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Alison Lester
Part poem, part lullaby, this gentle story celebrates a baby’s wonder at our beautiful world.
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Barry Jonsberg
Introducing Candice Phee: twelve years old, hilariously honest and a little … odd. But she has a big heart, the very best of intentions and an unwavering determination to ensure…
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Julie Hunt
Peat is on the run - forced to flee for her life when she’s blamed for bringing bad luck to her village. She heads for the endless marshes, where she’s…
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Will Kostakis
Life is made up of three parts: in the first third, you’re embarrassed by your family; in the second, you make a family of your own; and in the end…
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Simmone Howell
It’s summer in St Kilda. Fifteen-year-old Sky is looking forward to great records and nefarious activities with Nancy, her older, wilder friend. Her brother - Super Agent Gully - is…
Cassandra Golds
Cassandra Golds, the award-winning author of The Three Loves of Persimmon, has written a literary, supernatural thriller for young adults, retelling, in part, the romantic legend of Sir Galahad.
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Felicity Castagna
Michael’s older brother dies at the beginning of the summer he turns 15, but as its title suggests_ The Incredible Here and Now_ is a tale of wonder, not of…
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Sarah Day
Time and motion are undercurrents in these new poems by Sarah Day. Her subjects encompass the commonplace in the Australian landscape as well as the exotic or peculiar. These poems…
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Clare Wright
Ten years in the research and writing, inimitably bold, entertaining and irreverent in style, Clare Wright’s The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka is a fitting tribute to the unbiddable women of…
Mike Carlton
HMAS Sydney’s hunt for the German raider, Emden. In the opening months of the First World War, Emden’s trail of destruction was tremendous. This one small ship and her skilled…
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Joan Beaumont
The Australian experience of war in all its complexity - from the homefront as well as the battlefront - as the men and women who experienced it chose to understand…
Michael Fullilove
In the dark days between Hitler’s invasion of Poland and the attack on Pearl Harbor, a group of highly unorthodox emissaries dispatched to Europe by President Franklin D. Roosevelt paved…
Gabrielle Carey
Two literary lives defined by storytelling and secrets As her mother Joan lies dying, Gabrielle Carey writes a letter to Joan’s childhood friend, the reclusive novelist Randolph Stow. This letter…
Nicolas Rothwell
Elegiac and seductive, Belomor is the frontier where truth and invention meet–where fragments from distant lives intermingle, and cohere.
Alex Miller
The new novel from Australia’s highly acclaimed literary treasure is an extraordinarily powerful exploration of tragedy, betrayal, the true nature of friendship and the beauty of lasting love.
Fiona McFarlane
The hypnotic tale of a psychological battle on unequal terms and a superbly drawn portrait of two very particular women - a beautifully written, unnerving and acutely moving debut.
