I shouldn't have come back.Bryn Walter left town five years ago with one goal: forget Asher Vale. The boy from the wrong side of everything. The boy she was never supposed to love. The boy who promised to protect her - no matter what it took.I never let her go.Asher left, but he never gave her up. He watched. Waited. Returned, again and again, to the place she left him, clinging to a promise that was never meant to fade. Bryn was alwa...

BOOKTOPIA BOOK OF THE MONTHThree strangers’ lives are forever changed when they’re all drawn to a mysterious agency claiming to have unlocked the secret to time travel in this dazzling novel from award-winning author Jaclyn Moriarty.Anna, Teddy, and Jade are on a collision course. The Agency is the cause. It is also the solution.On a quiet road nestled within the bustle of Sydney lies a nondescript storefront known simply as the Time Travel Agency. At once a confoun...

From the #1 Australian bestselling author of Still comes a compelling and cinematic crime thriller that takes us from Sydney to New York in the heady 1980s.The cloth that was over his head and tied tightly around his neck smelled like the army disposal store he'd been to with his father. Lying on the floor of the van, hands tied behind his back, he closed his eyes and breathed in the kerosene-like scent of the sack, and wished he was back there again. ...

A captive craving freedom, a host unmasking a lifetime of lies and a stalker waiting in the shadows. Can they survive a war that started long before their story began?THE CAPTIVEMy life has been stolen. I've been locked away, hidden from the world that I know. They're attacking my memories and everything is unravelling, but I know enough. I'll fight for my freedom. I'll fight for her. Even if it destroys us both.THE HOST

'A marvel of wonder and experience' ALICE PUNGA coming-of-age story inspired by true events in Australia in World War I that explores the things that separate us and those that bring us together, from an award-winning author.Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.- William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 1 Scene 3Langwarrin, Victoria, 1914. The...

WINNER OF A 2018 BOOK OF THE YEAR ABIABestsellers. Award-winners. Superstars.This anthology has them all.With brilliantly entertaining short stories from beloved young adult authors Amie Kaufman, Melissa Keil, Will Kostakis, Ellie Marney, Jaclyn Moriarty, Michael Pryor, Alice Pung, Gabrielle Tozer, Lili Wilkinson and Danielle Binks, this all-new collection will show the world exactly how much there is to love about Aussie YA.Harnessi...

'Gorgeous writing and an unfolding plot rich in both menace and sensuality, Dove shows just how impactful the best psychological thrillers can be.'JACQUELINE BUBLITZDove was never afraid for her safety - until now. The question she painted on her fence has turned her quiet hinterland town against itself. She wishes she could tell the police what her neighbour did, or that she's terrified he's behind the sinister events on her flower...

BOOKTOPIA BOOK OF THE MONTHEvery dog—and every human—deserves a second chance.It's September 1997 and Cookie, an inmate in a minimum-security prison, is serving the last six months of his sentence when he signs up for a last-chance rehabilitation program for abandoned dogs.He's assigned Nigel—whom he renames Good Boy—an anxious soul with a talent for gnawing his way through walls. Cookie has his work cut out preparing him for the upcoming behavioural assessment that...

The authorised biography of notorious professional criminal Brenden Abbott chronicling his extraordinary life on the run and decades in maximum security.Bank robber. Fugitive. Womaniser. Comedian. Conman. Chameleon. How the Postcard Bandit put his stamp on Australia... and paid the price.Brenden Abbott escaped custody three times and was a fugitive for more than six years, using sophisticated disguises, fake identities and safehouses to become the nation's most successful a...

Every step leads to love.Genevieve Halliday is spiralling.She's been roped into a marathon she has no idea how she'll finish, her ex won't stop mansplaining why they should get back together, and she's just panic-asked a handsome stranger to pretend they're on a date.Knox Watson is always on the move.He's spent years trying to escape his family's past, but when his godfather's p�tisserie is in danger of clos...