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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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The Pretender by Jo Harkin

The Pretender by Jo Harkin

I have considerable interest in and knowledge of England’s Wars of the Roses and so dived into this with great ...
Shift by Irma Gold

Shift by Irma Gold

Arlie is a Melbourne-based portrait photographer with serious talent but limited success. His personal life is a ...
Mural by Stephen Downes

Mural by Stephen Downes

Mural is a strange book: a narrative in the second person, related by a psychopath, asking the person to whom he ...
Landfall by James Bradley

Landfall by James Bradley

Sydney has changed irrevocably. Sea level rises have devastated communities, while temperatures hover in the 40s. ...
Skull River by Pip Fioretti

Skull River by Pip Fioretti

It’s 1912 and a year has passed since Trooper August Hawkins brought to justice the killers of three siblings from ...
Lyrebird by Jane Caro

Lyrebird by Jane Caro

Twenty years after Jessica, a badly hungover ornithology student in the NSW rainforest videos a lyrebird mimicking ...
Joan Lindsay by Brenda Niall

Joan Lindsay by Brenda Niall

Winston Churchill once said of Russia, ‘It’s a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.’ He could have been ...
Chameleon by Robert Dessaix

Chameleon by Robert Dessaix

Readers of Good Reading will be familiar with Robert Dessaix’s impressive output. Chameleon is his latest and the ...
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