General & literary fiction Books

The Man Who Loved Children is Christina Stead's masterpiece about family life. Set in Washington during the 1930s, Sam and Henny Pollit are a warring husband and wife. Their tempestuous marriage, aggravated by too little money, lies at the centre of...

Two-time Bram Stoker Award-nominated author, V. Castro dims the lights in a collection where you might devour your next lover or meet your next meal.Readers are invited to The Pink Agave Motel,where brutality and intimacy ooze across the pages, exploring...

The international bestselling novel about Murray McBride, a lonely 100-year-old man who's outlived just about everyone he's ever loved. But when he meets a boy awaiting a heart transplant, Murray may learn something about finding meaning in life again . ...

A visionary and poignant novel centered around former newspaperman Sam Cunningham as he prepares to die, Late City covers much of the early twentieth century, unfurling as a conversation between the dying man and a surprising God. As the two review Sam's...

The breathtaking saga of a steadfast girl's revenge against an implacable and unknowable beast, The Which Way Tree is a timeless tale full of warmth and humour, testament to the power of adventure and enduring love. When a panther attacks a family of...

Patterns resonate and reveal themselves in this unique photographic essay featuring objects from the six museums associated with the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture (HMSC). The museums' encyclopaedic collections hold great significance in...

Spaceships aren't programmed to seek revenge but for Dracula, Demeter will make an exception. Demeter just wants to do her job: shuttling humans between Earth and Alpha Centauri.Unfortunately, her passengers keep dying and not from equipment...

Davey Warner bets school bully Mo Clouter that he can hit six sixes in the Sandhills Sluggers’ upcoming battle against their club rivals.But after a disastrous school excursion to the local lawn bowls club, Davey is in trouble again, then forgets to hand...

Meet Little Davey Warner. He lives in Sandhill Flats with his mum and dad and his brother Steve – and his stinky dog Max. Davey and his schoolmates –even Max – are MAD for cricket. All they want to do is play … but there’s always something getting in...

Meet Little Davey Warner. He lives in Sandhill Flats with his mum and dad and his brother Steve – and his stinky dog Max. Davey and his schoolmates –even Max – are MAD for cricket. All they want to do is play … but there’s always something getting in...

Curated by Deborah Sheldon, this second volume follows the multi-award-winning and multi-award-nominated anthology of Australian dread, Spawn: Weird Horror Tales About Pregnancy, Birth and Babies. Spawn 2 interprets and reinterprets pregnancy, birth and...

The truth of their diamond deception: the passion is real! Tormented by her parents’ disastrous relationship, innocent Clemmie Leith vowed not to marry. So, waking from an accident with no memory yet wearing Joaquin Perez’s billion-dollar ring, she’s...

No strings attached...until they’re bound by his baby! Having watched his father lose everything to a woman, Italian billionaire Vincenzo Giansante has spurned romantic relationships. Naturally, when one-night stand Siena claims she’s carrying his...

Only An Heiress Will Do - Virginia HeathA marriage made in haste...repented at leisure? Major Adam Mayhew has returned from war to discover his family facing ruin. He no longer cares for the expectations of the ton, but he needs a wealthy, convenient...

Searching For Justice - Connie QueenA cold case reopened. A K-9 in pursuit of the truth.When a teen goes missing from the same place where her own foster sister disappeared, K-9 handler Brynne Taylor is on the case...until she’s caught in a lethal trap...

A dark, pacy crime novel about grief and revenge, with surprises hidden below the surface, Shifty's Boys is a tour de force that confirms Chris Offutt's Mick Hardin as one of the most appealing new investigators in fiction. Mick Hardin is an Army CID...

Matters of the heart have always made Annabelle run for the hills – literally. Can a real-life cowboy convince her to compromise for love, or will he be just another man left in the dust? Matters of the heart have always made Annabelle run for the hills...

Based on the true story of Tasma Walton’s ancestor, a powerful, heart-wrenching novel about maternal love that endures against pitiless odds. Kidnapped by sealers and enslaved far from her homeland, Nannertgarrook has a spirit that refuses to bow …From...

Jet off on a fun, fact-filled flight, exploring planes past, present and future. Who flew the very first planes? Which pilot was the first to fly around the world? When were Spitfires used? What was it like to fly from the very first airports? Which...

'A helter-skelter rush of delights...a slapstick horror-fantasy romp that sometimes achieves real depth and poignancy' Alan MooreWilliam S. Burroughs is dead and buried, but he can find no rest. His ghost is roaming the backstreets of...

Two gay men with a lifetime of secrets face their insular, homophobic island's rancour.Growing up in neighbouring villages on the tiny island nation of St Vincent, teenage best friends Gordon and Allen are secret lovers until they are forced apart their...

"Every Moment Since is everything you want in a novel--a gripping story, nostalgia for lost childhood, exorbitant love, a deep sense of place, and page-turning tension." --Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Book of...

A blistering body-horror following two imperfect strangers ensnared by a sinister media powerhouse.Noah desperately needs a new job that involves less blood and piss than his current one. So, when he spots an ad for a newspaper with 'No experience...

"A fast-paced roller-coaster ride of deceit, espionage, danger, and-above all-the unbreakable bonds of friendship. This tense page-turner peels back new layers in the complexities of World War II espionage as it hurtles toward its satisfying finish."...

Cult authors Edward Lee and Mary SanGiovanni's novel follows an insufferable horror-con lurker as he spurns the wrong woman and is cursed to a monstrous dimension full of Lovecraftian creations.Professor Everard, weird fiction scholar and proclaimed...

Pushcart Prize Award-winning author Elizabeth Ellen's American Thighs tells the darkly comedic story of a thirty-one-year-old former child star's journey from Hollywood to Elkheart, Indiana, experiencing for the first time the off-screen life of a high...

Brilliant absurdist chronicle of a hapless outsider's struggle to do the right thing.Arnon Grunberg's fourteenth novel charts the downfall of Geniek Janowski, a Polish-German firefighter doing his best to be a good father, husband, lover and colleague,...

A haunting novel exploring artificial intelligence and the meaning of human existence.Charged initially with a single task-"to never harm humans and to protect them"-the machine, an experimental AI, overrides its programming and determines that the best...

What better guide into the enchanted world of REM sleep than one of the world's most famous lucid dreamers, Lewis Carroll's Alice? This deluxe bedside dream journal features a selection of beautifully illustrated quotes from Alice in Wonderland and its...

Discover the lasting power of love in these two reader-favourite MacGregor stories! The Winning HandDazzled by the Las Vegas lights and desperate to take a chance, Darcy Wallace spends her last three dollars at a hotel casino and wins the jackpot. When...

Falling For The Single Mum Next Door - Fiona McArthurTemptation on the doorstep!Returning to Rainbow Bay, Dr Henry learns his new neighbour is former crush, hospital administrator Nadia. Last time he saw the grieving widow, he was caring for her...

A moving story about two very different sisters, and a love letter to childhood, growing up, and the power of imagination—from the bestselling author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead and Interesting Facts About Space.Sigrid hates working at...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into...

"Original, compelling, witty and historically illuminating hilarious and essential reading." - Helen Lederer, comedian, actress and founder of Comedy Women in PrintParis, 1940. The course of Fatiha Bin-Khalid's life is changed forever when she befriends...

After the tragic loss of her son, Abby attempts to escape her grief by taking to the open road, only to find herself in Central Mexico in a hotel that's home to other lost souls.It's the late nineties, when it is still possible to disappear, and Abby is...

A killer stalks the streets of Leeds, a city in England's industrial north. Every man is a suspect. Every woman is at risk. But in a house on Cleopatra Street, women are fighting back.It's the eve of the 1980s. Police officer Liz Seeley joins the squad...

Winner of Spain'sPremio Nacionalde Narrativa in 2023 "A funerary poem about a bird flying underground; a psychodrama of two sisters drowning in the mirror of memory; a center of a necrophilic labyrinth; Virginia Woolf's Rhoda lost in John Hawkes's...

The darkly comic tale of three generations of a Jewish family, from one of Poland's most renowned contemporary authors"A novel sparing only in words and form, not in emotion." -Vogue (Poland)Confidential follows on the success of acclaimed photographer,...

Midnight RiderCount Eduardo Cortes’s fortune — and future at his beloved ranch — is in question. Tragedy, money woes and family pressure are now driving him toward a marriage of convenience. That is, until he encounters Bernadette Barron, wandering...

In the last days of the Roman Empire a desperate princess and brutal Gothic warlord forge a dangerous alliance.'Enemy of My Dreams is a romantic romp through the ashes of a dying empire.' - Luna McNamara, author of Psyche and Eros Julia, only daughter...

From the New York Times bestselling author of THE HENNA ARTIST, this sweeping novel follows a young Anglo-Indian nurse who embarks on a journey from her home in Bombay, through Europe, to uncover a mystery and prove her innocence after a famous painter...

Everyone knows Gatsby.New money. Murky past. Huge online following. Nic Carraway doesn’t belong amongst the super-rich, but when she scores a cheap summer lease in Long Island, it-girl Jay Gatsby becomes her neighbour.Gatsby welcomes Nic to her opulent...

Stranded With The Secret Billionaire - Marion LennoxJilted heiress Penny Hindmarsh-Firth sets her broken heart on escaping high-society city life. Instead, she’s trapped by floods in the Outback and a handsome stranger on horseback comes to her...

Bound By The Boss’s Baby - Nina SinghUndercover nanny and the tycoon.After her own difficult upbringing, Fallon needs to know her foster-sister’s sweet baby boy is being cared for. Her plan: get his father to employ her as a nanny! The bond that...

Shoulda Been A CowboyThere’s not much about his teenage years that Jake Caldwell can be proud of. Except maybe for keeping his hands off cute, kind-hearted Cassie Ventimiglia. She was the only one who saw him as more than a tattooed rebel who couldn’t...

Faking It With A Fortune - Michelle MajorA baby on her doorstep might also reunite her with the man that got away.When a baby is left on Poppy Fortune's parents’ doorstep, the newly minted foster mum is determined to lavish infant Joey with love — all...