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A Very Singular Guild (City of Orphans #3) by Catherine Jinks
$14.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: City of Orphans
Twelve-year-old Ned Roach used to scavenge for scraps along the Thames riverbank. But the recent plague of child-eating bogles in London means that he's now working as an apprentice to Alfred Bunce, the bogler.Alongside Jem Barbary and (sometimes) Birdie McAdam, Ned must lure bogles out of their lairs s ...Show more
A Very Unusual Pursuit (#1 City of Orphans) by Catherine Jinks
$29.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: City of Orphans | Reading Level: very good
Monsters have been infesting London's dark places for centuries, eating every child who gets too close. That's why ten-year-old Birdie McAdam works for Alfred Bunce, the bogler. With her beautiful voice and dainty looks, Birdie is the bait that draws bogles from their lairs so that Alfred can kill them. ...Show more
Charlatan by Catherine Jinks
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Thomas Guthrie Carr is charged by Eliza Gray with mesmerising her and raping her while she was under his influence. But if mesmerism and Mr Carr are shams, was Eliza raped? In the tradition of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, Charlatan is the story of a notorious nineteenth-century court case involving a l ...Show more
Elysium: A Ghost Story: No. 4 by Catherine Jinks
$14.95 AUD
Category: Children's & YA
Who is waiting in the cave?..The Jenolan Caves Ghost Tour sounded like the perfect weekend for a ghost hunter. But I didn't realise I was letting myself in for a whole lot more than just a haunted hotel and endless family squabbles. Something was on our trail. Something vicious, mysterious, and very, ve ...Show more
Evil Genius (#1) by Catherine Jinks
$18.95 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: Genius Trilogy | Reading Level: good
Cadel Piggott is a seven-year-old genius with a knack for systems. He can do just about anything: disable home security systems, hack into government databases and commit credit card fraud. But when he gets in trouble with the police his parents are forced to take him to a therapist, Dr Thaddeus Roth. B ...Show more
Genius Squad (#2) by Catherine Jinks
$18.95 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: Genius Trilogy
Sometimes, when it comes to fighting evil, one genius just isn't enough. Cadel Piggott's been having a hard time since he chose to be good rather than evil. He doesn't know where he was born. He doesn't know who his father is. And he's under constant threat from Prosper English - the criminal mastermind ...Show more
Living Hell by Catherine Jinks
$16.95 AUD
Category: Children's & YA
A gripping, sci-fi thriller about a spaceship which transforms into a living organism after flying through a radiation field, and then begins to turn on the human crew as if they are parasites. The smell was the first thing we noticed. It was a terrible smell that made us all cough: a smell of burning m ...Show more
Pagan's Crusade (The Pagan Chronicles #1) by Catherine Jinks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: The\Pagan Chronicles Ser. | Reading Level: 13+
It's twelfth-century Jerusalem, the time of the Crusades. Shrewd and scrappy Pagan has been plucked from the streets to work for Lord Roland, a Templar knight. Set against a background of mounting tension as Saladin's infidels close in on the Holy City, Pagan's Crusade is an exciting and exuberant tale ...Show more
Pagan's Daughter by Catherine Jinks
$19.95 AUD
Category: Children's & YA
Catherine Jinks's award-winning books about Templar squire Pagan Kidrouk are critically acclaimed international bestsellers. Now a whole new era begins with a stand-alone story about Pagan's daughter Babylonne, a feisty, irresistible character whose tale will catapult you straight into the medieval worl ...Show more
Reformed Vampire Support Group by Catherine Jinks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA
Fifteen-year-old Nina has been a vampire since 1973, and she's hated every day of it. It has really cramped her style and social life - and it's boring. But as sickly and tedious as her life has become, it takes a turn for the worse when a member of her therapy group is killed by an unknown vampire slay ...Show more
Shelter by Catherine Jinks
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
Meg lives alone. A little place in the bush outside town. A perfect place to hide. That's one of the reasons she offers to shelter Nerine, who's escaping a violent ex. The other is that Meg knows what it's like to live with an abusive partner. Nerine is jumpy and her two little girls are frightened. It ...Show more
Shepherd by Catherine Jinks
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: 2 Crime
Fourteen-year-old convict Tom Clay lives in a shepherd's hut in the bush, protecting his master's sheep from wild dogs. When a vicious fellow shepherd returns to ensure there are no witnesses to his crimes, the bush-crafty Tom and his hapless mate Rowdy face a life-and-death battle to survive. ’I’ve al ...Show more