Item category 1: General Fiction

Ten-year-old Rhys really loves dogs. When he finds a lost black Labrador with big conker eyes and ears like soft velvet, he can't quite believe his luck. Nobody comes forward to claim Worthington, giving Rhys the perfect opportunity to prove he's a good owner. But when Rhys moves to London to liv...

Join Stitch, Lilo and all their friends and family in this treasury of bedtime stories. From outer space to Hawai'i and every stop in between, Stitch knows how to cause a ruckus and have fun no matter where he is. Enjoy these mischievous tales featuring everyone's favourite alien as he learns (or...

Get ready to race with Lightning McQueen and the Radiator Springs family in this collection of high-speed bedtime stories! From Route 66 to the speed racer salt flats, join Lightning and his pit crew as they travel over highways and byways, making new friends and learning life lessons one stop at...

Nestled among the cobblestone streets of Compiègne, there exists a bakery unlike any other. Rumours were whispered through the town that its pastries offered a taste of magic, chasing away the darkest of sorrows. Just one bite of a croissant might bring luck, unlock a precious memory or reveal hi...

In the wake of the 1987 storm, Cora sets off with her 9-year-old daughter Maia to register her son's birth. Her husband Gordon, a local doctor, respected in the community but a terrifying and controlling presence at home, intends for her to follow his family tradition going back generations, and ...

On a bright spring afternoon in Dublin, Ciara makes a split-second decision that will change everything. Grabbing an armful of clothes from the washing line, Ciara straps her two young daughters into her car and drives away. Head spinning, all she knows for certain is that home is no longer safe....

1979. Behsad, a young communist revolutionary, fights with his friends for a new order after the Shah's expulsion. He tells of sparking hope, of clandestine political actions, and of how he finds the love of his life in the courageous, intelligent Nahid. 1989. Nahid lives her new life in West Ger...

What happens when love is savage, dangerous and all-consuming? In this collection, women navigate the complexities and cruelties of desire across time and place, from a medieval convent to a 1990s high school.

Rose knows that she should be happy. She has a thoughtful son, a kind boss and a dream box full of savings for a rainy day. But sometimes the brick in her chest gets so heavy that it's all she can do to simply watch the minutes tick by on the oven clock. Things change when a stranger arrives. Ros...

Before Arin, Genevieve Yang was an only child. Living with her parents and grandmother in a single-room flat in working-class Bedok, Genevieve is saddled with an unexpected sibling when Arin appears, the shameful legacy of a grandfather long believed to be dead. As the two girls grow closer, they...

Three inventive and daring kids, along with their families, live in a three-story apartment block called' Parrot Palace'. Hari, Lily-Rosa, and Mikey come from different cultures, but their differences unite them as they form a close-knit team. They share their secrets as they navigate their dream...

Seeking escape from their small-town existence, two teenagers impulsively drive north, with no particular place to go and no particular sense of who is at the wheel. Adam and Teddy hope to leave boyhood behind, but as the journey progresses their friendship becomes a struggle to prove themselves....

Penitence follows the lives of two estranged families in rural Colorado after an unimaginable tragedy forces them back together. When their thirteen-year-old daughter Nora kills her terminally ill brother, Angie and David Sheehan struggle to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives. They turn ...

When her mother emigrates to China for work, 20-year-old Chizu moves in with 71-year-old Ginko, an eccentric distant relative, taking a room in her ramshackle Tokyo home, with its two resident cats and the persistent rattle of passing trains. Living their lives in imperfect symmetry, they establi...

Meet the women of the Valiat family. In Iran, they were somebodies. In America, they're nobodies. First there is Elizabeth, the regal matriarch with the famously large nose, who remained in Tehran despite the revolution. She lives alone in a shabby apartment except when she is visited by Niaz, he...

Rachel is so excited about Purim, and she's especially excited to star in her Hebrew school's Purim spiel! She'll get to dress up like a queen and put on a play in front of everyone. But when her teacher announces the cast, Rachel doesn't get the leading role of Queen Esther -- her best friend Ma...

For nearly thirty years, Nell has kept a childhood promise to never reveal what she and Evie found tucked inside a copy of Jane Eyre in their mother's bookcase - a record of Evie's birth naming a stranger as her mother. But lately, Nell has been haunted by hazy memories of their early life in Mis...

Marnie Sellick is adrift when she lands a job at the coveted, mysterious beauty brand rytuał cosmetica. The enigmatic founder and CEO, Luna Peters, takes a liking to Marnie, and as the two grow closer Marnie becomes intoxicated by the life that Luna, and rytuał, can offer her. But all is not what...

In a perfectly ordinary building, four strangers who couldn't be more different meet for the first time. Their skepticism of this new kind of grief therapy and the unnervingly perceptive group leader means they're all wary, but as the weeks go by, they find themselves returning again and again, p...

Meena escaped her 'model migrant' family life in Australia and built an exciting career in PR in London. She loved her boyfriend Owen but he could never quite commit to their relationship. When she accidentally falls pregnant, they both fall in love with baby Sasha and bravely head to Sydney to b...

Follows a young Anglo-Indian nurse who embarks on a journey from her home in Bombay, through Europe, to uncover a mystery and prove her innocence after a famous painter dies in her care. When renowned painter Mira Novak arrives at Wadia hospital in Bombay after a miscarriage, she's expected to ma...

It's 1476 with the sun close to setting on 700 years of Moorish rule when Boabdil, heir to the throne of Granada, and two school friends find themselves confronted by their individual challenges as the brutal reality of pre-inquisition Spain forces them to face the future. Is it chance that Boabd...

Miss Lila Greer thinks it's time for Grade Two to get a class pet, and she wants the kids to participate in choosing the pet. After all, they will all have to share the responsibility of caring for it. There are seventeen kids in the class. She gets seventeen different suggestions. The class has ...

In a novel of sex, sex work, and BDSM, a stripper's search for her missing ex-boyfriend takes her over the edge. Baby is a dancer at a strip club and at the age of 27, she's feeling lost. It seems that only Dino, her sweet, cross-dressing, drug-dealing ex-boyfriend can keep her afloat. So, when D...

Twelve-year old Ezra is an ordinary boy who lives on Saibai, an extraordinary Australian island. He loves a laugh, he loves his family, and - almost more than anything - he loves a dare. But when one of his dares goes wrong, Ezra realises he needs to make some decisions about helping out and meas...

What would you do if your bed started walking while you were asleep? A fun collection with magic, adventure and bedtime stories perfect for children aged five from Enid Blyton!

Mai is navigating life in 90s London as a first generation British-Vietnamese teenager, caught between two cultures. Her mother, Trinh, is constantly reminding her to work hard and be grateful. But Trinh was young once too, living a vibrant and complicated life in Vietnam until forced to flee her...

'Disillusioned with her life in New York, Ruth returns to a lake town in Guatemala where she had been happy a decade earlier. There, in Panajachel, she meets two very different women: the calm and practical Emilie, and the turbulent and intoxicating Carmen. Deciding to stay and build a life at th...

When PTA president Sami Hasegawa-Stalworth petitions to rename a Seattle elementary school after her late grandmother, she ignites a battle over the school's future and the history of its surrounding neighborhood. Supersonic launches readers into a kaleidoscopic tale of the generations of interre...

Willow has everything worked out. The steady partner. The successful career. The grown-up house. Until she doesn't - and she's cast adrift on the sea of heartbreak, grieving a future that's barely begun. With her life transformed beyond recognition, and her friends busy 'moving forwards', Willow ...