Penguin Books Australia

On the morning of her wedding, Pell Ridley creeps out of bed in the dark, kisses her sisters goodbye and flees - determined to escape a future that offers nothing but hard work and sorrow. She takes the only thing that truly belongs to her: Jack, a white horse.

The road ahead is rich with longing, silence and secrets, and each encounter leads her closer to the untold story of her past. Then Pell meets...

Fifteen-year-old New Yorker Daisy thinks she knows all about love.   Her mother died giving birth to her, and now her dad has sent her away for the summer, to live in the English countryside with cousins she's never even met.

There she'll discover what real love is: something violent, mysterious and wonderful.   There her world will be turned upside down and a perfect summer will explode...

Shall I tell you about the year I discovered love?

I'd been kicked out of two boarding schools and the last thing I wanted was to be here, on the East Anglian coast, in a third.

But without St. Oswald's, I would not have discovered the fisherman's hut with its roaring fire, its striped blankets, its sea monster stew.

Without St. Oswald's, I would not have met the boy with the beautiful eyes, the flickering...

What if Fate were out to get you? The day David Case saves his brother's life, his whole world changes. He must hide, become an entirely new person to escape Fate . . . if he can.

This stunning, thought-provoking and darkly comic novel for teenage readers was one of the most eagerly awaited books of 2006 – now available in paperback..

A YOUNG WOMAN RUNS AWAY FROM HOME AND FINDS LOVE IN THE MOST UNEXPECTED PLACE

Award-winning author Meg Rosoff writes novels about seemingly unimportant events that become the defining moments of life.  Her characters grapple with big questions: how to live, how to love, how to achieve authenticity.  This novel is no exception.  Tender and ethereal, it is the story of a young woman who...

JUMPY JACK is a very nervous snail who's afraid of monsters.

GOOGILY is his best friend and he is a VERY good friend indeed.

Everywhere they go, Googily kindly checks high and low for scary monsters.

But, as everyone knows, monsters come in ALL shapes and sizes.
Some are even blue with hairy eyebrows and pointy teeth.

A heart-warming tale of friendship, told with wit and charm by the Carnegie prize-winning...