The Things That Matter Most by Gabbie Stroud
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
A powerful and moving debut novel about a school community in crisis from the bestselling author of Teacher. The staff of St Margaret's Primary School are hanging by a thread. There's serious litigation pending, the school is due for registration, and a powerful parent named Janet Bellevue has a lot to ...Show more
Idaho by Emily Ruskovich
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
A stunning debut novel about love and forgiveness, about the violence of memory and the equal violence of its loss--from O. Henry Prize-winning author Emily Ruskovich Finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award Ann and Wade have carved out a life for themselves from a rugged lan ...Show more
Breath by Tim Winton
$22.99 AUD
Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS | Reading Level: very good
Filled with the lyrical genius that has earned Winton international acclaim and a loyal readership worldwide, Breath is the coming-of-age story of two thrill-seeking boys who surf for danger of all kinds on the untamed coast of Western Australia. As the two boys fall under the thrall of Sando, a veteran ...Show more
Frank's Red Hat by Sean Avery
$25.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
A story about never giving up on your talents, because even though what you do may not be appreciated right now, it may be in time. Possibly by someone you’d least expect. Frank is a penguin with ideas. Mostly terrible ones. That’s why his fellow penguins are nervous when he shows them his strange new c ...Show more
Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
They were the new icons of rock and roll, fated to burn bright and not fade away. But on 12 July 1979, it all came crashing down. There was Daisy, rock and roll force of nature, brilliant songwriter and unapologetic drug addict, the half-feral child who rose to superstardom. There was Camila, the frontm ...Show more
All the Ways to be Smart by Davina Bell
$24.99 AUD
Category: non-fiction picture book | Reading Level: very good
Smart is not just ticks and crosses,smart is building boats from boxes.Painting patterns, wheeling wagons,being mermaids, riding dragons … From the award-winning creators of The Underwater Fancy-dress Parade and Under the Love Umbrella comes this joyful ode to all the unique and wonderful qualities that ...Show more
Be More Bernard by Simon Philip
$16.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Staff notes: This is an absolute shop favourite. Bernard is a rabbit, but he’s not like all the other rabbits. Let’s just say he’s a little bit… curious. While all the other rabbits dream of carrots, Bernard dreams of disco. When the others hop, he bounces, and when they bounce, he hops. Bernard refuses ...Show more
Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow (#1 Nevermoor) by Jessica Townsend
$18.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers | Series: Nevermoor | Reading Level: very good
A breathtaking, enchanting new series by debut author Jessica Townsend, about a cursed girl who escapes death and finds herself in a magical world-but is then tested beyond her wildest imagination. Having been born on Eventide, the unluckiest day for any child to be born, she is blamed for all local mis ...Show more
When God was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Sarah Winman's bestselling, critically-acclaimed debut novel WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT continues to captivate and enchant readers. 1968. The year Paris takes to the streets. The year Martin Luther King loses his life for a dream. The year Eleanor Maud Portman is born. Young Elly's world is shaped by those w ...Show more
Your Birthday Was the BEST! by Maggie Hutchings
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
From the author of the best-selling Mermaid! and Unicorn! and one of the world’s hottest new picture-book illustrators comes the story of a plucky young cockroach who gate-crashes a birthday party – with hilarious results.Funny, silly and surprisingly cute, Your Birthday Was the BEST! is the perfect ble ...Show more
The Wayward Witch and the Feelings Monster (#1 Polly and Buster) by Sally Rippin
$16.99 AUD
Category: Junior Readers | Series: Polly and Buster
From Australia’s best-selling female author, Sally Rippin, comes Polly and Buster – a junior fiction series about the magic of friendship. Who ever heard of a witch and a monster being friends? Everyone knows that witches don’t mix with monsters. Witches are educated, clever, sophisticated. But monsters ...Show more
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive. There is primal horror h ...Show more