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Sarah-Lee Cook

250 pages

Who would believe that a simple 'situations vacant' sign could lead to such a different path. The Australian Outback, wide, brown and isolated, synonymous with School of the Air, huge distances to travel or even just to socialise. Surprising beauty in the harsh conditions, life is never lobely, never dull. And sometimes romance is found in the most unlikely places. Even then, that in itself may force you to choose a different path.

Alan Wall

300 pages

When Christopher Bayliss abandons Rome, he returns to England determined to be cleansed forever of the contagion of religion. But his research into an obscure 18th-century poet, Richard Pelham, reintroduces into his life those same ghostly whispers and rumours he thought he'd silenced for good.