Evie Walsh sits obsessively at her garden pond examining her life and loves.What is the significance of the places she returns to in her memories... of the man who recurs, carrying as he does the dark secret he wants to share only with her?Her loves will take the reader back in time, deep into the heart of Sydney suburbia, the tempting bohemia of Kings Cross, the alluring mystery of the Blue Mountains and to far away Normandy, France, as her marriage collapses.But a...

Not 98. Not 99. Come harvest time, the proud Mr. Macaroni has 100 big, round, juicy watermelons. But tragedy strikes as he attempts to unload them. The forklift topples over and 99 watermelons go tumbling down the alarmingly steep sides of William Street causing sticky chaos and sweet confusion. 99…? That means there’s still one watermelon on the loose! Watch out!

When Willow Farrington first meets Isaac Silberstein she doesn’t know what to expect. He’s a gnome-like old man who survived a World War II concentration camp, and she’s an almost-14-year-old who’s just back at school after a four-month stay in hospital with an eating disorder.

Let's dream of what we can become,Mother Earth, I am your son.Food and shelter, climate, water,Mother Earth, I am your daughter.Mother Earth is a warm, funny, beautiful collection of nature poems. Written with great sensitivity by multi-award-winning poet and author Libby Hathorn and with superb illustrations by talented artist and illustrator Christina Booth, this is a book to treasure and to celebr...

This is a story about iconic Australian writer Stella Miles Franklin, namesake of two major literary prizes, during her brief but formative time as a governess in rural New South Wales. Teenager Stella Miles Franklin has to work to help support her family. Stella is unhappy in her job and longs for the freedom and excitement of city life. While working, she meets a young orphan girl, Imp, who is almost as feisty as Stella herself, and who spurs the older girl to follow her...

Selected as a CBCA (Children's Book Council of Australia) Notable Picture Book of the Year 2017From award-winning Australian author Libby Hathorn and acclaimed illustrator Phil Lesnie, an exquisitely illustrated and deeply moving story of the Somme.A moving story, told completely in dialogue, about a young Australian soldier in the battle of the Somme. Walking through the fields away from the front, he finds what he thinks is a stray dog, and decides to ado...

A beautiful book about peace and the places we can find it.Ages: 6+'Peace can be foundand touched and heard.I know I'll always find you,brave and welcome bird ...'Fragile and sometimes fleeting, peace can be sought and found in all of us. A BOY LIKE ME is a beautiful and inspiring story about finding peace no matter who, or where, we are.Libby Hathorn is the celebrated author of more than fifty children's books, some of which have been translated, as well as adapted for opera, stage...

Painstakingly researched and extremely well written, this is a novel that moves deftly and easily from one time period to another and yet still allows the novel to retain an overall sense of cohesion.Shooting stars, kisses, grenades and the lumbering tanks. And the shrieking skies and the shaking comrades: 'Up and over, lads!' And I know it is time again to go into madness.It is 1915 and eighteen-year-old Maurice Roche is serving in the Great War. A century later, M...

A powerful verse novel from one of Australia's favourite authors.Alone and grieving, Alexander feels ready to erupt. Can he find his way back to hope?'A real volcano boy,' his mother had called him.Placed in the custody of his puritanical but well-meaning Uncle Frank, Alexander moves from Brisbane to volcano-circled Rabaul in Papua New Guinea. There the dark powers of the rumbling volcano call to him as irresistibly as the dark eyes of Alice, his newfound love. Alex...

Come explore your backyard. Who knows what you'll find? A butterfly, a frog, a bird . . . maybe even a dinosaur!A sweet and gentle story that feels as warm as a garden bathed in sunlight, from award-winning author Libby Hathorn and acclaimed illustrator Lisa Stewart.

Edith's family has hit hard times - her father's gone, her two brothers have been sent to a home for boys, and it's just Edith, her mother and Blackie. When her mother tells her to burn the house down to collect the insurance, Edith has to make her own decisions and fight for what she believes in.Fire Song was commended in the Society of Women Writers of NSW bi-annual awards and was also highly commended in the Prime Minister's Literary Awards for 2010.

Can Robbie survive alone on the streets?Robbie, homeless, caught up in a crime he wants no part of...Iris, an old lady he mugs in a city park...Their chance meeting brings about an unlikely friendship which offers both a new future.But can life really change for the better?Winner of Society of Women Writers NSW Award for Novel 1995 and the Australian Violence Prevention Certificate Award 1995, and shortlisted for the Human Rights Award 1995.'...