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science fiction & fantasy |
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Old Games
Fiona Hardy
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Australian Author
Paperback
$ 34.99
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Judge Stone
Viola Davis, James Patterson
Paperback
Available March 10
$ 34.99
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What The Bones Know
Kirstyn McDermott
Australian Author
Paperback
$ 32.99
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The Red Winter
Cameron Sullivan
Australian Author
Paperback
$ 34.99
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Alice and Teddy are best mates and investigators. No mess is too big to fix. But they might have met their match in this next case. At first glance, it looks like an openand-shut case. Locate the stolen ashes of long-dead celebrity tennis player Ashley‘ Perry’ Perrineau. But it quickly becomes clear that everyone who knew Perry is keeping secrets. Alice and Teddy will need to travel to Melbourne’ s Mornington Peninsula to uncover the truth all while avoiding more than one person on their tail. But will they and the people they love survive what they find? Devour the next best read from Fiona Hardy, bestselling Australian author. |
Academy Award-winner Viola Davis has teamed up with James Patterson to present an incredible courtroom drama with an unforgettable lead character. Judge Mary Stone is the most respected citizen in Union Springs, Alabama. She holds two responsibilities sacred – running her family farm and presiding over her courtroom. Everything changes when she draws the most controversial case in the history of the South. Criminally, it’ s open-andshut. Ethically, there is no middle ground. Essentially, it’ s a choice between life and death. But Judge Stone is willing to fight to bring justice to the people she loves. |
In the village of Kiln Creek in the Victorian Highlands, a ghost gum falls in a storm. Tangled in its roots are the bones of a small child. Single mum Jude Mees returns to Kiln Creek when she hears that her mother, Nance, is showing troubling signs of dementia. But there are other disturbing occurrences Jude can’ t explain. Jude begins to wonder whether her imagination is out of control or if something more sinister is happening... A taut, claustrophobic exploration of what it means to be haunted – by our past, by fractured relationships, by a place we thought we knew and by our own unreliable memories. |
In this dark retelling of the hunt for the Beast of Gévaudan, Cameron Sullivan tears the heart out of history. In 1785, Professor Sebastian Grave receives news that the Beast of Gévaudan has returned. Sebastian knows the Beast. 20 years ago, it nearly cost him his life to bring the monster down. Now, he has been recalled to the hunt by Antoine Avenel d’ Ocerne, an estranged lover who shares a dark history with the Beast and a terrible secret with Sebastian. With the help of his indwelling demon, Sarmodel – who takes payment in living hearts – Sebastian must return to Gévaudan for a final reckoning. |
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The Drowning
Fiona Lowe
Australian Author
Paperback
$ 32.99
CC Cilento’ s best memories are of spending every summer holiday running wild in and out of the Friend family beach house with her cousins, James, Ollie, Felix and Lily. They’ ve continued the summer tradition into adulthood, getting together at the shack with its absolute beach frontage. But now a bombshell has dropped: the four Friend siblings have officially inherited the property – along with an unexpected fifth share to CC. What starts out as the perfect gift, and a way of keeping the family connected forever, quickly devolves into an emotional power struggle when a body is found on the shack’ s beach.
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Two Islands
Ian Kemish
Australian Author
Paperback
$ 34.99
When a desperate young man arrives on an isolated Scottish isle, the locals view him with suspicion. But Niko is there for a reason – he’ s running for his life, pursued by those who want him silenced for what he has seen in the Balkan War. His neighbour is a recluse known to the villagers as‘ Slow Fergus’. As the two men circle each other, Australian war crimes investigator Anita Costello races against sinister forces to locate her key witness. Against this rugged landscape, where the tight-knit island community holds painful memories close, Niko must weigh his loyalties to his family, his country and himself.
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Shellybanks: Kate Delaney # 2
Louise Milligan
Australian Author
Paperback
$ 34.99
Journalist Kate Delaney doesn’ t have fond memories of Shellybanks. After all, it is on those sandy banks where she once nearly drowned. Years later, Kate must return to Dublin after a violent crime makes her life in Melbourne impossible. But a dark shadow is looming over the Delaney family. Her beloved aunt Dolores has her own buried trauma and, together with Kate’ s help she intends to confront the powerful religious network that stole everything from her. Shellybanks charts how two women find strength in each other as they reckon with Ireland’ s hidden histories and the scars that endure across generations.
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The Ascension Of Souls: Broken Cycle # 1
Bronte-Marie Wesson
Australian Author
Paperback
$ 34.99
The first book in an epic new fantasy series for fans of The Jasmine Throne, She Who Became the Sun and Game of Thrones. A broken prophecy. Two people bound by fate. One chance to right the world. In a land where an ancient prophecy is renewed every generation, two countries are trapped in a repeating cycle of war. But the cycle is broken, and destiny is beginning to unravel. As war looms, the Empire teeters on the edge of upheaval. Can the cycle be mended, the shared destiny of its people restored? Or will they forge a new future, free from the chains of prophecy?
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