On the 31st October 1999 Jesse Martin, in his yacht, Lionheart, completed the last great adventure of the twentieth century becoming the youngest person to sail solo, non-stop and unassisted around the world. He was eighteen years old and didn't know the meaning of impossible. After 50 000km and 328 days at sea he returned home to Port Phillip Bay and a waiting crowd of 20 000 onlookers, having lived his dream.

When Raf realises his dream and becomes an airforce pilot, he lives to fly, until a mysterious illness takes his wings away. At his lowest, and in constant pain, he finds solace in Nietzsche whose writings promise a cure of a different kind. While on a pilgrimage in Nietzsche's footsteps, he meets Hilary, a doctor haunted by the deaths of her patients. Together they travel from the Riviera to the Swiss Alps before their journey ends in Turin, where Nietzsche went mad.

For eighteen years the Hartes and the Golds have lived next door to each other, sharing everything from Chinese food to chicken pox to carpool duty. Parents and children alike have been best friends, so it's no surprise that in high school Chris and Emily's friendship blossoms into something more. They've been soul mates since they were born. So when midnight calls from the hospital come in, no one is ready for the appalling truth; Emily is dead at seventeen from a gunshot wound to the head. There's a single unspent bullet in the gun that Chris took from his father's cabinet - a bullet that Chris tells police he intended for himself. But a local detective has doubts about the suicide pact that Chris has described.

Silvermeadow, the glossy huge new shopping mall on the outskirts of London, is not what it seems. A young woman is found dead, wrapped in plastic, apparently crushed in the rubbish compactor; the most vicious bank robber wanted in England has just been seen there; and a homeless boy is also discovered dead in bizarre circumstances. Dark secrets are being kept hidden in the depths of the supermall. And for Detective Chief Inspector David Brock and Detective Sergeant Kathy Kolla of Scotland Yard, there are too many dead ends in their most frustrating and dangerous investigation yet

When elderly Ailsa Lockyer-Fox is found dead in her garden, dressed only in nightclothes, the finger of suspicion points at her wealthy, land-owning husband, Colonel James Lockyer-Fox. A Coroner's inquest gives a verdict of 'natural causes' but the gossip surrounding James refuses to go away. Why? Because he's guilty? Or because resentful women rule the roost in the isolated Dorset village where he lives? Shenstead has become a ghost town and, with only five houses in permanent occupation, it's a place of too few people and too many secrets...

A live animal leaping out of a video game? Unbelievable. And yet there it is in Macka's lap: soft and smelly,alert and terrified, like a real animal, glowing with strange energy, like a hologram. Uncomfortably real, uniquely challenging, the wildgame invades Macka's life in a way she never expected. Can she protect this creature from its enemies? Can she take it back into the game? Back to its natural habitat? If she enters the game can she get out alive?

Beyond the drugstore and the diner of a rural town is another world - a wilderness - waiting to be explored. Deer can be stalked, pools of trout fished, grouse shot, and traplines laid for fur....

Jane had always lived in somebody's shadow. Escaping a childhood of abuse by marrying oceanographer Oliver Jones, she finds herself taking second place to his increasingly successful career. However, when her daughter Rebecca is similarly treated, Jane's dramatic stand takes them all by surprise. Leaving Oliver and his whale tapes behind in San Diego, Jane and America set out to drive across America to Uncle Joley and the sanctuary of the Massachusetts apple orchard where he works. Joley directs Jane across the United States in a series of letters waiting for her in designated post offices. Each letter gives concise directions and a chance for Jane to reflect on her forgotten past.

Cliff Hardy in action again: trying to keep one step ahead of his client's trouble - and his own. He goes from sleazy backstreets to boardrooms in skyscrapers - dealing with everyone from fashion models and teenage junkies to urban developers and crooked funeral directors. Some are very friendly, some try to kill him......Hardy copes, with his guts and his savvy; and all for a hundred and twenty-five dollars a day (plus expenses....)