Bad Mermaids

By

Sibéal Pounder, illustrated by Jason Cockroft

The front cover of this book is enticing, with mermaids sparkles and bling. For the reader, the story begins with three young mermaids who have cast off their tails and...
Childrens, Fiction
A Promise to Kill A Clyde Barr Novel

By

Erik Storey

Clyde Barr is back in trouble again, no matter how hard he tries to lead a quiet and simple life, trouble with a capital ‘T’ seems to come calling. How...
Fiction
Paddy O’Melon

By

Julia Cooper. IIl: Daryl Dickson

A little joey kangaroo was having a very exciting day as it was the first time he was considered big enough to be able to hop out of his mother pouch....
Childrens, Fiction
Prang

By

David Finchley

Looking at the cover of this book, it seems to indicate a sinister and dark story. However, this is certainly not the case. The author has chosen to unravel the...
Fiction
The Bedlam Stacks

By

Natasha Pulley

Merrick Tremayne was injured while working as a smuggler for the East India Company. He now resides, with a malevolent brother, at his family home in Cornwall.  His father and...
Fiction, Young Adult
The Windfall

By

Diksha Basu

  Set in India, this is the story of two people and their extended family, who in midlife have a dramatic change to their world. The language used by the...
Fiction, Humour
Bridget Crack

By

Rachel Leary

The descriptive language that the author uses makes this Historical Fiction a fascinating depiction of the past. She sets the scene of the colony of Van Diemen’s Land with factual...
Fiction, History
Hello, Goodbye

By

Emily Brewin

Emily Brewin has captured the past with elegance and a rare understanding, when to be an unwed mother was to become a pariah of society, shunned by all. She has...
Fiction, Young Adult
Ridgeview Station

By

Michael Trant

Peter and Kelsey Dalton bought Ridgeview Stations some five years ago, in spite of their friends thinking they had run mad, leaving the fertile lands of the coast for the...
Fiction, Romance, Young Adult
Sydney Noir: The Golden Years

By

Michael Duffy, Nick Hordern

Sydney, What a place. What a history. It does not matter which way you look at it, the history is certainly colourful. The beginning of settlement in the new place...
Crime, Fiction, History, Non Fiction