The Gone Series (Book 5): Fear
Welcome back to the FAYZ! This is Book 5 in the series that Stephen King calls a “driving, torrential narrative”. Night is falling in the FAYZ. Permanently. The gaiaphage has blotted out the sun and the barrier that surrounds the town of Perdido Beach is turning black. It’s Sam’s worst nightmare. With Astrid still missing […]
The Queen is Dead
From Stan Grant, leading journalist and author of the critically acclaimed national bestsellers Talking to My Country, Australia Day and With the Falling of the Dusk, comes a powerful call to action. ‘History is not weighted on the scales, it is felt in our bones. It is worn on our skin. It is scarred in […]
The Gone Series (Book 2): Hunger
Welcome back to the FAYZ! This is Book 2 in the series that Stephen King calls a ‘driving, torrential narrative’. An uneasy calm has settled over Perdido Beach. But soon, fear explodes into desperation as food supplies dwindle and starvation sets in. More and more kids are developing strange powers and, just as frighteningly, so […]
The Gone Series (Book 3): Lies
Welcome back to the FAYZ! This is Book 3 in the series that Stephen King calls a ‘driving, torrential narrative’. It happens in one night: a girl who died now walks among the living, Zil and the Human Crew set fire to Perdido Beach, and amid the flames and smoke, Sam sees the figure of […]
The Gone Series (Book 4): Plague
Welcome back to the FAYZ! This is Book 4 in the GONE series that Stephen King calls a ‘driving, torrential narrative’. Disease is spreading through the streets of Perdido Beach: a devastating, hacking cough that makes the sufferers choke their guts up – literally. Across town, Little Pete lies unconscious, struck down by the mysterious […]
Gone
Welcome to the FAYZ! The first book in the bestselling cult YA series that Stephen King calls a ‘driving, torrential narrative’. In the blink of an eye all the adults disappear in a small town in southern California and no one knows why. Cut off from the outside world, those that are left are trapped, […]
With the Falling of the Dusk
History is turning. In only a few short decades, we have come a long way from Francis Fukuyama’s declaration of the ‘end of history’ and the triumph of liberal democracy in 1989. Now, with the inexorable rise and rise of China, the ascendancy of authoritarianism and the retreat of democracy, the world stands at a […]
My Words
I love words!’ says Ava. ‘Words can be tiny, prickly, big, and bright!’ In this delightful romp through one little girl’s discovery of words, readers meet Ava – who asks: What was it like before I had words? Using a bright cheery palette, visual humor (and yes, even a big pile of words climbed by […]
Everything is Under Control
Bake. I bake for others. Belgian waffles, French toast, crêpes, chocolate chip cookies. When I cook, I am calm, I am confident. There is comfort in the logic.’ Chef and award-winning writer Phyllis Grant’s life has been defined by food. First, as a dancer struggling to find her place at Julliard, when banana muffins with […]
