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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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Features
You might remember Greg Quicke from ‘A Stargazer’s Guide to the Cosmos’ series which screened on ABC TV. Greg was ...
After writing speeches for the likes of Julia Gillard and Wayne Swan for many years, DENNIS GLOVER turned his ...
BELINDA ALEXANDRA is a writer and ardent cat lover. In her new book, The Divine Feline, she celebrates all things ...
Would you like to bring some rustic romance, craft aesthetic or the homegrown joy of rural life into your very own ...
Australian author ROSALIE HAM is following up on her bestselling debut The Dressmaker this month with The ...
The Fifth Season is the latest novel from PHILIP SALOM, which sees the Miles Franklin shortlisted author ...
Award-winning artist BRIAN SIMMONDS has warm memories of time spent at the beach during his life. In his new book, ...
DAVID WHISH-WILSON’s latest novel in the ‘Frank Swann’ series, Shore Leave, sees the Fremantle author draw upon ...
In this extract from Group, a memoir of an over-achieving, self-lacerating young lawyer, CHRISTIE TATE, we join ...
Many of us will never forget meeting the wonderful Eddie Woo on TV. His incredible love and passion for ...
If you have children who love books packed full of fascinating information, which they can then regurgitate at ...
Archie Roach AM was just two years old when he was taken from his parents and put into foster care. He never saw ...
FIONA O'LOUGHLIN was raised in the generation of children who were to be seen, but not heard ... unless there ...
Emergencies test governments, organisations and individuals. Although Australia’s prompt, science-led response ...
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Just after midnight on 1 March 1942, Australia's most renowned cruiser, HMAS Perth, was sunk by ...
Based on true events, When I Come Home Again is a deeply moving and powerful story of a nation’s outpouring of ...
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What joy – and what anguish – to live in Tasmania. Richard Flanagan lives and writes in this paradise at the edge ...
Eliza is the only child of troubled single mother Jeannie. Although there’s not much money and they move a lot, ...
Reading anthologies of a number of different authors can be like browsing in an op-shop: your expectations aren’t ...
Jeffrey Archer’s latest offering is the sequel to Nothing Ventured. William Warwick graduated from London ...
There is no doubt that the 19th century was a time of great drama for Britain and its empire around the world. In ...
Yes, this is another ‘war novel’, but it’s also quite a bit more. The time is 1941 and a New Zealand battalion ...
This is a novel about music and sex, and the performance of both. The author nails her colours to the mast early. ...
In 1930s Germany, Hetty is having a wonderful childhood. Adolf Hilter is in power and she admires him greatly, she ...
For Tullius ‘Tully’ Dawson, James ‘Noodles’ Collins and a bunch of mates from industrial Irvine, in Scotland, 1986 ...
When people don’t fit in with their family, they sometimes say that they seem to have been born to the wrong ...
We often hear about the men and women who served during World War II, but we are less familiar with the ...
Reunions – attend them soon after graduation and we just tell each other shameful lies about how perfect life is. ...
What role does history and memory play in our lives? This novella, with essays, explores these themes based around ...
If given a choice, would you take the red pill to expose life’s uncomfortable truths, or the blue pill to remain ...
This follow-up to the successful Magpie Murders finds former editor and publisher Susan Ryeland running a small ...
After firmly establishing herself as a Crown Princess of Tartan Noir thanks to three outstanding series ...
In 1966 Hal and his family have moved from Sydney to Moorabool, for his father’s job. It is a small town and his ...
Holly Watt’s first novel, To the Lions, won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger and this, her second outing with ...
For an Australian journalist and author, the story for this latest book was right under her nose. Her husband’s ...
Enid Maud, a grandchild of wine pioneer Henry Lindeman, was born in 1892. Aged 21, her beauty catches the eye of ...
In Dr G, MD playwright and prize-winning author, Barry Oakley, recounts the stories of Dr G. The doctor’s real ...
This book of ideas from a senior lecturer in Indigenous Knowledge at Deakin University takes quite some digesting. ...
Waiting to interview Helen Macdonald in 2015 at the Sydney Writers’ Festival, I caught a glimpse of her through ...
In the early 1950s, Sir Hugh Beaver, managing director of the Guinness Brewery attended a shooting party. During ...
Little Nutbrown Hare wants to play but his mum, Big Nutbrown Hare, who is far too busy. So Little Nutbrown Hare ...
Oh no! Aunt Lily has arrived and, with her, another catastrophe. Thank goodness Catriona Plum (Cat) is on the case ...
Virgil is a quiet, introverted boy about to embark on his teenage years but full of fear and self-doubt. His Lola ...
A scream from the window, the horrified voice of Lady Cassandra, something must be really wrong! Reeve looks up at ...
Imagine having never stepped foot outside of the prison fence. Well, Lina hadn’t done that for 11 years, until she ...
In 2016, Meghan met Harry. They fell in love, married and, in 2020, moved to Hollywood. Many people blamed Meghan ...
Like the description of Lord Byron, was Andrew George Scott, aka Captain Moonlite, ‘mad, bad and dangerous to ...
Warnings about economic rationalisation reached fever pitch back when the Howard government in Australia started ...
Oh Happy Day delivers a solid social history of the English working class in the first half of the 19th century ...
Hawk is a dystopian novel in chich the title character lives with people who have been used in genetic ...
Beyond Belief is set in Paris during World World II. It follows a young boy named Ruben who is forced to hide in a ...
The Last Paper Crane is about the journey of Ichiro after the dropping of the nuclear bomb in 1945, and the ...
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