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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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It was reported in January that ‘a rare first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone worth £40 000 ...
In a new short story collection by ERNEST VAN DER KWAST, Giovanna’s Navel, we meet a range of characters whose ...
What’s it like to be a woman over 40? In Women of a Certain Age 15 writers including Liz Byrski, Krissy Kneen and ...
Bestselling Aussie author KELLY RIMMER tells gr about writing Before I Let You Go, a novel centred on the ethical ...
When Norweigan journalists ESKIL ENGDAL and KJETIL SAETER started investigating two illegal poaching vessels ...
"There are many thousands of crew working for the larger airlines, so it's likely that they will never get to meet ...
‘I thought moving away, being in a city, would help. To say it didn’t help would be a massive understatement. I ...
Before I Let You Go by Kelly Rimmer has been voted as our subscribing librarians' favourite book from our March ...
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Heart-breaking and gut-wrenching, this powerful novel by Ward which won the 2017 US National Book Award for ...
Sally Hepworth delves into the lives of four families living in a cul-de-sac of suburban Melbourne. Superficially, ...
Relationships between mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law with different personalities are often challenging. ...
The author wants his readers to be involved in this dark and violent novel. He invites them to take sides, take on ...
Jim Crace’s The Melody is a book that generally delivers, but not necessarily what the blurb promises. The main ...
CeCe D’Apliese is one of seven sisters adopted from different parts of the world by a wealthy man. Although he ...
Margaret wields substantial influence as the self-imposed matriarch of the Jamieson family. But as her memory and ...
The French Revolution has brought equal rights for men but not for women, a fact Marie-Louise Girardin knows all ...
Once a thriving town, Pinewood, North Carolina, has seen many of its businesses close, and there is growing ...
False Claims of Colonial Thieves is a thought-provoking and intimate collection of poems by two veteran poets. ...
Vivian and Matt Miller seem to have the perfect American life, with four children and a house near the best ...
In 1982, when she was just 12, Anna Flore’s 15-year-old sister Gabriella disappeared without a trace. Her father ...
Taking a step onto the dark side of the street, and putting yourself in the shoes of killers, thieves, kidnappers, ...
James Whitehouse is a successful politician in the British government. A close friend of the Prime Minister, James ...
Bill Masen is a biologist. He works with triffids, which are tall, gangly venomous carnivorous plants that are ...
This is the finale to the ‘Traitor Son Cycle’ pentalogy. If you haven’t read the preceding four books in the ...
Books about fathers and sons can be funny, heart-wrenching, perceptive, and illuminating, just like this one - ...
Sandra Pankhurst’s typical work day involves the task of cleaning up a client’s residence, whether the occupant ...
Amy Tan’s mother and maternal grandmother were concubines in communist China. Her maternal grandmother may also ...
Twenty thousand years ago the world was experiencing the ‘last glacial maximum’ or LGM. And then the earth started ...
Award-winning journalist Hugh Riminton tells a powerful and absorbing story of his life from his roots in New ...
In Grant, Ron Chernow gives us a new perspective on Ulysses S Grant, the Union’s most successful general in the US ...
Anyone with the travel bug will find considerable pleasure and inspiration in this compact coffee-table book. ...
When the Outhwaite family moves from Australia to London to live in an old house their father has inherited, ...
Maya and her parents are a Muslim family living in a small town in the USA. Maya’s parents emigrated from ...
This is an interesting collection of short stories dealing with sad, frightening or dangerous situations. In the ...
Mia is on a planet named Gaia, trying to find anything that will make some money so she can rescue her sister from ...
Sally Jones isn’t an ordinary engineer, working tirelessly in the bowels of the SS Hudson Queen. She is a gorilla. ...
Blue has a terrible problem: she can no longer laugh. She can’t even chuckle, or giggle, or snigger. No matter ...
Pax is a fox. He’s a lucky fox, as he was rescued by a young boy named Peter when he was only a cub. Peter and Pax ...
Those of us who have had the wonderful experience of seeing the classic ballet Swan Lake as a child know how ...
Fran K Stein is a member of Fright Club and should be out scaring people with his monster friends. Instead he is ...
Is a lion still a lion if … he wears a hat? And is a lion still a lion if … he carries an umbrella, too?
And if ...
Two little friends are talking to each other. They are discussing the sort of special person they would like to ...
Iceland is renowned for its age-old sagas, passed down through the generations, and for beliefs that sealfolk, ...
Lara Foxleigh arrives in Rome to throw three gold euro coins into the magnificent Trevi Fountain with three ...
On opening this book the horror hits you. A body sinks to the depths of the Mediterranean Sea and the fish are ...
This is only the second biography of a remarkable Australian. The first biography of Germaine Greer, Untamed Shrew ...
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