Peter Godwin’s memoir charts a life of exile, ranging from the horror of civil war to family eccentricity and life in London ...

Mark Smith’s first novel for adults is both a psychological thriller and an exploration of a shocking moral dilemma.

Ronni Salt’s debut is historical crime fiction at its best, with a strong sense of place and time and wonderful characters at its core. Ronni Salt will be well-known to denizens of what was Twitter, ...

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Sue Prideaux separates the man from the myth in this new account of the controversial nineteenth-century French artist. Who was Paul Gauguin? Was he a ‘colonialist’; ‘the bad boy who spread syphilis ...

June Wright has faded from view, but in 1948 her novel Murder in the Telephone Exchange outstripped sales of Agatha Christie in Australia. Between 1948 and 1966, Australian author June Wright ...