A Woman of Courage
by Tania Blanchard

1890, Northern England. Hannah Todd dreams of a future where women have the right to vote.

Fresh from her teaching studies in Durham, she joins her parents in a rural village, brimming with newly found passion and the groundswell towards women's suffrage unfolding in London.

Working tirelessly to help women and children in the county, Hannah is determined to make the fight for the vote her life's work, adding her voice to the rising chorus across the nation and hopes of a new world and a new way of thinking.

But soon she must fight a new, unexpected battle – that of the yearning of her own heart.

As Hannah grapples with her conflicting feelings, she discovers that when power is threatened, darkness, brutality and dangerous, closely guarded secrets are never too far from the surface.

How far can she go to fight for what's right?

Vendetta by Sarah Barrie

Ace hacker, former sex worker and vigilante Lexi Winter is now a cop and not keen to revisit her criminal past.

But when old friends invoke the wrath of a local motorcycle club - the same club Lexi herself used to work for - she races to help them the only way she can: undercover.

If Lexi is to save a child's life, she is going to have to go back - back to a life she thought she had outrun. 

But her timing isn't great.

Former club president Arthur Cronin has finished his prison sentence and is out for revenge for the death of his wife and child.

As he launches a series of bomb attacks on the cops who took him down, Lexi is caught in the middle.

Torn between old loyalties and new responsibilities, she must decide once and for all which side she's on, but even if she does decide to break free, are her old criminal friends ready to let her go?             

Best Wishes by Richard Glover

The funny new book from the bestselling, much loved and eternally hopeful author of The Land Before Avocado and Flesh Wounds

Do you hate noisy restaurants, pre-ripped jeans and pedestrians who walk five abreast?

Do you also have a problem with plastic-wrapped fruit, climate-change deniers and take-away sandwiches priced at $14.95?

And, most of all, do you think the world would be a better place if people got back their sense of humour?

Here's proof you are not alone. Heartfelt and hilarious, serious but sly, Best Wishes is the encyclopedia of 'can do better'. It's a plea for a better world - one wish at a time.

The Sugar Palace
by Fiona McIntosh

Under the clamor of the Sydney Harbour Bridge being built nearby, Grace Fairweather is working in her father’s grocery shop in The Rocks when she begins making her own confectionery.

Grace begins to dream of one day opening her own sweetshop.

When the roguish but irresistible Londoner Alfie Sweeting comes to work for the Fairweathers, she begins to question her engagement to Norman.

Alfie encourages her to open not just a sweetshop, but a sugar palace!

With Grace’s natural business acumen and Alfie’s sales skills, they could be the perfect pairing – but when Alfie’s criminal past catches up with him, both their lives come under threat and Grace is forced to make the most difficult decision of all.

Moving between the colourful world of a confectionery store and Sydney’s organised crime world of brothel madams and cocaine dealers, this is a thrilling romantic adventure.

Stone Yard Devotional
by Charlotte Wood

A woman abandons her city life and marriage to return to the place she grew up, finding solace in a small religious community.

As she gradually adjusts to the rhythms of monastic life, she ruminates on her childhood in the nearby town.

She finds herself turning to thoughts of her mother's early death.

Disquiet interrupts this secluded life with three visitations.

First comes a terrible mouse plague, each day signaling a new battle against the rising infestation.

Second is the return of the skeletal remains of a sister who left the community to minister to deprived women in Thailand - then disappeared, presumed murdered.

Finally, a troubling visitor to the monastery pulls the narrator further back into her past.

Rambling Man by Billy Connolly

When Billy set out from Glasgow as a young man he never looked back.

Billy has wandered every corner of the earth as a Rambling Man.

Rambling Men and Women are free spirits who live on their wits and are endlessly curious about the world.

They love to make art or tell stories along the way but, above all, they have a longing in their heart for the open road.

Billy explores this philosophy and how it has shaped him.

From riding his trike down America's famous Route 66 to building an igloo on an iceberg in the Arctic, Rambling Man is a truly global adventure with the greatest possible travel companion.

Scattershot by Bernie Taupin

This is the memoir music fans have been waiting for.

Bernie Taupin is the man who wrote the lyrics for Elton John, who conceived the ideas that spawned countless hits.

Their extraordinary creative relationship has been chronicled in biopics (like 2019's Rocketman) and John's own autobiography, Me.

But Taupin, a famously private person, has kept his own account of their adventures close to his chest, until now.

Scattershot allows the reader to witness events unfolding from Taupin's singular perspective with an infectious energy that only a vivid songwriter's prose could offer.

The House That Joy Built by Holly Ringland

The House that Joy Built is about the transformative power of finding joy through creativity and offers a jump-start for anyone whose desire to create is flattened by fear.

This book is for everyone who has ever felt stuck creatively.

It is for those yearning to write, and for anyone who longs to create but doesn't know how to find a way into, or back to their imagination.

Uplifting, powerful and inspiring, The House That Joy Built is an exhilarating, openhearted clarion call to experience the joy and freedom of creativity.