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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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Kinky History draws on ESME LOUISE JAMES’s phenomenally successful series on TikTok, which explores scandalous ...
Inside Dr Rip's Essential Beach Book Australia’s best-known surf scientist, Rob ‘Dr Rip’ Brander, takes you on a ...
Home to Biloela tells the dramatic inside story of the Tamil refugee family which became a cause célèbre all ...
JULIE GOODWIN'S book, Classic, is a ‘best of’ collection. Inside she shares tried and trusted recipes you’ll want ...
Greatest Walks of the World includes 200 incredible hikes of a lifetime. You can explore the world’s best walks: ...
TRENT DALTON is the award-winning author of Australia's favourite bestsellers Boy Swallows Universe, Love Stories ...
MATTHEW REILLY is the bestselling author of the' Scarecrow' series, the 'Jack West' series and numerous standalone ...
SUZIE MILLER'S work has been produced around the world winning multiple prestigious awards, including the ...
CHARLOTTE WOOD is the author of 10 books including the international bestseller, The Weekend and The Natural Way ...
I’m reading a book for children at the moment, Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell. Such a fabulous ...
CHRIS HAMMER’s reputation for compelling crime reads has continued to skyrocket since the release of his debut, ...
PAUL BANGAY is an award-winning Australian landscape designer well known for his sense of scale, colour, and ...
Good Reading dips into the first few paragraphs of new books to give you a taste of what’s to come. This month is ...
Modern-day Queen of Crime VAL MCDERMID didn’t originally see Karen Pirie as a leading lady, yet two decades on the ...
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Reviews
Books, baristas and new beginnings inspire this heartening story from Hwang Bo-Reum, a debut author from Korea. As ...
What is it that makes us human? Is it our biological make-up, our bodies, our emotions or our memories? This ...
This story is set among the richness and intrigue of the Spanish Court in 1656 and in London, 1991, where Alex ...
The world seems divided into ‘dog’ or ‘cat’ people. I am very much a ‘dog’ person. After friends recently urged me ...
Hera Stephen is in her mid-20s, has no money, no job and lives with her father. She studied three degrees because ...
The prologue opens in 1949, Australia. Anna Winter is a doll repairer. She never asks how a doll was damaged or ...
Natasha Lester, New York Times bestselling author of The Riviera House and The Paris Secret is back with a new ...
For her debut novel, screenwriter Alli Parker draws on her own fascinating family history, in a deeply earnest and ...
I adore Arthurian tales, and this retelling from the perspective of the character Morgana Le Fay is an absolute ...
Elyse John takes the classic tale of Orpheus and Eurydice and reimagines it for a new age.
Orphia is the daughter ...
The 1873 Tichborne Trial involved the case of a ‘lower-class’ Australian butcher claiming to be the lost heir to ...
Set in 1700s Amsterdam, The Naturalist of Amsterdam follows the life of Dorothea Graff, daughter of the famed ...
It is the history behind this novel about an Australian travelling circus in the early years of the 20th century ...
In the introduction of God Forgets About The Poor, a Greek-born mother is instructing her gay author son to write ...
The Hundred Loves of Juliet is the most interesting take I have seen on the star-crossed lover’s story, set in ...
A gorgeous vineyard? Check … Mischievous lambs? Check … A country Victorian show? Check … A handsome English ...
The Will of the Many is the first book in the new ‘Hierarchy’ series. It is epic fantasy meets dark academia with ...
Sons of Darkness is a fantasy reimagining of the Mahabharata: the longest poem ever written and a cornerstone of ...
For those who have come in late, the Thursday Murder Club is a group of ageing residents of Coopers Chase, a ...
While our pals in the States ditched the Royal Family long ago, if there were to be monarchs of modern US crime ...
For fans like me, the release of a new Mick Herron book is a big treat. This one doesn’t disappoint! Herron’s take ...
Gabriel Allon graduated from the prestigious Bezalel Academy for Art and Design in 1972. He was keen on painting ...
After reading 34 pages of this book, I still didn’t have an inkling of where the story was going. I chose to carry ...
Nesbo doubles down on the noir of Scandi-noir, taking a detour into horror.
Richard Elauved is 14 years old and ...
Scotland-based Kiwi author D V Bishop has spent decades penning diverse tales from ‘Judge Dredd’ comics to ‘Doctor ...
After That Night is the 11th in the ‘Will Trent’ series although it can be read as a standalone. Sarah Linton is a ...
The Old Rogue of Limehouse is set in the summer of 1871. Queen Victoria is on the throne and William Gladstone is ...
Benjamin Stevenson’s Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone was named as one of The Sunday Times’ best crime ...
Well ... it might be easier to list the things Stuart Coupe hasn’t done, or who in the music industry he hasn’t ...
The Cop Who Fell To Earth takes us through the highs and lows of Semple’s 25 years of police service as well as ...
This is the story of Australian Charles Howard ‘Dick’ Ellis who served in World War I then went on to become the ...
Self-help books that use the neurobiology of trauma as their basis aren’t new, but they’re much more common in our ...
The difficult person in your life could come with various characteristics: controlling, intimidating, belittling, ...
Know your think tanks. Sam Roggeveen is from the Lowy Institute – conservative and business friendly. The ...
In our 24/7, open-all-hours, switched-on, screen-driven contemporary existence, it’s no surprise that some of us ...
It seems unfair to list Chowdhury’s antecedents given that this memoir is wholly concerned with refusing to be ...
Tiwi Story utilises primary sources by including oral histories left in the vernacular, interspersed with chapters ...
We, the (perhaps older) people of wider/whiter Australia, really have been shortchanged by our school educators ...
While The Murder Squad is about crime in NSW during 1920s and ’30s, the criminals of that time, as well as the ...
The key to writing for busy readers is to have clarity, relevance and conciseness. In keeping with that concept, I ...
A beautifully photographed and elegant tribute to authentic Korean recipes that, with a bit of practice, can be ...
Salute to Sophie Godwin for this inspiring cookbook that will truly spice up your world.
Drawing on her extensive ...
Warrior Girl Unearthed is a mystery that explores the ethical injustice experienced by the Indigenous American ...
Fantasy. Mystery. Magic. Great villains. A sapphic love story. This book has EVERYTHING!
In the kingdom of Velle, ...
After a terrible sickness sweeps the world, four-year-old Honey, her baby brother, Rumi, Mumma, Papa and NanNan, ...
If you have a young twitcher in your home then Australian Backyard Birds will be right up their alley.
Myke ...
Little Boobook the owl is sitting on a branch looking towards the bright city lights in the distance. When he can ...
It’s 1928. Two young women are out to break the land speed record from Perth to Adelaide, to Melbourne to Sydney ...
A young willy wag-tail kicks off the question to his mother. How can I meet my ancestors you have said so much ...
When Les was asked to put on shoes,
It’s wearing socks that he’d refuse.
To pull them on took far too long.
The ...
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