Nick Earls

Perfect Skin is a funny, laugh-out-loud novel that conveys what it is to be thirtysomething in a post-Duran Duran world. Nick Earls is also the author of Zigzag Street and Bachelor Kisses.

Phil and Frank, best mates, are med students who come to Ron Todd's World of Chickens as a part-time package deal to earn some extra cash. But in this part-time job, both get way more than they bargained for. An hilarious and often moving novel about friendship, families and following your dreams.

Jon, Rick and Jen are in their mid-twenties and share a house in Brisbane. Together they share food rituals, sporadic cocktail nights and the quest for love. Rick seems destined to long, lonely nights beneath his Porky Pig doona. Jen consumes men like chocolate bars.

Anthology for children containing short stories, poems, rainy-day jokes, cartoons, recipes and much more. Contains brief biographical information on all contributing authors. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.

Alaska, 2018, and Mike is a long way from home, nursing a wrecked knee and an unspoken grief, striking out into real estate and parenting his partner's son. London, 1978, and Simon is an Australian fish out of water navigating adolescence during the Winter of Discontent, and drawn to an eccentric impresario next door. Washington, DC, 1928, and a retired US senator is interviewed about his time in Russia in 1916, and his mission to save a young heir to an empire. Vienna, 1809, and an Irish teenager on the run from the law takes refuge among composers as Napoleon besieges and shells the city. Hong Kong, 2019, and estranged brothers Mike and Simon reunite in midlife to face the secrets of the past, and reconnect in more ways than one. Empires rise and fall, human lives play out, encounters, collisions and connections occur more than we can ever know - and yet, the unexpected can still happen.

While his parents are in Geneva, sixteen-year-old Dan spends his last year of high school living with his twenty-two-year-old bass-playing aunt, Jacq, and her beautiful friend Naomi, whose active lovelife is audible through the wall between their bedrooms.

Joel and Cat agree on only one thing - They really don't like each other - When they end up partners in a writing assignment, the tension is quite predictable - When their parents start dating however, they finally agree on one thing - Both are determined to end the relationship.

An Australian teenager feels bored while vacationing at his mother's beach house and is worried about passing his final examinations until he meets an attractive local girl.