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The Silken Thread – Gabrielle Wang
Penguin Australia July 2025 ISBN: 9781761350740 Imprint: Penguin RRPP: $17.99 This beautiful new novel from former Laureaute and multi-award winner, Gabrielle Wang, is an absolutely outstanding, and almost mystical, exploration of East meets West. It is not a time-slip but rather a shift in the universe, from Chongming Island in China to Melbourne, Australia, with two very…
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Picture Book Month Extra! : Tigg and the Bandicoot Bushranger – Jackie French
Harper Collins Australia December 2024 ISBN: 9781460763506 ISBN 10: 1460763505 Imprint: HarperCollins AU $17.99 Regular readers here know what a fan I am of Jackie’s work, particularly her historical fiction. She so deftly weaves fact and fiction creating a portal back in time for young readers to become bystanders and witnesses to some of the most significant events,…
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Yong : the journey of an unworthy son – Janeen Brian
ISBN: 9781925126297 Imprint: WALKER BOOKS AUST Distributor: Harper Collins Distribution Services for Australia and New Zealand August 1, 2016 RRP $16.99 There have been many accounts of the Chinese coming to Australia in the gold rush era both for adults and children but this is the first I have read which explores the history of some of these…
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