Sonya Hartnett

• Apr-2016
• / General Fiction
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With masterful nuance and vividly drawn characters, Sonya Hartnett’s novel visits a suburban neighborhood where psychological menace lurks below the surface. Colt Jenson and his younger brother, Bastian, have moved to a new, working-class suburb...

• Dec-2015
• / Fantasy
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He draws her close, envelops her as if with wings. She does not resist him or the kisses over her face when he tilts her chin up, she lets him, exposing the flesh of her throat. When she goes home that day she will wear the marks of the devil, the...

• Dec-2015
• / Psychological Suspense
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The year is 1977, and Adrian is nine. He lives with his gran and his uncle Rory; his best friend is Clinton Tull. He loves to draw and he wants a dog; he's afraid of quicksand, shopping centres and self-combustion. Adrian watches his suburban worl...

• Sep-2014
• / General Fiction
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From acclaimed Australian children's picture-book partnership Sonya Hartnett and Lucia Masciullo comes a celebration of the wonders of childhood, the beauty of nature and the wild one who lives in us all. Here is a story about growing up that will st...

• Mar-2014
• / Historical
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Internationally acclaimed author Sonya Hartnett tells a hauntingly beautiful story set during World War II. Cecily and Jeremy have been sent to live with their uncle Peregrine in the English countryside, safe from the war, along with a young refu...

• Nov-2013
• / General Fiction
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One day a man invented the best toy in the world. He gave the toy to his son. The boy thought the toy was marvellous. It could do anything! But as time passed, the boy started to wonder about the toy. Was it really the best toy in the world?...

• Nov-2013
• / General Fiction
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The day is ending, night is falling, and Nicholas's cat won't come down. High on the roof she licks her paws while Nicholas worries about her up there all alone. How does he coax her into the safe, warm house? She doesn't even want to come down from ...

• Nov-2012
• / General Fiction
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'These stories are breath-takers, the ones which render nothing more important than discovering what happens next.'-SONYA HARTNETT

The Best Australian Stories 2012 is the country's premier annual collection of short fiction. This year sees ...

• Apr-2012
• / General Fiction
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Sadie and Ratz are the names of Hannah's hands. They aren't animals, but they behave like wild beasts, says Dad. For one thing, they're always after four-year-old Baby Boy (whom Sadie wishes were a dog). They jump onto his head and try to rub his ear...

• Sep-2011
• / Historical
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Master storyteller Sonya Hartnett crafts a magical and moving fable about war and redemption . . . and what it means to be free. When the Germans attack their Romany encampment during World War II, Andrej and his younger brother, Tomas, flee throu...

• Aug-2010
• / General Fiction
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In masterful prose, the author of SURRENDER tells a quiet but powerful tale about the shifting bonds and psychological perils of adolescence. Plum Coyle is on the edge of adolescence. Her fourteenth birthday is approaching, when her old life and h...

• May-2008
• / General Fiction
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Maddy, an old lady now, arrives home one day to find a peculiar boy waiting for her. Over tea, she tells him the story of her life long ago, when she wished for her days to be as romantic and mysterious as a fairy tale. It was then that she fell pain...

• Sep-2007
• / General Fiction
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Nine-year-old Adrian watches his world closely, but there is much he cannot understand. He does not, for instance, know why three neighborhood children might set out to buy ice cream one summer's day and never be seen again. . . . In a suburb that is...

• May-2007
• / Suspense
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I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of a cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it. As life slips away, Gabriel looks back over his brief twenty years, which have been clouded by frustration and...

• Jan-2004
• / General Fiction
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"""At once delicately told and deeply resonant. . . . This tender fable of peace will linger with both younger and older readers."" — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

One morning in the woods of World War I France, two young ...

• Aug-2003
• / General Fiction
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"A startling coming-of-age story. . . . Through Harper, Hartnett captures the humanity of her spirited, slightly eccentric, and then nearly broken characters." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) Harper Flute believes that her younger brother Tin...

• Jul-2001
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1999
• / General Fiction
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"A complex, introspective novel with vivid characters. . . . Hauntingly beautiful." -- School Library Journal Two loners in a country town find cause for hope when one of them encounters a long-lost animal in this taut, shimmering tale about daring...

• Mar-1998
• / Horror
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In a dilapidated mansion overrun by rats, Indigo and Ravel Kesby have gone to war. Identical twins, their two selves have gradually entwined until they have become all but interchangeable: no one can tell them apart. But when one twin attempts to sev...

• Jan-1998
• / General Fiction
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Louie has finished with her old life, and stepped into a world of sinners. For her, nothing is going to be the same again. This darkly funny, disturbing novel explores a lawless world where morality is a nuisance, everything can be bought, and the pr...

• Sep-1997
• / General Fiction
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When a stranger enters a family's midst and insists on discovering all of their darkest secrets, the family begins a slow and painful descent into decay and madness. By the author of Wilful Blue. ...

• Feb-1997
• / General Fiction
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In this epic tale of desire and devastation, of enemies and strong friendships, of bloody revenge and lasting love, Sonya Hartnett traces the extraordinary life of Lord Tyrone Sully a man who voyages to the edges of the heart to find, at last, joy...

• Sep-1994
• / Suspense
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