When the small town of Melville is caught in a freak storm, its inhabitants must do everything they can to survive. But with a ruthless eco-terrorist at large, and no chance of rescue from the outside world, the townsfolk are on their own, facing one of the greatest environmental threats the world has ever seen...Dramatic, powerful and bursting with adventure, Storm is an un-putdown-able thriller.

A Jack Caffrey thriller from "easily today's best writer of visceral and elemental horror . . . guaranteed to creep out even the strongest of heart." ( Booklist, starred review)In her eerie and hair-raising thriller Skin, Mo Hayder trails her two unforgettable protagonists as they race to staunch a rising tide of blood in a sweltering port town.When the decomposing body of a young woman is found, the wounds on her wrists suggest an open-an...

This prize-winning debut novel from the author of Like a House on Fire is "reminiscent of Hornby . . . Well-observed and thoughtfully funny" ( Minneapolis Star-Tribune).Fifteen years after their breakup, Rich and Sandy have both settled into the unfulfilling compromises of middle age: he's a late-night infomercial editor with photojournalism aspirations; she makes hippie jewelry for a local market and struggles to maintain a New Age lifestyle that...

A perfect, feel-good summer read about love, life and family.One long hot summer. Secrets never stay buried for long…Portia is determined to restore Buttersley Manor, her family’s crumbling ancestral home, to its former glory. Yet she has a feeling that there are a few forgotten skeletons in the dust-covered cupboards.Jenny has put her life on hold for far too long. It’s time to finally start living and to dig up th...

Four million captivated viewers watched Charley Boorman complete his last adventure - LONG WAY DOWN - which took him from John O'Groats to Cape Town. Along with Ewan McGregor he achieved not only this amazing feat, but also circumnavigated the globe on the LONG WAY ROUND. In between these two incredible journeys, he found the time to compete in the Dakar Rally, telling his story in his bestselling book RACE TO DAKAR.Charley's passion for travel and adventure continues in his new cha...

THE MARRIAGE MAKER"A mirror marriage, picture perfect but insubstantial, a mere reflection of the real thing." In marrying Drake Arundell, Olivia Nicholls will secure Simon's future… and condemn her own!Though she yearns for a "real" marriage with Drake, too many secrets, too many lies stand between them and the love, the passion, the substance she longs for in their relationship – but then, perhaps she has a guardian angel on her side!THE MARRIAGE ...

Do you remember the water buffalo at the end of our street?Or the deep-sea diver we found near the underpass?Do you know why dogs bark in the middle of the night?Shaun Tan, creator of The Arrival, The Lost Thing and The Red Tree, reveals the quiet mysteries of everyday life: homemade pets, dangerous weddings, stranded sea mammals, tiny exchange students and secret rooms filled with darkness and delight.

"I found myself considering those rare things only books can do, feats outside the purview of film or fine art . . . Gorgeous." —Samantha Hunt, The New York Times Book ReviewIt is New Year’s Eve 1990, in a small town in southeast Australia. Ru’s father, Jack, one of thousands of Australians once conscripted to serve in the Vietnam War, has disappeared. This time Ru thinks he might be gone for good. As rumors spread of a huge black cat stalking the landscap...

Josephine Dakota Modeen is not your average woman—she's beautiful, noble ... and deadly. Having proven herself by becoming the first woman to be accepted into Australia's elite Special Forces and receiving the Medal for Gallantry in action, Jo is left wondering what's next after leaving the military. When her old CO, Ben Logan, now a team leader with a national security agency, reaches out to her, she knows it's not a social call.What she doesn’t know is how this u...

An Australian children's classic.Everyone in Port Lincoln thinks Snook Pascoe is a loser. People joke about his clumsiness; his teacher ridicules him and even his father, skipper of the tuna boat Blue Fin, is convinced that Snook will never amount to anything. After all, tuna fishing is a hard life for ‘real men’.When Snook is allowed, for once, to sail on Blue Fin he faces a terrifying disaster. A waterspout engulfs the ship, the deck is ...

There in the shimmering green water lay four big oval shapes like a giant's carving dishes. They were patterned in brownish green and had five handles. Suddenly the handles stirred and the giant's carving dishes began to move!Chellie was very small when she first saw the beautiful green turtles with the scientific name so close to her own. Every year she would watch them swim in the sea and make their long journeys up the beach to lay their eggs. But one day, Chellie makes a grim a...

Dumped by his girlfriend and sacked from his job, Brit journalist Justin Dunn took a plane to Thailand in search of peace and contentment. Instead he found murder, mayhem, and not a little madness.