Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature 2012 Young Adult Shortlist
Darkwater
$18.95 – Paperback book / Random House
A beautifully atmospheric mystery about family, politics and murder in an idyllic Sydney suburb
Amanda Clarke is dead.
Her body was found floating facedown by the riverbank, and no one knows what happened. As rumours fly... Buy or find out more →
Monster Blood Tattoo: #3 Factotum
$24.99 – Paperback book / Omnibus Books
Rossamund has exchanged Winstermill and the dangerous life of a lamplighter for Brandenbrass and an even more dangerous life as factotum to the aristocratic monster-slayer, Europe. Fear and self-doubt must wait, however,... Buy or find out more →
The Golden Day
$19.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
A beautiful, haunting novel from the author of the multi-awarding winning The Red Shoe. Set in 1967, and imbued with the atmosphere and psychological intrigue of Picnic at Hanging Rock.
There were only eleven of them, li... Buy or find out more →
The Life Of A Teenage Body-Snatcher
$17.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Thomas Timewell is sixteen and a gentleman. When he meets a body-snatcher called Plenitude, his whole life changes. He is pursued by cutthroats, a gypsy with a meat cleaver, and even the Grim Reaper. More disturbing stil... Buy or find out more →
The Dead I Know
$19.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Aaron Rowe has dreams he can't explain, and memories he can't recover. But if he doesn't discover the truth about his hidden past soon, he may fall asleep one night and never wake up. A potent, intense, psychodrama that ... Buy or find out more →
All I Ever Wanted
$19.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Read our Q&A with Vikki Wakefield about All I Ever Wanted.
Mim knows what she wants, and where she wants to go—anywhere but home, stuck in the suburbs with her mother who won’t get off the couch, and two brothers in... Buy or find out more →