My Dog Bigsy by Alison Lester
$25.00 AUD
Category: Picture Books
From Australia's favourite picture-book creator, Alison Lester, comes this energetic story about a little dog who causes a big commotion.Meet my dog Bigsy. He's only small, but everyone knows he's the boss. Each morning he visits the animals on the farm. Squawk, neigh, quack, moo, baa, oink, cluck, purr ...Show more
What Do You Wish for? (HB) by Jane Godwin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
All the children in the street are writing down a special Christmas wish. But what is Ruby's wish? What does she wish for at Christmas time? Ruby thinks of all the things that make Christmas special... From this much-loved creative partnership comes a sparkling and beautiful story, full of the wonder ...Show more
The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
This is a pre-read/used book. Condition: Good. Slight yellowing/foxing on edges of pages. "A Handmaid's Tale for the 21st century" (Prism Magazine), Wood's dystopian tale about a group of young women held prisoner in the Australian desert is a prescient feminist fable for our times. As the Guardian ...Show more
The Cat with the Coloured Tail by Gillian Mears
$20.00 AUD
$22.99 (13% off)
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years)
Mr Hooper and The Cat with the Coloured Tail travel through the countryside in their ice-cream van. They enjoy looking for heart shapes (their favourite game) and making people happy with their delicious moon-creams. But a dark feeling is following the cat. Something is wrong. When the ice-cream van ent ...Show more
Small Acts of Disappearance by Fiona Wright
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Small Acts of Disappearance describes the author's affliction with an eating disorder which begins in university, and escalates into life-threatening anorexia over the next ten years. Fiona Wright is a highly regarded poet and critic, and her account of her illness is informed by a keen sense of its con ...Show more
The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Year of the Runaways tells of the bold dreams and daily struggles of an unlikely family thrown together by circumstance. Thirteen young men live in a house in Sheffield, each in flight from India and in desperate search of a new life. Tarlochan, a former rickshaw driver, will say nothing about his p ...Show more
Sister Heart by Sally Morgan
$20.00 AUD
Category: Y.A Fiction
A young Aboriginal girl is taken from the north of Australia and sent to an institution in the distant south. There, she slowly makes a new life for herself and, in the face of tragedy, finds strength in new friendships. Poignantly told from the child s perspective, Sister Heart affirms the power of fam ...Show more
Piranhas Don't Eat Bananas (HB) by Aaron Blabey
$17.00 AUD
Category: Australian Picture Books | Series: Piranhas Don't Eat Bananas
Hey there guys. Would you like a banana?What's wrong with you. Brian? You're a piranha.Brian loves bananas. Trouble is, Brian's a piranha. And his friends aren't happy about his fondness for fruit! From the best-selling author of PIG THE PUG and THELMA THE UNICORN
In the Evening by Edwina Wyatt
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Picture Books
Oscar is shy, Charlie bold. Oscar stays in, Charlie plays outside. Can they ever be friends? This enchanting tale of a friendship that buds, falters, recovers and blossoms is by emerging author Edwina Wyatt and award-winning illustrator Gaye Chapman.
A God in Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
July 1914. Young Englishwoman Vivian Rose Spencer is running up a mountainside in an ancient land, surrounded by figs and cypresses. Soon she will discover the Temple of Zeus, the call of adventure, and the ecstasy of love. Thousands of miles away a twenty-year old Pathan, Qayyum Gul, is learning about ...Show more
World Without Us by Mireille Juchau
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
WINNER OF THE VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD 2016 LONGLISTED FOR THE STELLA PRIZE 2016 It has been six months since Tess Müller stopped speaking. Her silence is baffling to her parents, her teachers and her younger sister Meg, but the more urgent mystery for both girls is where their mother, Evangel ...Show more
Molly and Pim and the Millions of Stars by Martine Murray
$15.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years)
A delightful story about friendship and acceptance and learning to see the wonder in the world. Molly has a strange life. Her mama collects herbs at dawn and makes potions, her father and brothers have gone away, and her house feels like a gypsy caravan. Molly doesn't want to know anything about herbs ...Show more