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1 May, 2008 Melbourne-born author Lee Tulloch writes for newspapers and magazines such as the Age, Vogue Living and Australian Women’s Weekly. She has written five previous novels, including Wraith and Perfect Pink. 
1 May, 2008 Twelve-year-old Eon, aspiring apprentice to the zodiacal Rat Dragon, is playing a dangerous game: he is actually Eona, 16-years-old and a girl. 
1 May, 2008 Herself a childhood refugee from WWII Poland, Armstrong is on familiar territory following the author’s earlier explorations of personal identity and the Holocaust. Teenage Elzunia Orlowski reaches womanhood through the deprivations imposed upon her by the Nazi occupation of Warsaw. 
1 May, 2008 Told in alternating chapters by mother Jackie and eldest daughter Claire, The Nearly Happy Family is a confident, though perhaps overly long, debut from Catherine McKinnon. 
1 May, 2008 Sophie Townsend’s debut novel is both tender and readable. Best friends Ruth and Mim have been each others’ rock through countless experiences, including the death of Ruth’s mother when they were young. 
1 May, 2008 Delia Bennet offers domestic advice for a living, is the author of the popular ‘Household Guide’ series, and she is dying of cancer. Using her experience of dying as fodder, Delia embarks upon writing her final book 
1 May, 2008 Gilling’s previous novels have been historicals, set in an early Australia tinged with fantasy, black comedy and a touch of the gothic. His latest is quite a departure, with its contemporary Sydney setting and many of the genre hallmarks of the crime thriller. 
1 May, 2008 The release of the Dreaming Down-Under collection in 1998 marked a significant time for Australian speculative fiction. For those of us who were lucky or clever enough to get a copy it was a wild and brilliant showcase of stories that pushed the boundaries of science fiction, fantasy and horror 
1 May, 2008 A great big hulk of a book that, given its definite pageturner status, nonetheless goes by very quickly. I have to admit that I would probably never think to pick up this book based on the market its cover suggests 
1 May, 2008 This is the second crime novel to feature detective Ella Marconi, following Frantic. Once again the author introduces the lives of paramedics and this I found fascinating, knowing little about the experiences of an ambulance officer. 
1 May, 2008 Anna Davidoff, aka Bird, is a Russian immigrant, ’50s movie star and Buddhist nun. Ana-Sofia is her daughter, a lonely woman who cannot move forward with life until she comes to terms with her mother’s abandonment. 
31 March, 2008 This book will attract browsers to pick it up and dip inside, with its lettuce-green cover and plumpish small landscape shape. It is almost wordless, telling a story in a sequence of zestful pictures with just a few of the action words beloved of cartoonists: boing, snip, whoosh 
30 March, 2008 Jinx is in trouble and not because of the jokes she tells. She needs money fast. A rogue totem tennis ball has broken the next-door neighbour’s python tank. 
29 March, 2008 What a confronting, brutally frank, poignant novel, written by Kate McCaffrey, author of the successful novel, Destroying Avalon. In Ecstasy illustrates how easily, teens can turn to the insidious world of drug addiction, date rape and alcoholism, and why, for many, drugs are the solution, not the problem. 
28 March, 2008 Joy of joys, a sequel that lives up to the first novel! Cornish’s second novel of the series about his oddly named hero Rossamünd Bookchild continues with ever more harrowing adventures. 
27 March, 2008 The opening scenes are of city skyscrapers and a lone bird flying towards a glass tower in the clouds. For adult readers these images will evoke 9/11 New York. Then, in cartoon-style vignettes we see grey crowds of city folk walking past the wounded bird which has hit the building and plummeted to the footpath. 
25 March, 2008 Nathan Foley is tired of getting ‘encouragement’ awards. He’s going to try anything to get some recognition. He’s ‘going for broke’ even if it kills him. This entry into Walker Books ‘Lightning Strikes’ series for less confident readers finds Nathan trying everything to be recognised as someone exceptional. 
24 March, 2008 Taking the Chequered Flag by Michael Panckridge and Pam Harvey is the fourth book the pair have written together. Panckridge has also writte numerous other novels, including the popular ‘Legends’ series 
23 March, 2008 Libby Gleeson’s latest novel sees her on familiar ground, writing a gripping story about an issue that is too often ignored by writers for young people. Although she is a strong and confident writer, Gleeson never allows her voice to overshadow that of her protagonist, the 12-year-old girl from Afghanistan, whose spirit wins her a place in the heart of the reader. 
23 March, 2008 Award-winning author and illustrator Colin Thompson is well known for his sometimes dark, yet poignant stories about life and the world around us. His characters are often all too real as they grasp with the big issues of the real world in search of a brief glimpse of happiness 
23 March, 2008 As many teachers, readers and booksellers will be aware, there are very few complete books of Australian history for primary school-aged children available, which is what makes Eve Pownell’s The Australia Book unique even by today’s standards. 
23 March, 2008 There are three perilous things a fantasy writer may attempt that often end in disaster. The first is to extend a popular franchise past its original conclusion. The second is to resurrect a fan favourite character who has been convincingly killed. 
22 March, 2008 Don’t be misled by the title, this book is by no means a romantic love story. Rather, it is a tale of loneliness and the harsh realities of mid-’80s life on a cattle station in a remote part of Western Australia. 
21 March, 2008 Nazam Anhar’s first novel is a historical adventure set in the ancient Near East. Milad is a young Phoenician farm boy who longs for adventure. He is sent to sea by his family to earn an income during a drought. 
21 March, 2008 A woman jumps to her death from a bridge, an obvious suicide. The clinical psychologist called in to talk her down thinks she was coerced. The police ignore his theory, forcing him to chase it up himself. |
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