Books Released in May 2023

From the best-selling author of One of Us and The Day the Lies Began comes an emotional and gripping story of a man running from his past and the woman who wants his future.

‘Being present as the midwife at a baby’s birth is one of life’s glorious adventures.’In a new edition, twenty Australian midwives reflect on their practice and its changes with passionate midwife and bestselling author Fiona McArthur

From an exciting new voice in Australian crime fiction, a captivating and atmospheric rural thriller introducing Detective Rebecca Giles.

A compulsive debut thriller that will haunt you long after you’ve turned the final page.

A fascinating story of Governor Bligh’s trouble-making daughter, Mary, a powerful and determined woman from the bestselling author of Elizabeth and Elizabeth.

Rebecca meets Fleabag in a sharp and funny debut novel about dating in the internet age. Search History is a sharply funny debut novel about identity, obsession and desire in the internet age from one of the most perceptive and original new voices in Australian fiction.

A tragic accident tests the strength of family ties.

Threaded with wry humour, Life After Ted is a compelling examination of family conflict. The iconic backdrop of Bondi Beach is a presence as vivid, changeable and fascinating as any of the flawed and complex characters navigating their way through grief, towards hope.

‘Anam is a beautiful book. I loved its hypnotic rhythms, its restlessness, the way memories, dreams and ideas, like waves, kept riding in over the top of one another, undoing and complicating everything. It is the work of a soulful and scrupulous mind.’ MILES ALLINSON

The road to love is a rutted dirt track for the other vet from Snowy River … ‘An unmissable funny, feel-good romance from the author of The Vet From Snowy River, Stella Quinn.’

Chilling, tense and twisted, this compulsive thriller will send adrenaline coursing through your veins.

A gripping exploration of modern greed as bestselling Australian author Fiona Lowe unpicks the moral quagmire of those who trade on the bonds of their closest friendships and family for money.

From Robyn Cadwallader, the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of The Anchoress and Book of Colours, comes a vibrant, richly imagined and deeply moving novel set in the turbulent world of thirteenth-century England.

shake my head – it’s only day one.That wind is hot. I can feel the salt drying and gluing my eyebrows and lashes and gripping to the fine hairs on my cheeks. Shoulders, already knotted, ache. Blisters bubble their way to the surface, and I know I should have stopped for them but I’m single-minded to the point of recklessness in wanting to keep moving. Feet are too broad for the boots, anyway. Pack is too heavy, but I’d never breathe a word of it because that’d prove them right and I’m too young to be wrong.

The Dangers of Female Provocation is a razor-sharp, delicious testament to the force of women stepping into their own power.

From the author of WILD DOGS comes an electrifying combination of outback action thriller and the classic locked room mystery.

A novel based on the true story of Australian jockey Bill Smith – a life lived in secret.

How much would you sacrifice for another shot at the perfect life?