Adult & Contemporary Fiction

It is the reign of the Emperor Augustus, and Publius Vergilius Maro, the poet of the Aeneid and Caesar's enchanter, has been summoned to the palace, where he will shortly die. Out of the last hours of Virgil's life and the final stirrings of his...

Cavanagh returns with another compelling case for Eddie Flynn, as an innocent man stands accused of a vicious murder and a whole town is convinced of his guilt. Shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2022. A DEADLY PROSECUTORThey call him...

From the Pulitzer Price winning author of The Return, this literary novel is surprising and special. With a propulsive narrative, it's a story of friendship and belonging, exile and home.LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • A “masterly”...

New York Times bestselling author B. A. Paris captivated psychological thriller readers everywhere with Behind Closed Doors. Now she invites you into another home full of heart-pounding secrets, in The Guest. Some secrets never leave. Iris and Gabriel...

The author of A Study in Drowning and former Monthly Pick Juniper & Thorn has returned with a fictional profile of a complex woman. Ava Reid reintroduces us to Lady Macbeth, in all of her gothic glory.From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ava...

In the dark underbelly of a beautiful city, two rival assassins are pitted against each other in a deadly game of revenge, where the most dangerous mistake of all is falling in love in this searing young adult fantasy.In Fantome, a kingdom of cobbled...

Tracy Wolff’s beloved Crave series gets another thrilling installment with Charm. Chronicling the four missing months between Crave and Crush, fans will finally get answers to all of their burning questions about Grace and Hudson’s love story...

A shocking discovery of human bones reopens an almost fifty-year-old cold case—and rips apart the lives of a group of friends—in a riveting novel by Loreth Anne White, the Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestselling author of The...

Longing to escape his island home, a boy named Hodaka runs away during his first summer of high school to find a new life in Tokyo. As rain falls for days on end and Hodaka struggles to adjust, he meets a girl named Hina who holds a mysterious power:...

Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the “spice” melange, a drug capable of extending life and...

Dogs + hockey + two romance authors at the top of their game. We're in.From New York Times bestselling author Elle Kennedy and USA Today bestselling author Sarina Bowen comes the first in the spin-off series of their wildly successful Him and Us books...

Book two in the New York Times bestselling series called "Beautiful, brutal, heart-stopping, and epic" (Laini Taylor)! Two queens, separated by thousands of years, connected by secrets and lies, must continue their fight amid deadly plots and unthinkable...

Love that won't die. Vengeance to be wrought. Three families forever changed. Finally reunited with her family in the Seelie Realm, Caly struggles to come to terms with all she had to give up to get there. Though she eagerly awaits the ceremony to...

Showing more flashes of dark humour than readers of Cormac McCarthy may be used to, Suttree is a semi-autobiographical novel rich in eccentric characterisation that tells the story of the eponymous outcast living on a disintegrating houseboat. Suttree...

A rollicking ride about the hustle and grind life (literally and figuratively), complicated families and social media. Don't miss this one if you loved the wry voice and sharp insights of Kiley Reid's Come and Get It. “The warmth of...

ABANDON THE PURSUIT OF ORDINARY HAPPINESS! One young man’s barren college life changes forever when he shares a budding romance with a girl named Mizuo...only for it to all come crashing down when she has the gall to dump him! With the specter of a...

Joris-Karl Huysmans' shocking novel of an innocent's descent into a world of depraved, blasphemous rituals.Durtal, a shy, censorious man, is writing a biography of Gilles de Rais, the monstrous fifteenth-century child-murderer thought to be the original...

A betrothal to quell a rebellion... Lady Narcissa Greenwood has been haunted by her past since the disaster of last summer's Season. The society she once reveled in now sees her as the traitor's daughter. Narcissa fears she can never prove them wrong...

Jane Austen meets the early Barbie movies in this illustrated Regency-inspired fantasy... In the kingdom of Olderea, dabbling in witchcraft is a sure way to the guillotine. When sixteen-year-old debutante Amarante Flora finds out she's half witch, all...

A Small Town, Enemies to Lovers, Found Family, Standalone Romance from USA Todaybestselling author Laura Pavlov. Ruby Rose declared me the enemy before I had a chance to defend myself.I may be an attorney, but this girl had appointed herself judge and...