War separates them, but it cannot dampen their spirits . . . Spring, 1940. Annie’s new husband Ricky leaves to fight, but she soon discovers battles brewing closer to home. As her sister Janey begins to unravel, only Annie...

Cross at Dad, Abby, 17, boards a flight to Greece, but gets hopelessly lost and ends up in the wrong village. Alone, with very little money, no Greek and no way to contact her friend Jackie, who has lined...

It is the summer of 1940, and for Stevie Steiber, a young American journalist in Hong Kong, the war raging in Europe is a world away. While longing to be taken seriously as a writer, she keeps her readers...

Jack Reacher is alone, the way he likes it. He watches a man cross a New York street and drive away in a Mercedes. The car contains $1 million of ransom money. Reacher’s job is to make sure it...

It’s two days before Christmas and Helsinki is battling ruthless climate catastrophe: subway tunnels are flooded: abandoned vehicles are burning in the streets. People are fleeing to the far north where conditions are still tolerable. Social order is crumbling...

How do you mend a broken heart? It’s been three months since Alison Miller-Juul’s world fell apart when her six-year-old daughter, Amalie, died in an accident. Three months of sympathy cards, grief counselling and gritting her teeth, but it’s...

After coming through the blizzard that almost cost them everything, Jens and the boy are far from home, in a fishing community at the edge of the world. Taken in by the village doctor, the boy once again has...

In The Heat of the Day, Elizabeth Bowen brilliantly recreates the tense and dangerous atmosphere of London during the bombing raids of World War II. Many people have fled the city, and those who stayed behind find themselves thrown...

From the back cover: A grisly murder in a New York bookstore seems to hold a special significance for Detective Callum Doyle: the victim’s been marked with a message… Then the sinister phone calls start. Doyle is told more...

THE TRIP OF A LIFTIME? When five strangers are chosen for an all-expenses-paid stay an exclusive retreat, they leap at the chance to rest and get away from it all amidst the lush Costa Rican rainforest. OR THE HOLIDAY...