Emily 'Fido' Faithfull is a pioneer in the British women's movement. Distracted by the sudden return of her once-dear friend, the unhappily wed Helen Codrington, Fido is swept up in the intimate details of Helen's failing marriage and affair with a young army officer. What begins as a loyal effort to help a friend explodes into a courtroom drama.

It's 1828. The Running Patterer (colonial Sydney's best known itinerant newshawker) has just solved a series of gruesome murders when a group of unknowns pulls off a daring bank heist. Reluctantly, the Patterer is dragged into crime detection once more - and soon there are more murders to add to his list.

In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American graduate of Harvard College. From the few facts that survive of this extraordinary life, Brooks creates a luminous tale of passion and belief, magic and adventure.

A novel about one family's experiences in the Crimean War. When the Battle of Inkerman was over, five survivors were assembled in front of a camera. A sixth figure - Master Georgie - added symmetry to the group. In the distance a young woman circled round and round like a bird above a robbed nest.

1210 and a black force is sweeping England. For a vengeful King John has seized control of the Church, leaving corpses to lie in unconsecrated ground, babies unbaptized in their cradles and the people terrified of dying in sin.

* A superbly evocative novel chronicling the momentous events leading up to the Battle of Hastings in 1066

From the author of the acclaimed ABLUTIONS, this dazzlingly original second novel is a darkly funny, offbeat Western about a reluctant assassin and his murderous brother, on the trail of a man named Warm -

A vivid, thrilling portrayal of the lives and work of Kepler and Galileo and their struggles with the social and political forces around them.

Bondi Junction in the late 1940s is a microcosm of changing Australia, and life is changing too fast for locals like salt-of-the-earth Pop Wilson, prickly Miss McNulty and feisty single mum Kath, all of whom resent the European 'reffos' who have moved in.

A gorgeously written, ENGLISH PATIENT-style novel about the real-life romance between the war photographers Robert Capa and Gerda Taro during the Spanish Civil War. Already optioned to be the next film by Michael Mann (PUBLIC ENEMIES, THE INSIDER, MANHUNTER, COLLATERAL).