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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
There have been a number of books I have read that have opened my eyes to better understanding something I have ...
KAYTE NUNN’s latest book The Last Reunion is a decade-spanning story of desire, revenge and courage, centered ...
Ask anyone about the most memorable meal of their life and they won't give you a chronological playback of what ...
gr's resident film and book buff, CLIVE HODGES, shares his thoughts on the film French Exit, based on the Patrick ...
Cait Copper’s best friends have always been books – along with the rare souls who love them as much as she does, ...
To celebrate hitting one million sales with her publisher, Allen & Unwin, award-winning children’s author ...
Paris, 1810. Haunted by the French Revolution, Marie Tussaud has locked herself away in her shop with the death ...
Where The Line Breaks is the debut of Perth-born, London-based writer MICHAEL BURROWS, which looks at the ...
gr's resident film and book buff Clive Hodges reviews The Courier, based on the life of MI6 agent Greville Wynne, ...
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Reviews
This month our book club pick in Love Objects, a story of love and family, betrayal and forgiveness, and the ...
What are a washed-up former rock star and his long-estranged little brother doing driving from Texas to New York ...
There’s a lot of love in its many forms, as well as some heartbreaking sadness in this collection of stories by ...
Ella Baxter’s debut novel is an original story that examines grief and intimacy in a modern Australian ...
Taylor, a Nyoongar elder in Western Australia renowned as a poet and storyteller, recalls his childhood at the ...
In this mix of memoir, biography and historiography, Craig Munro has used his journalistic and editorial ...
I read Reynolds’ The Other side of the Frontier in 1981and immediately knew it would transform the study of ...
A Secret Australia is collection of essays, primarily by journalists and lawyers (Philip Adams, Quentin Dempster ...
On a normal day of school, it is unlikely that you will be sent anywhere unusual or unseen. That is until ...
In a low-economic Melbourne suburb in the Hawke era of early 1990s, a time of deep recession and unemployment, ...
As a child I learnt all the names of the governors of New South Wales. I was especially interested in Governor ...
In a toilet cubicle at the university I attended was one piece of graffiti which has stayed with me: ‘Reality ...
It’s a sweltering day in a small Australian town in 1969. Young mother Louise Ashland is exhausted. Her baby ...
In a city in Japan a man retreats inside a cardboard box. He has a viewing hole cut into the front and makeshift ...
Ethan Hawke has been nominated several times for Academy Awards, in screenwriting and acting. His knowledge of ...
Shirley Hazzard is the acclaimed author of The Transit of Venus; a story set in the post-war era which explores ...
One of the joys of a short story is the different worlds you are taken to, with the best writers conjuring ...
This is Andrew Mackie’s first novel. He is well known as a successful film producer and distributor, and ...
Reading Sigrid Nunez is like catching up with an old friend over coffee. You know the friend – the one who ...
Pushing Back is a collection of short stories by Australian poet and novelist John Kinsella. These stories ...
This is the most impressive debut novel I have ever read. Many debuts showcase the writer’s skills, but none ...
Sonya loves being Tommy’s mother. They run free, walking on the beach, tickling, twirling, full of endless, ...
It is 1915 and the war interrupts Alan Press’s life just as everything is rosy. He is studying for his ...
There is an interesting ambiguity in the title. ‘Everyday’ in this instance could mean that madness is common, ...
Readers might find the premise of this novel unlikely: two young people discover mutual love while volunteering ...
From her very first novel (the excellent Blacklands, which won the CWA Gold Dagger in 2010), Belinda Bauer has ...
Rural Australia has long been a rich fertile ground for dark stories of crime and suspense. Domestic noir with a ...
Three university students accused of theft are paraded through dusty streets by angry townsfolk in Okriki, ...
Former journalist Cate Quinn is the author of several historical novels, but this is her first foray into the ...
The very idea that an ordinary family living near me could be ASIO spies is quite exotic but almost unbelievable. ...
When you are 17, you are 10 feet tall and bulletproof. On a night in 2009 this myth is not only dispelled for ...
This sumptuous book allows us into the home of Dame Joan Sutherland and her husband, Richard Bonynge. Chalet ...
Kae Tempest is an extraordinarily talented performance poet. Earlier this year, the former ‘Kate’ Tempest, ...
Many of Gary Paulsen’s books are underpinned with the theme of survival and after reading Gone to the Woods, ...
The constant struggle to belong is an enduring and all too familiar human experience. But in the company of a ...
Seventeen-year-old Jackson lives with his Aboriginal family on the Mish. It’s the Christmas school holidays and ...
Do you remember what it was like to be a new teenager? Obviously, Nova Weetman does because this book is a ...
Frankie Banister lives in the famous Nothing to See Here Hotel in Brighton, where guests are anything but ...
You have probably heard of Cole’s Book Arcade, a highly successful business in Melbourne that became an ...
This is the story of an incredible woman who, as a little girl, loved science more than anything else. But, at ...
Five little Easter buns, having lots of fun, Searching for most delicious eggs – YUM YUM!
It’s nearly Easter ...
You can’t take an elephant on the bus It would simply cause a terrible fuss! Elephants’ bottoms are heavy and ...
If you’ve been looking for little books that are just right for reading to your littlies at bedtime then here ...
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