

The Bookworm
THE STRAIN
By Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan
A plane lands at JFK and mysteriously 'goes dark', stopping in the middle of the runway for no apparent reason, all lights off, all doors sealed. The pilots cannot be raised.
When the hatch above the wing finally clicks open, it soon becomes clear that everyone on board is dead - although there is no sign of any trauma or struggle. Ephraim Goodweather and his team from the Center for Disease Control must work quickly to establish the cause of this strange ocurrence before panic spreads.
The first thing they discover is that four of the victims are actually still alive. But that′s the only good news. And when all two hundred corpses disappear from various morgues around the city on the same night, things very rapidly get worse. Soon Eph and a small band of helpers will find themselves battling to protect not only their own loved ones, but the whole city, against an ancient threat to humanity.
AFTER
By John Birmingham
Our world went to hell on March 14, 2003.
Four years after an inexplicable wave of energy decimated the American mainland, and then just as inexplicably disappeared a year later, US President James Kipper is no closer to explaining the catastrophe to the traumatised survivors.
In a decaying
Working on a farm in
In the English countryside, Echelon agent Caitlin Monroe must once again fight for her life, a sharp reminder that her nemesis is active again.
Then out of the smoking ruin of the
THORN ON THE ROSE
By Joy Dettman
The second sensational instalment in Joy Dettman's epic new
Yet just months later she is back - wiser and with an expensive new wardrobe - but with a second child growing in her belly.
Cruelly labelled the "town slut", she finds refuge in Gertrude, her kind-hearted, dependable granny and
Jenny thrives and, daring once again to dream, leaves
But can the past ever truly be buried? And will Jenny Morrison ever fulfil her destiny?
Spanning a momentous wartime decade and dramatising rural Australia's complex and mysterious heart, Thorn on the Rose confirms Joy Dettman's place as one of our most gifted - and underrated - storytellers.
FAIR GAME By Liz Rushen
Young women as fair game? In 1832, the British government sent 400 young single women to Sydney and Hobart to balance the male-dominated societies.
The two ships were the Red Rover from