Alberto lives alone in the town of Allora where fish fly out of the sea and everyone knows everybody's business. There he makes coffins for the great and small, but being the only coffin maker in town can be lonely. That is until...

Winner of the Ethel Turner Prize for Young Adult's Literature at the 2019 NSW Premier's Literary AwardsWinner of the Readings Young Adult Book Prize 2018From Ampersand Prize-winning author...

This is a love story. It's the story of Henry Jones and Rachel Sweetie. It's the story of how we leave our histories in the things we love - like books.

It's early 1945 and a group of people trek across Germany, bound together by their desperation to reach the ship that can take them away from the war-ravaged land.