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Song of the Curlew
The emergence of a freakishness Indigenous footballer in a small country league leads to a mystery in the past, and an insidious crime that has long been buried.
Pride
Luke Miggs lives in a small country town in Victoria, Australia. Life seems mapped out for Luke until Adam Pride turns up and turns their football team around. But there is a mystery about Adam that he and his girlfriend Amanda get caught up in. This story will grip you until the end. The choices you make can come back to haunt you.
The Shadow in the Wind
At seven, almost eight, Keene can't understand what's wrong with Mum. She lies in bed in the spare room, wasting away, even though she's hooked up to a bag that is meant to make her feel better. Dad describes Mum's illness like 'a darkness inside her'. But Keene's sure something else is responsible. He's sure it's the shadow that's killing her. So Keene decides to go on an adventure into the bush with just his Border Collie, Bunch, in tow - an adventure that he's sure will save Mum. But even Keene is not prepared for the dangers he faces. The Shadow in the Wind is a story of adventure and magical realism as Keene deals with and learns to reconcile events he's too young to fully understand.
Song of the Curlew
Dreams mean nothing unless you have the courage to pursue them. Luke Miggs wants more than small-town life: the grind of chores on the family farm, playing footy, drinks with friends. Like maybe doing something about his crush on Amanda Hunt, a barmaid at the local pub who's smart, funny, and ambitious. Or playing footy in the big league. At eighteen, it can't be too late, can it? There's the Curlews, at least, although the team's little more than battlers. If only they could take their footy seriously, like the reigning champions, the Little Reach Scorpions. Under their tyrannical coach, Claude Rankin, the Scorpions have dominated the competition for ten years. It seems nothing will be different this season. But when Adam Pride emerges from the night and tells the Curlews he wants to play for them, everything begins to change. Song of the Curlew is a story of friendship, bonds, and coming of age, and how the choices of our past can come back to shape our future.
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Pride
Dreams mean nothing unless you have the courage to pursue them. 'The sky blazed with a golden hue that bathed everything in a soft nimbus. The goalposts shone, the grass sparkled, and the light flecked my skin like I'd been dipped in glitter. I felt peaceful - none of the nerves or excitement I usually had before a game. And it didn't seem at all strange that there wasn't a single fan in attendance, or that curlews covered the entirety of that far wing. 'In the middle of the ground, his back to me, Adam swayed on the spot, a shadow shimmering around him. I knew if he turned, I was going to see something I didn't want to see. Now I felt the first tightening in my stomach, the first irregular ...
This
Age range 12 to 15 I don't get this. I'm fifteen! And in Year 10! I don't have anything to worry about. I should be thinking about the way Samantha keeps looking at me, nursing that crush she's had for me since primary school. Or about Gabriella, who's so cool and seems interested. Or the Boland Fellowship, an award given out for academic excellence that everybody thinks I could win. Or maybe I should think about my best friend Ash, the way he's sullen about his arguing parents sometimes, or how he bounces from one girlfriend to the next, or Riley, who's becoming a bigger and bigger troublemaker, although we don't know why. This is high school. Isn't it? But when I wake up one night, terrifi...
Their Brilliant Careers
The fantastic lives of sixteen extraordinary Australian writers. A work of remarkable scholarship from one of the foremost literary biographers of our time, Their Brilliant Careers is an enthralling and magisterial study of the lives of sixteen neglected Australian writers. In these impeccably researched mini-biographies, Ryan O'Neill portrays the greatest fools, geniuses, liars and lunatics of Australian letters from the last hundred and fifty years. Among the authors whose lives are skilfully chronicled are Rand Washington, bestselling science fiction writer and fascist; Addison Tiller, master of the bush yarn; and the Antipodean Agatha Christie, Dame Claudia Gunn. Taken together, these insightful portraits of forgotten writers create nothing less than a shadow history of Australian literature. An absurd, addictive, highly original book about books. WINNER: Australian PM's Award for Fiction SHORTLISTED: Miles Franklin Literary Award
Journey
Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer'related death in Australian women. According to the Australian Government website, by 2015, "the number of new breast cancer cases among women is projected to be 22% higher than in 2006, with an estimated 15,409 women expected to be diagnosed with breast cancer." Further, the risk of breast cancer increases in age. One in nine women will be diagnosed with breast cancer before the age of 85, with the average age of the first diagnose being sixty. Men aren't immune either. The number of men diagnosed with breast cancer in Australian jumped from 62 in 1982 to 103 in 2007. Journey is a collection of people's experiences with breast cancer, whe...
