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10 best books like The Wicked Wood (Isobelle Carmody): Cherry Crow Children, The Disappearance of Ember Crow, Just a Girl, Pig Boy, Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers: Magical Tales of Love and Seduction, The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales, Dangerously Placed, Prickle Moon, To Spin a Darker Stair, Dreaming Again: Thirty-five New Stories Celebrating the Wild Side of Australian Fiction

Cherry Crow Children
AuthorDeborah Kalin
Tulliæn spans a fractured mountaintop, where the locals lie and the tourists come to die. Try the honey.

Briskwater crouches deep in the shadow of a dam wall. Ignore the weight of the water hanging overhead, and the little dead girl wandering the streets. Off with you, while you still can.

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The Disappearance of Ember Crow
AuthorAmbelin Kwaymullina
ISBN1921720093
"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,...
Just a Girl
AuthorJane Caro
ISBN0702238805
I do not remember when I discovered how my mother died, it seems to be something I always knew, a horror I absorbed through my skin.

Determined, passionate and headstrong, Elizabeth I shaped the destiny of a kingdom.

Her mother; Anne Boleyn, was executed by her father Henry VIII. From...
Pig Boy
AuthorJ.C. Burke
ISBN1741663121
On Damon Styles's eighteenth birthday, he is expelled from school. But it's what happens afterwards that changes everything.

Now Damon must come up with a plan. It's the only way he can think straight. First, get his firearms licence. Then, see if the Pigman will give him a job - pig hunting will...
Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers: Magical Tales of Love and Seduction
AuthorEllen Datlow
ISBN0061057827
A stunning anthology of sensuous short fiction and magical erotica explores the seductive world of mysterious, mythic sirens--men and women--who draw readers into a forbidden zone of fantasy and desire, in works by Jane Yolen, Joyce Carol Oates, Michael Swanwick, Tanith Lee, and other outstanding...
The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales
AuthorAngela Slatter
ISBN0980628881
A stunning, emotional and eclectic collection of fantasy and dark tales. These are the stories told to warn children, entertain adults and beguile all.

Contents:

Bluebeard
The Living Book
The Jacaranda Wife
Red Skein
The Chrysanthemum Bride
Frozen
The...
Dangerously Placed
AuthorNansi Kunze
This work experience is going to be killer...

Alex Thaler can’t wait to start her dream work experience placement at Virk, where staff from all over the world mingle in an astonishing virtual office. But when an employee is found murdered, the dream becomes a nightmare – because Alex is...
Prickle Moon
AuthorJuliet Marillier
ISBN1921857390
Prickle Moon is a collection of Juliet Marillier’s best short fiction. It contains eleven previously published stories and five new ones. Included are the Sevenwaters novella, "’Twixt Firelight and Water", the epic Nordic story, "Otherling", and "In Coed Celyddon", a tale of the young man who...
To Spin a Darker Stair
AuthorTehani Croft Wessely
To Spin a Darker Stair is a collection of two short stories, the first is a reprint of Catherynne M Valente’s, A Delicate Architecture and an original short, Oracle’s Tower, by Australian author Faith Mudge.  The cover and and internal illustrations are by Kathleen Jennings (who was interviewed...
Dreaming Again: Thirty-five New Stories Celebrating the Wild Side of Australian Fiction
AuthorJack Dann
ISBN0061364088
Following the World Fantasy Award-winning Dreaming Down-Under, acclaimed editor Jack Dann gathers thirty-five of the best and brightest in a golden age of Australian fiction to pen fantastic new tales to shock, astound, and delight. The outstanding bestselling authors include Garth Nix, Terry...
Cracklescape
AuthorMargo Lanagan
A presence haunts an old dresser in an inner-city share house. Shining sun-people lure children from their carefree beachside lives. Sheela-na-gigs colonise a middle-aged man’s outer and inner worlds. And a girl with a heavy conscience seeks relief in exile on the Treeless Plain.

These...
The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2011
AuthorLiz Grzyb
ISBN1921857145
Thirty-two fantastic stories and poems first published in 2011, from New Zealand's and Australia's finest writers.

Contents:

Peter M Ball "Briar Day" (Moonlight Tuber)
Lee Battersby "Europe After The Rain" (After the Rain, Fablecroft Press)
Deborah Biancotti "Bad...
Love and Romanpunk
AuthorTansy Rayner Roberts
ISBN0980827442
Thousands of years ago, Julia Agrippina wrote the true history of her family, the Caesars. The document was lost, or destroyed, almost immediately.
(It included more monsters than you might think.)

Hundreds of years ago, Fanny and Mary ran away from London with a debauched poet and his...
Midnight and Moonshine
AuthorLisa L. Hannett
ISBN1921857307
The gods are dead, but will not be forgotten.

When Mymnir flees the devastation of Ragnarok, she hopes to escape all that bound her to Ásgarðr — a heedless pantheon, a domineering brother, and her neglectful father-master, Óðinn. But the white raven, a being of memory and magic, should...
The Extinction Gambit
AuthorMichael Pryor
All Kingsley wants is to begin his career as an escapologist and conjurer . . . but it seems that it's not only his fiendishly difficult-to-control wolfishness that could put a spanner in the works.

There's also the Immortals, a triumvirate of thousand-year-old magicians who want to rule the...
Asymmetry
AuthorThoraiya Dyer
An Australian Air Force base patrolled by werewolves. A planet where wages are paid in luck. A future where copies are made of criminals to interpret their dark dreams. A medieval cavalry of mothers who are only permitted to take as many lives as they have created.

In every world, an imbalance...
The Business of Death
AuthorTrent Jamieson
ISBN1841498610
Steven de Selby has a hangover. Bright lights, loud noise, and lots of exercise are the last thing he wants. But that's exactly what he gets when someone starts shooting at him.
Steven is no stranger to death - Mr. D's his boss after all - but when a dead girl saves him from sharing her fate, he finds himself...
The Bone Chime Song and Other Stories
AuthorJo Anderton
ISBN0980777097
Enter a world where terrible secrets are hidden in a wind chime's song
Where crippled witches build magic from scrap
And the beautiful dead dance for eternity

The Bone Chime Song and Other Stories collects the finest science fiction and horror short stories from award-winning writer...
Ishmael and the Hoops of Steel
AuthorMichael Gerard Bauer
ISBN1862919178
Ishmael and the Hoops of Steel

The Laugh-Out-Loud Conclusion to the Ishmael Story.


Michael Gerard Bauer


Scholastic.com.au

Price : $19.99
Ages: 9 +
ISBN: 978-1-86291-917-4

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