A young girl, Diana Moore, who has lost her mother, writes to Princess Diana about her home life, her friends and her own eating disorder. Though Princess Diana is to die in an accident, she is responsible for saving young Diana’s life.
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Eventual Poppy Day
Painstakingly researched and extremely well written, this is a novel that moves deftly and easily from one time period to another and yet still allows the novel to retain an overall sense of cohesion. Shooting stars, kisses, grenades and the lumbering tanks. And the shrieking skies and the shaking comrades: ‘Up and over, lads!’ And ...
Dear Venny, Dear Saffron
A school assignment is the beginning of a love affair for an Australian boy and an American girl. Both have hurdles in their lives as, through a series of letters, they move closer and closer together. Saffron, with her wealthy aunt is traveling the world in search of a mysterious grand-daughter. In the meantime, Venny ...
Who?
Who is she? Who cried out? Who warned him? These questions are asked in gripping short stories of ghosts, mystery and friendship artfully layered story within story. A stunning new collection from the award-winning author of Thunderwith.
The Blue Dress
Stories chosen and edited by Libby Hathorn. Who is the girl in the Blue Dress? Libby Hathorn has asked some of Australia’s finest writers for their response to the painting by internationally acclaimed artist Brian Dunlop. First love, joy and disappointment, secrets, violence and the vagaries of fate are interwoven in these stories that remind ...
Valley Under The Rock
A holiday down in the Megalong Valley with her brother and author mother, has Zoe trying to hide the anxiety she feels about her new boyfriend. Then Connie, a brash young interloper arrives to add to her tension. The truth about her mother’s own love story is revealed and this, as well as Connie’s story, ...
The Climb
Young Peter must climb the façade of a building but at the same time he must face the truth about the changing values of the society he lives in. ‘Ethnic cleansing’ is part of the evil regime. Is he really man enough to face what lies ahead? And what should he do about the person ...
Thunderwith
Libby Hathorn’s bestselling classic Thunderwith. Lara hardly remembers her father until the death of her mother. When she has to go and live with him and his new wife, the enigmatic Gladwyn and their four children, Pearl, Garnet Opal and Jasper, she feels an intruder and fears she will never find love. Then she meets ...
Feral Kid
With no family life, Robbie has come to live on the streets of Sydney. On the first day he is witness to a mugging of an old woman in a park when he is befriended by the tough ‘streetie’ called Pale. Who is friend and who is foe in this life on the streets? And ...
Chrysalis
This is the sequel to Thunderwith in which we meet Lara and her family four years on. In her final year at school Lara has to decide if she leaves her first boyfriend, Stan for the exciting Jake, of the Crimson River group. At the same time she must work out a way to help ...
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