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Margaret, are you leaving?

By admin on August 17, 2026 in New Releases

Dianne Yarwood
Sydney, 2001. Now in her forties, Maggie Reid has built a good life for herself, surrounded by good people. She has an adorable but needy dog and a new relationship. She has tried hard to leave her painful past behind her, but when her beloved brother Lucas calls with news of their adopted mother’s death, he also delivers a bombshell about Maggie’s birth mother.

So begins an uncertain, bumpy journey to trace her mother’s identity, a quest that brings fresh heartbreak but also unexpected joy. Maggie’s spent her whole life leaving, but now, for the first time, will she feel like staying? Deeply empathetic, uncommonly witty and wise, Margaret, Are You Leaving? celebrates the messiness of family and the beauty of life in all its heartache and wonder.

The damned

By admin on August 17, 2026 in New Releases

Matt Rogers
Retired assassin Logan Booth is ready to settle down – but Jacinta Murphy, the President of the United States, has other ideas. Paranoid he will expose her past mistakes, the President triggers a chain of events that drive Logan to Colombia and into the middle of a new war.

After colliding with the wrong cartel, Logan finds himself on the run across the mountainous Colombian countryside. His only chance of survival lies with Alice Mason, an unlikely friend and confidant. Desperate to keep her out of harm’s way, Logan refuses to call on her for aid. But what if she turns up unbidden? How is he supposed to stop her running headfirst into danger when he’s barely keeping himself alive?

The pandora conspiracy

By admin on August 17, 2026 in New Releases

Andy McDermott
Pandora’s Box has long been thought a myth.
But when archaeologist Nina Wilde and her husband, former SAS soldier Eddie Chase, are summoned to the White House for a secret meeting, it appears the legendary artefact is real, with the potential to bring great benefits to humanity – or unimaginable harm.

Mistrustful of the motives of those who want to find it, Nina sets out with Eddie on a mission that is the opposite of her usual to ensure the ancient treasure remains undiscovered for ever. But as more groups join the hunt – including one led by her own daughter Macy – Nina finds herself trapped in an ever more deadly race which, if she loses, could destroy the world as we know it – and if she wins will tear her family apart…

One of us is guilty

By admin on August 17, 2026 in New Releases

Steve Cavanagh
Patrick Vanderpool, son of a billionaire media mogul, is destined for power. But the affair he’s having could ruin everything. Vanessa Vanderpool, married to one of America’s most influential men, has her own ambitions. But the affair he’s having could ruin everything. When the other woman is found brutally murdered, there are only two suspects…

One of them is guilty. But which one? Conman turned defence lawyer Eddie Flynn must risk his life to find out…

Hide and seek

By admin on August 17, 2026 in New Releases

Chris Carter
Chris Carter as you’ve never read him no murder, no gore – just pure, relentless suspense. Sam Stewart has escaped her abusive husband. She has taken him to court. She has watched him sent to prison. But Nelson Stewart leaves her with one chilling.

He will come for her. No matter how long it takes. Given a new name and a new identity, Sam becomes Mary Smith and starts again. But Mary knows Nelson. She knows what he is capable of. And she knows that prison might not be enough to keep him away. Now she is trapped in a deadly game of hide and seek – one where nothing is what it seems, and revenge is the prize.

Possible springs

By admin on August 17, 2026 in New Releases

Samantha Ross
Jimny Adams should have died on that hot summer day in 1987 in the remote town of Possible Springs. Only eleven at the time, she was saved from drowning by her school teacher Mr Cross. Seven years on and she has grown into a watchful, quirky eighteen-year-old – her near-death experience having left her with an unnerving psychic ability.

It’s an unwelcome gift that she tries desperately to from her parents, from her best friends, from everyone in town. In such a tight-knit community, being different means becoming a pariah. However Possible Springs is actually a town teeming with dark secrets. And with her ability to read people’s thoughts, Jimny is closer than she would like to be to discovering its truth…

Sunrise at Sunnycross farm

By admin on August 17, 2026 in New Releases

Maya Linnell
Spencer Hawkins never expected to find himself in front of a reality TV crew, let alone as a contestant on Love on the Land. Widowed and cautious, Spencer joins the show to shake up his quiet life as an English teacher and a bee-keeper, but the cameras bring chaos and scripted drama, leaving him questioning whether he’s truly ready to risk loving again. Clem Crossley is busy enough with her new farm gate café, her sunflower-filled property, and raising her two daughters without adding romance to the mix. When her café is unexpectedly called in to cater for the TV crew, she sees a different side of Spencer—he’s clearly out of his depth.

Their paths cross again when Harriet Crossley signs up to perform in the Penwarra Players’ annual theatre production. Somehow between rogue guinea pigs, a troublesome new employee and a side-hustle that’s more work than joy, Clem finds more than friendship, considering his excess baggage. As the TV show airs, misleading edits and small-town gossip threaten to undo the bond they’ve built. Clem, fiercely protective of her daughters, begins to wonder if Spencer is another risk she can’t afford.

Set in the heart of rural South Australia, Spencer and Clem must confront their pasts and trust each other to take centre stage in a love story that’s all their own.

Maralinga

By admin on August 3, 2026 in New Releases

Judy Nunn
During the darkest days of the Cold War, in the remote wilderness of a South Australian desert, the future of an infant nation is being decided . . . without its people’s knowledge. A British airbase in the middle of nowhere; an atomic weapons testing ground; an army of raw youth led by powerful, ambitious men – a cocktail for disaster. Such is Maralinga in the spring of 1956.

MARALINGA is a story of British Lieutenant Daniel Gardiner, who accepts a twelve-month posting to the wilds of South Australia on a promise of rapid promotion; Harold Dartleigh, Deputy Director of MI-6 and his undercover operative Gideon Melbray; Australian Army Colonel Nick Stratton and the enigmatic Petraeus Mitchell, bushman and anthropologist. They all find themselves in a violent and unforgiving landscape, infected with the unique madness and excitement that only nuclear testing creates.

MARALINGA is also a story of love; a love so strong that it draws the adventurous young English journalist Elizabeth Hoffmann halfway around the world in search of the truth. And MARALINGA is a story of heartbreak; heartbreak brought to the innocent First Australians who had walked their land unhindered for 40,000 years.
Maralinga . . . a desolate place where history demands an emerging nation choose between hell and reason.

The shadow step

By admin on August 3, 2026 in New Releases

Mark Billingham
A perfectly executed shadow step demonstrates synchronized elegance. It showcases a couple in near telepathic harmony with one another. It does not normally end with someone stone-dead in a lake. DS Declan Miller is a magnet for strange cases, but an innocent man confessing to the crime? That’s a first. Things rapidly escalate when the murder that isn’t really a murder attracts the unwanted attention of a drug Queenpin, a deranged ex-squaddie, and a lovesick gangland enforcer. And when a real murder follows – and a student is kidnapped – all evidence points back to the same innocent man.

Throw in a wobbly dog, a pair of ceramic leopards, and the distracting smell from a biscuit factory, and Miller’s only option to save a young man’s life is to waltz all the way into the shadows.

Find me

By admin on August 3, 2026 in New Releases

Holly Craig
When their brother Pete went missing two years ago on Mount Mercy, officials shook their heads. “He never should have been here; he was warned. Mount Mercy takes things.” After a disastrous first attempt to locate him, they called off the search. Estranged sisters Hallie and Gertie are drawn back together when their mother’s dying wish is for her girls to find their brother. To bring him back home. Their brother was last seen at a mysterious commune at the foot of the mountain, where members perform strange rituals to keep a sinister presence that comes from deep in the woods at bay.

But this mountain has no mercy, and they shouldn’t be there either. The sisters must navigate treacherous terrain as they confront what lies between them and what lives on the mountain. When Gertie also vanishes, the line between reality and nightmare blurs. Hallie realizes she must face Mount Mercy, and whatever is lurking in the forest, all alone.

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