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  • Useful

    by Debra Oswald ...
    Sullivan Moss is useless.Once a charming underachiever, he's now such a loser that he can't even commit suicide properly. Waking up in hospital after falling the wrong way on a rooftop, he comes to a decision. He shouldn't waste perfectly good organs just because they're attached to his head. After a life of regrets, Sully wants to do one useful thing: he wants to donate a kidney to a stranger.As ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Dags

    by Debra Oswald ...
    Do you every worry that you might never get a boyfriend?All that stuff's overrated, Gillian.Oh, yeh, yeh, I know. But still...Could Monica be right - is it all overrated? Is food the answer? Or wearing a paper bag on your head? And then, along comes Adam...Gillian is sixteen, suffers from the occasional ‘ack-attack’, and is worried about not having a boyfriend. She loves chocolate and is ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Gary's House

    by Debra Oswald ...
    Gary has failed in everything he has attempted. But when he inherits a block of land, he gets an urge to build a nest with Sue-Anne, his angry and pregnant girlfriend.Gary’s House is a story about Aussie battlers—battling with each other, the elements and the world in their quest to turn a dream into reality. What begins as satire becomes a moving drama told with humour, compassion and loving ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • House on Fire

    by Debra Oswald ...
    Things aren't going well for the Conway sisters. Dad's just married the geography teacher, eldest sister Bec's been evicted and Evie's suffering serious issues with her new besties. Michaela has 24 hours to solve her sisters' problems before she sits the most important exams of her life. What else could go wrong? A hilarious new offering from Australia's master of teen theatre, House on Fire is ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Blue Noise

    by Debra Oswald ...
    Blue Noise is about people letting you down, how to survive your family and the amazing thrill of making music with your friends.Ash is drooling over his favourite guitar - the one he can't afford - when he meets Charlie Novak. One jam session later and Charlie convinces Ash to play in his band. But it'll never work. Bands never do.Erin is wandering down a corridor at school - overthinking things ... Read more

    $14.49 USD

  • Getting Air

    by Debra Oswald ...
    What will it take to make the council say yes to a skatepark? Will it take a tragedy to bring the town together?Zac and Corey are best mates. They skate in deserted carparks, along the streets, wherever they can. It's so unfair that they're always getting in trouble for it. It's not as if there's anywhere else to skate.Good girl Lauren Saxelby's been hanging around, filming the skaters for some ... Read more

    $14.49 USD

  • Stories in the Dark

    by Debra Oswald ...
    A terrified 12-year-old boy finds himself separated from his family in the unfamiliar streets of a war-torn city. He takes refuge in a bombed-out house and in the total blackness his bravado crumbles into tears.Into his life steps Anna—older, street smart and scornful of his crying. As a way of shutting the boy up, she starts to tell him a story that she vaguely remembers from her own childhood. ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Whole Bright Year

    by Debra Oswald ...
    In the summer of 1976 it’s picking season on an Australian stone-fruit orchard run by Celia, a hard-working woman in her early forties. Years ago, when her husband was killed as a bystander in an armed robbery, Celia left the city and brought her newborn daughter Zoe to this farm for a secure life. Now sixteen, Zoe is a passionate, intelligent girl, chafing against her mother’s protectiveness, ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Skate

    by Debra Oswald ...
    Inspired by true events that occurred in a south-western NSW town, Skate is about a group of kids battling their local council to get a skate park built in their home town of Narragindi. In the midst of this struggle, they are forced to deal with the sudden death of one of their friends. They attempt one final stand; the skate park holds the promise of renewing local youth pride and self-esteem ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Griffith Review 84: Attachment Styles

    by Hsu-Ming Teo, Bianca Valentino, Debra Oswald, Richard Glover, Danny M. Lavery, Ahona Guha ...
    Series Book 84 - Griffith Review
    The attachments we form shape our experience of the world and our understanding of who we are. 'Hell is other people', wrote Jean-Paul Sartre, his point being less about misanthropy and more about how entwined our self-perception is with the ways in which others perceive us. And alongside our personal relationships - from filial to friendship, from collegiate to romantic - sit the complex ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • The Peach Season

    by Debra Oswald ...
    After the murder of her husband, Celia has shut herself and her 16-year-old daughter Zoë away, toiling on a peach farm in the middle of nowhere. The arrival of two young people to help during picking season heralds the beginning of the end for Celia’s safe existence.Her daughter falls in love with enigmatic, erratic Kieran, but when the relationship is threatened, they run away together. The safe, ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Mr Bailey's Minder

    by Debra Oswald ...
    Leo Bailey is one of Australia's greatest living artists, whose genius battles to survive the effects of alcohol, cynicism and self-loathing. His daughter Margo, the only one of Leo's many children prepared to help, finds a willing but surly live-in-minder, the ex-con Therese. Added to the dysfunctional duo is the handyman Karl who has been given the task of removing a valuable mural but who keeps ... Read more

    $11.59 USD