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At a harbourside café one wet Sydney morning, a pair of rainbow lorikeets land on the next table, tear open the sugar packets with their beaks and eat only the raw brown kind, leaving the white sugar and the sweeteners untouched. Travis Devine, his face still swollen from a beating the night before, watches them […]

On the third floor of the Aston University library there is a quiet corner with a vending machine where every snack costs a quarter, and every afternoon Edwin Clarence flips a coin to decide who pays. The coin always lands the same way, so he always buys. Cassia Collins, broke and wary, only works out […]

A rewarding story about finding treasure in the most unexpected of places The young treasure hunters are back at it, getting into new hijinks in the second installment of Sutton Lewis’s Legends Unearthed series, The Lost Bitcoin.  Moving from the ancient mysteries of their previous adventure in the Philippines into the very modern world of […]

A tension-filled technothriller driven by high-stakes, deep grief, and ambitious technology Amid WW3, Professor Larry Tusk embarks on a super-secret mission to create the world’s first autonomous, self-aware AI—and the daughter he never had.  After losing his wife and their son to a terrorist attack while he was away on an errand, Larry struggles to […]

The rabbit was a corpse when it arrived, neck plainly broken, and the girl in the tower apologised to it before she picked up her brush. She works the white fur in quick strokes over a charcoal ground, adds a glint to the eye, and lies down on the cold floor with a headache. When […]

Thought-provoking fiction about the reality of government rule Alina Rodriguez, a woman in her fifties, likes to take care of herself. Or perhaps it’s more accurate to say: She was diagnosed with a serious heart condition in her thirties, and gambling with her health isn’t something she particularly enjoys. This all comes to a crashing […]

Two seventh-years stand barefoot in a school fountain in the near-freezing dusk, daring each other to be the first to climb out. Then a scream comes from the forest beyond the walls, and Vesper Fontaine loses the bet on purpose. She leaves her buckled school shoes in a heap by the water, grabs her scythe […]

Under changing flags, through burning streets: A journey of two souls, distinct yet bound together against the backdrop of a nation’s unmaking Those Who Fled is historical fiction full of resonant grace, prose so immersive you can feel the ashes on your skin and hear the gunfire. The characters show how ordinary people can falter […]