Older Readers

2024 CBCA Book of the Year: Older Readers

We Could Be Something

A nuanced exploration of family, relationships, writing and finding your way. This novel is a discovery of family, culture, and identity. Young Harvey is coming to terms with his parents’ fractured relationship, whilst also settling

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The Isles Of The Gods

This convincing secondary world fantasy cleverly juxtaposes traditional high fantasy with a more industrialised setting, using three distinct perspectives to braid together the overarching story. Underpinning a narrative of high-stakes political intrigue alongside more prosaic

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Stuck Up And Stupid

A wholesome and light-hearted debut rom-com, cleverly reimagining Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice in a contemporary, Australian setting. The novel plays on Austen’s storytelling, transferring the major plot points and character traits into a modern

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One Song

Bound together through a love of music and a shared goal to break into the music industry, the story unfolds around an eclectic cast of characters, across a weekend of chaotic creativity. Told through Eva’s

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Nightbirds

In this beautifully presented debut novel, the reader enters a well-constructed, lush fantasy world and finds echoes of the 1920s prohibition era, except it is magic rather than alcohol that’s forbidden here. An original idea,

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