Category: Crime/Thriller | Reading Level: 2 Crime
Martin Scarsden returns in the sequel to the bestselling Scrublands. For half a lifetime, journalist Martin Scarsden has run from his past. But now there is no escaping.He'd vowed never to return to his hometown, Port Silver, and its traumatic memories. But now his new partner, Mandy Blonde, has inherit ...Show more
Category: Picture Books (Hardback) | Series: The Questioneers
The newest picture book from the creators of Iggy Peck, Architect; Rosie Revere, Engineer; and Ada Twist, Scientist stars Sofia Valdez, a community leader who stands up for what she believes in Every morning, Abuelo walks Sofia to school . . . until one day, when Abuelo hurts his ankle at a local landfi ...Show more
Category: Crime/Thriller
Imagine seeing your loving husband on a dating app. Now imagine that's the best thing to happen to you all week ... When Charlie sees a man who is the spitting image of her husband Oliver on a dating app, her heart stops. Her first desperate instinct is to tell herself she must be mistaken - after ...Show more
Category: General | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
RICHARD GLOVER: ''You won’t agree with all her rules – I, for one, am a great believer in the word “pash” – but there is a good laugh, and a lively argument, to be had on every page.'' 488 Rules for Life is Kitty Flanagan's way of making the world a more pleasant place to ...Show more
Category: General | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
'I just want to warn you. You're going to dive to the end of the cave. You're going to see these kids. They're all looking healthy and happy and smiley. Then, you're going to swim away, and they're probably all going to die.' In June 2018, for seventeen days, the world watched and held its breath as the ...Show more
Category: General
An event two decades in the making, Stephen Chbosky's Imaginary Friend redefines the horror genre. Read it with the lights on. Single mother Kate Reese is on the run. Determined to improve life for her and her seven-year-old son, Christopher, she flees an abusive relationship in the middle of the night ...Show more
Category: General | Series: The Handmaid's Tale | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Leigh Sales: “A work of literature that reads like an airport thriller. An incredible treat for fans of Margaret Atwood.” (Joint Winner of the 2019 Booker Prize) The wait is over And so I step up, into the darkness within; or else the light. When the van door slammed on Of ...Show more
Category: General | Reading Level: near fine
The sequel to the International Number One Bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz, based on a true story of love and resilience. In 1942 Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, a ...Show more
Category: Crime/Thriller | Reading Level: very good
Constable Paul Hirschhausen runs a one-cop station in the dry farming country south of the Flinders Ranges. He's still new in town but the community work - welfare checks and working bees - is starting to pay off. Now Christmas is here and, apart from a grass fire, two boys stealing a ute and Brenda Fla ...Show more
Category: Crime/Thriller | Reading Level: 2 Crime
The second standalone thriller from the award-winning author of THE NOWHERE CHILD Set against the backdrop of an eerie island town in the dead of winter, The Wife and The Widow is an unsettling thriller told from two perspectives: Kate, a widow whose grief is compounded by what she learns about her dead ...Show more
Category: General
Stella Prize 2019 Dark, sharp, blackly funny and powerful, this is memoir, wielded as weapon. Telling the story of a splintered family, a mother who is unlike any other, and her daughters who have no choice but to come to the rescue, The Erratics has the tightly compressed energy of an explosive device. ...Show more
Category: Picture Books (Hardback)
A stunningly presented modern-day fable from world-renowned talent Oliver Jeffers. There was once a man who believed he owned everything and set out to survey what was his. "You are mine," Fausto said to the flower, the sheep, and the mountain, and they all bowed before him. But they were not enough for ...Show more
