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Sleeping Dogs by Sonya Hartnett
$20.00 AUD
Category: Y.A Fiction
'We must be ruthless,' Edward snarls, 'because we lead ruthless lives. This is our existence. This house, this land, that father, that mother - there's no pity, there's no mercy, there's probably no escape.' The Willow family's world is a place of strange safety and dark unease. But such a place cannot ...Show more
Stripes of the Sidestep Wolf by Sonya Hartnett
$20.00 AUD
Category: Y.A Fiction
The animal swerved into the bracken, its smooth long tail slipping away. Satchel listened a minute for any sign of it but it was gone ...He wondered what its name had been, who had owned it, what hard history had left it alone here, at the foot of the hanging volcano. In a dying country town lives a you ...Show more
Surrender by Sonya Hartnett
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Gabriel is dying from an undisclosed illness. He relives his brief 20 years, remembering his parents' over-protectiveness, his wild friend Finnigan who encouraged him to do terrible things, and his dear dog Surrender. Told from the perspectives of Gabriel and Finnigan, the voices are eerily alike in ton ...Show more
Surrender by Sonya Hartnett
$13.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
"Sophisticated young readers will be awed by the delicate, measured, heartbreaking portrait that emerges." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) As life slips away, Gabriel looks back over his brief twenty years, which have been clouded by frustration and humiliation. A small, unforgiving town and distant ...Show more
The Best Australian Stories 2012 by Sonya Hartnett
$30.00 AUD
Category: Essays
In The Best Australian Stories 2012, Sonya Hartnett compiles the year's most compelling short fiction from Australian authors. Well-known voices are juxtaposed with those of emerging writers, creating an eclectic and exciting blend of styles and themes. These stories are a marvellous introduction to Aus ...Show more
The Boy and the Toy by Sonya Hartnett
$14.99 AUD
Category: Australian Picture Books
One day a man invented the best toy in the world. He gave the toy to his son. The boy thought the toy was marvellous. But as time passed, the boy started to wonder. Was it really the best toy in the world? An unforgettable tale that explores the meaning of friendship.
The Ghost's Child by Sonya Hartnett
$19.95 AUD
Category: Y.A Fiction
Maddy yearns for her life to be mystifying, to be as magical as a fairytale. And then, one day on the beach, she meets the strangest young man she has ever seen. His name is Feather. So begins Maddy's enchanted and tragic life as she yearns to own something that can never be owned.
The Midnight Zoo by Sonya Hartnett
$17.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years)
Master storyteller Sonya Hartnett crafts a magical and moving fable about war and redemption . . . and what it means to be free. When the Germans attack their Romany encampment during World War II, Andrej and his younger brother, Tomas, flee through a ravaged countryside under cover of darkness, guardi ...Show more
The Midnight Zoo by Sonya Hartnett
$24.95 AUD
Category: Y.A Fiction
Two gypsy boys are fleeing through a war-ravaged countryside during the night carrying a secret bundle. The boys stumble across a town that has been reduced to smoking rubble, and a zoo that is still intact. When the boys take shelter in the zoo, they discover a menagerie of talking animals. Both the bo ...Show more
The Silver Donkey by Sonya Hartnett
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years)
One bright spring morning in the woods of France, a soldier, blinded by the war, is found by a little girl named Coco, and her older sister Marcelle. In return for their kindness, the soldier tells the sisters marvellous tales, each story connected to the keepsake he carries in his pocket: a perfect, ti ...Show more
The Wild One by Sonya Hartnett
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Picture Books
Charlie met the wild one when he was young. Together they caught tadpoles, and watched spiders weaving webs. But as the sun rose and fell, and the moon circled the world, Charlie forgot the wild one's magic - until it was almost too late to remember ...From acclaimed picture-book partnership Sonya Hartn ...Show more