The Curious Dictionary

Author	Ambelin Kwaymullina
ISBN	1921720093

"However this ends, you're probably going to find out some things about me, and they're not nice things. But, Ash, even after you know, do you think you could remember the good? And whatever you end up discovering - try to think of me kindly. If you can."

Ember Crow is missing. To find her friend,...

Author	Kate Forsyth
ISBN	1423104943

Note: This edition includes five of the six books that were originally published as The Chain of Charms series in Australia. The missing book is The Cat's Eye Shell (The Chain of Charms #4)

Emilia Finch and her cousin Luka are gypsies. For them, that means they live a strongly traditional life,...

Author	Tohby Riddle
ISBN	1742379729

This striking, evocative book is a testament to Tohby Riddle's skill, dedication and commitment to making a strong statement that he believes in. It's a book about light and dark, doubt and faith, friendship and compassion.
Riddle’s representations of the strangeness of the urban landscape...

Author	Doug MacLeod
ISBN	0143565303

'Wouldn't it be funny if they were real?'
'Shiny red men?'
'What if I were the sane one and everyone else was mad?'

One night, the shiny guys visit fifteen-year-old Colin Lapsley. They don't speak, but Colin can read their thoughts. They want him to pay for the terrible thing that he has...

Author	Nicola Morgan
ISBN	0763634727

"The novel gallops along at a cracking pace, packed full of plot twisters." — THE HERALD (UK)

"I felt cold metal on the side of my skull before I heard the voice. I knew at once what it was. A pistol. Resting on the bone just behind my ear. The favorite place for murderers, robbers, highwaymen —...

Author

Catherine Jinks

Marcus doesn't even want to go away for the summer. And his Mum's fond memories of Diamond Beach turn out to be nothing like reality. This could be his worst holiday ever…
But things quickly become more interesting when Marcus discovers the hidden cellar in their smelly old caravan. There, he and...

Author	Steven Herrick
ISBN	0702249289

Pookie Aleera is Not My Boyfriend is a charming and delightful little book about a group of school-kids living in a small rural Australian town. It's written as a verse novel – each chapter is a short non-rhyming poem – but this isn't the boring, difficult poetry you have to study at school: it's honest,...

Author

A.L. Tait

In the second thrilling instalment of the Mapmaker Chronicles by Australian author A.L. Tait, Quinn is taken prisoner by a ruthless enemy.


Tomas laughed. 'You think that's terrifying? Wait till you meet the pescarn . . . they will eat the flesh off your bones in minutes.'

In the...

Author	Richard Harland
ISBN	1743310056

Seventeen-year-old Astor thinks she is about the wed the handsome plutocrat Lorrain Swale. But, to her horror, her mother and step-father abandon her, and she finds herself a lowly governess in the Swale household. Treated with contempt by the whole family, Astor is determined to escape. Help arrives...

Author	Michael Pryor
ISBN	0857982761

The Bourne Identity meets The Terminator in a fast-paced technothriller from the author of the Laws of Magic series

Unknown to the world, a superintelligence has emerged—and it wants to eliminate Bram Argent. The paranoid superintelligence can control any machine connected to the...

Author	Nicole Alexander
ISBN	1864712813

In 1923 nineteen-year-old Jack Manning watches the construction of the mighty Harbour Bridge and dreams of being more than just a grocer’s son. So when he’s offered the chance to manage Absolution Creek, a sheep property 800 miles from Sydney, he seizes the opportunity.

But outback life...

Author	Julie Hunt
ISBN	1743313586

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 caught by an old healer-woman who makes Peat her apprentice and teaches her the skill of storytelling.

But a story can be a dangerous thing. It...

Author

Emily Rodda

I sometimes question my reasoning and decision-making skills when I dive into a trilogy. Particularly concerning, are the times that I make this huge Leap-of-Faith commitment with the release of Book 1. Knowing myself well enough to accept the facts that I am not patient and I detest waiting; good sense...

Author

Belinda Murrell

When Sophie falls asleep wearing a locket that belonged to her grandmother's great grandmother, she magically travels back to 1858 to learn the truth about the mysterious Charlotte Mackenzie.

Charlotte and her sister, Nell, live a wonderful life on a misty Scottish island. Then disaster...

Author	Jackie French
ISBN	0207200823

This one was given 5 stars by my kids. We listened to the audio and I was told every time "don't turn it off" and "don't listen to any until you pick us up again!" They loved it and didn't want to miss any. The number of times we stayed parked in the driveway to finish off a section..... A great historical fiction...

Author	Craig Silvey
ISBN	1742379982

Meet a new generation of superhero in this moving novella from an acclaimed author.

Dear Sir/Ma’am, Please find enclosed this Amber Amulet. That must sound unusual to a citizen, but you will have to trust me on this count because the science is too detailed for me to outline here. All you need...

Author	Marlee Jane Ward
ISBN	1921134593

A sharp-edged semi-futuristic riff about a rebellious teenager's last week at an industrial orphanage.

'Takes all of your dystopian nightmares and connects them to a mother lode of pure emotional intensity. There's so much keen detail here about the cruel logic of oppressive institutions,...

Author

K.A. Barker

Most people believe the best way to forget someone is to throw them down a well. Or lock them in a room with eight keys, or bury them at a crossroad in the thirteenth hour. But they’re wrong. The best way to forget someone is for them never to have existed in the first place.

Madame Marisol’s Unreality...