The Girl, the Dog and the Writer in Provence
FANS OF … JACQUELINE HARVEY WILL LOVE THIS BOOK’ – Kids’ Book Review on The Girl, the Dog and the Writer in Rome When Freja and Tobias arrive in Claviers, Provence, it feels like home. The hilltop village is surrounded by olive groves, lavender fields and drifts of red poppies. The market square hides a […]
So You Think You Know About…Dinosaurs
Biologist and TV scientist Ben Garrod’s fun, funny, informative and collectible series about dinosaurs, launching with T. Rex, Diplodocus and Triceratops. Ben Garrod’s So You Think You Know About Dinosaurs? is fun, funny and informative. This highly collectible, pocket size series launches with Tyrannosaurus Rex, Diplodocus and Triceratops, with Velociraptor, Stegosaurus and Spinosaurus following in […]
Facing the Flame
GRIPPING, EMOTIONAL AND MOVING’ – New Idea There have been fires before, but not like this. In 1978, as the hot wind howls and the grass dries, all who live at Gibber’s Creek know their land can burn. But when you love your land, you fight for it. For Jed Kelly, an even more menacing […]
A Christmas Carol: A Retelling
The classic novella of the Christmas transformation of Scrooge that has remained in the public imagination for well over a century, now available in an accessible format for all readers. Miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his former business partner, and he learns he will be visited by three spirits – Christmas […]
The Girl, the Dog and the Writer in Rome
He’s the world’s vaguest novelist. She’s a shy and unusual child. Together, they’re travelling the world, one book a time. ‘QUITE SIMPLY THE BEST SORT OF READING PLEASURE FROM THE FIRST PAGE TO THE LAST’ – Raven’s Parlour Bookstore For the first ten years of Freja’s life, she and her mother Clementine have roamed the […]
If Blood Should Stain the Wattle
It’s 1972, and across Australia the catchcry is ‘It’s time’. Time for old folk, time for young folk, time for a new, idealistic Labor government. In Gibber’s Creek, it’s time for Jed Kelly to choose between past love, Nicholas, the local Labor member, and Sam from the Halfway to Eternity commune. And for Scarlett O’Hara, […]
Of Mice and Men: A Retelling
A superb story of power and beauty, critically acclaimed across the world and now available in an accessible, super-readable format. Savvy George and gentle giant Lennie are drifters, hustling for a living in a string of dead-end jobs. George looks out for Lennie as they move from town to town, running from trouble and dreaming […]
Olive of Groves and the Great Slurp of Time
Exciting, imaginative, charming and very, very funny’ – Judith Rossell, award-winning author of WITHERING-BY-SEA on OLIVE OF GROVES Olive is gobsmacked. Basil Heffenhuffenheimer has just hiked out of the Black Forest in 1857 and into Mrs Groves’ Boarding School for Naughty Boys, Talking Animals and Circus Performers. When he offers to take Olive into the […]
To Love a Sunburnt Country
In war-torn Malaya, Nancy dreams of Australia – and a young man called Michael. The year is 1942 and the world is at war. Nancy Clancy left school at fourteen to spend a year droving, just like her grandfather Clancy of the Overflow. Now sixteen, Nancy’s family has sent her to Malaya to bring home […]
