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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Gary Crew, Steven Woolman (illus.)
On a scorching hot summer day in Preston, Australia, Spike and Bubba go for a swim in the old water tower which casts a long dark shadow across everything the…
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Gary Crew
Spiro returns to the small town of Preston to find an explanation for the nightmares that haunt him. Ages 7+ years.
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When a mysterious cannibal pot is discovered by Steven Messenger, it is only one of the many bizarre clues that lead to the truth behind an age-old murder mystery
Young Tristan, a curious boy who rescues all sorts of objects from the rubbish dump, finds an old Viewmaster in its elaborate box, complete with a set of disks. He…
What does a teenage boy do when he has no friends? When he is laughed at to his face? The answer is simple. That boy chooses his own path. That…
Charlie Bloome wants to be a writer. He is studying literature and living with his partner ‘Lootie’, who is less than supportive of Charlie’s dreams. Into their lives comes the…
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I lived many lives beneath that piano … I heard ten thousand stories in that space. There I was privileged to observe, to gather - and not only gather, to…
A boy finds a Viewmaster that takes him on a journey.
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Two unsolved murders; a father in denial; a lover who knows too much, and a boy who speaks with the dead. From award-winning author, Gary Crew, comes this macabre tale…
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Nobody in Preston could remember when the watertower was built, or or who had built it, but there it stood on Shooters Hill - its iron legs rusted, its egg-shaped…
Gary Crew and Julian Laffan
Are you lonely here?‘ her mother asked. 'Never,’ Alice said. ‘Not while I am friends with the lyrebird.’ Alice has spent her life living on the outskirts of a small…
Age range 10+
In the Beech Forest is a story from long ago, from now and from the future.
An ordinary boy takes a path leading him from the safety…
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Rich and beautiful, Crew’s text is redolent with the sounds and colours of the Australian bush. This picture book for older children is an ode and an obituary to the…
20th Anniversary Edition. Selected School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. Winner of the Australian Children’s Picture Book of the Year Award. Nobody in Preston could remember when the…
Gary Crew,Michael O'Hara
There’s a myth in Esperance that’s been around for years, apparently going as far back as the arrival of the first Europeans. Locals think there’s a huge bird, big enough…
A beautiful story about friendship, change and our place in nature, from legendary Australian author Gary Crew.
A moving and inspiring story about how we remember the past from two of Australia’s most acclaimed picture book creators, Gary Crew and Shaun Tan.
Gary Crew,Philip Neilson,Philip Neilsen
A dramatic story based on the historical fact of Point Puer, the boys prison at Port Arthur, Tasmania.
Gary A. Sarnoff
In the spring of 1933, with a new president in office and a banking crisis narrowly averted, there was optimism in Washington, DC, even among the baseball fans. The hard-luck…
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Gary Morais, Paul Crews
Founded at the University of Georgia in 1947 and published there ever since, The Georgia Review has become one of America’s most highly regarded journals of arts and letters. The…
