CBCA Shortlist 2008 - Older Readers
The Ghost's Child
$24.95 (Hardcover book / Viking )
A strange boy suddenly appears in a lonely old woman’s lounge room. As she serves him tea, Hartnett observes that the milk turns the tea ‘a pressed-rose brown’ and immediately we are in a world where language makes exhil... More »
Marty's Shadow
$17.99 (Paperback book / Omnibus Books )
He liked trees. Trees are tough and strong. They've been around much longer than people. This one had, that's for sure. He'd seen an old yellowy photograph of the school from the days of carts and horses, with women in l... More »
Love Like Water
$19.95 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )
Like Alex Miller’s awardwinning Journey to the Stone Country, Meme McDonald’s new book explores the relationship between a European woman and an Aboriginal man, and is about place and identity. It’s an exuberant, joyou... More »
Black Water
$18.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
The wind, blasting up over the horizon from the south, carried with it the coldness of polar ice, and wielded it like a sword. Already the waves at the Heads would be heavy and huge, Farren knew, the gale rising so fierc... More »
Leaving Barrumbi
$17.00 (Paperback book / Omnibus Books )
The nine-hour trip to his new school is just the beginning of the worst time in Dale Murphy's life. He's only ever lived with Aboriginal kids—his is the only white family at the community—but once he starts at the Leichh... More »