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Win Every Wild Soul

On Tasmania's wild and remote Maria Island, eighteen-year-old Min is trying to break free from her controlling, overly protective father, the island's head ranger. Her unlikely ally is Werner, an eccentric, homeless biologist who has always taught her to care for the imperilled natural world around her - even as it sets them against Piers, her father, who has his own plans. When Lucie, a journalist haunted by her family's role in the thylacine's extinction, ...
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Features

Book Bite: Being You

Book Bite: Being You

MAGGIE EYRE has shaken off her fear of public speaking a long time ago as her roles in professional acting, ...
The Other Americans

The Other Americans

I’m going to make a prediction, which is dangerous I know, but nonetheless … I predict The Other Americans is ...
Run Away

Run Away

Simon Greene is at the end of his tether. He hasn’t seen his eldest daughter, Paige, in six months, he doesn’t ...
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Reviews

Bridge of Clay

Bridge of Clay

Bridge of Clay is an entirely different beast to Markus Zusak’s previous novels that stole the hearts of millions ...
Gravity Is the Thing

Gravity Is the Thing

Abigail Sorensen has been receiving chapters of a self-help book called The Guidebook in the mail since the eve of ...
The Things We Cannot Say

The Things We Cannot Say

Alice is having a bad day. Or perhaps she is just having a challenging life. The novel starts with her severely ...
Daughter of Bad Times

Daughter of Bad Times

It’s 2075 and climate change is wreaking havoc on the world as we know it. Islands such as the Maldives have been ...
Home Fires

Home Fires

Eighteen months after a horrendous bushfire tore through the town of Myrtle, Claire, Bec and Sophie are all ...
The Runaways

The Runaways

Three young people from a Pakistani background form the core of this novel of family expectations, cultural ...
Annelies

Annelies

It’s easy to become overwhelmed by the sheer horror and scale of the number of people murdered in the Holocaust. ...
Fox 8

Fox 8

You never know what George Saunders is going to do next. He built his career as a virtuosic writer of short ...
Lux

Lux

In ancient times, King David spies a beautiful woman bathing in the valley below and, desiring her greatly, ...

Blood Orange

Alison Wood’s life is unravelling. Her drinking is out of control, the lover she is having an affair with has ...

Hiding to Nothing

Lachie Munro, the hapless narrator of this tale of various misfortunes, is a house painter living in Newcastle, ...
Eight Lives

Eight Lives

David Tran is the ‘Golden Boy’ of Australian medical research. He has made a huge breakthrough in immunology due ...
The Slipping Place

The Slipping Place

Veronica Cruickshank, mother of four, receives a text from her youngest, 24-year-old Roland, urging her to go to ...
The Jones Family Food Roster:

The Jones Family Food Roster:

While hiking on Cradle Mountain in Tasmania with her husband and five children, Alison Jones breaks her arm in a ...
Women to the Front

Women to the Front

As World War I began there was a call for doctors, surgeons and other medical professionals to join the troops and ...
City of Trees

City of Trees

Horseshoe crabs look like someone tried to make a stingray into a helmet. It’s easy to imagine these dome-shaped ...
A Cat Called Trim

A Cat Called Trim

This amazing story of a little cat called Trim starts way back in 1799 when Trim was born on the good ship, HMS ...
Baz & Benz

Baz & Benz

Baz and Benz are two of the cutest little owls. Baz is small and blue while Benz is big and green. Despite this, ...
Chalk Boy

Chalk Boy

Barnaby is a pavement artist.This morning he started drawing me. This is Chalk Boy speaking. Barnaby is giving ...
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