Sign up to our emails and be the first to know about new releases, special offers and more.
Become a Readings Member to make your shopping experience even easier. Sign in or sign up for free!
Hello Readings Member! Go to the member centre to view your orders, change your details, or view your lists, or sign out.
Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Maggie Christensen
It's been over twenty years since Cass Marshall's relationship fell apart, and she returned home to Bellbird Bay. Now, although happy with the success of her beachwear business, Cass often…
Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order
Poppy Taylor has always been content with her life in Pelican Crossing, but as she watches her youngest daughter get married, she can't help but feel that there's something missing…
Christmas is coming to Pelican Crossing, bringing with it a host of surprises.
Fifty-eight-year-old widow Rachel Mason thought she had her life all figured out - running her quaint Bed…
Order online and we’ll ship when availablePre-order now
A heartwarming tale of family, friends, and second chances
Divorced, frustrated by her daughter's matchmaking, and resigned to staying happily single, Liz Phillips thinks she has her life all figured…
A perfect romance to make your heart soar with hope and happiness
Divorce lawyer Gill Dickson thinks she has seen it all, until she finds herself in the midst of…
Thirty-five years ago, tragedy forced Bev Cooper to cut short her university studies and seek refuge in her hometown of Bellbird Bay. Today, as the owner of the thriving Pandanus…
Sandy Elliot is devastated when a fire destroys her new business and doesn't know how she can go on. When she receives a call from her grandmother's old friend seeking…
Dreamcatchers trap bad dreams - but sometimes nightmares escape. Ellen Williams, a Native American with a gift for foretelling the future, is at a loss to explain her terrifying nightmares…
Jan Turnbull’s life takes a sharp turn towards chaos the instant her eldest son, Simon takes a tumble in the surf and loses his life. In the wake of this…
When Beth Carson flees her controlling husband, a Sydney surgeon, and settles in Florence, Oregon, she thinks he can’t hurt her anymore. She’s wrong. Set on the beautiful Oregon Coast…
When Anna’s husband of twenty-five years leaves her, on Christmas morning, without warning or explanation, her safe and secure world collapses. Can Anna leave the past behind and make a…
What if you discover everything you believed to be true about yourself has been a lie? A well-kept secret and a magical sand dollar. Can Jenny unravel the secret of…
Isla Cameron is determinedly single, avoiding all attempts at matchmaking. Alasdair MacLeod is grieving for the wife he lost two years earlier, struggling as the single father of two teenagers…
Can the past ever really be left behind?
Liz Pender has lived alone since her dreams for the future were shattered by the death of her husband. She retreated to…
A lost child. A mother's grief. A daughter's journey.
In Scotland, in1941, as WW2 increases in ferocity, Rhona Begg goes against her parents' wishes and enlists in the ATS-a decision…
When widow Grace Winter makes the decision to sell the family property in Granite Springs and move to the small coastal town of Bellbird Bay, her children are horrified. Doing…
Following the death of her husband, Cleo Johansen and her daughter moved to Bellbird Bay determined to make a new start. Having carved out a new life, Cleo is shattered…
Libby Walker never imagined she'd be moving into the dream house she and her husband had purchased for their retirement as a widow. Intent on making a new life for…
Alison Wells has built a successful career lecturing in women's studies at a university in Perth, Australia. When her life unexpectedly falls apart, she decides to escape to the coastal…
Following her divorce, Greta Roberts has found solace running Birds of a Feather, an upmarket boutique in the seaside town of Bellbird Bay. But when a ghost from her past…
Rosa Taylor is celebrating her fiftieth birthday with champagne. By the river. On her own. After finishing her six-year long affair with her boss, Rosa is desperate to avoid him…
Two Isobels. A lifetime of regret. A love that spans the years From the second world war to present day Glasgow this is a tale of two women and how…
A promise for the future. A threat from the past. Can this midlife couple find happiness in the face of the challenges life has thrown at them?
Set in Sydney at the height of the same sex marriage debate and the #MeToo campaign, this is the story of a midlife couple - a woman trying to leave…
Jo and Col have been friends for most of their lives. Following Jo’s divorce and the death of Col’s wife, the pair find comfort in their common grief. But as…
When widow Kay Jackson is thrust into the position of personal assistant to a professor at the local university, she meets divorced Nick Kerr who is reeling from his wife’s…
She’s a strait-laced, inhibited career woman. He’s an aging hippie who acts without thinking. Can these two opposites find common ground and is there a future for them in Granite…
Lyn Hudson’s father’s death forces her back to the town she fled at eighteen. Ken Thompson, was cheated out of his inheritance in the family property, and now his plans…
Marie Cunningham’s life falls apart when she is thrust into caring for her teenage niece. When recently divorced Drew Hamilton arrives in Granite Springs to take up the position of…
A return to Granite Springs. A family Christmas. A time for love and joy…or is it? A poignant story of a Christmas friends of Granite Springs will never forget.
Peta Forrest has arrived in the country town of Granite Springs determined to help her granddaughter cope with her mother’s brutal murder and create a new life for them both.
Can Bellbird Bay provide solace to these two broken souls?
When Ailsa McNeil's marriage falls apart, an invitation to spend the summer with an old friend in Bellbird Bay offers…
Ann Baird has never forgotten her first love. For Chris Thomas the memory of the girl he left behind has always stayed with him. Is it too late for a…
