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Me Too
A story about imagining the very best kind of friend you could have. Two little friends discuss the someones they want to find when they grow up. Perhaps they've met...
Ten Pound Pom
Part of the new-look award-winning Our Stories series, this is a modern Australian immigration story. I don't want to go to Australia. I have just started grammar school. My best...
Black Teeth
Jason Ginaff doesn't get out much. Partly because of the anxiety, mainly because he works at home. Researching people on the internet. Job candidates doing bucket bongs on Instagram accounts...
The Parcel
The Parcel is the masterful new novel from acclaimed author Anosh Irani, and is a savage and beautifully rendered story about community, belonging, and the cheapness of human life. 'There...
Beyond the Orchard
'A tantalising mix of mystery and romance - Anna Romer weaves together the past and the present with a deft hand, creating a compelling page-turner.' Kate Forsyth A haunting story...
Swimming on the Lawn
This is a beautifully descriptive story of growing up in Sudan as told from the perspective of an observant young girl. Told through the eyes of Farida, as well as...
The Lamplighter
In misty nineteenth-century Edinburgh a headstrong orphan girl is swept off to a hunting lodge and sacrificed to a mysterious figure - the lamplighter. Twenty years later four men -...
I Am Change
They told her that her body belonged to men and her mind didn't matter. They were wrong. "What if I don't want to marry?" Lillian held her breath. She had...
Violet Mackerel's Formal Occasion (Book 8)
Our much loved Violet Mackerel is now in paperback! VIOLET MACKEREL is extremely happy when she finds a BEAUTIFUL LOCKET buried in the dirt. But it is hard to be...
Lustre: Pearling and Australia
The raw, alluring beauty of the pearl and the stories of those who collected it form a fascinating part of Australia's national heritage. The Aboriginal trade and cultural significance of...
The Conversion
Nick: so persuasive, ever the optimist, still boyishly handsome. Always on a quest to spin straw into gold, to heal wounded souls. The conversion was his idea, but it's Zoe...
From the Hearts of Mums: Stories of love and inclusion in the world of
When you enter the world of disability with your child or anyone you care for, it can be a scary time of the unknown. Your idea of what life was...
Seven Wherewithal Way: Over the Mountains and Through the Desert: Over
Celeste Barden is about to face her biggest challenge yet. Celeste, Esme, Logan and Ferd are summoned to the Realm of Mountains to answer for the part they've played in...
R.E.Generation
After 50,000 years in a chemically induced sleep, Sarah and her fellow R.E.Generation volunteers awake to find a world devoid of human life. Climate change has wiped all mammalian life...
Get Your Act Together, Doris Kozlowski
Doris Kozlowski's life is anything but normal. Her mum plays singing vegetables in TV commercials. Her little brother befriends pebbles and potatoes. And don't even get her started on her...
The Art of Breaking Ice
In 1960, when the legendary icebreaker Magga Dan set sail for Antarctica, it contained a secret. Hiding on board was Nel Law, wife of expedition leader Phillip Law. She would...
Borderlands Riding the Slipstream
Age range 11+ Borderlands - Riding the Slipstream is an anthology for readers young and old. Featuring over forty short stories and poems by some of Australia's best-loved authors -...
Close to the Subject: Selected Works
**Shortlisted, Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2024, Non-fiction** This book is a collected works of one of Australia's most accomplished media personalities. Chronicling his career since 2007, Close to the Subject...
Ask No Questions
With a third of Australians born and around half with one parent born overseas, migration stories are a crucial part of our national experience. In her verse novel, Ask No...
Up and Down on a Rainy Day
A farming family gets up to wet and muddy fun as the rain falls down. Celebrating farms, family and rainy-day play!
The Storm of Echoes: The Mirror Visitor, Book Four
In this gripping finale to Christelle Dabos's bestselling Mirror Visitor quartet, Ophelia and Thorn finally uncover the truth that might help them solve the chaos in their universe of the...
How to Unf*ck the Planet a Little Bit Each Day
Global warming, plastic pollution, deforestation, species loss and rising inequality got you down? Then take your very valid concerns and channel them into action with this proactive guide to saving...
The Wonder Within: A heart-led playbook for the anxious, stressed and
The Wonder Within is a book that will help you navigate your way through the confusion, self-doubt and overwhelm that accompanies anxiety, stress and burnout. Dr Michelle Woolhouse takes you...
The Truth and Other Lies
Famous bestselling author, loving husband, generous friend-Henry Hayden is a pleasant personto have around. Or so it seems. And when his mistress, who is also his editor, becomespregnant, his carefully...
The Broken Sun: A Jack Mason Adventure
When The Broken Sun, an ancient artefact said to lead to the lost city of Atlantis, is stolen from the British Museum, Jack, Scarlet and Mr Doyle embark on a...
My Dead Bunny: A Zombie Rabbit Tale
Family versus zombie bunny! My dead bunny's name is Brad; his odour is extremely bad. He visits me when I'm in bed, but Bradley wasn't always dead ... A hilarious...
The Secret Abyss: A Jack Mason Adventure
'Mr Doyle,' Scarlet said. 'You have not explained what we are doing.' 'I thought you'd never ask. We are travelling to Colchester Prison.' 'Colchester Prison?' Jack caught Scarlet's eye. The...
Julia Paradise
He would relive for a long time everything she said to him in the room at the mission. He would recall the way her voice had grown thicker and thicker,...
Amy's Children
Abandoned by her feckless husband during the Depression, Amy decides to leave her countrytown-and her three infant children-and try her luck in the big smoke. Life in wartime Sydney is...
Jam Sticky Vision
"He seems tostart writing a poem and then becomes shocked, stunned, by a word he's just putdown, unable to go past it, as if discovering the letters for the first...
Sweet One
When a senior Aboriginal war veteran dies horribly at the hands of state government authorities, Izzy, a journalist and daughter of a war veteran herself, flies to the goldfields of...
Australia: A Celebration
Australia is an upbeat, quirky and sometimes humorous look at Australia and Australians - the land, its people and its wildlife - and what we value about our past that...
Tupaia, Isaac and Cook: The Search for the 'Great South Land'
Age range 6 to 9 There are as many mistruths as there are truths about James Co ok and his famous first Voyage of discovery, including his secret orders to...
If Baby Could Talk
AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR One Step ... two step ... three step ... four! A delightful Collection of poems which explores the inner world of babies. AUTHOR: Michael Wagner is a children's...
The Songs Of A Sentimental Bloke
Introduced by Jack Thompson The Songs of a SentimentalBloke, a comic verse novel, wasfirst published in book form in 1915 and sold more than sixty thousand copies in nine editions...
Death In Brunswick
Introduced byShane Maloney Down on his luck and hard up for cash, Carl works in the kitchen of a seedy rock 'n' roll joint in ethnically diverse Brunswick. The bouncers...
The Home Girls
The Home Girls is a collection of candid, witty stories about rural and suburban life. Set in the mid-twentieth century, these are tales of ordinary people and domestic life. Masters...
All The Green Year
Introduced by Michael McGirr 'The year I remember best from those days is 1929. This was the year I turned fourteen and went into the eighth grade; the year too...
Gentlemen Formerly Dressed
After narrowly escaping Nazi terror, Rowland Sinclair and his companions land in London, believing they are safe. But they are wrong. A bizarre murder plunges the hapless Australians into a...
The Boatman: An Indian Love Story
The six years John Burbidge spent in India as a community development worker changed him in many ways, but one stands out from all the rest. It led him to...
Rough Diamond
Funny, romantic, and action-packed, Rough Diamond introduces Australia's own Stephanie Plum - the unforgettable Erica Jewell. The shock ending to Erica Jewell's marriage left a huge hole in her bank...
Legacies of War
Sixteen writers with a shared passion for military history combine their talents for storytelling in Legacies of War. There are tales of courage and triumph, destruction and waste, forgiveness and...
Long Views and Short Vistas: Victoria's Nineteenth-Century Public
Gwen Pascoe's 'Long views and short vistas': Victoria's nineteenth-century public botanic gardens explores the story of botanic gardens established in Melbourne and other Victorian towns in the second half of...
Pink Tide
After a series of harrowing and life-changing cases in St Kilda-Head Shot & Blood Sunset-DS Rubens McCauley is burnt out and on the edge. Addicted to prescription medication, running away...
Recipes from My Mother's Kitchen: A Journal to Record the Special
Recipes from My Mother's Kitchen is a place to record and store your mother's special recipes. This book will ensure that the food you smelled and tasted in your mother's...
INSIDE OUT
Keep your head down. Don't get noticed. Or else. I'm Trella. I'm a scrub. A nobody. One of thousands who work the lower levels, keeping Inside clean for the Uppers....
The Instant Cricket Library: An Imagined Anthology
In Dan Liebke's debut cricket book, The Instant Cricket Library, you'll find excerpts from a number of remarkable cricket books, none of which you've ever read before-because none of them...
The Vanishing Act
This is a story about a snow-covered island you won't find on any map. It's Minou's story. She's twelve. A year ago, the morning after the circus, her mama walked...