Pet Stories

Kathryn van Beek

Pet is a dark and humorous short story collection that explores our relationships with children, lovers, and other animals. “Hectic, chatty, very modern New Zealand, very, very readable.”—Steve Braunias“These beautifully crafted stories about humans and their animals and animals and their humans are sha...

Question 7

Richard Flanagan

Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows. By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near ...

Kensy and Max 2: Disappearing Act: The bestselling spy series

Jacqueline Harvey

What if you knew your missing parents were alive, but you couldn't tell anyone? How would you find them and who would you trust? Kensy and Max are now agents-in-training at Pharos, a covert international spy network. Christmas break sees the twins back at Alexandria for training and a celebration like n...