2ser Book Club

Book Two of The Imposters series - After the events of Imposters Frey is left impersonating her sister Rafia in the citadel of Shreve. Her plan is to bide her time until she can assassinate her father, end his regime and free the citizens. Plans go awry though as her fake fiancé, but actual boyfriend has arranged an escape and she’s on the run. Finding herself in the free city of Paz; for the first time in her life Frey doesn’t have to control every aspect of her being. She’s also got deadly information about her father’s plans. Plans that no one seems to want to believe until it’s too late!

Paul Hirschhausen is the cop in Tiverton; a small town in farming country south of the Flinders Ranges in South Australia. He’s only been there a year, but in the lead up to Christmas he wants what all cops want over the silly season, a little peace.

Of course there’s some petty crime like a ute driving through the front door of the pub. Otherwise, so far, so peaceful. Then on his rounds one morning Hirsch encounters a distressed horse and follows it home to find a horrific scene.

As the investigation begins a mysterious call comes through from Sydney and Hirsch has to do a routine welfare check on a family outside of town. A family no one seems to know existed…

A young girl waits at a bus stop immersed in her phone. So much so she doesn't notice the man approaching her with a gun...

Soon after her mother Rachel receives a call; Kylie and Rachel have become a link in The Chain. Rachel must now kidnap another child if she ever wants to see Kylie alive again!

Paris Savages tells the story of three Batdjala people who leave their home on K’gari - or as white colonisers called it; Fraser Island and travel through Europe in the late nineteenth century. Bonangera, Jurano and Dorondera have agreed to travel with Louis Muller to highlight their culture and to petition the English Queen to intervene in the violence and calculated extinction of their people.

A massive two-billion dollar bridge is being constructed to connect sleepy Bruny Island to the Tasmanian mainland. It’s jobs and growth for the Tassie economy but also meets with opposition from environmental groups and local interests.

So when the bridge is bombed, the question is not so much who could have done it, but which of the many angry parties.

Astrid Coleman is recalled home to fix the problem. She a relationship expert for the UN but with her brother the premier and her sister the opposition leader the biggest fixes may be closest to home.

Going Under is the story of Kitty Holliday. Kitty’s a surgical intern at a major teaching hospital struggling to balance her idealism, against the gruelling reality of making it in the medical world. Suffering abuse at the hands of patients and senior doctors alike Kitty must rely on her friends if she is going to survive and continue to save lives.

Kaya and her mother are on the run. They must flee their home and escape to the isolated hamlet of Mount Wilson. Kaya has witnessed something, a crime she cannot remember and now her father is missing and she is in danger.

Hidden in Mount Wilson Kaya struggles to regain her memories and hide herself from the world, until and unexpected encounter changes everything...

From across the UK people jealously guard their clean bill of health in order to leave England’s shores in search of work in Australia. As passengers board The Steadfast, protesters line the docks denouncing the men, women and children as traitors for abandoning the infected country. On board the ship the passengers settle in for the month long journey to Australia; dreaming of the possibility that awaits them in this new and healthy land.

All proceeds with interminable regularity until a crew member is found murdered in the early dawn. The only witness is a young boy silenced by fear...

Albert Gondiwindi grew up on the mission at Massacre Plains. There he met his wife, raised a family and grandchildren and lost loved ones. As he nears death he begins recording a dictionary of the language of his people.

August Gondiwindi is returning home from England. It’s a country she escaped to some ten years earlier and perhaps only the death of her grandfather Albert could call her back.

Reverend Ferdinand Greenleaf pens a letter to the British Society of Ethnography. Reverend Greenleaf has founded a mission on Massacre Plains in the early part of the twentieth century and is desperately seeking help before it is too late.

he Yield is told across three narratives; stories relating the history of Prosperous House on the Massacre Plains…

Helena Fox’s debut novel is How it Feels to Float.

In How it Feels to Float Helena welcomes us into the life of Elizabeth Martin Grey, or just Biz, coz no one she loves would call her by her full name. Biz lives near the beach in Wollongong with her Mum and her twin brother and sister. She’s got her posse at school and her best friend Grace.

She’s also got her dad and they talk, often. The only thing is Biz’s dad died when she was seven, so she can’t exactly tell anyone about these conversations.