Linda Ruth Brooks

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  • Bibliography:
    31 Books
  • First Book:
    June 2011
  • Latest Book:
    July 2022
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Book List in Order: 31 titles

  • Under the Bracken Fern

    Once in every lifetime, we should all see life through the eyes of a five year old child, hear their voice, sense the world through the unique perception of childhood. For to do this, is to perceive what they cannot know, protect them from what they ...

  • The Unprize

    Chelsea Prentiss is in hot water again. She has won a prize that she doesn't want, in a competition that she didn't enter. A week in Surfer's Paradise on the set of a soap opera that she detests. To make matters worse the man she has to spend the wee...

  • Dusty Bunny's Very Important Job

    Dusty Bunny has a very important job. He is going to do his very best. His father has fallen down and 'broken his head'. Dusty isn't sure what that means, but Father Bunny looks rather odd. Father Bunny needs Dusty to take over his job. The good news...

  • A Tabby Never Forgets

    As a child some of my best friends were cats. I loved them every one. They were all the same to me. Strays, tabbies, Persians; cats with splotches, cats with patches, white or black. They never tired of the endless chatter of a small girl, never judg...

  • I Want a Monkey!

    Damien is very excited about going to visit the Zoo. He tells Mummy to “Hurry up!” His sister, Izzy, wants to see the birds, but Damien wants to see everything at once. Things go horribly wrong when Damien lets a monkey out......

  • Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore

    Brady Harcourt returns to his hometown with his teenage daughter, Ebony, three years after the death of his wife. But instead of being the answer to his problems, the seachange looks like unravelling his family. Nothing is the way he remembered it. T...

  • A Broken Hallelujah

    Brooks is at her finest in this cunning collection of short stories. Her trademark wit and sharp observation is crafted with depth and compassion, as she once again explores the gamut of human experience with fearless clarity and buoyant optimism. In...

  • The Wall Is Blue

    Where’s your mother? Not well today. Said carefully and neutrally, as if pretending things were normal would make them so. Transform life into a manageable thing. As if ten year olds everywhere were the ladies of the house, the caretakers of the fa...

  • Behind Whispering Hands

    The Belmores have it all. A beautiful family, wealth and status. Originally from the country, they built their reputation and business on hard work and social prominence in the community. Angie and James, with their four children, live in the best su...



  • When the Stars Move

    Emma wondered how to pray when you were very small and didn’t have a grownup giving you words. She knew eyes did a lot of talking. In the mornings when Mum said, 'here’s your lunch', her eyes said hurry up! Emma wondered if God’s eyes said thin...

  • Beth's Christmas Wish

    A white blanket of snow lay deep on the ground. Blistering cold winds brought sheet after sheet of swirling snowflakes. The 7.45 from Astonville was late. The clanking steam train only came twice a day.

    The town had once set their clocks by ...

  • Callan the Chameleon On Being Different

    Callan the Chameleon lived in a tall lilly pilly tree with pink tipped leaves. The leaves of the lilly pilly tree grow very thick. Callan felt safe in the rustling tree that was home.

    Uniquely Australian, this story revolves around Callan an...

  • Waltzing Matilda

    In this uniquely Australian anthology of short stories we traverse the country known by Australians as the ‘wide brown land’. You will be introduced to a Bachelors & Spinsters Ball, memories of yesteryear’s Cracker Nights, Aussie nicknames...

  • We are Australian: A living history

    Earthquake, a National Disaster Area and a volcano are all here. Along with friendships, partings, love and estrangement -- the gamut of the human experience.

    We meet an indigenous family fighting to learn the truth about a loved one’s dea...

  • The Great Australian Shed

    In Australia there are a number of iconic buildings and structures, including the Sydney Opera House, Sydney Harbour Bridge and a number of churches and town halls.

    Australian sheds are equally iconic and represent a way of life unique to th...

  • Madam Iris Bigglesworth

    I am Madame Iris Bigglesworth

    I’m a Very Important Cat

    In the kingdom where I live

    There’s no dispute about that!

    A humorous poem about a superior cat who has servants: Kyle the butler, and Jemima the maid, something ev...

  • An angel's tears

    Tiny Bridget is eighteen months old. She has been in hospital for three months. Home and family is a distant memory for the tiny tot. whose only friend is a mangy toy monkey. How will her parents help her remember home?

    Through the eyes of B...

  • the knowing

    Miranda couldn’t have told anyone when the knowing began. It was an essence as familiar as her own face in the mirror, or the colour of her eyes. She had always known too much, felt too much.

    She wondered how it was that feeling deeply con...

  • The Blue Quandong in the Deep, Dark Forest

    The young Banyula animals finally believe Serena Sugar Glider's adventure stories when she takes them to see the Blue Quandong. Kyle Koala sleeps through the whole thing and Callan the Chameleon stays home to count his feathers. Despite many misgi...



  • The Crummy War of Henrietta Eloise Parsons Age Nine

    It's 1914 and nine year old Henrietta Eloise Parsons is sick of a war that's only just getting started. Father, a senior editor at the Sydney Morning Herald is hardly ever seen without a newspaper in front of his frowning face, and Mother has sudd...

  • Banyula's Angry Birds Get Mean

    On sunset, an orange-red sun dipped behind Craggy Rock in the west. A flock of yellow-crested cockatoos flew to the wattle tree to feed on black seed pods.

    A young male Gang Gang cockatoo, with beautiful, dove-grey feathers, black eyes and a...

  • Blue Roo Gives a Stranger a Name

    Near a sandy rock lay a tired Tasmanian devil. He'd had his fill of cool water from the billabong. He tried to keep one eye open, but soon slipped into restless sleep, snuffling and snorting.

    'Wassup?' said a voice. 'You sure twitch in your ...

  • Christmas Chaos Comes to Banyula

    None of the young animals had noticed that the water in the billabong was higher than usual. Certainly not Blue Roo who was bouncing awkwardly along the log that went from one side of the Banyula billabong to the other.

    What they had noticed...

  • The Clouds Fall on Banyula

    A hot westerly wind rushed through Dry Gully, swirling through the trees, shaking branches and rattling leaves.

    Things began to blow in on the wind. Lots and lots of things. Blue tried to catch one of the things, but the wind was too fast. L...

  • Katie and Blue's Risky Adventure

    Katie Kookaburra was bored. Kyle Koala nibbled on a sweet red-tipped leaf while Callan Chameleon played with a soft, white feather.

    'G'day. Wassup?' Blue Roo bounced up.

    'Nothing.' Kate sighed.

    Blue groaned. ''Hate doing nothing....

  • The day the war ended

    Nine year old Lucy Meredith Carter is her gentle father's darling, but she has a long list of bad habits. Rattling around town with her pet chook Esmeralda in her bike basket. Dropping in at the local police station to investigate a fire at an old va...

  • Butterfly Pinning

    To the outside world Alec and Tess have the perfect marriage. Yet, behind closed doors a stormy pendulum of seduction and coercion exists. Alec is masterful, mercurial, chameleon. Trapped like a pinned butterfly, Tess survives by silence and small ac...

  • The Banyula Tales

    Animals have unique personalities and experience fear, anxiety and stress. The Banyula Tales are about a group of Australian animals living in the Australian bush. There's Callan Chameleon who doesn't like to go far from home, Ben Bowerbird is very c...

  • The loneliest kitten ever

    With my folded, pinned, kitten ears I heard anger from human voices. I snuggled closer to my mother and tried to keep away from the human shapes that flitted like dark shadows. I was never far from her. She called me the loneliest kitten ever. The hu...



  • The Lost Stories of Lucy Meredith Carter & The Book Of Known Facts

    Nine year old Lucy Meredith Carter is her gentle father's darling, but she has a long list of bad habits. Rattling around town with her pet chook Esmeralda in her bike basket. Dropping in at the local police station to investigate a fire at an old va...

  • Shadow Girl

    It's midnight. Bridget Galloway is spending her sixteenth birthday at the local cemetery-the only place free from the brutal bullying of her alcoholic father. Alone and friendless, in dark clothes with over-dyed black hair, she is Shadow Girl at scho...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Linda Ruth Brooks has published 31 books.

Linda Ruth Brooks does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Lost Stories of Lucy Meredith Carter & The Book Of Known Facts, was published in July 2022.

The first book by Linda Ruth Brooks, The Unprize, was published in June 2011.

No. Linda Ruth Brooks does not write books in series.
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