'Deep', by writer illustrator Jess McGeachin, plumbs the depths of the ocean, of space, of the jungle and even our own subterranean world of subways and sewers. The snippets of information will interest young and old alike.'The Tea Ladies’ are a group of older women who team together to solve this pot boiler of kidnap, murder and arson. Author Amanda Hampson has them handling organised crime and standover tactics with humour while taking a nostalgic leaf from the past.

Pip Williams returns to Oxford after ‘The Dictionary of Lost Words’. It is 1914 and through the eyes of Peggy Jones we see the impact of WW1, war refugees and the Spanish Flu in class and gender, town and gown and on her own ambitions and desires or restrictions in ‘The Bookbinder of Jericho’.

We meet Lisa Moule, the new co-presenter on Published or not.Big banks, big bucks, big business and big problems are written about in a satirical way by Robert Verlander in ‘Dazzled by Dollars’ David talks about the upcoming Sisters-in-Crime event, 'A Life of Crime'.We all talk about the sessions we would enjoy at the Melbourne Writers festival.

What could be so important in a family that one member would be ostracised.  Zoya Patel has the mother and sisters explain their reasons, but will it be possible for the family to reengage in ‘Once a Stranger’.                                                                                                                                       Anthony Hill has us travelling with Matthew Flinders circumnavigating the new continent of Australia in ‘The Investigators’ - a fictionalized account detailing the trials and tribulations of exploration in leaky ships.

‘Seven Sisters’, a psychological thriller by Katherine Kovacic, takes domestic violence to a new level when women exact revenge for their lost sisters who were all killed by their respective partners. Seven murders are surprisingly easy to accomplish when everyone provides alibis for each other. Lenny wants to ignore her past and continue teaching through the day and at night playing scrabble with a pretend housemate, watching reruns of Friends and rearranging her 36 copies of The Hobbit, but her past does catch up with her and her life starts to unravel. Kerryn Mayne has written a funny, tender story with a character you will come to care about in ‘Lenny Marks gets away with murder …or does she’.

The malevolent side of the internet and social media confronts us in 'Dark Mode' by Ashley Kalagian Blunt when the psycopathy of a marginalized few is unleashed.What are the flow on effects on classmates when a Year 10 student is abducted and how are the stresses dealt with by family and especially the girls who question their role in society? ‘The Gaps’ is winner of the Prime Ministers Literary Award for YA and is written by Leanne Hall.

Gregory Day’s, ‘The Bell of the World’, resonates with the interconnectedness of life’s elements; music, literature and nature.

The consequence of doing ‘The Favour’ turns mild-mannered Doctor Jude’s life upside down. Nicci French has written a crime novel where the reader is concerned for Doctor Jude’s own safety, in this murder investigation.   Ronnie Scott’s novel, 'Shirley', toys with the assumptions surrounding social conventions and how individuals shape identity but it also plays with the reader’s expectations by playing on the unconventional.

The climax of The Death of John Lacey happens in a church. Through the book, Ben Hobson has us question the ethics, justice and prejudices in early Victorian gold rush times with the settlers and aboriginal communities.         Paul Ashford Harris takes us on a journey through the lives of Gertrude Bell, William D’Arcy and Sea Lord Jacky Fisher in ‘Love, Oil and the Fortunes of War’. Each altered the world through their advice, actions and conduct prior to World War One the consequences of which still resonate today.

Graeme Simsion counterpoints the formulaic with the organic in ‘Creative Differences’ when the practical Scotty provides writing advice to his partner, Emily, who is more creative. Will their relationship survive different approaches to generating a novel? Grief and love and the wonderful little details that make up a life are at the heart of Paul Dalgarno’s book ‘ A Country of Eternal Light’