The ocean is a vivid emerald colour and the wind ruffles the wave faces so that they shatter the sunlight like glass. Seeing that glittering skin always tightens my throat with joy ... I forget about the underbelly of things, my secrets, and I feel easy and free. Winner of the 2010 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction.
Gift Ideas for Teens: Real World Novels
Six Impossible Things
$16.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
A funny, emotionally honest story of first love, with a fairytale backbeat.
Fourteen year old nerd-boy Dan Cereill is not quite coping with a reversal of family fortune, moving house, new school hell, a mother with a fai... 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 →
Raw Blue
$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
The ocean is a vivid emerald colour and the wind ruffles the wave faces so that they shatter the sunlight like glass. Seeing that glittering skin always tightens my throat with joy ... I forget about the underbelly of th... 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 →
Paper Towns
$15.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Quentin Jacobsen − Q to his friends− is eighteen and has always loved the edgy Margo Roth Spiegelman. As children‚ they′d discovered a dead body together. Now at high school‚ Q′s nerdy while Margo is uber−cool.... Buy or find out more →
Graffiti Moon
$16.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
Winner of the 2011 Prime Minister's Award for Young Adult Fiction.
Lucy is in love with Shadow, a mysterious graffiti artist.
Ed thought he was in love with Lucy, until she broke his nose.
Dylan loves Daisy, but throwing... Buy or find out more →
Gold Inky Shortlist 2010
Raw Blue
$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
The ocean is a vivid emerald colour and the wind ruffles the wave faces so that they shatter the sunlight like glass. Seeing that glittering skin always tightens my throat with joy ... I forget about the underbelly of th... Buy or find out more →
Stolen
$17.99 – Paperback book / Chicken House
Winner of the 2010 Gold Inky Award.
A 2011 Printz Honor Book.
Told in a moving letter to her captor, sixteen-year-old Gemma relives her kidnapping from Bangkok airport while on holiday. Taken by Ty, her troubled young st... Buy or find out more →
Liar
$22.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
Micah Wilkins admits she's a liar. But will murder be enough of a reason to stop lying? An extraordinary and original story that will have you grasping for the truth until the very last page.
Secrets, lies, murder and be... Buy or find out more →
Swerve
$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Hugh is 16. He loves cello, he's a closet car fanatic, and he has no luck with girls. When his grandfather, Poppy, asks him to go on one last road trip to Uluru in his 1970 Holden HG Monaro GTS 350 V8, Hugh decides, for ... Buy or find out more →
Guardian Of The Dead
$19.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
'In less than a day I had been harassed, enchanted, shouted at, cried on, and clawed. I'd been cold, scared, dirty, exhausted, hungry, and miserable. And up until now, I'd been mildly impressed with my ability to cope.' Buy or find out more →
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2010 Winners
Truth
$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Winner of the 2010 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
At the close of a long day, Inspector Stephen Villani stands in the bathroom of a luxury apartment high above the city. In the glass bath, a young woman lies dead, a pani... Buy or find out more →
Raw Blue
$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
The ocean is a vivid emerald colour and the wind ruffles the wave faces so that they shatter the sunlight like glass. Seeing that glittering skin always tightens my throat with joy ... I forget about the underbelly of th... Buy or find out more →
Possession
$19.95 – Paperback book / Five Islands Press
Five Islands Press are proud to announce the arrival of a new book: 'POSSESSION: Poems about the Voyage of Lt James Cook in The Endeavour 1768-1771' by Anna Kerdijk Nicholson.
This is Anna’s second book and in it she exp... Buy or find out more →
Legacy
$24.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr
A groundbreaking novel about fathers and daughters, the history we can't change and the future that we can.
Simone Harlowe is a young Indigenous lawyer, straddling two lives and two cultures while studying for her ... Buy or find out more →
Becoming African Americans: Black Public Life In Harlem 1919-1939
$65.95 – Hardcover book / Harvard Univ Pr
In 2000, the United States census allowed respondents for the first time to tick a box marked “African American” in the race category. The new option marked official recognition of a term that had been gaining currency f... Buy or find out more →