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Miss Lily's Lovely Ladies by Jackie French
$29.99 AUD
Category: Teenage | Series: Miss Lily Ser.
When the lives of four debutantes are interrupted by WW1, they emerge as women determined to change the world. At the mysterious Miss Lily's secret 'school', young women selected from Europe's royalty and highest families learn how to captivate a man - as a husband, or at a dinner party, in a salon or a ...Show more
Miss Lily's Lovely Ladies (Miss Lily, #1) by Jackie French
$19.99 AUD
Category: Popular Fiction | Series: Miss Lily Ser.
Inspired by true events, this is the story of how society's 'lovely ladies' won a war. Each year at secluded Shillings Hall, in the snow-crisped English countryside, the mysterious Miss Lily draws around her young women selected from Europe's royal and most influential families. Her girls are taught how ...Show more
My Name Is Not Peaseblossom by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Teenage | Reading Level: 9 YA
A FRESH REINTERPRETATION OF A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM BY THE AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN'S LAUREATE Titania rose to her feet. 'What is going on here, Peaseblossom?' she demanded. I bowed to her. 'I apologise, Your Majesty. But I'd rather be known as Pete.' 'Pete?' She frowned. 'That's no name for a fairy.' 'No ...Show more
Nanberry: Black Brother White by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Teenage | Series: . | Reading Level: 14+
The year is 1788, and in the newly created colony at Sydney Cove is struggling for survival. Seen through the eyes of the colony's only surgeon and Nanberry, the Aboriginal boy adopted by Surgeon White who finds himself uncomfortably between two worlds, it is a new perspective on Australia's earliest da ...Show more
Night Ride into Danger (PB) by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Teenage
From one of Australia's best-loved storytellers comes an exciting mystery adventure story set in 1874 about the Cobb & Co. It's a dark and dangerous journey for the Cobb and Co night mail coach, but when his coach-driver father is injured, young Jem Donovan must take the reins.Surely a boy like Jem ...Show more
No Hearts of Gold by Jackie French
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Three women from very different backgrounds, bound by friendship, separated by destiny It was impossible, but in full view of the church, the Governor and wedding guests ...The bride had vanished.Some girls are born to be loved, some are born to be useful.Some girls are born to be bad.Indulged and wealt ...Show more
Pirate Boy of Sydney Town by Jackie French
$17.99 AUD
Category: Teenage | Reading Level: 8 Kids Middle Readers
Twelve-year-old Ben Huntsmore is the son of a shipowner, an only child who loves the farming life on his mother's family estate, Badger's Hill. But when Ben's father loses their ancestral home in 1809 as payment for a gambling debt, Ben reluctantly joins him in a desperate venture to win it back, captur ...Show more
Rain Stones 25th Anniversary Edition (Short Stories) by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children Fiction
Anniversary edition of the first book Jackie French published with A & R. This is where a truly remarkable career began. 'Rain Stones' and the other stories in this collection reveal that the country is a magical place, that there is an extra dimension to be found by those whose minds and hearts are ...Show more
Secret Sparrow by Jackie French
$17.99 AUD
Category: Teenage
This is the story of women who fought during WW1, but not as nurses or ambulance drivers. In 1917 sixteen-year-old Jean McLain is working as a Post Office assistant in England. But when she wins a national Morse code competition, the British army makes a request Jean cannot refuse – to take a secret pos ...Show more
The Lily and the Rose by Jackie French
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Miss Lily Ser.
The Great War is over, but is there truly peace? And what of Miss Lily? Can she ever return? 'The story is equal parts Downton Abbey and wartime action, with enough romance and intrigueto make it 100% not-put-down-able.' - AustralianWomen's Weekly on Miss Lily's Lovely Ladies Sophie Higgs, heiress to a ...Show more
The Lily in the Snow (#3 Miss Lily Book) by Jackie French
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Miss Lily Ser.
This Is Home: Essential Australian Poems For Children (HB) by Jackie French (Editor)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Classics
In This Is Home, much-loved author Jackie French has gathered a poem for every child and every mood. What do you feel like doing today? Sit beside a bush campfire with Oodgeroo Noonuccal, watch people going by with Henry Lawson, float away with Alison Lester, learn to read with Andy Griffiths or be brav ...Show more