'Despite Queen Ellyria’s banishment of the Dark Spirit, the dagger of Dresnia has remained lost for over twenty years. The Northern Isles have managed to remain at peace all that time, but Ellyria knows that time is running short. When an old spell is unintentionally activated, she lives in fear of the bargain she struck with the Spirit being brought to fruition.

'When the princesses Lyrien and Milana fall in love with the wrong men, a series of events is set in motion that threatens to fracture the long-held peace within the three kingdoms. Ellyria’s fears look likely to come true. Threats from all sides bring matters to a head. Battle ensues, and lives are lost.

'Can young love, with the help of three women with a gift for magic, and a fourth trapped into committing a crime that could cost her life, be powerful enough to overcome evil from all sides?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'An elderly male wizard, whose body has been destroyed by powerful unknown attackers, possesses the soul-less body of a young female half-elf.

A new lease on life perhaps. However, first he must not only protect his home and a new forbidden love from an invisible malevolent spirit, but also solve the mystery of who wanted him dead in the first place.

'Welcome to Magudonya, a magical world with connections to our own where the path of history has been changed through the presence of magick and gods. The kingdom of Engle is a far flung part of the wide-reaching Sorendenese empire. It is a country where elves are real and lions mythological creatures. A place where a numerically smaller invading force rules over an indigenous population that is still cowed by the sacrificial excesses of their own long-dead priest kings. A place where an ageing wizard with a mysterious past was just wanting to live out the last days of his life in peace until an act of kindness towards a fellow magician changed everything.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Guards stay at their posts, and die to defend their cities... Southerner Sergeant Kearney "Red" Redguard is the last of a disgraced family, and a loyal guardsman. And with a murderer stalking the streets, the city guard is his city's best defense. But in the North, King Caedmon Taranisaii is gathering his army, and the cruel Night God prepares for the downfall of the South. A new dark griffin roams the land, warning of the war to come. Betrayed and sent on the run, Red must fight to save his homeland. But it may already be too late...' (Publication summary)

'In the thousandth year of the Third Reich, a hapless orphan runs afoul of an increasingly bizarre series of enemies aboard a vast amusement park orbiting Neptune.' (Publication summary)

It took just two weeks for the world to end. Those who survived fled underground to build a new life, while otherworldly clean up crews prowled the surface, looking for stragglers. Over generations, mankind adapted. She kept quiet, kept her animals quiet. She abandoned sound, made talk with her hands. She changed her weapons, her way of killing. She stayed underground like the rabbit, acting like the prey. Noise brought death. The city of Recondite is struggling with a population already too large to sustain. Its Custodian must find a new home for half the denizens. But inside the city itself, people are disappearing. The thing mankind fears most is on the surface. But to survive the threat inside, the city has to do what it has been taught not to for generations. Go up.

Source: Publisher's Blurb

'Who wants superpowers?

'Not Rhonda. Rhonda wants to live an ordinary life.

'“My life is a soap opera with magic,” thinks Judith, as she reviews her year.

'Before it all begins, she just wants to lose her past and keep her children safe.

'Belinda, her sister, wants recipes.

'Their lives are simple.

'All three women get a lot more than they bargained for in 2002 and 2003. Bushfires. A possessed lemon tree. Prophecy. Magic. Romance. Violence. Politics. Family.

'Secret Jewish women’s stuff ought to be carried out in more exotic places than suburban Australia.

'Except that sometimes, suburban Australia is chancy and troubling.

'Even without those mystery boxes from the great-grandmother no-one talks about.

'Even without the Angel of Death and Zoë’s pink tutu.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'A great power is rising in Arkadia; an uprising of dark magick led by a Witch who wants nothing less than chaos, terror and the King's head on a stake. She believes in a prophecy–an ancient rhyme about a child unique within the lands; a child destined to bring back the stars and end the King's rule forever; a child who cannot do magick at all.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'On Sunday June 30 1867, three young boys went missing in bushland surrounding the Australian goldmining town of Daylesford. The ensuing search would involve the whole community. Local businesses were closed for days. A large reward was offered by the Government and matched by the local borough. But all efforts came to nought. Worst fears were confirmed on September 14 when the boys' bodies were discovered in the hollow bole of a forest tree. A sad and significant episode it was, yet only part of the compelling story of Benjamin Burman, the father of one of the boys and the central character of this novel. D begins in Canada, in the winter of 1834, when Private Benjamin Burman is on the run to America. But the British Army does not suffer deserters. It hunts down their man, tries, shackles and imprisons him in a creaking hulk on Portsmouth Harbour, then banishes him to Van Diemen's Land. There he is assigned as gentleman's servant to George Frankland, surveyor-general (and host to Charles Darwin on his visit to Hobart Town), and ultimately granted a pardon. Yet though Benjamin's sentence is over, his punishment is not done, for he is forever to be reminded of his disgrace by a thick black tattoo. It takes the biggest tragedy of his life to set him free. (Today, Benjamin Burman lies in an unmarked grave beneath an expanse of lank grass at Daylesford cemetery, some forty metres from the grave of the three lost boys). ' (Publication summary)

'Ghosts trail after us. They are our fears and the shape of our hates. We bring them into our lives and into our homes. A fairy - variety melusine - tells of her private ghosts in unreliable fairy stories. She handles her own haunting. Some years our fears and hates are so strong that we turn our ghosts tangible. Instead of trailing after us forlornly, whispering "Believe in us, or you are damned," they fracture our landscape. Poltergeists and the spirits of drowned girls; malicious presences and portents; cat vampires and roaming bushrangers. These ghosts haunt Canberra. These ghosts can kill. It takes four women, one cup of tea at a time, to deal with Canberra's haunting.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Norah is bothered by an annoying inkling that her aloneness may in fact be making her lonely.

'Juggling her sister’s melodramas and hospitalisation of her mother is something Norah is quite capable of handling. But it is when the awkward Dr. Gregg Griffin continues to cross her path that Norah really starts to realise that her life is missing something.

'But can a visiting cat, a pair of borrowed red high heels and a late night passion for playing piano really be enough to bring one lonely soul out of fear, and into the arms of a life fulfilled? ' (Publication summary)

'Glen Heather is a land of generations, and every generation is centred around one extraordinary woman. Spanning from the 1800's until the end of World War 1, the women of Glen Heather have been pushing boundaries in a world where women had to fight for their respect. Three inspiring tales from Tasmania during its colonisation; with brave Ness making a home in a new world, daring Isobel who can do any job as well as a man, and determined Alice who will do anything to protect her home. Each generation leaves their mark on the land, and on history.' (Publication summary)

'A farmer is confronted by two desperadoes; a tourist does her terrible best to evade a tracker and his dog; a teenager discards his civilised mask inside a lonely roadhouse.

'This collection of 28 short stories propels the reader through a kaleidoscope of Australian lowlife. In a range of styles, from dirty realism to noir, Deborah Sheldon pens the kind of fiction that is tough enough to shock, yet tender enough to hurt.

'An exploration of what it means to be human in the face of brutality, Mayhem: selected stories, is perfect reading for pulp novices and crime aficionados alike.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'This is not a self-help book, but it’s a book about dreams. They are not always good dreams.

'Fay is a dreamer.

'To escape real life, which she finds ‘drearily, drably and impossibly dull‘, Fay creates a dream-world.

'She escapes there as often as possible.

'But what happens when the line between dream and real life blurs?

'Dead morris dancers. Horror and happiness. Folksongs and friendship.

'Can she trust anything, or anybody?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Zuri was seven when she first saw a dragon. An army from the Dragonlands was coming north, brutally expanding their empire. Her village is conquered, and Zuri is captured by soldiers and sold as a slave. A fast learner, she works as a scribe; a fast runner, she wins prizes on fair-days... but she still remembers her home, south of the sea, and she remembers the Dragonlords, their iron weapons and scale armour, their great carrion-eating wyverns and their monstrous reptilian mounts. Aided by mercenaries and pirates, the Dragonlords continue their conquest of the north. When they besiege Cavalis, Tam the Elf, the rat-catcher's slave-boy, is the only one who knows a way under the walls - a tunnel much too narrow for any adult. To save their city and themselves, Zuri and Tam must stay ahead of the Dragonlords as they run through unfamiliar lands... armed only with their wits, a tiny knife and a letter from the Duke, they search for a way to defeat an army and win their freedom.

Source: Publisher's Blurb

From award winning science fiction author, Robert N Stephenson, Life Light takes you into a world where control is everything and Digi Corp is all you need.

One man, Mikolev, discovers things may not be as reported.

What happens to those who vanish from the system after using the worldwide digital transportation system, and why does he have such a passion for personal transport?

Ever since the ban of all transport, other than those owned and operated by Digi Corp, society has started to decline. Mikolev thinks he has stumbled onto a secret, but has he just opened Pandora’s box and put his very existence at risk?

Source: Publisher's Blurb.

A retrospective collection of Jack Dann's short stories. The stories were originally published between 1978 and 2001.

'As the curtain rises, Renate Orbit-Reese, darling of the dancing world, steps onto the stage … only to collapse moments later. Her daughter Ilze panics, and in her headlong dash to get her mother to hospital, runs over a man standing in the road next to his vehicle.

'When the media gets hold of the story, Ilze’s private life becomes a nightmare of speculation and insinuation.

'In the dramatic moment when Ilze crashed into the stranger, he in turn crashed into her heart. Somehow she must explain her feelings to her long-time partner and enter a new world where she discovers the true meaning of love.

'But the road to happiness is not easy. Why does a sensitive secret emerge after so many years? And how does Ilze know who to trust?' (Publication summary)

'Nothing much happened in the seaside town of Calder Cove. Nothing that is until, with a grand and bizarre opening, a mysterious castle is revealed, out of the darkness and silence of nowhere.Townsfolk wondered was it magic? Or something more sinister?When the invited children finally step inside, the huge doors are locked, separating them from the world. It is with great trepidation that they are thrown - without warning - into the unknown and ask ... is this place really a school?They get much more than they bargain for when they stumble upon magical rooms and hidden passageways, a golden door and, most horrifically, their own doom!' (Publication summary)