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Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan
As the omnipresent narrator explains, Two Boys Kissing is about the power of possibility. It’s not about sex, it’s about the power of seeing two boys who love each other being able to display that love: ‘Every time two boys…
The Vanishing Moment by Margaret Wild
In The Vanishing Moment, Margaret Wild introduces us to two young women, both of whom have experienced major trauma and sadness. Arrow witnessed a terrible tragedy when she was just a small child and Marika has been living in…
The Pull of Gravity by Gae Polisner
It starts with a fever, a water tower and a can of cherry cola. I know, what on earth! But when Nick Gardner, king of high fevers, hallucinates while sick and believes he is being chased by a big can…
Every Breath by Ellie Marney
Contemporary re-imaginings of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes have proved successful of late. This debut Australian novel offers another worthwhile interpretation, with a uniquely YA approach.
“Watts” is teenage Rachel, whose family has given up their farm and moved to…
Cairo by Chris Womersley
Languishing in a country town in the 1980s, 17-year-old Tom Button yearns for escape. When his favourite aunt passes away, he seizes the opportunity to move into her old apartment in a run-down Fitzroy complex named Cairo. Here he meets…
An Appetite for Wonder by Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins is perhaps one of the foremost contributors to the expansion of scientific knowledge and ideas in our time, making his memoir greatly anticipated. An Appetite for Wonder details Dawkins’ life from his birth in the British colony of…
Enon by Paul Harding
Following the enormous success of Paul Harding’s debut novel, Tinkers (which won him a Pulitzer Prize in 2009), the literary world, and the many fans of Tinkers, have understandably been waiting with bated breath to see what he does…
Love & Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere by Poe Ballantine
Poe Ballantine’s new memoir is a fascinating book on many levels. At its bare bones it is a story about failure – personal and professional – and the myriad ways people adapt to this very human condition. Ballantine’s marriage to…
Hanns and Rudolf by Thomas Harding
Thomas Harding’s Hanns and Rudolf tells the story of Hanns Alexander, a German-Jewish refugee who became one of the first Nazi hunters after the war. Alexander’s biggest scalp, Rudolf Höss, Kommandant of Auschwitz, was tried, found guilty and hanged in…
Floodline by Kathryn Heyman
After reading the blurb for Floodline, I was worried I was in for something a little more lightweight than you’d expect from Kathryn Heyman: ‘The feisty, sexy and dynamic host of a Christian shopping channel’ sets out on a…
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