Summer Reads

One missing. Four left behind. The author of international bestseller The Dry delivers a powerful new novel of dark secrets, corporate intrigue and bushland survival. The gripping new novel from the author of the bestselling Empire's Thriller of the...

A small Australian town, parched by endless drought, staggers through the trauma of a mass murder in its midst in Jane Harper’s stunningly atmospheric crime thriller. The Dryburns with oppressive heat on every page, tacitly involving the reader in the...

Hold on to your hats: The authors who brought you the New York Times bestseller My Plain Jane, which Booklist praised as delightfully deadpan (starred review) and Publishers Weekly called a clever, romantic farce (starred review), are back with another...

In a timely update of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi skillfully balances cultural identity, class, and gentrification against the heady magic of first love in her vibrant reimagining of this beloved classic. A...

The second installment of Scott Westerfeld's international bestselling Uglies series - the global phenomenon that started the dystopian trend.In Tally's world, looks are all that matters. And now that she's finally undertaken the surgery to become...

It wasn't an extensive library. In fact, it consisted of eight books and some of them were in poor condition. But they were books. In this incredibly dark place, they were a reminder of less sombre times, when words rang out more loudly than machine guns...

"Enough plot twists to give a reader whiplash." -CosmopolitanFrom New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Young comes the start of a thrilling, subversive new series about a girls-only boarding school with a terrifying secret and the friends who will...

"A food-for-thought dystopian with a strong feminist message." -Kirkus ReviewsIt's time to fight back in this second novel in the thrilling, subversive near future series from New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Young about a girls-only private...

The girls make their final stand in this third and final novel in the thrilling, subversive near-future series from New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Young about a girls-only private school that is far more than it appears to be.There is no one...

Cho’s award-winning debut opens the doors to a wickedly funny universe of magicians, royalty and female supernatural prodigies in Regency London. Winner of the 2016 Fantasy Society Award for Best NewcomerShortlisted for the 2016  Fantasy Society...

'A laugh-cry book from first page to last' - Milly Johnson What if you had the chance to find a lost love? Jess still thinks about the man who disappeared from her life seventeen years ago, and the tragedy that tore them apart. So when she discovers a...

Perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Sarah Dessen, this romantic and layered Own Voices debut from Abigail Hing Wen is a dazzling, fun-filled romp. "Our cousins have done this program," Sophie whispers. "Best kept secret. Zero supervision."And just like...

'One of the best love stories I've ever read.' -- Angie Thomas, bestselling author of The Hate U Give.From debut author justin a. reynolds comes The Opposite of Always, a razor-sharp, hilarious and heartfelt novel about the choices we make, the people we...

Shortlisted for the RNA Historical Romantic Novel AwardThe long-awaited prequel to Elizabeth Chadwick's bestselling and beloved first novelThe Wild Hunt'Picking up an Elizabeth Chadwick novel you know you are in for a sumptuous ride'Daily TelegraphThe...

It doesn't take long to discover that it is not just painting the boss has in mind. Swept along on hedonistic tide of wild parties, wild sex and plentiful drugs, he revels in the pursuit of pleasure. But when the body of a missing tourist is found, all...

An ambitious, epic dystopian novel - part political thriller and part satire. From the Fatherland, with Love is set in an alternative, dystopian present in which the dollar has collapsed and Japan's economy has fallen along with it. The North Korean...

Murakami's 69, a side-splittingly funny coming-of-age novel set in the Japan of the sixties In a small, inconsequential city in Japan, all that matters to 17-year-old Kensuke Yazaki and his friends is girls, rock music and, to a much lesser extent,...

Hanna Donnelly is the station captain's pampered daughter and Nik Malikov is the reluctant member of a notorious crime family. Together they struggle with the realities of life aboard the galaxy's most boring space station, blissfully unaware that Kady...

The story of Greta Thunberg, the schoolgirl who inspired a worldwide climate change movement.It's 20 August 2018, late summer in Stockholm, and it feels incredibly hot in the city. The TV news reports rising temperatures, and there have been numerous...

Hocus Pocus and Practical Magic meets the Salem Witch trials in this haunting story about three sisters on a quest for revenge - and how love may be the only thing powerful enough to stop them.Welcome to the cursed town of Sparrow...Two centuries ago, in...