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Top 11 YA books with ghosts
A ghost can be a vengeful spirit determined to wreak revenge, or maybe its friendly? Here are 11 books for young adults that feature hauntings from beyond the grave.
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Features
Below Deck sees Sydney-born writer SOPHIE HARDCASTLE draw upon her synesthesia and seafaring youth to write a ...
Sharks in the Time of Saviours is the debut novel from KAWAI STRONG WASHBURN, merging magical realism, the culture ...
Our March featured author, Christine Bell, is a fiction writer from Melbourne. She has written extensively for ...
Academic and author Bem Le Hunte uses her half Indian, half English heritage to inspire her many novels. Elephants ...
STEPHANIE WROBEL's debut novel The Recovery of Rose Gold is a chilling look at familial obsession, reconciliation ...
Booker Prize winning English writer Graham Swift is a contemporary of Ian McEwan. I found myself reminded of ...
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Papa Monkey has just picked up little Monkey from school on his banana cycle and side car and is heading home. ...
Sometimes, I go quiet When I speak I’m not understood. So I go quiet.
This is a little girl speaking who is ...
Murphy is a little tadpole swimming around in his weedy pond. He’s perfectly happy with his life until one day ...
Sam and Julia live in the wonderful world of Mouse Mansion. Julia lives on the sixth floor just with her mum while ...
In The Great Escape we meet up again with wolf girl, Gwen. After surviving for years in the wild with her pack of ...
Angela Throgmorton lived alone. One day a curious thing happened as she opened her door and found an unusual ...
The fates of three separate women unfold against the backdrop of the Bass Rock, which sits in a bay off the ...
This is a powerful and searing novel that begins with a scene of domestic celebration in the Mexican city of ...
This, indeed, is happiness. Finishing a novel like this, by one of Ireland’s master writers, is like savouring a ...
The year is 2031. Myra and Jacob live in Nebraska with their daughter, Row, awaiting the imminent arrival of their ...
For anyone interested in the history of photography in Australia during the 20th century, this is an imposing but ...
It is almost 20 years since this classic award-winning Indigenous memoir was first published in 2003, and it has ...
It is safe to say that the war on drugs has not been going well for the DEA and Agent Art Keller in particular. ...
Less than 24 hours after she has given birth to her illegitimate daughter, Clara, Bess Bright gives her up at ...
Hannah Richell has firmly established herself as a standout storyteller in women’s commercial fiction over the ...
The Coconut Children is an incredible achievement. Pham writes with a poetic intensity and maturity that belies ...
Did you know that Zimbabwe once had a trillion-dollar bill (and that it wasn’t even enough to ride the bus)? Or ...
I began Wayward Son with minimal expectations. I plucked it off the shelf recognising Rowell’s name. Although I ...
This is an interesting anthology; a collection of short stories by writers focussed on Young Adult readership. It ...
Saga is a story that stretches over a thousand years. It begins with Astrid, a young woman in the Orkneys, who is ...
Iris is not an ordinary person; they grew from a seed in the ground. They remember their beginnings as a seedling, ...
Dear parents: you need to read this book. Gabbie Stroud’s newest book is one which needs to be included in every ...
If you’re a millennial like myself and you’ve wondered why the hell school never taught us how taxes work, how to ...
GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, is part of the British Secret ...
This is a biography of an incredible woman. Born in 1903 in Sydney, Claire Weekes became a keen scholar and, with ...
Things I Learned from Falling is a survival story detailing Claire Nelson’s hiking adventure that went horribly ...
The year is 2059. The Earth’s rotation has completely ceased, moving from the ‘Slow’ to the ‘Stop’ many years ago. ...
It makes perfect sense for Wilson (Robopocalypse) to pick up the mantle of the late great Michael Crichton for ...
A group of five complete strangers are enjoying their morning breakfast in a London café, each there for very ...
Someone new has just moved into the well-manicured cul-de-sac Amy’s house is nestled in, renting the perennially ...
A Thousand Moons is the follow-up to Sebastian Barry’s highly acclaimed novel, Days Without End. You don’t need to ...
In the opening pages of Bottle Grove we find ourselves at a wedding. It is being held in a small forest called ...
I knew very little about the Empress Josephine, the infamous first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte, so I read this ...
The Mercies is inspired by a remote Norwegian island called Vardø, where a sea storm killed 40 of the island’s men ...
Florence Saint Claire is a prickly, lonely introvert, who hates being reminded she was a member of the Saint ...
An Apeirogon is a shape of infinite sides – multi-faceted and each connected in varied ways to each other. It’s ...
DON DUNSTAN Angela Woollacott Reviewd by Brandon Wylde, Kenmore Qld
Don Dunstan was born in Suva in 1926 when his ...
Magnolia Moon is nine and lives at 84 Crocus Cottage. She and the moon have been friends since the moment she was ...
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