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Book Cover:  Of A Boy
The year is 1977, and Adrian is nine. He lives with his gran and his uncle Rory; his best friend is Clinton Tull. He loves to draw and he wants a dog; he's afraid of quicksand and self-combustion. Adrian watches his suburban world, but there is much he cannot understand. He does not, for instance, know why three neighbourhood children might set out to buy ice-cream and never come back home . . .
The year is 1977, and Adrian is nine. He lives with his gran and his uncle Rory; his best friend is Clinton Tull. He loves to draw and he wants a dog; he's afraid of quicksand and self-combustion. Adrian...
Published: 24/11/2003
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140146226
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Hold Me Closer, Necromancer
Published: 17/11/2010
Format: Digital
ISBN: 9781742531762
Book Cover:  Extraction of Arrows
By Kathryn Lomer
Extraction of Arrows is Kathryn Lomer's first collection of poetry. Divided into three parts, the poems represent a journey, beginning with travelling days in Ireland and Spain and with glances back to childhood in rural Tasmania; to the barbed ecstasy of sexual awakening and the heart's disappointment; to the unmapped journey into birth and motherhood; arriving finally at relationship's harmony and...
Extraction of Arrows is Kathryn Lomer's first collection of poetry. Divided into three parts, the poems represent a journey, beginning with travelling days in Ireland and Spain and with glances back to...
Published: 01/09/2003
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780702233715
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Gifted
By Nikita Lalwani

On a trip to India at the age of eight, Rumi Vasi's mathematical powers acquired almost supernatural significance. When she returned home to Cardiff her destiny was sealed: she was now, and would forever be, the town's 'maths prodigy'. But by the age of fourteen, after years of her father's determined tutoring, Rumi finds that numbers are beginning to lose their innocence. And, as her longing for love...

On a trip to India at the age of eight, Rumi Vasi's mathematical powers acquired almost supernatural significance. When she returned home to Cardiff her destiny was sealed: she was now, and would forever...

Published: 04/08/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141030395
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Doing It
Dino really fancies fit, sexy Jackie, but she just won't give him what he wants . . .

Jonathan likes Deborah, but she's a bit fat – what will his mates say?

Ben's been secretly shagging his teacher for ages. He used to love it, but what if he wants it to stop?

Three lads discovering sex for the first time. But do any of them really know what they're doing?

Dino really fancies fit, sexy Jackie, but she just won't give him what he wants . . .

Jonathan likes Deborah, but she's a bit fat – what will his mates say?

Ben's been secretly shagging his teacher...

Published: 20/09/2004
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141018034
RRP: $16.95
Book Cover:  Big Girl Small
By Rachel DeWoskin

Big Girl Small is a novel for women of all ages; for every girl who is, or was, a teenager. Everybody needs a friend like Judy. She is whip-smart, hilarious, and her story is so real. She's a wonderful singer, full of big dreams for a big future—and she's a dwarf. But why is she hiding out in a seedy motel on the edge of town? Who are her friends? And why can't she face her family?

Big Girl Small is a novel for women of all ages; for every girl who is, or was, a teenager. Everybody needs a friend like Judy. She is whip-smart, hilarious, and her story is so real. She's a wonderful...

Published: 02/05/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921758249
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Malcolm and Juliet
By Bernard Beckett

Sex was a latecomer to the party of Malcolm's life, and when it did arrive, it didn't come dressed in any of the usual guises…

Malcolm is sixteen. With the mind of a science nerd, the body of a teenager, and an ambition to reconcile the two, he embarks upon his latest research project—sex. Join Malcolm on his journey, as he meets the cast of characters who will take him a little closer...

Sex was a latecomer to the party of Malcolm's life, and when it did arrive, it didn't come dressed in any of the usual guises…

Malcolm is sixteen. With the mind of a science nerd, the body of a teenager...

Published: 04/05/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921520327
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  Spinner
By Ron Elliott

David Donald is a simple boy with an amazing bowling arm.  He's a spinner who becomes the stuff of legend.  His guardian, Uncle Michael, is also a spinner - a great Australian bullshit artist, a shyster and mythmaker.

It's between the wars.  It's the glory days of cricket.  Together, David and Michael will rout the English and reveal more than a little about the shaping of the Australian...

David Donald is a simple boy with an amazing bowling arm.  He's a spinner who becomes the stuff of legend.  His guardian, Uncle Michael, is also a spinner - a great Australian bullshit artist...

Published: 30/08/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921361937
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Chenxi and the Foreigner
By Sally Rippin
Is falling in love with a stranger what it means to be a foreigner?

At eighteen, Anna is in limbo. She has decisions to make but stalls for time. Deferring her university studies in Australia, she visits her father in Shanghai.

Is falling in love with a stranger what it means to be a foreigner?

At eighteen, Anna is in limbo. She has decisions to make but stalls for time. Deferring her university studies in Australia, she visits...

Published: 03/03/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921351358
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  Growing Up Asian in Australia
By Alice Pung

Asian-Australians have often been written about by outsiders, as outsiders. In this collection, compiled by award-winning author Alice Pung, they tell their own stories with verve, courage and a large dose of humour.

Asian-Australians have often been written about by outsiders, as outsiders. In this collection, compiled by award-winning author Alice Pung, they tell their own stories with verve, courage and a large...

Published: 02/06/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781863951913
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Unpolished Gem
By Alice Pung
"This story does not begin on a boat." So commences Alice Pung's memoir. This is an original take on a classic story – how a child of immigrants moves between two cultures. In place of piety and predictability, however, Unpolished Gem offers a vivid and ironic sense of both worlds. It combines the story of Pung's life growing up in suburban Footscray with the inherited stories of the...
"This story does not begin on a boat." So commences Alice Pung's memoir. This is an original take on a classic story – how a child of immigrants moves between two cultures. In place of...
Published: 28/08/2006
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781863951586
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover:  Classy: Exceptional Advice for the Extremely Modern Lady
By Derek Blasberg

If you've ever wondered how to climb the social ladder with grace, how to feel confident in every situation, or even how to make a lasting impression (but not the kind that lands you on the latest 'Worst Dressed List')—Derek Blasberg is here, with quotes and secrets from all the socialites so girls everywhere can learn how to have class.

If you've ever wondered how to climb the social ladder with grace, how to feel confident in every situation, or even how to make a lasting impression (but not the kind that lands you on the latest 'Worst...

Published: 12/08/2010
Format: Misc.
ISBN: 9781595142795
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  Two Kinds of Silence
By Kathryn Lomer
In Two Kinds of Silence Kathryn Lomer explores natural as well as inner landscapes, and turns her full focus of attention to things somatic, linguistic, tidal, seasonal, geographical, even floral, roving from kitchen to coast, Tasmania to Ethiopia. It is an exciting follow-up to Extraction of Arrows , her award-winning first collection of poems.
In Two Kinds of Silence Kathryn Lomer explores natural as well as inner landscapes, and turns her full focus of attention to things somatic, linguistic, tidal, seasonal, geographical, even floral, roving...
Published: 30/07/2007
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780702236129
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Typewriter Music
David Malouf's brilliant collection of poems begins with a memory of new love – with 'grace unasked for, urgencies that boom under the pocket of a shirt' – and ends in the intimate territory of the long-familiar where there is no need for words. This volume is marked by an astonishing breadth of intelligence and erudition, yet steps lightly among the objects of our lives and the wonder...
David Malouf's brilliant collection of poems begins with a memory of new love – with 'grace unasked for, urgencies that boom under the pocket of a shirt' – and ends in the intimate territory...
Published: 04/06/2007
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780702236310
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Camera Obscura
By Kathryn Lomer
Light and shadow, love and loss, the extraordinary and the everyday are captured through the lens of this evocative new collection of fiction. Camera Obscura moves through Greece, Italy and France, across to Japan and into the Australian suburbs, as its characters take journeys into themselves and away from their pasts.

A mother's shattered view of the world is healed through her friendship with a...

Light and shadow, love and loss, the extraordinary and the everyday are captured through the lens of this evocative new collection of fiction. Camera Obscura moves through Greece, Italy and France, across...
Published: 03/03/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780702235979
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover: The God in the Ink
By Kathryn Lomer
Claire's childhood is shaped by the Tasmanian farm she knows and loves. As an ex-POW, her father has struggled to return to a normal life through working the farm, and Claire has always assumed she will run the property herself one day. When there appears to be little chance of that, she looks elsewhere for an understanding of self and home.

Japan seems an unlikely place to discover a sense of identity...

Claire's childhood is shaped by the Tasmanian farm she knows and loves. As an ex-POW, her father has struggled to return to a normal life through working the farm, and Claire has always assumed she will...
Published: 01/10/2001
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780702232107
RRP: $23.95
Book Cover:  Treasure Island
By Robert Louis Stevenson
The timeless adventure

From young Jim Hawkins's first encounter with the sinister Blind Pew to the climactic battle with the most memorable villain in literature, Long John Silver, Treasure Island continues to thrill generations of readers.

The timeless adventure

From young Jim Hawkins's first encounter with the sinister Blind Pew to the climactic battle with the most memorable villain in literature, Long John Silver, Treasure Island continues...

Published: 28/07/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780451530974
RRP: $7.95
Book Cover:  Almost Final Curtain: A Vampire Princess Novel
By Tate Hallaway

IN HIGH SCHOOL, THE REAL DRAMA HAPPENS BACKSTAGE . . .

Ever since high school student Anastasija Parker discovered she was vampire royalty, her life has been sort of crazy.  The half vampire/half witch just wants some normalcy, and trying out for the spring musical seems like the perfect fix.  But things are a little different this year since Nikolai Kirov – vampire hunter in training...

IN HIGH SCHOOL, THE REAL DRAMA HAPPENS BACKSTAGE . . .

Ever since high school student Anastasija Parker discovered she was vampire royalty, her life has been sort of crazy.  The half vampire/half...

Published: 09/06/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780451233110
RRP: $12.95
Book Cover:  Almost to Die For: A Vampire Princess Novel
By Tate Hallaway

Twilight meets The Princess Diaries in the new series from the author of Honeymoon of the Dead

On her sixteenth birthday, Anastasija Parker learns that her so-called deadbeat dad is actually a vampire king. And he wants Ana to assume her rightful position at his side, in spite of the fact that she has witch's blood running through her veins-from her mother's side.



Twilight meets The Princess Diaries in the new series from the author of Honeymoon of the Dead

On her sixteenth birthday, Anastasija Parker learns that her so-called deadbeat dad is actually a vampire...

Published: 25/10/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780451230577
RRP: $12.95
Book Cover:  Bad Blood: A Blood Coven Vampire Novel
By Mari Mancusi

Sunny McDonald is in the ultimate forbidden relationship.  Her boyfriend, Magnus, is a vampire-and the leader of the Blood Coven.  Their differences have never been an issue, until now . . .

When the Blood Coven decides that Magnus needs a mate to be his co-ruler, Sunny's humanity puts her out of the running. The chosen candidate is Jane Johnson, an Oxford University graduate, who just happens...

Sunny McDonald is in the ultimate forbidden relationship.  Her boyfriend, Magnus, is a vampire-and the leader of the Blood Coven.  Their differences have never been an issue, until now . . ...

Published: 03/02/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780425232644
RRP: $12.95

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21 May 2012
2012 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) - winners

The Australian Book Industry Awards were held in Sydney on Friday night. It was a great night for Penguin with our books taking the top honors in four book categories including the prestigious Book of the Year. Congratulations also to Peg McColl, Kate McCormack and the rights team who won the International (Rights) Award for the second year running for Paul French's book Midnight in Peking. United Book Distributors were again named Distributor of the Year.

Illustrated Book of the Year

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