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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
There are over two million individual book titles published a year. Extrapolate that out to the quantity per title ...
ELIZABETH STEAD talks to EMMA HARVEY about walking barefoot through art galleries, Freddie Mercury’s teeth, and ...
In MARY-ROSE MacCOLL’S latest novel, The True Story of Maddie Bright, a 17-year-old girl in London accepts a job ...
Andrea Goldsmith, author of The Memory Trap and the Miles Franklin shortlisted title The Prosperous Thief, is one ...
When Jenny Trelawney’s father is taken by the sea while smuggling in Cornwall, the harsh realities of life means ...
Though the description ‘partmemoir- part-philosophy’ may be a little hackneyed, in her new book, The Thinking ...
Despite the stereotype of Australia as an Akubra-wearing Outback nation, the vast majority of Aussies live in ...
The Year of the Beast is the sixth and final novel in Steven Carroll’s ‘Glenroy’ series, which is set in and ...
It’s 1997 and three little girls go out to play one day. Only two came back.
Ten-year-old Laurel and her ...
Caro Llewellyn was living up to her remarkable potential in New York, directing an international literary festival ...
If your letter is published this month, you have won a copy Islands by Peggy Frew, valued at $29.99. If your ...
Davin Bretherton was 21 when he was deployed by the army to the southern horn of Africa to a place he had never ...
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Reviews
London, 1850. Iris feels trapped by her apprenticeship as a doll painter at Mrs Salter’s Doll Emporium, by her ...
Gabby McPhee owns a Wizard of Oz themed cafe in Melbourne called The Tin Man, in honour of receiving a heart ...
Summer 1992; the cicadas fill the air with their shrill song while suburbia roasts under the unforgiving sun, and ...
Edie was the kind of girl everyone in her circle of friends, and many of those outside it looking in, wanted to be ...
Kavanagh is a new Defender starting his two years of service at the Wall. Built to protect the nation’s lands and ...
There is passion and an abiding affection for all libraries in this new work by the author of the bestselling book ...
This is the amazing story of the Bobtail squid which lives in the sandy shallow waters of Hawaii. It stays buried ...
Like many millennials concerned with the increasingly inevitable climate change-driven collapse of civilisation, ...
This novella is about a lifelong friendship between a girl called Mary and a golden snake called Lanmo − a ...
Belinda’s absent father refuses to pay for her schooling so she leaves her village in Ghana to become a housegirl ...
Ross Grant understood he was a liability to his family when his shortcomings were spat out in anger and spite by ...
In Sydney, 2007, Australia is on the cusp of political change and Illy has just buried her father. He was a ...
In a cultural environment that is increasingly punitive towards writers who explore the experiences of the ...
Bea is a psychotherapist who loves her job. Her husband, Dan, is a restless real estate agent who would prefer to ...
James Phelan returns to Sydney from Afghanistan escorting a coffin with an Australian flag draped across it and ...
When Annie Thorne was eight years old, she disappeared. Of course, her family were beside themselves with fear and ...
Charlotte Bettencourt, an elderly Frenchwoman living in an isolated village in the mountains of Andalusia, is ...
The name Treblinka is enough to let readers know that this story concerns the Nazi extermination of European Jews. ...
This could be seen as a sad book, but it is also uplifting, humbling, and shows extraordinary resilience as ...
Many people dream of escaping the rat-race and dreary office jobs to have a tree or sea change. Tommy and Rose did ...
The Four Flash Points is an orthodox Western account of where the next big blue will come from and provides a ...
In 2012 George Megalagenis, a relatively sensible exemplar of the genus neoliberal economist, congratulated us on ...
It’s Paris 1889 and Séverin Montagnet-Alarie is more than just a wealthy hotelier. He is the unrecognised heir of ...
Brangwein Spurge – not the brightest, nor the strongest elf around but he’s available and easily manipulated – is ...
It is 1979 and Frankie Avery has a lot on her plate. She has a major project on the novel Storm Boy to finish; any ...
The Go-Away bird sat up in her nest, With her fine grey wings and her fine grey crest.
She certainly is a ...
The man with the small hair loved the look and the feel of his hair. But in a town where all the people had long ...
Most of us have heard of these three billy goats called Gruff. But just in case you haven’t, these three billy ...
Grey Mouse loves his little house with its shiny windows and a garden with a big shady oak tree, just perfect for ...
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