New Releases
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Crocodile Cake
by Palo Morgan with illustrations by Chris Nixon
Take a slice, a great big slice, of this quirky and colourful picture book.
Written in fast-paced, catchy verse Crocodile Cake is about a little girl who bakes a very dangerous cake—the kind you have to eat before it eats you. Read more »
Price $24.95
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The Hills of Apollo Bay
by Peter Cowan
‘… a writer’s writer who has created a position at the leading edge of his craft.’ — Weekend Australian
‘The protest, a lament for that lost ferment of Australian art and ideas and succeeding cultural deadness, is subtle but sure.’ — Hal Colebatch, The West Australian
Richard is a young writer running from his hometown of Perth in search…Read more »
Price $24.95
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The Last of the Nomads
by W J Peasley
‘Peasley’s description of the events…is informative, compassionate, exciting and at times deeply moving.’ —Don Grant, Australian Book Review
‘The intriguing story of [the rescue of an elderly couple believed to be the last Australian nomads] and how they survived alone for the previous 30 years or so in the unrelenting western Gibson Desert…Read more »
Price $22.95
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Bookshop on Jacaranda Street, The
by Marlish Glorie
‘Glorie’s style is well paced in a good, interwoven story with a few surprises.’ — Adelaide Advertiser
‘Jacaranda Street has a touch of Tim Winton’s Cloudstreet in the way happiness grows out of the oddest, darkest places. A lovely read.’ — Herald Sun
‘Marlish Glorie has crafted this blackly funny, poignant and sharply telling story while…Read more »
Price $29.95
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Boy on a Wire
by Jon Doust
‘The novel is apparently autobiographical and is being publicised as such but Doust has done with his material what so many autobiographical novelists fail to do: he has turned it into a shapely story, with no extraneous material or diversions and with an absolutely consistent and convincing narrative voice.’ — Sydney Morning Herald
‘The boarding…Read more »
Price $24.95
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Five Acre Virgin and other stories
by Elizabeth Jolley
Five Acre Virgin and Other Stories brings together two highly acclaimed collections of Elizabeth Jolley’s short fiction so a new generation of readers can enjoy her unique combination of unsentimental realism and original humour.
Five Acre Virgin and The Travelling Entertainer introduced Jolley as a major Australian talentRead more »
Price $24.95
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Spider Lies
by Jen Banyard with illustrations by Tracey Gibbs
Connor’s little white lies have spawned a monster! It’s big, it’s hairy and it’s lurking outside his bedroom window.
Connor is home alone with his pet spider. Tricking Mum and Dad was easy and now he’s got nobody to tell him to wash the dishes, nobody to make him go to school and nobody to turn to when his very existence is threatened by…Read more »
Price $14.95
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Lighthouse Girl
by Dianne Wolfer with illustrations by Brian Simmonds
‘Full of evocative illustrations, sepia photographs and news clippings, Wolfer’s book transports. A great one for early and older readers alike,’ Frances Atkinson, The Sunday Age
Fay lives alone with her father on bleak, windswept Breaksea Island, but her isolated life takes a dramatic turn with the outbreak of World War I.
Fay collects the messages…Read more »
Price $24.95
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Choices
by Dianne Wolfer
‘Young adult fiction that manages to deal with a sensitive issue yet doesn’t thrust too much teenage anguish upon us…A story about change, agency and responsibility, with a pleasant mix of stylistic neatness and thematic uncertainty.’ — Sydney Morning Herald
‘This novel is written in a manner that is both honest and touching, as it does not…Read more »
Price $17.95
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Cat Balloon
by Palo Morgan
‘This is an exceptionally beautiful picture book. Highly
recommended for schools’ — Reading Time‘… this delightful book tells of the adventure of a cat who wanted to fly away with the moon!’ — ED! The West Australian
‘… Cat Balloon is both inviting and entertaining and should appeal to young children.’ — Magpies
Everyone tells Cat…Read more »
Price $14.95
From the Catalogue
Winner
Family Therapists’ Award
In ecstasy by Kate McCaffrey won Australian Family Therapists’ Award for Children’s Literature in the Older Readers Category. McCaffrey said it was fantastic to have her novel acknowledged by the Association …
