Breath by Tim Winton

Breath by Tim WintonTim Winton's Breath, winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, is a story about the wildness of youth and learning to live with its passing. When paramedic Bruce Pike is called out to deal with another teenage adventure gone wrong, he knows better than his colleague, better than the kid's parents, what happened and how. Thirty years before, that dead boy could have been him. A relentlessly gripping and deeply moving novel about the damage you do to

excellently written and

Timothy Ide is a South Australian illustrator with a genuine feel for the beauty and hardship of life in the Australian outback

Robert Adamson

claws on her hands and feet

believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer

as well as a superbly written meditation on the nature of good and evil

raised in a hidden cave and enlisted — against their will — to end the terrible war

a very special star guides him home

reader-friendly guide to helping children grow their emotional intelligence

from pets to production

human rationality and the nature of the gods

a bloody War of Liberation brought new hope for the animals - along with a new leader