Australian Fiction Authors

Coming Soon Books – December to April

Here they are… Releasing in eBook and paperback and all up for pre-order now Read all the story blurbs and find your pre-order links or head to your favourite e-Retailer Happy book pre-ordering 😉 Out 1 December 2021 Four perfect strangers. Three days. Can one week away change your life? The unputdownable new drama by one of Australia’s most beloved storytellers Coming together for a writing workshop with bestselling author Jan Goldstein, four strangers converge upon a luxury forest retreat. But along with their notepads and laptops, each of the participants has brought some emotional baggage. Read more…
NEW RELEASE The Waterhole by Lily Malone

Lies, betrayals, jealousies and murder… When they filled the creek, they buried more than a secret The Waterhole by Lily Malone OUT NOW When a backyard dare to discover the source of a fabled waterhole uncovers human bones, small town detective, Marley West, leaps at the chance to kickstart his stalled career. But it’s more than two decades since developers filled the Cowaramup creek. The woman who owned the land—the Ross family matriarch—has passed away. Relations between her sons, Jack and Bill, are colder than the case. Read more…
AUTHOR GALLERY with Kaye Dobbie and Eva Scott

We asked our wonderful group member authors What inspires you to write stories? They couldn’t wait to answer! Kaye Dobbie – multi-published and RuBY Award winning author but did you know Kaye writes under other pen names? (You will be happily surprised!) Eva Scott – Australian author supplying us with wonderful rural and romantic fiction and now with a previous eBook-only story out in paperback for a limited time. Read more…
NEW RELEASE Deception Creek by Fleur McDonald

‘A returned criminal, a cult-like family and cybercrime all clash against the backdrop of the Flinders Ranges in this thrilling new rural suspense novel from the best-selling Voice of the Outback.’ Out Now DECEPTION CREEK by Fleur McDonald Read the story blurb and we’ve also got an excerpt for you Emma Cameron, a recently divorced farmer and a local in Barker, runs Deception Creek, the farm that three generations of her family have owned before her. Every day Emma pushes herself hard on the land, hoping to make ten-year-old memories of a terrible car accident disappear. Read more…
AUTHOR GALLERY with Helene Young and Michael Trant

We asked our wonderful group member authors What inspires you to write stories? They couldn’t wait to answer! Helene Young – award winning author writing while aboard the good ship RooBinEsque Michael Trant – Aussie author with a new crime/thriller book on the horizon Helene Young Multi Award-Winning Australian Author Writer, pilot, sailor and photographer weaving my experiences into my stories What inspires me to write stories? Inspiration is everywhere! People, places, emotions, and things I feel passionately about. I was lucky to have a career as a pilot which gave me a birds-eye view of Australia… Read more…
NEW RELEASE The Fossil Hunter by Tea Cooper

A rare fossil, an unsolved mystery, a trail into the past… A fossil discovered at London’s Natural History Museum leads one woman back in time to nineteenth century Australia and a world of scientific discovery and dark secrets. From bestselling and award winning author, Tea Cooper Out Now Wollombi, The Hunter Valley 1847 The last thing Mellie remembers before the fever takes her is running through the bush as a monster chases her – but no one believes her story. In a bid to curb Mellie’s overactive imagination, her benefactors send her to visit a family friend, Anthea Winstanley. Read more…
NEW RELEASE Outback Secrets by Rachael Johns

Keeping secrets comes naturally to him…but will it ruin his chance at love? OUTBACK SECRETS out now Rachael says, ‘This is the fifth in my Bunyip Bay series that was only ever supposed to be three books!’ Liam Castle knows the secrets of everyone in Bunyip Bay. As the owner of the pub, he’s heard it all – from marriage proposals and farming disasters to family rifts and everything in between. The locals love to confide in him, but no one knows he’s hiding a tragic past. And he wants to keep it that way. Read more…
NEW RELEASE – Birds of a Feather by Tricia Stringer

When three women are thrown together by unusual circumstances, ruffled feelings are just the beginning. A wise, sharply observed celebration of the life-changing power of female friendships. OUT NOW Eve has been a partner in a Wallaby Bay fishing fleet as long as she can remember. Now they want her to sell – but what would her life be without work? She lives alone, her role on the town committee has been spiked by malicious gossip and she is incapacitated after surgery. For the first time in her life she feels weak, vulnerable – old. Read more…
NEW RELEASE – Daughter of the Hunter Valley by Paula J. Beavan

Alone. Near destitute. Can she beat the odds? An exciting Australian historical debut OUT NOW 1831, New South Wales Reeling from her mother’s death, Madeleine Barker-Trent arrives in the newly colonised Hunter River to find her father’s promises are nothing more than a halcyon dream. A day later, after a dubious accident, she becomes the sole owner of a thousand acres of bushland, with only three convicts and handsome overseer Daniel Coulter for company. Read more…
COMING SOON! Here they are…

What a lineup! Releasing in paperback and eBook and up for pre-order now in both formats Read all the story blurbs and find your pre-order links Happy Reading! Out 29 September 2021 When three women are thrown together by unusual circumstances, ruffled feelings are just the beginning. A wise, sharply observed celebration of the life-changing power of female friendships. Eve has been a partner in a Wallaby Bay fishing fleet as long as she can remember. Read more…