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When Edith and a select group of employees at Winked advertising agency are sent to Consequi, an elite three-day work retreat in the remote mountains, she sees an opportunity to impress her bosses and dodge an inevitable restructure. But this is no ordinary corporate retreat. Trapped together in the revamped convent, the threat of mass redundancy looming over them, their phones confiscated and the team-building activities becoming increasingly extreme, the 'work family's' cracks begin to widen–and Edith has a secret that threatens to make her the office outcast: the stinkbug.

Mari and Elisabeth have been at the center of each other's lives for years. Close friends since university, they're now drifting through their mid-twenties, working casual jobs and living in run-down share houses. When they meet Jack, a charming academic historian twenty years their senior, they're attracted to the sophisticated, intellectual world in which he seems to move. As the summer gathers heat, Jack is drawn into their lives, and an unconventional relationship—halfway between friendship and love triangle—develops. 

From Dancing with Bees author Anna Maynard, this big-hearted and relatable romance is a story of self-discovery, second chances, and learning to back yourself. Disciplined and pragmatic, Mary Roberts feels she's got her life under control. She's recently moved to Hobart, she's nearing the end of...

A memoir of menstruation, madness and monsters. Every twenty-nine days, Emma Hardy is an absolute mess. She is irritable, depressed, angry, weepy, out of control. She lays in bed, stares at the walls for hours. Then it passes, and she forgets about it. When a doctor diagnoses her with PMDD...

Friday, 1:30 p.m. Emily Barnes is finishing work for the week, ready for a break from her laptop. Then she receives a panicked voicemail from her son Zach, punctuated by a gunshot. By 4 p.m., she's driving a stolen car out of Perth, with explicit instructions from Zach's captors—in three days, deliver the car to Gunpowder Creek, a ghost town 900 kilometres deep into the West Australian outback. Miss the deadline and Zach dies. And don't open the boot.

Kit McCarthy hasn't seen her identical twin sister, Billie, in more than a decade. The sisters don't see eye to eye, which is understandable, considering Kit's a police officer and Billie followed their violent father into a life of crime.

Theft. Extortion. Dinner with Dad. Lola McKenzie never wanted to steal from her dodgy boss. But she also never wanted to be stuck in a dead-end job, paying off her dad's debts. So when she sees a bag of cash sitting around unattended at work, she figures it's time to make life a little easier...

Hip-hop dance teacher Evie Scott lands the opportunity of a lifetime when she's cast in a blockbuster movie opposite her teenage crush, Hollywood heartthrob Austin Reynolds. The role promises financial stability, which she desperately craves now that her spendthrift mother has moved in, and maybe even a shot at true love. But the person Evie can't stop thinking about isn't Austin—it's his grumpy, sharp-tongued manager, Kye Evans.

Take the ambitious competitiveness of The Devil Wears Prada, mix it with the complex female friendships of Big Little Lies and throw in the high-stakes drama of The Morning Show and the result is Georgie Tunny's gripping debut which rips back the glossy curtain on television news. Best friends...

Tom is a music student and aspiring songwriter. He wholeheartedly believes in meant to be and, more specifically, in his turbulent relationship with a far more successful recording artist. Even when her sudden overseas tour threatens to upend everything. Sophie is an astrophysics PhD candidate. To her, the vast mysteries of the universe can be reduced down to cold hard science. She knows there's no such thing as fate or destiny, and not even the handsome undergrad assigned to her research project will change her mind. Sophie doesn't know it, but she's been orbiting Tom all year.

In April 2020, as the world began to lock down due to COVID-19, Sophie began her own form of extreme social distancing. From April 2020-December 2021 she walked with her five camels from the most westerly point of Australia to the most easterly, with a six-month break in Coober Pedy when the conditions grew too hot to continue. Along the way she met hundreds of kind strangers—she required permission to cross every single piece of land, and often they'd make the effort to meet her with additional supplies to support her journey.

One chaotic hip-hop dancer with no direction in life. One outrageously handsome scientist who is determined to go back to the Antarctic. Over a shared interest in beekeeping, things start to heat up. But can the path to true love ever flow as smoothly as honey?