Greenwich Village, middle of the twentieth century, an intimate portrait of a young woman as she negotiates her way through work, love and parenthood. Beautifully written and insightful.

From the author of the internationally acclaimed, Whitbread Award-winning ‘The Harmony Silk Factory’ comes an enthralling new novel that evokes an exotic yet turbulent and often frightening world. Sixteen-year-old Adam is an orphan three times over. He and his...

During the darkest days of the Cold War, in the remote wilderness of a South Australian desert, the future of an infant nation is being decided – without its people’s knowledge. In the spring of 1956, British Lieutenant Daniel...

Royalties from the sale of this book will go to charities working towards the reconstruction of north-eastern Japan. 11th March 2011. An earthquake occurring off the north-eastern coast of Japan – magnitude 9.0, duration six minutes – unleashed a...

The only thing that spreads faster than gossip in Palm Beach is news of a mysterious death. Maribelle, the eldest of the three Barrows sisters, deserves to be envied. Not only for her plum position as editorial director of...

A sensual and joyful story of desire and independence in 1930s Paris. Set among the bustling train stations and narrow rues of 1930s Paris, where the threat of war already hangs in the air, Marie is a hypnotically powerful novel about...

In May 1980, 15-year-old Oscar Drai suddenly vanishes from his boarding school in the old quarter of Barcelona. For seven days and nights no one knows his whereabouts… His story begins in the heart of old Barcelona, when he...

Cassie Blake is the heiress to Fenton’s, San Francisco’s most exclusive department store. After the revelation of her husband Aidan’s affair with a student, she searches out her friend Alexis at Presidio Heights mansion, and has some soul searching...

Mary Barton, the daughter of disillusioned trade unionist, rejects her working-class lover Jem Wilson in the hope of marrying Henry Carson, the mill owner’s son, and making a better life for herself and her father. But when Henry is...

Needing a bolt-hole where she can lick her wounds after a car accident has destroyed her budding career, Catrina Russell jumps at the chance of a job as governess on a North Queensland cattle station. Carrie wouldn’t have been...