The Star on the Grave: A novel inspired by the 'Japanese Schindler', written by a woman who owes him her life by Linda Margolin Royal
$34.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
A novel inspired by 'the Japanese Schindler', written by a woman who owes him her life. In 1940, as the Nazis sweep toward Lithuania, Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara defies his own government and secretly issues thousands of visas to Jewish refugees desperate to flee. After the war, Sugihara is dismis ...Show more
Your Utopia by Bora Chung (translated by Anton Hur)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from the Korean by Anton Hur, Your Utopia is full of tales of loss and discovery, idealism and dystopia, death and immortality. "Nothing concentrates the mind like Chung's terrors, which will shrivel you to a boui ...Show more
The History of a Difficult Child by Mihret Sibhat
$34.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
An exhilarating and tragicomic debut novel about the indomitable child of a scorned, formerly land-owning family in the wake of Ethiopia's socialist revolution. Selam is the youngest child in a large turbulent family. Even before she is born, her omniscience animates life in a Small Town in 1980s south ...Show more
Outspoken: My fight for freedom and human rights in Afghanistan for readers of BECOMING, I AM MALALA and RISING HEART by Dr Sima Samar
$34.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
'I have three strikes against me. I'm a woman, I speak out for women and I'm Hazara, the most persecuted tribe in Afghanistan.' Dr Sima Samar has been fighting for equality and justice for most of her life. Born into a polygamous family, she learned early that girls had inferior status, and had to agree ...Show more
Butter by Asako Yuzuki
$32.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story. There are two things that I can simply not tolerate: feminists and margarine. Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in Tokyo Detention Centre convicted of the ser ...Show more
Losing Face: An unforgettable novel about family and Western Sydney (Miles Franklin Longlist 2023) by George Haddad
$29.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
Joey is young, indifferent. He's drifting around Western Sydney unaware that his passivity is leading him astray. And then one day he is involved in a violent crime, one that threatens to upend his life entirely.Elaine, his grandmother, is a proud Lebanese woman with problems of her own. When Joey is ar ...Show more
The Coconut Children by Vivian Pham
$22.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
From the winner of the SMH/Age Best Young Novelist of the Year and the Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year.Growing up can feel like a death sentenceLife in the troubled neighbourhood of Cabramatta demands too much too young. But Sonny wouldn't really know. Watching the world from her bedroom w ...Show more
Royals by Tegan Bennett Daylight
$19.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
Six teenagers. An empty shopping centre. No Wi-Fi. And … a baby? Acclaimed author Tegan Bennett Daylight’s first novel for young adults reconceives Lord of the Flies for Gen Z. What happens when a group of teenagers is stranded indefinitely in a shopping centre, alone? With all the stuff they could p ...Show more
The Snow Laundry (#1 The Towers) by Mette Jakobsen
$19.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult | Series: The Towers
With the intensity of The Handmaid's Tale, the drama of Divergent and the political intrigue of The Darkest Minds series, this is a captivating, fast-paced thriller set in a dystopian world not so different from our own. Sixteen-year-old Ally is one of 400 homeless young people who has been promised new ...Show more
No More Boats [Miles Franklin 2018 Shortlist] by Felicity Castagna
$29.95 AUD
Category: Young Adult
"New novel by Felicity Castagna, whose previous book, The Incredible Here and Now, won the 2015 Prime Ministers Award for Young Adult Fiction and was shortlisted for the CBCA and NSW Premier's Literary Awards. The subject is very topical. No More Boats tackles the fear of refugees head on, portraying th ...Show more
Fourteen: My Year of Darkness, and the Light That Followed by Shannon Molloy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
Optioned for a major film and adapted to the stage, Fourteen is this generation’s Holding the Man – a moving coming-of-age memoir about a young man’s search for identity and acceptance in the most unforgiving and hostile of places: high school. This is a story about my fourteenth year of life as a gay ...Show more
Son of Sin by Omar Sakr
$22.99 AUD
Category: Adult
Rising literary star and award-winning poet Omar Sakr s debut novel is a fierce and fantastic force that illuminates the bonds that bind families together as well as what can break them. Poet Omar Sakr's debut novel is a fierce and fantastic force that illuminates the bonds that bind families together a ...Show more