Tales from the Inner City by Shaun Tan
Category: Children's Graphic Novels
Winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal 2020. A stunning companion to Tales from Outer Suburbia, this collection of illustrated short stories is sure to delight Shaun Tan fans of all ages. Where can we live if not in each other's shadow?World-renowned artist Shaun Tan applies his unique imagination to a ...Show more
Hive (#1 The Vault) by A. J. Betts
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: The Vault
All I can tell you is what I remember, in the words that I have. Hayley tends to her bees and follows the rules in the only world she has ever known. Until she witnesses the impossible: a drip from the ceiling. A drip? It doesn't make sense. Yet she hears it, catches it. Tastes it. Curiosity is a hook. ...Show more
Maggie's Recipe for Life by Maggie Beer
Category: Food and Drink
This book is so important to me.To have a healthy old age you must act now, whether you are 30 or 50.I have two great passions - sharing my love of cooking delicious simple food and improving the health and nutrition of older people. I hope this cookbook does both but it's not for 'old' people, it's for ...Show more
Dreamscapes - Inspiration and Beauty in Gardens Near and Far by Claire Takacs
Category: Home and Garden
Captured in stunning detail by a world-class photographer, Dreamscapes features 70 of the most spectacular gardens in the world, all photographed at the height of their beauty. The gardens featured range from the classic, like the beautiful Edwardian idyll of Bryan's Ground in Herefordshire, and Kenroku ...Show more
A Song Only I Can Hear by Barry Jonsberg
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Rob has a huge crush on the new girl at school. But Rob is painfully shy and suffers severe panic attacks. How is her heart to be won? Another wonderful and heart-warming comedy drama from the award-winning author of My Life as an Alphabet. Good evening, Rob. Your first challenge follows. These challeng ...Show more
Welcome to Country: A Travel Guide to Indigenous Australia by Marcia Langton
Category: Travel
Marcia Langton: Welcome to Country is a curated guidebook to Indigenous Australia and the Torres Strait Islands. In its pages, respected Elder and author Professor Marcia Langton offers fascinating insights into Indigenous languages and customs, history, native title, art and dance, storytelling, and cu ...Show more
Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak
Category: Fiction
"Let me tell you about our brother. The fourth Dunbar boy named Clay. Everything happened to him. We were all of us changed through him." The Dunbar boys bring each other up in a house run by their own rules. A family of ramshackle tragedy - their mother is dead, their father has fled - they love and fi ...Show more
The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton
Category: Fiction
Jaxie dreads going home. His mum?s dead. The old man bashes him without mercy, and he wishes he was an orphan. But no one's ever told Jaxie Clackton to be careful what he wishes for. In one terrible moment his life is stripped to little more than what he can carry and how he can keep himself alive. Ther ...Show more
Any Ordinary Day - Blindsides, Resilience and What Happens after the Worst Day of Your Life by Leigh Sales
Category: Biography
As a journalist, Leigh Sales often encounters people experiencing the worst moments of their lives in the full glare of the media. But one particular string of bad news stories--and a terrifying brush with her own mortality--sent her looking for answers about how vulnerable each of us is to a life-chang ...Show more
The Lost Man by Jane Harper
Category: Crime and Thrillers
The man lay still in the centre of a dusty grave under a monstrous sky. Two brothers meet at the border of their vast cattle properties under the unrelenting sun of outback Queensland. They are at the stockman's grave, a landmark so old, no one can remember who is buried there. But today, the scant shad ...Show more
The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire by Chloe Hooper
Category: History
On the scorching February day in 2009 that became known as Black Saturday, a man lit two fires in Victoria's Latrobe Valley, then sat on the roof of his house to watch the inferno. In the Valley, where the rates of crime were the highest in the state, more than thirty people were known to police as fire ...Show more
Scrublands (#1 Martin Scarsden) by Chris Hammer
Category: Crime and Thrillers
In the vein of The Dry and Before the Fall, a town's dark secrets come to light in the aftermath of a young priest's unthinkable last act in this arresting and searing debut thriller. In Riversend, an isolated rural community afflicted by an endless drought, a young priest does the unthinkable, killin ...Show more