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A series of erotic novels that tap into our deepest romantic fantasies, featuring a striking new heroine. Thirty-something Emma Benson is a free spirit. For her a good life means a life of sensuality. So it�s a surprise to everyone when she marries David, a successful businessman, and settles down...

A brain-teasing conspiracy thriller and an action-packed ride through the centuries. In late 2012 a cryptic invitation leads a crime novelist to Venice's Island of the Dead. Once there he is captivated by his host's tale, which spans the centuries - but seemingly begins and ends in the dark...

‘I have no family,’ Adam said, the blue eyes in the baby face now ice-cold. ‘I have no mother and I have no father.’ Adam is just fifteen years old when he stumbles upon the Otto Bin Empire, a community of homeless men and women who gather at the colourful wheelie bins down near the...

For it is in the simple act of reading where the living and the dead, the real and the imagined, meet. It is in the simple act of reading where we exercise those two most sacred of human vocations: compassion and creativity. For as we know, without either of these primes there is no possibility for...

A mystical thriller that draws on the rich tradition of the Kabbalah. What if we got it wrong? What if the first five chapters of the Bible weren't about good and evil at all? What if they contained a hidden meaning, evidence of a divine grand plan? Throughout history, a select few have...

No SMS, no email, no Facebook: in the digital age, who are you when you're disconnected from your friends? In Rick Lawrence's world, everyone's online, all the time, immersed in a vast electronic sea of instant communication. Life's easy when you can do practically everything on one device,...

A forthright investigation of human frailty and emotion with a plot that keeps you in its thrall until the last word. Greer Gordon lives in Italy with Mischa Svoboda, a driven Czech-born painter with a booming international reputation. She and Mischa met in the 1970s, when his debut show at...

Women the world over are brought up to hope, even expect, to find the man of their dreams and live happily ever after. When Stephanie Wood meets a former architect turned farmer she embarks on an exhilarating romance with him. He seems compassionate, loving, truthful. They talk about the future. She...

Jem's world has been turned upside down by a family crisis, and then it gets worse. Just when it all seems too hard, along comes Ella, Jem0's great-aunt, who's also a solo round-the-world sailor. She decides that what Jem, his sister Maddy and brother Tyler need is a sea change. But is seasickness...

Everyone has secrets. It's what you do with them that matters. Steven Byrd is highly intelligent. He's just not very smart. For one thing, he's obsessed with Avery Adams - a girl who can't stand him. When Steven discovers Avery is involved in a secret game, he drags his best mate, Tala, along...

The continuing adventures of Emma Benson! The third book in an erotica series that taps into our deepest sexual fantasies... For fans of E L James and Sylvia Day.Emma Benson was unlikely ever to be your average housewife. But she never meant any of this to happen …For temptation is all around her,...

Coco Banjo to the rescue! Coco Banjo loves her life. She sleeps in a tiger onesie, wears her mum's diamonds just because she can, and has dolphins and penguins for friends. Today Coco's planning a Yay Day of fun on her secret island home in the middle of Sydney Harbour. But wait . ....

A magical Christmas story from a master storyteller Christmas Eve is drawing close. High on a shelf in an old toy shop, the wind-up Space Ride is gathering dust. It hasn't worked in years. The tin toys remember how bright, how shining, how exhilarating the Space Ride was. But the new toys don't...

Karri the bouncing koala is back! Karri the bouncing koala has a peaceful new home - until a gang of fierce, football-crazy cats moves in.The moggies aren't welcome - they keep chasing the bush birds and animals - but they've got nowhere else to live.Karri makes a deal with the cats. They'll...