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Hazel Edwards has a cake-eating hippo on her roof, an OAM for literature, and thousands of book-children-as well as a real family. Plus the Hazelnuts she has mentored and a readership in 13 languages. Using 'anecdultery', which is Hazel's term for story-telling, she explains where her ideas come from and why writing long-term is mentally risky but culturally vital and contributes to a non-boring life. The hippocampus is where memories are kep...

The secret things I knew about my mum, and the things that everyone knew, had played in my mind for some time, since I was real little, I guess. When I was small, all around me seemed to flow, gentle and sweet like the edge of the creek. Then my brothers grew too large to be hemmed in, and Sophie met a bloke, moved out and had babies, and things became harder. The older I got the louder those secret things inside me became, all those knowns a...

Fourteen-year-old Edwina is growing up in a town where nothing ever happens-and her mother wouldn't let her near it if it did. Then Tom Atkinson comes along. He works with her dad, he's older and good-looking and he notices her. But he also wants to keep their relationship a secret. Soon there are no rules, and it feels like no one can help. Haunting, challenging, and uncompromising, Our Little Secret remains essential reading.

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Fourteen-year-old Edwina is growing up in a town where nothing ever happens-and her mother wouldn't let her near it if it did. Then Tom Atkinson comes along. He works with her dad, he's older and good-looking and he notices her. But he also wants to keep their relationship a secret. Soon there are no rules, and it feels like no one can help. Haunting, challenging, and uncompromising, Our Little Secret remains essential reading.

My dad, he collects broken things ... Where other people see junk he sees potential ... My dad collects broken people too.' Vincent is nearly forty years old, with little to show for his life except his precious sixteen-year-old daughter, Gemma: sensitive, insightful and wise beyond her years. When a stranger crashes her car outside Vincent and Gemma's bush home, their lives take a drastic turn. In an effort to help the stranded woman, fat...

Reading aloud to our babies and young children will make the entire country better off.'Mem Fox is Australia's best-loved picture-book author and has taught and advocated for literacy around the world for more than 30 years.In this modern classic, Mem explores the power and impact that reading aloud to our children can have-on literacy, development, confidence and connection. She explains the benefits and processes of reading, offers practical...

Approximate Life: The Prince and Other Stories brings together three acclaimed collections for the ¿rst time. Letters to Francesca (1996), The Prince (1997) and Duckness (1998) range across forms, from short story to novella and screenplay, and from surrealism to hyperreality-connected by common characters as well as themes of identity, authenticity and arti¿ce. They are playful and poignant, satirical and serious, with echoes of Borges and Ca...

From the international best-selling author of The DressmakerHigh on the 43rd floor on what she has resolved will be her last day, Margery Blandon takes a panoramic view of her long life and the tragedies, conspiracies and betrayals that have led her to this desperate point.This is a deliciously dark comedy of families and neighbourhoods, secrets and revelations, generational conflicts and property values, told with humour and feeling-a treat f...

Born in Sydney and brought up in Greece, Martin Johnston's experience of two languages and two cultures led him to produce a body of work that is both very Australian and quintessentially European.This selection includes his two previously published volumes, some of his early poems and Greek translations, and the work he produced in the period before his death in 1990. It shows the range of Martin's voice, the clarity of his perception, and th...

He knew in his heart that the dog belonged to someone else, but at the same time he felt quite strongly that the dog ought to be his...'When Kel decides to borrow the magnificent bull terrier Brut for the weekend, he has no idea where that choice will lead him and his family-as well as Brut's real family, Caspian, Spirit and Skye. He soon regrets his decision, but returning Brut is not so simple. The search for Brut leads the children into inc...

Andrew and his friends find themselves in Japan, the source of Space Demons and Skymaze, the computer games that have shaped their lives. It's as if they've been summoned there-by an artificial intelligence that is quickly outgrowing its creator's intentions and spreading through the electronic networks that are now emerging.Pursued by ruthless corporations, cult members and the machine intelligence itself, the players must navigate the globe,...

An enthralling new computer game arrives from the creator of Space Demons. Andrew can't resist it, and neither can his friends-or his enemies. Skymaze doesn't just pull its players into the game, it extends out into their world, appearing when they are at their most desperate, with life-or-death consequences.Andrew, Ben, Elaine and Mario will need all of their skill, their intelligence and their empathy to survive the game and its dangerous ne...

Andrew has never seen a computer game like Space Demons before-a mysterious experiment, captivating in every way, blurring the boundaries between the real and the virtual. At first it's a refuge for Andrew and his friends-from school, their families, the uncertain future. But as the problems of their lives weave into its fabric and the space demons begin to creep into the real world, they can no longer afford to treat it as a game.Winner Child...

While British soldiers and settlers colonised Australia, French scientists continued to explore its coastlines and study its strange flora and fauna. Lapérouse and Labillardière, Baudin and Bougainville and others left their own, lighter marks on the country in the name of human knowledge.This is their story-deeply researched and richly imagined by zoologist and award-winning science writer Danielle Clode. Voyages to the South Seas is an exhil...

Fire has shaped the Australian landscape and the lives of Australians for thousands of years-and will continue to do so as the climate changes. For all our advances in prevention and prediction, planning and communication, bushfires keep claiming our lives and our homes. How can we avoid another Ash Wednesday or Black Saturday?Danielle Clode has lived in the bushfire danger zone and studied the past and recent history of fire management and fi...

Astonishingly talented... with the true novelist's gift of entering into the imagination of those she is writing about." - David Marr As war crimes prosecutions seize Australia, Fiona Kovalenko discovers that her own family is implicated in the darkest events of the twentieth century. This is their story. First published under an assumed identity, The Hand that Signed the Paper remains one of the most celebrated and controversial books in rec...