Blueback

Tim Winton

Abel Jackson's boyhood belongs to a vanishing world. On an idyllic stretch of coast whose waters teem with fish, he lives a simple, tough existence. It's just him and his mother in the house at Longboat Bay, but Abel has friends in the sea, particularly the magnificent old groper he meets when diving. A...

Fancy That!

Pamela Allen

A book to share with the very young in which words merge with noises, and the sounds from the chicken coop can be heard for miles around. Pamela Allen is the writer and illustrator of several children's books, including "Who Sank the Boat?", "Bertie and the Bear" and "Mr McGee"....

Up at the Villa

MAUGHAM W SOMERSET

Set in a beautiful villa high in the hills above Florence, this seductive and moving novel reveals the full power of desperate love. Mary Panton ignores her desires in the calm of the villa as she contemplates her loveless marriage, but a single act of compassion begins a nightmare of violence that dest...