Doris the Pug – Kylie Wensierski Oh I just loved this cute little book! Doris the Pug is a gorgeous book that the little ones are sure to enjoy! Doris is not your ordinary pug, she can bake incredible biscuits that come to life! After she makes Crumbs, they go Read more…
The Go-Away Bird – Julia Donaldson and Catherine Rayner (illustrator) (2019) A gorgeous story about friendship and working together from a star picture-book partnership, the inimitable Julia Donaldson and award-winning Catherine Rayner. ‘The Go-Away bird sat up in her nest, With her fine grey wings and her fine grey crest.’ Read more…
Evil Has a Name – The Untold Story of the Golden State Killer Investigation – Paul Holes, Jim Clemente, Peter McDonnell (2018) The Golden State Killer. The East Area Rapist. The Original Night Stalker. The Visalia Ransacker. The monster who preyed on Californians from 1976 to 1986 was known by many aliases. Read more…
No Exit – Taylor Adams (2017) A brilliant, edgy thriller about four strangers, a blizzard, a kidnapped child, and a determined young woman desperate to unmask and outwit a vicious psychopath. A kidnapped little girl locked in a stranger’s van. No help for miles. What would you do? On her way to Utah to see Read more…
Circe – Madeline Miller In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child—not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power—the Read more…
Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe #2) – Neal Shusterman (2018) Rowan has gone rogue, and has taken it upon himself to put the Scythedom through a trial by fire. Literally. In the year since Winter Conclave, he has gone off-grid, and has been striking out against corrupt scythes—not only in Read more…
The Puppet Show (Washington Poe #1) – M. W. Craven (2018) A serial killer is burning people alive in the Lake District’s prehistoric stone circles. He leaves no clues and the police are helpless. When his name is found carved into the charred remains of the third victim, disgraced detective Read more…
Scythe (Arc of a Scythe #1) – Neal Shusterman Thou shalt kill. A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery. Humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Now scythes are the only ones who can end life—and they are commanded to do so, Read more…
Silent Lies – Kathryn Croft ‘Your husband didn’t kill himself.’ Five years rebuilding your life. Five words will destroy it again. Mia Hamilton lived the perfect life with her husband, university teacher Zach, and their two-year-old daughter, Freya. But everything changed when Zach committed suicide on the same night one of his Read more…
Dear Santa – Edited by Samuel Johnson and illustrated by Shaun Tan If you could ask Santa for absolutely anything, what would you ask for? Samuel Johnson OAM, Australia’s favourite skylarker, brother and determined cancer vanquisher, has asked his friends and supporters (who just happen to be some of Australia’s best Read more…