Yass Valley and surrounds
Books and other items that have a connection with the Yass Valley. The author, artist, maker or subject is based in the Yass Valley and surrounding areas.
The Anchoress by Robyn Cadwallader
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical
"The book that the whole literary world can't stop talking about." --Marie Claire (Australia)"A considerable achievement." --Sarah Dunant, The New York Times Book Review England, 1255: Sarah is only seventeen when she chooses to become an anchoress, a holy woman shut away in a small cell, measuring seve ...Show more
Book of Colours by Robyn Cadwallader
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical
From Robyn Cadwallader, author of the internationally acclaimed novel The Anchoress, comes a deeply profound and moving novel of the importance of creativity and the power of connection, told through the story of the commissioning of a gorgeously decorated medieval manuscript, a Book of Hours.
Sidnie Meets Uncle Sam - Travels with My Mum by Karen Waldman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & memoir
For Sidnie, the smart, handsome (if not quite prize-winning) cocker spaniel, life at home in Australia is just fine. But when Mum decides to spend winter on his human dad's Christmas tree farm in America, Sidnie has to pack his bags and go along too. Unsure at first, Sidnie explores cross-cultural chall ...Show more
Amber Wolf by Lauren Searson-Patrick
$26.95 AUD
Category: Sci-fi & fantasy
Friend. Guard. Orphan. Lish Taylor thinks she knows who she is.But when her team investigates a series of abductions, Lish finds herself guardian of a trembling little boy - one whose experience is unnervingly familiar. And the questions she’s harboured since she was a child, after witnessing the violen ...Show more
Perfect Breaks by Dorothy Topfer
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Frankie can catch a perfect wave but in real life she gets dumped - over and over again.Frankie's future seems known - happiness with Charlie her childhood sweetheart and living in a small coastal town in southern New South Wales with extended family and most importantly, fantastic surfing breaks.Then t ...Show more
Charles the Gallery Dog by Barbie Robinson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture books
A hardback children's book about Charles, a gallery dog, who went to work five days a week with his person, Marty. Charles's job was to make people happy. When visitors came to the gallery, he showed them the best pictures to look at. Until one day, the gallery has a visitor from a grey-suited governmen ...Show more
The Changeling Detective by Phillip Berrie; David Bischoff (Consultant Editor); Shauna O'Meara (Illustrator); Libby Berrie (Cover Design by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Sci-fi & fantasy
For a private detective, being able to change your face has a distinct advantage. The Changeling Detective thought he was unique, a mutant of sorts, like those he had read about in comics when he was younger. However, when he becomes the focus of a vile-smelling Sydney crime boss with similar abilities ...Show more
Transgressions by Phillip Berrie
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sci-fi & fantasy | Series: Engelian Transformations Ser.
To find out who killed them both, he had to possess her body...The still-living body of a female half-elf found lying in a filthy dockside alley, her mind stripped from her by an unseen monster. The spirit of an elderly wizard, whose body has been incinerated by powerful unknown attackers. When these tw ...Show more
Dancing with Dandelions - Can One Wish Change Everything? by Kelly Cameron
$19.99 AUD
Category: Romance
Sisters, Arabella and Grace Peterson, have been running the family farm in the hills of Yass Valley since their parents died. After an accident on horseback sends Arabella into a coma, she rouses to be faced with a new ordeal. The news of her childhood sweetheart catapults her into a frenzy. Carter McCa ...Show more
Riddle of Tanglewood Manor by TRACEY HAWKINS
$16.95 AUD
Category: Middle grade
Once you open this book, you too, will be tangled. To Sam and Harry, a tree change means a TREEHOUSE... and time travel! 150-year-old Tanglewood Manor is Sam and Harry's new home in the country. As their parents set about renovating the ruin, the brothers explore its secrets. One book in the dusty libra ...Show more
The Silo by Hugh Watson
$32.95 AUD
Category: Crime & thrillers
Hugh Watson’s second novel The Silo, is a compelling thriller set in the brutal world of country politics. In The Silo, Hugh draws on his country roots and political background to immerse readers in a story about corruption, blackmail, murder and shadowy international investment. Intuitive Sydney detect ...Show more
Ten Little Figs by Rhian Williams
$16.99 AUD
Category: Picture books
A child counts down the figs on the backyard fig tree, as each one is snatched away by a different Australian animal, in this ode to Australia's natural landscape.Ten little figs are on my tree.I love figs and they're all for me.Ten Little Figs is a joyful rhyming picture book about a child keeping care ...Show more