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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
Listen to a book in 15 minutes! That’s what the advertisement said. ‘Get the key ideas from bestselling ...
Inspired by a true story, KIRSTY MANNING’s latest historical fiction offering, The Lost Jewels, unfolds an ...
I loved McTiernan’s first two novels featuring the charismatic, determined Detective Cormac Reilly and awaited the ...
Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed’s political YA novel, Yes No Maybe So, is exactly what I wanted as a teenager, to ...
Dinny’s dad had a passion for cars. His latest pride and joy was the Skyline; ‘A beast with black glossed wheels, ...
You write The Birth of Anna from a range of different perspectives. Did you find this challenging?
Not really...it ...
COVID-19 is making people anxious. A seemingly unending news-cycle focussing on symptoms, risks and the rising ...
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Reviews
As a debut novel, Bernard Gallate’s The Origin of Me is incredibly impressive. It manages to cover serious issues ...
The 1870s gold rush at Palmer River, in Far North Queensland, provides the rich backdrop for the struggles of ...
I loved The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, where we first met Thaniel Steepleton, an unassuming young man, and ...
You know when you finish a book and you just know that book will occupy your mind for a long time? The Animals in ...
Booker Prize winning English writer Graham Swift is a contemporary of Ian McEwan. I found myself reminded of ...
The unusual style of the narrative in this novel made me wonder if it was a translation. Tomasz Jedrowski, born to ...
Tassen has always been a one-man dog, since his rescue from life as a failed show dog. But when The Major, a World ...
Sharon Penman is one of my all-time favourite authors, and an exceptionally talented historical writer, so a new ...
The Tiniest House of Time tells the story of a middle-class Indian family, ranging from 1930s colonial Burma to ...
Pam Zhang had a dream of two young siblings on the run accompanied by images of silver coins, dry heat, and a ...
The cover of this book – a man slow dancing with a kangaroo in a footy jersey – weirdly encapsulates this unusual ...
I give up. I’m still not certain who or what the adversary was in this small novel. Was it the unnamed ...
This ordinary family exemplifies comfortable domesticity in the first few chapters. Twins Libby and Alice have ...
Jane Austen died more than 200 years ago but her legacy and impact on Western literature show no signs of abating. ...
While Nalini Singh may be a fresh name to mystery lovers, the Fijian-born Kiwi had already racked up around 30 New ...
A Conspiracy of Bones is the latest entry in the story of forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, and it’s ...
When Foer’s Holocaust survivor mother died in December 2018, she left a large family of children, stepchildren, ...
I first read Richard Broome’s Aboriginal Australians in 1983. Back then, the study of Aboriginal response to ...
For such a worthy topic this book should be a lot more engaging than it is. As Snyder makes clear, the statistics ...
I’m a true crime fanatic, so I was surprised I’d never heard of the case Tanya Bretherton’s latest book The ...
In 2018, Australian conservation scientists developed the Threatened Bird Index, a tool that brings together data ...
Women outlive men, have stronger immunity, are more likely to survive certain illnesses and can see a wider ...
How far would you go to have a child? What would you put your mind and body through, all in the name of a baby? ...
This book is a work of art. The author tells us the story of the beauty of her country and her deep connection to ...
Displaced: A rural life is a memoir by Western Australian poet and writer John Kinsella. It’s not a straight ...
Fourteen is a memoir by Australian journalist Shannon Molloy. It chronicles the most gruelling year of his ...
There’s a stern warning near the beginning of this unique book. While the Yolŋu women of north-east Arnhem Land, ...
If you don’t know much about James Cook and the Endeavour’s crew landing at what’s now the Sydney suburb of ...
Rogue is a roller-coaster of a novel and is sure to be enjoyed by all readers who enjoy the classic adventure ...
This collection of short stories and verse is a tribute to love of all stripes: familial, platonic, romantic. ...
This is the first book in a new series for younger readers called ‘Monty’s Island’. Much-loved author Emily Rodda ...
Here we find our two droll but humorous heroes Mildew and Sponge from Maudlin Towers, a school ‘for not ...
Dear reader, Juno Jones lives in Muttonbird Bay and loves to draw, make jokes and climb trees. Plus, she loves to ...
It’s the first day of school and Asiya is wearing her new hijab. It’s the brightest of blue, the colour of the ...
Deep down in the Amazon,
there are creatures short and long,
speckled ones and stripy ones,
small or big and ...
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