AustLit

'Who or what is watching Jake Whyte from the woods?

'Jake Whyte is the sole resident of an old farmhouse on an unnamed island, a place of ceaseless rains and battering winds. It's just her, her untamed companion, Dog, and a flock of sheep. Which is how she wanted it to be. But something is coming for the sheep - every few nights it picks one off, leaves it in rags.

'It could be anything. There are foxes in the woods, a strange boy and a strange man, rumours of an obscure, formidable beast. And there is Jake's unknown past, perhaps breaking into the present, a story hidden thousands of miles away and years ago, in a landscape of different colour and sound, a story held in the scars that stripe her back.

'Set between Australia and a remote English island, All the Birds, Singing is the story of one how one woman's present comes from a terrible past. It is the second novel from the award-winning author of After the Fire, A Still Small Voice.' (Publisher's blurb)

'Stanley Paste is small. Really small.

'And he hates it.

'But when a new girl arrives at school, Stanley learns that perhaps being small is not so bad after all.' (Publisher's blurb)

'Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley are the best of friends. But they are different in almost every way . . .

'Pearl likes solving mysteries and moves rather fast in the world. Charlie likes taking baths and watching his garden grow.

'So how can Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley be such good friends?' (Publisher's blurb)