![]() A celebration of life in the face of death.Ī difficult-to-put-down, warm and gritty novel about a girl from a rough neighbourhood who is desperate to escape her small-time crim roots. Gritty yet sensitive tale of a troubled boy apprenticed to a kindly undertaker. The first in James Moloney’s brlliant new fantasy series where a young village girl battles the Wyrdborn, a race of corrupt wizards, to save a baby prophesied to lay waste to the world. ![]() The machiavellian intrigues of this beautifully realised world will have you on tenderhooks for the final installment. The gentle candlemaker Tallow has been suborned by the corrupt Maleovellis and transformed into courtesan and assassin Tarlo. Votive (Curse of the Bond Rider #2) by Karen BrooksĬompulsively readable second installment in Karen Brooks’s fantasy trilogy. Hilarious third and final book in the Ishmael series where our cast of lovable larrikins finish Year 12 at St Daniels. Ishmael and the Hoops of Steel by Michael Gerard Bauer My Clayton’s Notable Books for Older Readers for 2012 is being announced right here, right now (Shortlist to follow… well, shortly). The REAL CBCA Shortlist and Notables will be announced nationally on 3 April. ![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve gorged on books: eighty-odd were entered in the Older Readers category this year. Agreed to be a Clayton’s judge for Qld in the 2012 CBCA Book of the Year Awards. ![]()
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