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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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The houses we inhabit often have their own personalities and also affect our lives in various ways. The Dutch ...
PAUL JENNINGS’ latest offering, A Different Land is his most autobiographical yet, writes EMMA HARVEY.
Paul ...
It’s always a joy seeing the book you love come to life. As the year rolls on, it seems like there’s a new book ...
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In every sense of the word, this is a big book. Not only is it a weighty tome, even as a paperback, but the span ...
At the end of WWII, the world fell into an uneasy peace. The Communist Soviet Union was emerging as a great power, ...
This author’s first bestselling memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, was variously described as self-indulgent or marvellous. ...
Quichotte is a most curious novel. It’s a genre-defying, multi-layered tribute to Don Quixote which starts as one ...
Kitty Hawke and her wolfdog, Girl, are the last residents of Wolfe Island in Chesapeake Bay. The island is sinking ...
'On my way to school, Mumma, guess what I saw?’ ‘I don’t know, little one, please tell me more.’ And her little ...
Today, at 10 Pomegranate Street, there are delicious smells coming from each apartment. You see, everyone at ...
Ravi was the youngest and the smallest in his family. Everyone was bigger than him … Even Biscuits the dog.
Now, ...
Have you ever heard of a Nudibranch or a Weedy Sea Dragon? And did you know that dugongs are related to elephants ...
England is experiencing destructive and frighteningly wild weather, the likes of which have never been seen ...
Gemma’s class at school have all been given special science projects; the winner will compete in the State Science ...
Allison runs away from home. She can’t stay there any longer. It’s not safe. She hides in the back yard of what ...
Ejected from the only home she has ever known, Hayley is cast ashore above the ocean. She has left everything ...
Kaya, already suffering from PTSD, is woken in the night by her mother. Her father is dead and they must flee for ...
Juliet Marillier, author of the ‘Blackthorn and Grim’ series of historical fantasy novels, is back with a new ...
As a young man Steve Burke lived with his mum and dad on a farm in a caravan. They lived in this cramped ...
This book is full of extremes. The biggest, longest, oldest, fastest slowest, most painful, strongest, smartest. ...
Science predicts that dementia will affect one-third of the world population over the next 70 years unless we find ...
There was a tremendous outpouring of grief and respect after the 1999 death of Don Dunstan, the reforming Premier ...
This is not just a memoir by the author about herself and one of her siblings. It is a profound and soaring ...
Fall, or Dodge in Hell is a speculative fiction novel that explores the possibility of an afterlife through ...
Jonathan Wild is an ambitious man. Born into a somewhat disreputable family and apprenticed at an early age, he ...
Here Until August is a short story collection by the author of the Miles Franklin contender, A Loving, Faithful ...
This is an epic novel continuing the story of two pioneering women, doctors and cousins Sophie and Anna Savard, ...
Sometime in the seemingly not too distant future, the United Kingdom is beset by pestilence, environmental ...
An Island in the Lake is the promising debut of WA English teacher Bruce Nash; a mystery wrapped up in a sardonic ...
Snake Island kicks off with Vernon, a retired teacher, sitting looking out to the muddy flats from his home as he ...
It is 1935. The machinations of governments across the European continent have set the foundations that will ...
Well, this was something different. I don’t know if I’ve grinned as much reading a crime novel for a long time. ...
Harry Hole is back, in the 12th instalment of Jo Nesbo’s long-running, bestselling Norwegian crime series. ...
Casey Benedict is good at what she does. She loves to use her power as an investigative journalist, to use her ...
Glasgow author Denise Mina’s résumé is packed with awards and accolades and, whether it’s one of her three ...
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