The name game
Beth O'Leary
The Isle of Ormer: population 500, soon to be 501. Charlie Jones has landed on the island to embark on her brand new life. As the manager at Ormer's only farm shop, this job will be her perfect next chapter. Good riddance to the mainland, this is it - fresh air, and a clean slate. Except there is one small issue...
Bloodlust
Sandra Brown
Hanged: execution in the Top End
Derek Pugh
Ten men were legally executed in Australia's Northern Territory. Some were hanged on their own Country, their deaths intended as warnings. Others were buried behind the walls of Darwin's Fannie Bay Gaol in unmarked graves and forgotten. They were Indigenous tribesmen, Chinese gold miners, and European refugees. Their crimes, trials, and punishments unfolded in a frontier society shaped by race, fear, and power - yet their stories have largely vanished from the national memory.
Ayaiga: neighbour and hero
Thomas Higgs, Wally Wilfred & Colin Michael Hall
In the remote Roper River region of the Northern Territory more than 120 years ago, an Alawa man committed an act of such exceptional bravery that a King took notice.
The ANZAC table
Daniel Reynaud & Emanuela Reynaud
The Love Letter
Lucinda Riley
When Sir James Harrison, one the greatest actors of his generation, passes away at the age of ninety-five, he leaves behind not just a heartbroken family, but also a secret so shocking, so devastating that it could rock the British Establishment to its core...
The Move
JP Delaney
When Kate and Matt move in, they're pleased to discover the Finches still very much in evidence: offering advice, introducing them to the local community, and becoming honorary grandparents to Will, eleven, and Tilly, nine. But when the Finches take exception to Kate and Matt's renovations, relations with the neighbours sour, and Kate and Matt find themselves subjected to a vicious campaign of hate.
When I kill you
B A Paris
Nell Masters is certain someone is following her. The hairs on the back of her neck rise when she travels to and from work, there are silent calls to her office, and a huge bouquet of flowers arrives without a card. And Nell has a reason to be looking over her shoulder, because she has a secret that she’s hiding from everyone in her life, including her new partner, Alex. But Alex also has secrets of his own.
