Form/Genre: Contemporary Fiction

Xander Maze loves lists, and his grandmother is #1 on his list of People I Love Most in the World. But now that Nanna has stage four cancer, can a new list of 100 Remarkable Feats really save her? Particularly when his list contains difficult things like #2 Make a Friend and #3 Make a Best Friend...

She has entered, she realises, a parallel existence, which she calls '1Q84' - 'Q' is for 'question mark'. A world that bears a question.Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author that, soon, his ...

Alexander McCall Smith’s delightful series of novels form the basis of these radio dramas featuring the inhabitants of an Edinburgh tenement buildingWith its multiple-occupancy flats, Scotland Street is an interesting corner of Edinburgh’s New Town. Verging on the Bohemian, here the haute bourgeo...

A man arrives at a house on the coast to write a book. Separated from his lover and family and friends, he finds the solitude he craves in the pyrotechnic beauty of nature, just as the world he has shut out is experiencing a cataclysmic shift. The preoccupations that have galvanised him and his w...

I'm lying here in a bed, my head full of regret, with only a little bird flitting through a tree to comfort me. Friends want to visit, but I refuse them. So my carer Sheila has given me a task to keep me occupied. An A–Z list. Think of a part of my body for each letter. Tell a little tale about i...

Freya thought she could relax when Ryan's best mate Jamie got engaged to her best friend Hannah. Two couples, four friends – what could be better than that? But a day before the wedding, Freya is torn between keeping the peace or blowing it up.Hannah's perfect wedding is hours away and she's dayd...

A year ago, a devastating bushfire ripped Annie’s world apart – killing her grandmother, traumatising her young daughter and leaving her mother’s home on the mountain half destroyed. Annie fled back to the city, but the mountain continues to haunt her. Now, drawn by a call for help from her uncle...

Grace Lisa Vandenburg counts.The letters in her name (19). The steps she takes every morning to the local café (920); the number of poppy seeds on her slice of orange cake, which dictates the number of bites she'll take to finish it. Grace counts everything, because numbers hold the world togethe...

Linda knows she's lucky. Yet every morning when she opens her eyes to a so-called new day, she feels like closing them again.Her friends recommend medication.But Linda wants to feel more, not less.And so she embarks on an adventure as unexpected as it is daring, and which reawakens a side of her ...

Jenny is unloved, unemployable and emotionally unfiltered. Her long-suffering friends seem sick of her and whilst her social media portrays her life as a bed of roses, it is more of a dying succulent.Adults is what you want it to be. A misadventure of maturity, a satire on our age of self-promoti...

A year has passed since Ari gave birth and still she can't locate herself in her altered universe. Sleep-deprived, lonely and unprepared, she struggles through the strange, disjointed rhythms of her days and nights. Her own mother long dead and her girlhood friendships faded, she is a woman in ne...

Now an adult (kind of), Debbie from Puberty Blues and her girlfriends reveal what women really talk about when there are no men around.After breaking off with both her best friend and boyfriend in Byron, Debbie fled back to the suburbs, enduring her family’s sanctimonious ‘I told you so’s. But it...

Two married couples: Kate and Cary, Cressida and Luke. Four people who meet, click, and become firm friends.But then Kate and Luke discover a growing attraction, which becomes an obsession. They fall in love, then fall into an affair. It blows their worlds apart.After the fall, nothing will ever ...

An unexpected gift left at her daughter’s fifth birthday party pitches Sydney mum Lisa Wheeldon into events both hilarious and life-changing.Lisa Wheeldon has a lovely life. Wife to a gorgeous husband, Scott, and a devoted mother to two small daughters, the former accountant has everything she wa...

Back in the long ago 90s, Rachel Walsh was a mess.But a spell in rehab transformed everything. Life became very good, very quickly. These days, Rachel has love, family, a great job as an addiction counsellor, she even gardens. Her only bad habit is a fondness for expensive trainers.But with the s...

Love, money, children ... Life is a risk, however much we try to protect ourselves ...In the late-80s at the beginning of their City careers, Tess and Becky are negotiating the world of high finance and the City. Becky is sharp and clever, and has had an upbringing she will never forget. Tess, me...

Last summer, Alice Ogilvie’s basketball-star boyfriend, Steve, dumped her. Then she disappeared for five days. Where she went and what happened to her is the biggest mystery in Castle Cove. Or at least it was. Because now, another one of Steve’s girlfriends has vanished: Brooke Donovan, Alice’s e...

When Primrose makes an unplanned detour into a tumbledown suburban golf course called Whistles, she has no idea that the past would come rushing back at her, putting every detail of her life squarely into focus.At 36, her marriage is teetering due to illness and infidelity. A visit from her comma...

A New World Order is upon us ...In the shifting desert sands of Egypt, rumours abound of a lost papyrus that will reveal the true purpose of the Pyramids of Giza. Could these ancient monoliths be the source of a new kind of energy, one that comes at no cost to the planet? CIA agent Curtis O'Conno...

Mia’s two sisters are pretty much perfect, but Mia’s life is a series of disasters. So what if she flirts with boys? Who cares if she likes going out? She’s great at other stuff too, like speaking her mind or nailing the perfect haircut or being the lifeblood of her friend group. But no one ever ...