, Scotland Yard call on indomitable sleuth Kate Shackleton, hoping her local Yorkshire knowledge and undoubt...

"There are three things you need to know about Preston 'PK' Harrington ... He's a writer, toiling in obscurity as an editorial assistant at a New York City publishing house ... He's been secretly in love with his best friend, Art, since they once drunkenly kissed in college. When Art moves in wit...

It's never too late to start a new chapter... Liv Green loves losing herself in a good book. Her everyday reality is less romantic, cleaning houses for people who barely give her the time of day. But when she lands a job housekeeping for her personal hero and mega-bestselling author Essie Starlin...

In 1959, Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bookshop, the only bookshop, in the seaside town of Hardborough. By making a success of a business so impractical, she invites the hostility of the town's less prosperous shopkeepers. By daring to en...

"When Alina's brother-in-law defects to the West, she and her husband become persons of interest to the secret servives and both their careers come to a grinding halt. As the strain takes its toll on their marriage, Alina turns to her aunt for help--the wife of a communist leader, and a secret pr...

Super-diplomat Raymond Havilland sets up the kidnapping of Jason Bourne's wife, in order to draw Bourne out of retirement and into a Taiwanese plot to seize Hong Kong and incite China against the West.

Brisbane, 1983: A lost father, a mute brother, a mum in jail, a heroin dealer for a stepfather and a notorious crim for a babysitter. It's not as if Eli's life isn't complicated enough already. He's just trying to follow his heart, learning what it takes to be a good man, but life just keeps thro...

He loves you. He loves you not. Amy is fiercely independent, with a high-powered career, a flat of her own and tight-knit friendships. But as she approaches her thirtieth birthday, she can't help but rue the one thing she doesn't have - a relationship. When Amy comes around following a serious fa...

Set in Tasmania and Melbourne, THE BOYS IN THE ISLAND traces the development of a sensitive and introspective boy through the trials, the passions and the discoveries of adolescence, from the green island of innocence to the big smoke on the mainland and back again - to an island that has somehow...