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Colin Thiele
This is the story of Bruno Gunther, a 14-year-old boy from a German immigrant family, growing up in a small wheat farming community in South Australia during the 1930s. While…
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Benny Geister’s Uncle Gustav meets the first Unseen Presence on the Bethel Road, near the place where Maria Rollenberg and Marcus Kreutzer mysteriously disappeared on their wedding night half a…
Bruno Gunther lives on a farm in South Australia, where adventures spring up like wheat shoots.He has to cope with his stern Dad, his Mother and family and trickiest of…
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Magpie shot off like a bolt from a catapult. He whizzed up into the sky above the hill and then swept down in a fierce circle around the she-oaks, his…
Pinquo is a fairy penguin, who can swim, skip and dive faster than the blink of an eye.When Pinquo is wounded, the children Kirsty and Tim take him to Dr…
Pinquo is a Fairy Penguin, who can swim, skip and dive faster than a blink of an eye. When Pinquo is wounded, the children Kirsty and Tim take him to…
The lives of three Australian children are cruelly affected when a bushfire known as the February Dragon sweeps across the countryside. Ages 10+.
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One of Australia’s favourite stories - everyone knows that birds like Mr Percival never really die. Ages 10+. Australian author.
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A classic Australian story, illustrated with paintings by renowned artist Robert Ingpen that capture the wave-beaten shore and the windswept sandhills of the Coorong in South Australia, home of Storm…
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The Storm Boy Illustrated story in a limited edition hardback with a jacket, telling the original story of storm boy with illustrations is being released to tie in with the…
Storm Boy is the timeless story of Mike “Storm Boy” Kingley who rescues three pelican chicks after their mother is shot.
One of the birds, Mr Percival, forms a very…
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A gripping story of heat, dust and desperation from a master storyteller. Fourteen-year-old Ernie went out to South Australia’s opal fields with his dad. That was five years ago. They…
From the moment the giant oil rig Albatross Two arrives near the little fishing village of Ripple Bay and begins drilling, it dominates the lives of everyone in the community…
At rare intervals, great floods fill the desert basin of Lake Eyre in Central Australia, and for a while, wildlife teems along the shore. But the miracle is short-lived. In…
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A heartwarming adventure from Australia s master storyteller.
Still Doing is a book of interviews with men who set examples of dynamic ageing. Whether they have discovered new interests in later life, or whether they are still doing…
