Fiction
When Peter Clancy reluctantly returns to his home town of Clarkes Flats upon his Mothers death, he does so filled with dread and the genuine desire to only stay as short a time as possible. Little does he know that by returning to a place he has hated for many years he will stir up the past so thoroughly, he will put both his life…
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Author
TW Lawless
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Publisher
Campanile Publishing
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ISBN
978-0-646-58469-0
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Website
www.twlawless.com.au
Taking the traditional and ancient form of healing and wrapping a murder mystery around it, coupled with a search for the box that contains the remaining Reiki symbols, which are known about but guarded carefully by monks until people are ready to have that knowledge, forms the basis for a gripping journey that keeps you turning the pages long after you should be asleep.
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Author
Dominic C James
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Publisher
O Books
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ISBN
978-1-84694-413-0
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Website
www.o-books.com
Carrie Jane Knowles has used a very delicate hand to paint a picture of a family in crisis and the very delicate balance often found within families. Set in the time after the Second World War when society had set standards of behaviour and to show any form of weakness as a family was the thing of scandal and gossip, this is a fascinating look…
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Author
Carrie Jane Knowles
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Publisher
Roundfire Books
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ISBN
978-1-78099-830-5
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Website
www.roundfire-books.com
Riveting, suspenseful, told from alternating perspectives. This is a multi faceted book that connects mystery, acceptance, bullying, relationships, secret societies, grief and tightly knits them into a pager turner of a book. The story takes you down a dark rabbit hole any parent dreads, the death of their child. But why would a seemingly bright, top achieving girl jump off the school's roof? And why…
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Author
Kimberley McCreight
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Publisher
Harper Collins
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ISBN
9780062237590
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Website
www.harpercollins.com
Reading a book that challenges your beliefs, whilst you know it to be a work of fiction is a very strange experience. The books main character is looking for inspiration at a time in her life that she is recovering from a broken relationship and questioning what it is she truly wants from her life.
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Author
Peggy Payne
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Publisher
Roundfire Books
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ISBN
94376711424
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Website
www.roundfire-books.com
There are six months left of Emma Reiss's twenties...and she has some unfinished business. Emma and her friends are about to turn thirty, and for Emma it's a defining moment. Defined, that is, by her having achieved none of the things she'd imagined she would. Her career is all wrong, her love life is a desert and that penthouse apartment she pictured herself in simply…
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Author
Jane Costello
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
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ISBN
9781471112225 |
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Website
www.simonandschuster.co.uk
On an Island life is changing from the traditional to the modern with the help of western influence: The people of the Island are not altogether happy to have their traditional ways of living corrupted but are all too ready to take the best of what is being offered and use it to their own advantage.
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Author
Miles Rothwell
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Publisher
Short Stop Press
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ISBN
978-0-9873559-7-3
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Website
www.shortstoppress.com
Bequeathed a century-old house, four estranged friends return to their hometown, Calingarry Crossing, where each must stay for a season at the Dandelion House to fulfill the wishes of their benefactor, Gypsy. But coming home to the country stirs shameful memories of the past, including the tragic end-of-school muck up day accident twenty years earlier.
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Author
Jen J McLeod
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster UK
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ISBN
9781922052049
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Website
www.simonandschuster.co.uk
If you ever really wanted to know how the Victorian Gentleman conducted business and managed to get ahead despite the many difficulties, real and imagined placed in his way, just take a walk on the wild side of business by opening the first page of Who Moved My Stilton. Beautifully complied, Tyers and Beach have managed to lampoon the era of Victorian business and society…
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Author
Tyers & Beach
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishers
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ISBN
978-1-4088-2432-0
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Website
www.bloomsbury.com
If you like an enviro-action thriller, with a little fantasy thrown in then you will enjoy this book. Jack and his human and animal companions pit their considerable skills against an illegal animal trafficking ring. Jack's gift is he can communicate with animals, which in itself is a blessing and a curse. Corruption comes in many guises from government agencies to cults. Who can they…
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Author
Christopher Gerard
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Publisher
Short Stop Press
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ISBN
978-0-9872367-9-1
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Website
www.shortstoppress.com
When Cliff Hardy takes on what seems to be a relatively simple but somewhat mysterious case of a 19th century shipwreck off the Australian coast, little did he realise just what it was he was walking into. But only days later he gets the message when he realises one of the notorious crime families in Sydney are involved in more ways than one and are…
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Author
Peter Corris
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Publisher
Allen & Unwin
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ISBN
978-1-74331-022-9
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Website
www.allenandunwin.com