Random House – #2 The Icicle Illuminarium N. J. Gemmell ($16.99 pbk) Corgi – The Mortality Doctrine #2 The Rule of Thoughts James Dashner ($17.99 pbk) Doubleday Lockwood & Co #2 The Whispering Skull Jonathan Stroud ($22.99 pbk) Allen & Unwin Through My Eyes Malini Robert Hillman ($15.99 pbk) Conclusion Chasing before Lenore Applehans ($16.99 pbk) Elementals 5 Sacrifice Brigid Kemmerer ($14.99 pbk) Scholastic The Last Thirteen 4 & 3 James Phelan ($14.99 pbk) Walker Recon Team Angel, Book 4 (& conclusion) Vengeance Brian Falkner ($A19.95 NZ$21.99 pbk) Back is an insightful & intricate verse novel the realm of possibility…
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FITZPATRICK, Deb The Break Fremantle Press, 2014 243pp $24.99 pbk ISBN 9781922089632 SCIS 1665907 **N.B. This book is for mature readers/new adults/adults** Twenty-two year old Rosie and her surfie partner, Cray, live in Fremantle. Discontented with their jobs they decide to have a sea change and move to Margaret River, to a cottage overlooking Hunt’s Beach. Liza and Fergus live with their teen son, Sam, and Ferg’s mother, Pip, on their farm in Margaret River. Mike, Fergus’ younger brother, in the last stages of his Methadone program, decides to move home to the farm. For Fergus, Mike’s arrival stirs up…
THOMPSON, Tony Summer of Monsters; The Scandalous Story of Mary Shelley Black Dog, 2014 335pp A$18.95 NZ$19.95 pbk ISBN 9781742032252 SCIS 1674332 Here is a hugely ambitious book, perhaps overly so, and certainly beyond many young readers, except those with a confirmed interest in the literature of the 19th century, and the British poets in particular. It features not only Mary Shelley herself; but focuses on the physically beautiful ‘Mad’ Percy Shelley as he was dubbed by his fellows at Eton, the visionary, the enthusiast, the radical anarchist, the revolutionary and profligate poet, and also on Lord Byron, with references…
GROTH, Darren Are You Seeing Me? Woolshed Press, 2014 274pp $18.99 pbk+e ISBN 9780857984739 SCIS 1671959 This ‘slice of life’ family story is one richly full of meaning and one to stir the emotions and invite reflection. Justine and Perry Richter from Brisbane are 19-year old twins who lost their father from cancer just a year before. Their mother left them, unable to cope, when they were four years old to seek her own identity. With the help of their inheritance they set out for Vancouver in Canada for a short holiday. For Perry, a bright handsome young man, with…
ADORNETTO, Alexandra Ghost House A&R, 2014 312pp $19.99 pbk ISBN 9780732299330 SCIS 1677479 Seventeen year old Chloe has just lost her mother, and in her grief she is starting to see ghosts again. She has been able to block them out since she was a child, but now they are visible to her once more. Keen to give Chloe and her younger brother Rory a change of scene, her grandmother takes them from their home in California to her bed and breakfast, Grange Hall, in the south of England for a holiday. Here Chloe meets Alexander Reade – charming, handsome…
ZORN, Claire The Protected UQP, 2014 254pp $19.95 pbk ISBN 9780702250194 SCIS 1665990 This is one of those novels that makes you glad the genre of YA fiction has emerged, found a market, and motivates the most talented among our young writers to work within its interesting conventions. It is a novel you will want to read slowly, just to savour its world, its characters, its observations, and most of all to delay arriving at the end of it. The novel is narrated in the first person, as most YA fiction is since Holden Caulfield started doing it so precociously. …
WOOD, Karen Rain Dance Allen & Unwin, 2014 293pp $15.99 pbk ISBN 9781743316405 SCIS 1676060 Holly Harvey’s family has been forced to leave their seaside home and move to contract work on a cattle farm in NSW. When they arrive, they find that their accommodation isn’t prepared and the farmer not quite ready for them to start work. Devastated by the whole move, and the selling of her horses, Holly finds it hard to see she has anything in common with the farmer’s son, Kayden, especially as he seems to prefer beautiful rich girls like Chrissie. The fund-raising ball is…
STORER, Jen Quincy Jordan Puffin (Crystal Bay Girls #1), 2014 234pp $16.99 pbk ISBN 9780143307594 SCIS 1649004 Quincy Jordan is in Year 8 at a private girls’ school in the city: she wants to be a doctor like her father, she loves fashion, and her best friend is Jules. We meet Quincy on a bad day, one that starts with a hockey incident, and ends with her father declaring that he is leaving her mother for another woman. Quincy’s life is turned upside down. This light and breezy novel focuses on Quincy’s move to the Byron Bay-esque town of Crystal…
PATTERSON, James & Lisa Papademetriou (text) Keino (illus.) Homeroom Diaries Young Arrow, 2014 251pp $17.99 pbk+e ISBN 9780099596264 SCIS 1675144 In a combination of text and illustrations, Cuckoo (aka Margaret) tells us about a few months at her high school, through the entries in her daily – and secret – diary. Her mother has left her, which has happened before, but Cuckoo has been taken in by a friendly neighbour, Marjorie, whom she loves. But unfortunately that does not have a happy ending. Cuckoo herself has a past, including a time in the psych ward of the hospital in Portland,…
NIX, Garth Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen Allen & Unwin, 2014 389pp A$22.99 NZ$28.99 pbk ISBN 9781741758627 SCIS 1676287 With this prequel Garth Nix returns to the world of his internationally award-winning Old Kingdom Series. Set some 600 years earlier than the previously published sequence of books (Sabriel, Lirael etc.) this new novel reveals some historical events and fills in some gaps through the story of Clariel (later known as Chlorr of the Mask in Sabriel). Daughter of a renowned but coldly controlling mother, a blood relative of both the Abhorsens and the King, Clariel is bitterly resentful at being taken…