Of a Boy: Popular Penguins by Sonya Hartnett

Of a Boy: Popular Penguins

Author: Sonya Hartnett

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 . . .

A Difficult Young Man: Text Classics

By Martin Boyd & Sonya Hartnett

Winner, Australian Literature Society Gold Medal in 1956

Nearly everyone between the ages of eighteen and thirty turns against his family and wants to escape from it. When he is sixty he wants to creep back to the nursery fireside, but it is no longer there.

Winner, Australian Literature Society Gold Medal in 1956

Nearly everyone between the ages of eighteen and thirty turns against his family and wants to escape from it. When he is sixty he wants to creep...

Published: 26/04/2012

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9781921922121

RRP: $12.95

Children of the King

By Sonya Hartnett

Three children have been sent to live in the countryside, safe from the war in London. When they find two boys hiding in a castle, the past and future come together to make an extraordinary adventure.

Published: 21/03/2012

Format: Hardback

ISBN: 9780670076130

RRP: $24.95

Children of the King

By Sonya Hartnett

Published: 21/03/2012

Format: Digital

ISBN: 9781742535012

Surrender: Popular Penguins

By Sonya Hartnett

As life slips away, Gabriel looks back over his brief twenty years that have been clouded by frustration and humiliation. A small town and distant parents ensure that he is never allowed to forget the horrific mistake he made as a child. He has only two friends – his dog Surrender, and the unruly wild boy Finnigan, with whom he made a boyhood pact.

Published: 28/06/2010

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780143204725

RRP: $9.95

Come Down, Cat!

By Sonya Hartnett & Lucia Masciullo

From the combined talents of Sonya Hartnett and Lucia Masciullo comes this tale of friendship and bravery, and the things we are capable of doing for those we treasure most.