GENERAL FICTION: From Booker-prizewinner Douglas Stuart an extraordinary, page-turning second novel, a vivid portrayal of working-class life and a highly suspenseful story of the dangerous first love of two young men: Mungo and James.
YOUNG ADULT: Sadie Starr’s Guide to Starting Over is an engaging, funny – serious look at the downsides of aiming too high, the dangers of black and white thinking —and the journey to realising imperfections are part of being human.
When lesbian teenager Alex meets Phoenix, she must decide whether to come out to the people in her closed-minded town, or withhold her true feelings.
In the late 1970s, a woman asks two of her female friends to help her raise her son, but begins to get concerned that it may be too much for him.
In 1969, Charlie Bucktin is an introverted young teenager living in a small Western Australian town who meets Jasper Jones, a mixed-raced boy needing his help.
A small time crook and a newly orphaned teenage boy become accomplices on an open-road adventure fuelled by robberies, guns and deception.