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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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The town of Sorrento in southern Italy sits high on a clff above the Tyrrhenian Sea, whose waters are sobuoyant ...
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There must be something in Tasmania’s water, as that island state has produced superb writers such as Richard ...
In the fictitious settlement of Wolfftown on the west coast of Tasmania, Sasha Torte is in jail. She’s been found ...
This is a novel about being lost, being found, and about the extinction of species, of feelings, and family. And ...
Thaniel Steepleton works in a low-level job in the Home Office in London in 1883. He lives alone in a small ...
Everyone who’s ever been to Paris or just read about the City of Light recognises the iconic image of the Eiffel ...
Tropical North Queensland is a fine setting for this novel. As well as the lush landscape, some slightly troppo ...
Antoine Saint-Exupéry’s 1943 novella The Little Prince, which told the story of a young prince who lived on ...
Mumbai-born writer Roanna Gonsalves shapes the experiences of Indian migrants living in Australia through her ...
Welsh writer Cynan Jones recently said, ‘I’m not sure fiction should provide the reader with a thorough picture of ...
This short story collection blends elements of literary realism and paranoia-fuelled speculative fiction and, in ...
Mululuk’s new bridge is meant to connect both halves of the town. When it collapses, Janice Harding is the only ...
Elizabeth ‘Beth’ Pimms is a 26-year-old librarian, but she wants to be a full-time archaeologist. Family problems, ...
Detective Sergeant Harry Belltree of the NSW police force is transferred from Sydney to Newcastle in this second ...
This finale to ‘The Secret City’ trilogy neatly wraps up the events of its predecessors (The Marmalade Files and ...
Win has had a difficult time over the last few years. Her much-loved brother died and her marriage fell apart. Her ...
Former detective Ted Conkaffey was accused, but never actually convicted, of a brutal attack on a 13-year-old ...
When thinking about the favourite classic fantasy authors of my youth, so many come to mind. These authors penned ...
Biographies of constitutional monarchs can be tricky things. The fact is that these guys don’t get to do much. The ...
For lovers of Alan Bennett’s plays (such as The History Boys and The Lady in the Van) and prose, this collection ...
Antoine Leiris’s wife was murdered in the Paris terrorist attacks of November 2015. In the days after the ...
In his entertaining memoir, Alan Blunt offers readers a glimpse of an era in Australia that greatly contributed to ...
Deputy Captain Colomba Caselli is one of the best detectives in Rome. Her strong, forthright manner and ...
We all remember that stifling rule of verbal conduct imparted to us as children – If you can’t say something nice ...
Dog tails will be wagging madly in anticipation of the release of Pets on Holiday. After all, who wants to be left ...
Don Watson has delivered another readers’ delight, but this one has only a limited amount of his elegant, eloquent ...
Despite the advent of so-called budget airlines, travel is still not cheap. On flights you’ll be charged ...
Even if you were listening to the Queen’s Christmas Day message back in 2013, you have probably already forgotten ...
Jake and Alex have been friends since they were little. They used to do everything together: skateboarding, ...
In Zeroes, we were introduced to some of the most unconventional superheroes in town. They can’t fly, become ...
Catherine is destined to become the Queen of Hearts, but she is far more interested in baking tarts than chopping ...
When 17-year-old Otis’s childhood friend Meg comes to visit for the summer, both of them must come to terms with ...
If you can remember the 1980s and the No 1 hit ‘Footloose’, then you won’t be able to resist this book. The lyrics ...
This is a clever way for an artist to depict the letters of the alphabet. Upper- and lower-case letters are formed ...
Ada Lovelace was born in 1815. Her father was the famous poet Lord Byron, and her mother was a skilled ...
How long will I love you?
A second is too short.
A second is no time
For a love of this sort.
This is the ...
Dad, Mum and Jim love their remote station life. But sometimes they feel a bit lonely. Mum would like to talk to ...
It’s World War II, and many children from the cities near the coast have been evacuated to the countryside. Briar ...
Cecile is the youngest of five girls. Her sisters go to the market every week but Cecile stays home. They think ...
Set in the intriguing and dangerous world of free diving, Storm and Grace takes us into a private and sensual ...
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