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The Danger Game: Kalinda Ashton
Hetay angerday amegay chant three young siblings, and so they should. For pig latin always warns of dangers unknown. Jeremy, his older sister Alice, and his twin Louise are cast together in a house, a family that is ravaged by…
Isabella's Garden: Glenda Millard and Rebecca Cool
This is the book that cajoles the cadence, that caresses the colour and accents that alliteration to inspire the iridescent Isabella’s Garden. The seasons are sung in perfect poetry and illustrated with intrepid, intense vibrancy that shimmers like gemstones in…
Robot Riot! Andy Griffiths
Robot Riot is the best book yet. Lots of kids LOVE reading about robots and almost anyone, whether they be adult, kid, or not even human, will treasure this one.
Henry accidently discovers that the new girl, Roberta Flywheel, is…
My Name Is Charles Saatchi And I Am An Artaholic: Charles Saatchi
What is the most honest thing you can say about yourself? How do you rate political advertising today? Do you think you have messed up anyone’s life by flogging off all of their work?
Art collector, gallery owner and founder…
Mark Strizic: Melbourne: Marvellous to Modern: Emma Matthews
This magnificent collection of photographs arose from the creativity of a young photographer and his adoption of his new home town, Melbourne. His pictures were taken at a time when the Victorian elegance of the city once known as ‘Marvellous…
The Thirty-Six: Siegmund Siegreich
‘Not another Holocaust memoir,’ I groaned under my breath when I received my review copy. And there is really nothing new in Sigi Siegrich’s story of the horrors of war-time Poland – the deprivations of daily life, the humiliations (and…
Ice Cold: Andrea Maria Schenkel
In Third Reich-controlled Munich, a man is executed for a series of brutal rapes and murders. His story is told in letters, police reports and eyewitness testimonies, woven with the sad tale of a naïve young woman who arrives in…
The Price Of Love: Peter Robinson
Robinson has been writing his hugely popular Inspector Banks novels for more than two decades. When we first met him in 1987 he had recently transferred to Eastvale with his young family. The sordid events leading up to his departure…
The Water's Edge: Karin Fossum
The body of a young boy is discovered by an unhappy couple on a weekend walk. As Sejer and Skarre investigate the events leading up to the murder, a small town goes into shock, and another boy vanishes, the couple’s…
Censoring: An Iranian Love Story: Shahriar Mandanipour
‘Death to Freedom, Death to Captivity’.
In this darkly satirical tale, a beautiful young Iranian woman carries a placard bearing these contradictory words to a student protest, putting fear and distrust into the minds of agitators on all sides. What…
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