Cirrus@Austlit

'Bored supermarket checkout girl Nelia Renetti begins to suspect one of her customers is cheating on his wife. She begins to investigate to get to the bottom of the affair, but finds the bottom is much deeper and darker than she thought.'

Source : author's website

'A lively, first-person tale about the often humourous, sometimes tragic misadventures of Brett Stulle – aka Stullie – an ardent juvenile delinquent with a love for stealing who keeps blowing every second chance he gets until his luck finally gives out.'

Source : author's website

'A secret spans five generations from Cornwall to Australia.

'Who was Zenna Dare?

'When Jennefer moves to the old family home in country Kapunda, she uncovers a secret from the past. What sort of life did Gweniver, her great-great-great-grandmother, lead? And what connection did she have to the glamorous young singer, Zenna Dare?

'Could a nineteenth-century mother of nine have led a double life, and, if so, why?

In a story crossing five generations, from the old world to the new, Zenna Dare brings reconciliation in more ways than Jenefer could ever have imagined.' (Publication abstract)

'Garth, Arnold and Lucy are three typical high school students who are busy dealing with the typical problems of being teenagers when they are visited by a being from another world and are recruited into taking part in an interplanetary war in an alternate universe.'

Source : author's website

A gifted classical pianist, Jessie has a nervous breakdown under the pressure. Moving from Canada to Australia, she meets three boys who belong to a punk group, giving her a new perspective on music.

Troy's band, Laser Death, is being called 'Lethal Breath', his parents have separated, and his sister Grace is going out with the King of the Neanderthals!

Source: Publisher's blurb.

When Kyle gets a job for the Antarctic summer as a marine biologist, his Spainish girlfriend Jade, e-mails daily. Jade an eco-activist is involved with an online protest group, but doesn't realise that she is being used. When a genetic modification threatens to cross over from rats to humans, the expeditioners on Kyle's ship are quarantined and he discovers that courage is more than physical bravery. (Source: Trove)

'Just as he’d done for the last few mornings, fifteen-year-old Aaron Smith leaves home in the early hours of the morning and rides his bike to the park to take pictures for his photography assignment. On his way home, he’s knocked from his bike and left for dead on the side of the road.

'Soon he’s running from everybody – from whoever it is who’s out to get him and from the one person who can protect him, his guardian, Detective Sergeant Scott Backer. And now the SAS is involved . . . '

Source: Publisher's blurb.