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An astonishingly original novel for adults from the multi award-winning children's author, Gary Crew 'I lived many lives beneath that piano ...I heard ten thousand stories in that space. there I was privileged to observe, to gather - and not only ...

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The mist lifted the moment he stepped through. And there was the watertower at the summit. His watertower . . . This was what he had come for. In the award-winning book The Watertower, readers were introduced to the small town of Preston and the o...

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There's a myth in Esperance that's been around for years, apparently going as far back as the arrival of the first Europeans. Locals think there's a huge bird, big enough to carry away adult humans . . .Blue Feather is a stunningly crafted mystery...

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Sam sets off to the exotic isles of the Indian Ocean in search of a shell whose deadly venom could provide the antidote for all known toxin but one member of Sam s expeditionary party has gone along for another reason - murder!

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In the spring of 1891, thirteen-year-old Sam Silverthorne is left in the care of his heartless Aunt Bertha as his father, Sir Arthur Silverthorne, Ornithologist to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, sets out on an expedition to find the infamous silver b...

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In the second volume of the Sam Silverthorne series, Sam sets sail to China in search of a rare carnivorous butterfly. Before it is released in England and kills again he must track down the enraged Chinese Prince Chi Lin and stop him breeding mor...

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All cops have stories that pass unrecorded, that never make it into their daily casebook ... phantasms that no language can objectively record ... Here are the collected cop stories of multi-award winning novelist Gary Crew, whost haunting works h...

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A tale which will hold its listeners spellbound.' Kerry Green, SUNDAY REVIEWWhen an archaeology student, hoping to learn about his Aboriginal heritage, comes to work near their isolated town, sixteen-year-old friends Sarah and Rachel discover why ...

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'I can't say I'm sorry. It had to happen. I've written to my mum and dad. Maybe they'll care. I don't know.'THE INNER CIRCLE is the unforgettable story of two teenage boys' struggle for personal identity - against the odds of prejudice and the ind...

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What has high school student Emma Burden done to deserve international media infamy? Is it true that at eighteen she is a murderess? Or is the lovely Emma simply a spoit Gen Y schoolgirl?

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A moving and inspiring story about how we remember the past from two of Australia's most acclaimed picture book creators, Gary Crew and Shaun Tan.When the soldiers return in 1918, a memorial tree is planted ... 'Lest We Forget'. But generations la...

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'Are you lonely here?' her mother asked. 'Never,' Alice said. 'Not while I am friends with the lyrebird.'Alice has spent her life living on the outskirts of a small town, in a house nestled in bushland. Every other morning, she is visited by a lyr...

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THE VIEWER tells the peculiar story of a boy whose obsession with curious artefacts leads him to discover an strange box at a dump site. It proves to be an ancient chest full of optical devices, one of which captures his interest; an intricately m...

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Nobody in Preston could remember when the watertower was built, or who had built it, but there it stood . . . casting a long, dark shadow across the valley, across Preston itself. A 2024 Hans Christian Andersen Jury Recommends Title The Children's...

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