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Anna is smart. Smarter than you, probably. But when she falls for the beautiful, enigmatic Caden, her need to get under his skin, to truly know him becomes overpowering. Anna's new life in Cambridge is full of promise - she's the top student in her PhD cohort, she has great friends and she has me...

Did Vivienne Volker Kill Wilma Lang? This question has dogged Vivienne ever since Wilma jumped from a window to her death shortly after Volker stole her lover, visionary artist Hans Bellmer, in the 1970s. Once a famous artist and fashion icon, Volker is now in her eighties and spends her days in ...

Eva Kitt dreamed of pursuing a journalism career all her life. Instead, she's the host of 'Sausage Talk', interviewing B-list celebrities over lukewarm hotdogs. When Eva's impromptu public call out of her college ex goes viral, she's thrust into the spotlight. It doesn't help that said ex is Ryli...

Thirty years ago, one of Ben Knott's schoolfriends was murdered. Another went to prison. The story ended. The village of Barton Mallett tried to move on. Now her killer is back. As the murderer's sentence ends, the village is chosen as the unlikely location for a feature film by a Hollywood produ...

It's 1945, and Corporal Valentine Vere-Thissett, aged 23, is on his way home. But 'home' is Dimperley, built in the 1500s, vast and dilapidated, up to its eaves in debt and half-full of fly-blown taxidermy and dependent relatives, the latter clinging to a way of life that has gone forever. And wo...

Rufus Leung Gresham, future Earl of Greshamsbury and son of a former Hong Kong supermodel, is drowning in debt. The only solution, according to his mother, is for him to attend his sister's wedding and seduce a woman with money. Will it be the French hotel heiress with a royal bloodline? The vent...

1942. Maggie Carpenter led a quiet life as a teacher in Manchester, but as the fighting intensifies she quits her peaceful existence to do her bit for the war effort. As part of an army of girls working on the canals to deliver essential supplies around the country, Maggie's world is far from com...

Some people go their whole lives without finding the one, but Jenny and Joe always knew they were meant to be. Until they weren't. A freak accident is all it takes to tear them apart. But Jenny has a secret. Joe never left. He's spent the past five months visiting her whenever she's alone, seemin...

Li Min, a Chinese student, is forced by her government to transfer from Harvard to Oxford University, where she is recruited to an elite Chinese study centre based out of St Felix's College. Meanwhile, the centre's newly recruited head stumbles on its more sinister purpose: recruiting Chinese and...

When a frustrated young writer stumbles across an elderly woman at a Melbourne pool, he realises the scoop of a lifetime is right in front of him - the woman is the reclusive cult author Brenda Shales, whose disappearance from the public eye remains one of Australia's last unsolved literary myste...