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Top 11 YA books with ghosts
For the lovers of the spooky, the supernatural, the macabre, or the outright terrifying, here are 11 books for young adults that feature hauntings from beyond the grave.
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Features
She might have had an isolated outback upbringing, but LYNETTE NONI believes that it was the vast, sparsely ...
The BBC released a survey earlier this year in which they asked readers to name the books they had lied about ...
The Outback Writers’ Festival is held in Winton, the central Queensland town where Banjo Paterson wrote and first ...
Journalist and aspiring novelist MAUREEN EPPEN uses a humble graphite pencil to switch writing modes and boost her ...
Book editor and thriller writer SARA FOSTER has set her latest characterdriven crime novel somewhere very close to ...
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Reviews
Maisy’s back!
It’s been over 25 years since the first Maisy books were published, and Maisy Goes Swimming was ...
Maisy’s back!
She’s been for a holiday, she’s been for a sleepover and even visited a museum. Now it’s time to ...
Many years ago in a busy Hong Kong market, Arthur Cooper rescued a baby gibbon. He takes him home and calls him ...
One very hot day, two little girls make plans to go to the local swimming pool. But one little girl, Mandy, isn’t ...
Harry ‘Hobbit’ is the school loner. Bullied by a no-brained thug and forced into sessions with a school ...
This book has been showered with accolades, and as soon as you begin reading it you can see why readers are ...
Jess has just been caught for shoplifting – for the third time. She is now doing community service, helping to ...
I had difficulty putting this charming book down before going to sleep. Steffi is a terrific protagonist; she ...
Many years ago I was lured into a London restaurant called Fatso’s Pasta Joint by an irresistible offer. ‘All you ...
When I started reading it, I thought that this memoir by criminal barrister and court judge Bill Hosking would be ...
If you’ve ever wanted hard facts about what it’s like to live in Australia today and to find out how the country ...
This book, by New York Times writer and photographer Bill Hayes, is a tenderly written memoir about the author’s ...
Prince Merik is a Windwitch who can summon the elements. This is a handy skill, as he is admiral of the royal ...
Hester and Harriet return in this rollicking read about the sisters’ holiday in Italy. With the flip of a coin, ...
In the orangery of her mother’s house, Phoebe Stanbury has welcomed the last of her guests arriving for the party ...
Pamela Hart (who has also written under the name Pamela Freeman) is no stranger to literary triumph. Her fantasy ...
As a first novel, History of Wolves is impressive. Emily Fridlund has created a character who is strong and ...
The 12 short stories in this anthology interweave fact and fiction, using truth and imagination to create ...
Uprooted by her parents’ divorce, private schoolgirl Cat finds herself living in the tiny town of Silver Lake in ...
Charlie’s job comes with a pension and a good salary. He travels all over the world and meets a lot of people, but ...
Stephanie Alexander’s Kitchen Garden Companion Cooking sets the bar high. Focusing on vegetables, fruit and herbs ...
On a busy day in a Charing Cross bookshop, Max Mulgan, a baby with pointy ears and sharp teeth, appeared in the ...
Books that advise travellers on how and what to pack are not new, but new versions of them need to be written ...
The cruelties perpetrated by Dr Josef Mengele at Auschwitz are well known. His fascination with twins and the ...
Mata Hari, convicted of being a spy for Germany, was executed on 15 October 1917. She refused a blindfold.
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