Title: Secrets Between Friends Author: Fiona Palmer Genre: Fiction Publisher: Hachette Australia Published: 12th September 2017 Format: Paperback Pages: 352 Price: $29.99 Synopsis: Life was about living, experiencing and emotions. The good and the bad. You had to laugh to cry. You had to love to hurt. You had to jump to fall or fly.… Continue reading Secrets Between Friends by Fiona Palmer
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The Book of Secrets: The Ateban Cipher by A.L. Tait
Title: The Book of Secrets: The Ateban Cipher (Book One) Author: A.L. Tait Genre: Children’s, Fantasy, Publisher: Lothian Children’s Books Published: 12th September 2017 Format: Paperback Pages: 250 Price: $14.99 Synopsis: What's the secret of the book, and why is it so valuable? These are the questions Gabe must answer when a dying man hands… Continue reading The Book of Secrets: The Ateban Cipher by A.L. Tait
Ava’s Big Move by Mary van Reyk (Surf Rider’s Club #1)
Title: Ava’s Big Move (Surf Rider’s Club #1) Author: Mary van Reyk Genre: Children’s Fiction Publisher: Hachette Children’s Books Australia Published: 12th September, 2017 Format: Paperback Pages: 129 Price: $12.99 Synopsis: Join the girls as they take on the world, one wave at a time! Meet five very different girls with one thing in common:… Continue reading Ava’s Big Move by Mary van Reyk (Surf Rider’s Club #1)
The Australian Reading Hour
It’s a simple idea, but one that has many benefits, and that can introduce children to something that they will hopefully develop a lifetime love for and continue to do for the rest of their lives. What is it? The Australian Reading Hour, this Thursday, the fourteenth of September, is the day we are all… Continue reading The Australian Reading Hour
The Strange Disppearance of a Bollywood Star by Vaseem Khan (Baby Ganesha Agency #3)
Title: The Strange Disppearance of a Bollywood Star Author: Vaseem Khan Genre: Crime and Mystery Publisher: Mulholland Books/Hachette Australia Published: 16th May 2017 Format: Paperback Pages: 360 Price: $29.99 Synopsis: In the third delightful Baby Ganesh Agency novel, Inspector Chopra investigates the darkly glittering underbelly of Bollywood when a film star vanishes into thin air...… Continue reading The Strange Disppearance of a Bollywood Star by Vaseem Khan (Baby Ganesha Agency #3)
Moonrise by Sarah Crossan
Title: Moonrise Author: Sarah Crossan Genre: YA Publisher: Bloomsbury Published: 1st September 2017 Format: Paperback Pages: 400 Price: $16.99 Synopsis: The astonishing new novel from Carnegie Medal, CliPPA Poetry Award, YA Book Prize and CBI Book of the Year Award winning author Sarah Crossan. They think I hurt someone. But I didn't. You hear? Cos… Continue reading Moonrise by Sarah Crossan
Every Word Is A Bird We Teach To Sing by Daniel Tammet
Title: Every Word Is A Bird We Teach To Sing Author: Daniel Tammet Genre: Essays. Non-Fiction Publisher: Hachette Australia Published: 29th August, 2017 Format: Paperback Pages:275 Price: $29.99 Synopsis: A mind-expanding, deeply humane tour of language(s) - and those who speak, study, and invent them - by the bestselling author of BORN ON A BLUE… Continue reading Every Word Is A Bird We Teach To Sing by Daniel Tammet
2017 Richell Prize for Emerging Writer’s Long List
Encouraging emerging writers in Australia to contribute to the growing literary landscape of Australian literature is the impetus behind prizes such as the Richell Prize, currently in its third year. The Richell Prize was established in 2014 by Hachette Australia in partnership with The Guardian and The Emerging Writer’s Festival to assist emerging writers take… Continue reading 2017 Richell Prize for Emerging Writer’s Long List
Terra Nullius by Claire G Coleman
Title: Terra Nullius Author: Claire G Coleman Genre: Speculative Fiction Publisher: Hachette Australia Published: 29th August 2017 Format: Paperback Pages: 304 Price: $29.99 Synopsis: In the near future Australia is about to experience colonisation once more. What have we learned from our past? A daring debut novel from the winner of the 2016 black&write! Writing… Continue reading Terra Nullius by Claire G Coleman
We That Are Left by Lisa Bigelow
Title: We That Are Left Author: Lisa Bigelow Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Allen and Unwin Published: 23rd August 2017 Format: Paperback Pages: 400 Price: $29.99 Synopsis: A moving debut novel about love and war, and the terrifyingly thin line between happiness and tragedy, hope and despair. Melbourne, 1941. Headstrong young Mae meets and falls head… Continue reading We That Are Left by Lisa Bigelow
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