The Wish Pony
Catherine Bateson

$15.95 (Paperback book / Woolshed Press )

When the balloon was born I was going to tell it exactly what I thought about it, how sick it had made my mother and how it had ruined my life.' Ruby's mum is having a baby, but why does she need one of those when she s ... More »

Being Bee
Catherine Bateson

$16.95 (Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr )

*" . . . You are going to be pleasant and helpful, Bee, and not chase Jazzi away. I like Jazzi. I want her to be a permanent fixture in our lives and I don't want any bratty, selfish behaviour from you spoiling things . ... More »

His Name In Fire
Catherine Bateson

$18.95 (Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr )

His Name in Fire is told from three points of view Molly a circus worker employed to engage bored and disaffected local youth – to put on a circus performance; Matthew a teenager and son of TJ the local blues man. Matthe... More »

Millie And The Night Heron
Catherine Bateson

$16.95 (Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr )

"The daughter of an artist and a scientist, and your own interesting self, Millie. What more could you need?”

But Millie isn’t sure that Tom, her mum’s boyfriend, is right about that.

A new town, a school project ... More »

Rain May And Captain Daniel
Catherine Bateson

$16.95 (Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr )

Rain May and her mum escape their old inner-city life for a dream house in the country. But there are more than a few surprises in store – like discovering a platypus or the fun of fridge poetry and phenomenally bright e... More »

Painted Love Letters
Catherine Bateson

$16.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )

And bigger than all that, I knew that sometimes you had to do the impossible, like eat oysters, or go shopping even when you could hardly breathe, because that is what people did when they truly loved one another, and it... More »

Dangerous Girl
Catherine Bateson

$16.95 (Trade paperback / Univ Queensland Pr )

Merri, John, Leigh and Nick are positioned like four points of a gameboard. Gentle John is Dungeon Master and a craftsman of wood, but he can master the manipulative and ambitious Leigh? His sister Merri is seduced by th... More »

The Year It All Happened
Catherine Bateson

$16.95 (Paperback book / Unknown )

I throw the dice - four or over I stay, one to three I pack up.

Six dots stare back, telling me I've nothing left to lose.

John stays with the dice but not all choices can be left to fate. Merri makes a loaded decision. ... More »

Air Dancer Of Glass
Catherine Bateson

$17.95 (Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr )

"Lulianne is the Air Dancer of Glass, a circus busker whose pink dreadlocks light up the grey world of Tip. But Lulianne isn't just Tip's entertainment - she might be its only hope. In this grim post-war world, three you... More »