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The Little Giant Of Aberdeen County: Tiffany Baker
Growing up is hard to do – and much harder when you are exceptionally larger than anybody else in town. Destiny has even more cruelties in store for Truly Plaice: a life of poverty, family strife and a malignant, codependant…
Don't Tell Eve: Airlie Lawson
It had to happen eventually, didn’t it? A chicklit novel set in the world of publishing. Longtime publishing insider Airlie Lawson has written the book world’s answer to The Devil Wears Prada – only, in this case, the devil is…
Document Z: Andrew Cromme
Document Z opens with a scene that may be familiar to many Australians – Evdokia Petrov being escorted onto a plane at Mascot airport by burly KGB agents, her face twisted in anguish. What follows is her defection to Australia…
What Came Between: Patrick Cullen
Patrick Cullen is an emerging Australian writer whose work has received accolades from high calibre writers such as Robert Drewe and Frank Moorhouse. This debut is a novel told in twelve stories about three couples living in adjoining homes in…
Bloke: Bruce Pascoe
After an unfortunate stretch in the ‘big gym’, Jim Bloke – Aussie, thinker, dreamer – wants to settle into coastal life and turn his self-taught smarts and thoughts to the things he’s come to love: good books, fine cookery, the…
A True History of the Hula Hoop: Judith Lanigan
You have either got it or you haven’t. You can hula hoop or you cannot. Judith Lanigan, first-time author of The True History of the Hula Hoop, can swirl up to 30 hula hoops at one time!
This book…
The Billionaire’s Curse: Richard Newsome
The Billionaire’s Curse should be put on shelves with a label that reads WARNING: THIS BOOK IS BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH! If you think I’m joking read the book and find out for yourself but don’t blame me when you…
Outside In: Chrissy Keighery
Outside In is a FANTASTIC book I loved it. This is the kind of book that if you start reading you can’t put it down. Every teenager girl, who is in high school and having to cope with changes, boys…
The Adventures of Seaborne Morse: Chris Ward
What this book lacks in size and production, it makes up for in story and thrills.
Seaborne and his friend Todd seem to invite wild and somewhat extreme adventures to come their way. It is what happens if, for example…
Stacie and Her Luxury Lady Helicopter: Jessica Spanyol
Stacie likes bags, shoes, flying and driving, so it’s lucky she has her awesome Luxury Lady Helicopter to ride around in! Yes, it’s a pink flowery helicopter with comfy seats, but it also has rotor blades and an extendable rope…
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