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Top 11 YA books set in space
Space is the final frontier and a place of mystery, wonder, danger, and magic. Here are our top 11 YA books featuring astronauts or characters who journey through space.
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Features
Squirrels! You’ve gotta love them. Peter Wohlleben’s new book, The Inner Life of Animals, starts off by talking ...
GRAEME SIMSION, author of The Rosie Project, and ANNE BUIST, psychiatrist and author of novels about forensic ...
Number nerd, comedian and former radio presenter ADAM SPENCER ditched a maths PhD to host triple j’s breakfast ...
SULARI GENTILL continues her Rowland Sinclair series with A Dangerous Language, which starts with the murder of a ...
Veteran Aussie actor STEVE BISLEY got his big break in Mad Max and is also known for starring in Water ...
The town of Sorrento in southern Italy sits high on a clff above the Tyrrhenian Sea, whose waters are so buoyant ...
J M Green's latest crime thriller, Too Easy, has been voted by our subscribing librarians as their favourite read ...
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Reviews
The Life to Come is a vast and impressive book. It’s structured in five parts, each of which introduces the reader ...
Many of us feel the need to share a traumatic personal event, but it’s often difficult to find the right words, ...
This book is strange, even for a piece of speculative fiction. The story begins in 1987 when Nat – the third wheel ...
Bridget Crack, an assured debut from a new Tasmanian voice, is an intriguing and insightful look at life through ...
It’s 1348, and Lady Anne of Develish quietly helps the serfs of her demesne behind the back of her boorishly cruel ...
Christina, 45 years old, lives with her mother, Rosa. She is financially insecure and has lost her partner, ...
Ten Pound Pom is the author’s true story of her family’s immigration to Australia. Her dad had always wanted to ...
This is the incredible true story of Tutankhamun, a little boy about nine years of age who became a much-loved ...
If you’re a fan of Pig the Pug then you’ll love Aaron Blabey’s latest laugh-out-loud story, Pig and his ...
Just imagine if ‘Mum went out to buy a new pair of gumboots, but came home with a rabbit’. In this book, The Great ...
Lately we’ve been hearing worrying stories about how our little furry friends, the koalas, are endangered. So it’s ...
In this simply named and beautiful picture book titled Gecko, we meet Gecko, who loves to sunbakes on a ledge on a ...
This memoir could have been an example of misery lit or chick lit but journalist Sheridan Jobbins has enough wit ...
Whenever I catch the House of Representatives’ Question Time on the TV news, I’ve noticed a lady with dark hair ...
Living in London in 1960, 15-year-old twins Duncan and Maisy are snatched away from their family home when their ...
Merrick, a former employee of the East India Company, has been injured and is staying with his brother, Charles, ...
Jonquil’s parents died when she was very little, so she doesn’t have any memories to cling to. Her aunt has done a ...
Ten different kids are facing 10 different hair-raising situations, fighting to save their own lives and, in some ...
Clem, Kate and Ady go to a boarding school. Clem, a swimming star, has lost her love of competing but she has ...
Death has lost its unpredictability. With the creation of Death-Cast, a company that alerts those within 24 hours ...
Tiny has been living on the streets of Sydney for months. She probably wouldn’t have survived if old Zak hadn’t ...
Author Megan Jacobson was CBCA shortlisted for her first novel, Yellow, and The Build-Up Season shows yet again ...
The success of convenience food in the last four decades has resulted in many of us losing – or never even ...
Scientists have recently shown the benefits of gardening for our mental health, and everyone knows that consuming ...
Ian McPhedran, former defence writer for The Canberra Times and News Corp, writes here about the Australian Navy’s ...
This book is not just about victimhood. It reveals how one Brisbane woman was finally able to find her voice and ...
Englishman James Aldred has spent most of his life climbing the world’s tallest trees. But it’s not just the ...
I first noticed Senator Sam Dastyari when, as chairman of a senate committee in 2014, he aggressively questioned ...
Justice, according to the well-known axiom, has nothing to do with the legal system. This book, by an ...
For many years I listened to ABC Classic FM’s breakfast program on my early morning walks.The presenter wooed me ...
We all need an angel on our side at some time in our lives. For Professor Max Jackson of the Sorbonne Nouvelle’s ...
For shy Catholic schoolgirl Poppy Flannery, the teenage years are best forgotten. While her peers blossomed into ...
Jenny Zhang’s Sour Heart is a collection of short stories, about the experiences of Asian migrants and their ...
With five fascinating people in its storyline, this novel also has a sixth character: the famous Royal Botanic ...
Hard-headed social worker Stella Hardy will do anything for a friend. Especially when that friend is Detective ...
This is the second book to feature deaf detective Caleb Zelic. It’s possible that reading the first book might ...
This collection of stories, which all have a multicultural theme, won the 2016 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award ...
Anna Kerrigan, almost 12 years old, accompanies her beloved father on a visit to a mysterious wealthy man. She has ...
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