Honeybees and Distant Thunder by Riku Onda
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A multi-award winning, 1.5 millon copy Japanese besteller about four friends pitted against each other in the drama of an international piano competition. Translated by Philip Gabriel, a translator of Murakami. The tender and compelling drama of four young pianists as they compete in an international p ...Show more
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations by Simon Schama
$60.00 AUD
Category: Science
Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has just gone through with Covid-19. But as Simon Schama shows in his epic history of vulnerable humanity caught between the terror of contagion and the ingenuity o ...Show more
Homesick by Jennifer Croft
$52.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The coming of age story of an award-winning translator, HOMESICK is about learning to love language in its many forms, healing through words and the promises and perils of empathy and sisterhood. Sisters Amy and Zoe grow up in Oklahoma where they are homeschooled for an unexpected reason: Zoe suffers f ...Show more
Black Butterflies by PRISCILLA MORRIS
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
This extraordinarily affecting debut novel captures life inside the Siege of Sarajevo. Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city into ethnic enclaves. When violence finally spills over, Zora, an artist and a teacher, sees that she must send her fam ...Show more
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara
$50.00 AUD
Category: Political
An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo's cobalt mining operation--and the moral implications that affect us all.Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by cobalt mi ...Show more
The Stand In by A J Rushby
$18.99 AUD
Category: Y.A Fiction
When new girl Millie shows up at Lena’s boarding school, she arrives with a question. Why is Lena pretending to be someone she’s not? Lena ignores her. Until Millie shows her photo after photo of someone who looks like her. Exactly like her. Intrigued, Lena agrees to meet her look-alike, Saskia. Saskia ...Show more
Triple Threat by Katy Warner
$19.99 AUD
Category: Y.A Fiction
A contemporary young adult novel about musical theatre, first romance and standing up for yourself from the brilliant Australian YA author Katy Warner. At the prestigious performing arts school Arcadia Grammar, the theatre kids and the musical theatre kids have just one rule: you DO NOT go for each othe ...Show more
Slipping the Noose (CBCA Notable 2023) by Meg Caddy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Y.A Fiction
This rollicking historical novel from Australian writer Meg Caddy takes us into the world of real-life pirate Anne Bonny, picking up her story where history left off. The way out is through. Anne Bonny is chained up in the hold of a prison ship, nursing nine-month-old Molly. The baby is all she has lef ...Show more
Scorpion Falls by Martin Chatterton
$18.95 AUD
Category: Y.A Fiction
Age range 11-18Loner Theo Sumner is a 14-year-old living in the isolated Queensland mining town of Scorpion Falls.Following the arrival of an unsettling guest at the Iguana Motel, teenagers start disappearing in mysterious circumstances.As Theo looks for answers, he is drawn deeper into the murky underb ...Show more
The Other Side of Tomorrow by Hayley Lawrence
$16.00 AUD
Category: Y.A Fiction
What if you thought you had forever ... To live your life. To tell your story. But what if forever was taken from you? When your tomorrows are counted, all you have is this moment. And this story you wish was never yours to tell. When Abby traded her life in the city for a wholesome new life on the coas ...Show more
Libby Lawrence is Good at Pretending (CBCA Notable 2023) by Jodi McAlister
$24.95 AUD
Category: Y.A Fiction
Nineteen-year-old Libby Lawrence is good at pretending. Problem is, she's not entirely sure how to stop. Which is good for her role in the campus production of Much Ado About Nothing ... but poses problems in her personal life. Especially when the list of things she can't admit to, even to her best frie ...Show more
Ask No Questions by Eva Collins
$25.00 AUD
Category: Y.A Fiction
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 Questions, Eva Collins writes spare affecting lines about her own experience as a teenager when her parents decided to emigrate from ...Show more