Boy is the story of Roald Dahl's very own boyhood, including tales of sweet-shops and chocolate, mean old ladies and a Great Mouse Plot: the inspiration for some of his...
Jack is an everyday sixteen-year-old boy. He's obsessed with Annabel, sport and nose hair. He's also obsessed with a ghost . . . There's a ghost in our house in...
'The Boat raises the bar for Australian writing.' PETER CRAVEN, Heat 'Nam Le is . . . a disturber of the peace. 'Consider the subjects of his stories: a child...
Imagine a world that is one of infinite parallel worlds, that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, in...
Here is a wonderful introduction to the residents of Firozsha Baag, an apartment complex in Bombay. We enter the daily routine and rhythm of their lives, and by the time...
First recorded in 1000 A.D., the epic tale of the warrior-prince Beowulf is reinvented through Gareth Hinds' masterful and darkly beautiful illustrations. Grendel's black blood runs thick as Beowulf defeats...
The extraordinarily moving story of a young girl who steps on a land mine in Mozambique, and her indomitable will to survive.'It was the most dangerous thing she could have...
On a beautiful starry night in the city of Kahani in the land of Alifbay a terrible thing happened: twelve-year-old Luka’s storyteller father, Rashid, fell suddenly and inexplicably into a...
Epic, mesmerising and deeply humane, Lessons is a chronicle for our times - a powerful meditation on history and humanity through the prism of one ordinary man The mesmerising new novel from...
The story of a remarkable boy called Yann Margoza; Tetu the dwarf, his friend and mentor; Sido, unloved daughter of a foolish Marquis; and Count Kalliovski, Grand Master of a...
Fourteen-year-old Terry Anders has been abandoned by his parents. He has no choice but to go on, and he begins by assembling pieces of a kit car from his father's...
Tom Falconer is in trouble. Pursued by the notorious criminal Ratsey, Tom soon finds himself alone and hungry on the streets of London. Luckily enough, the mysterious Dr. Mobius soon...
Everyone in Kinvara is conscious that time is flying past, faster and faster- to such an extent that when JJ asks his mother what she would like as a birthday...
A brand-new novel from the unparalleled Philip Reeve - winner of the 2006 Guardian Children's Fiction award. Gwyna is just a small girl, a mouse, when she is bound in...
Alice is an eighteen-year-old student and aspiring novelist with green spiky hair, a child of the modern age who recoils at the idea of reading Jane Austen. In a sequence...
The Chronicles of Narnia have enchanted millions of readers over the last fifty years and the magical events described in C.S. Lewis's immortal prose have left many a lasting memory...
From the international bestselling author of The Dry and new novel The Survivors. The man lay still in the centre of a dusty grave under a monstrous sky. Two brothers...
Kiwi author Catran offers a melodramatic retelling of Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece, seen through the eyes of a cabin boy. Picked up by genial, if poorly socialized, Hercules,...
Luke Harding is excited to become the youngest person ever to qualify as a forensics invstigator. He barely has time to celebrate his final exams when Malc, his Mobile Aid...
Friendship is a slippery notion. We lose friends as we change and our friends don't, or as we form other alliances, or as we betray our friends or are ourselves...
Winner of the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary AwardWe can absolutely endorse this book. It is an award-winning bestselling title and has been one of Australia's bestselling titles since the publication...