Jill Ker Conway recounts her childhood on a vast sheep station in western New South Wales and the disruptions—most notably drought and her father's death—that forced her family to leave for Sydney.

A small group becomes trapped amid ruins on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula and must improvise to stay alive against a hostile, escalating threat. The book stages survival under tightening physical and social constraints, asking how far people will go when environment and fear close in.

A man trained from childhood to assassinate a prominent spiritual leader faces the dilemma of carrying out that mission within a city where supernatural "bright doors" intersect everyday life.

An expansive non-fiction survey of the ocean that traces its origins, physical processes, and living systems while explaining scientific findings in accessible, often lyrical language.

Set in late-19th-century London, the novel follows an agent involved in espionage for an unnamed foreign power amid a small circle touched by anarchist agitation. The book traces the effects of political plotting and covert operations on ordinary lives, especially relationships marked by dependency and vulnerability.

Set at a small, elite liberal-arts college, the novel follows a tight group of Classics students whose scholarly intensity and social isolation lead to a violent rupture.

A speculative rupture reshapes a community and forces characters to make urgent ethical and practical decisions as they adapt.

A first-person narrator from a small Black community near Los Angeles stands before the Supreme Court and reflects on the chain of incidents that led him there, including provocative attempts to respond to historic racial injustice in his hometown.

A troubled fashion model moves into a large New York brownstone divided into apartments and encounters strange disturbances centered on the building and its top-floor, blind Catholic priest.