Odyssey Books

The first thing you should know about this book is that it's DEFINITELY NOT a collection of actual magic spells because magic isn't real, obviously. Disguising spells as a collection of poems is the...

Robert Duncan no longer believes in magic. A mysterious call about a blood moon, however, leads him back to the magical world of his childhood and to Luthien, the beautiful girl with flame-coloured...

That dandelion. A flash of stubborn yellow in a dark box of space. It had promised sunshine but had tasted sour. Artefacts. A dandelion. A mayfly. A family, bereft. Items and mementos of a life,...

Bernice Takes a PlungeAuthor: Ann HarthPublisher: Odyssey BooksPublication Date: Mar 05, 2020Number of Pages: 110 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1925652912ISBN-13: 9781925652918

Sudden, shattering moments of realisation; creeping, gradual self-awareness - Catching the Barramundi is a collection of contemporary short stories charting the dichotomous processes of reassessment...

Meet William. He's twenty-two. He's highly intelligent. He's an acerbic critic of Australian suburban life. And he's lost. Chafing against his rural-Aussie background, William sees a university...

Author: Clare RhodenPublisher: Odyssey BooksPublication Date: Sep 20, 2022Number of Pages: 210 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 192231143XISBN-13: 9781922311436

Nicole is desperate to leave Silverlake, the small town she's spent her whole life in, and her plans for escape and her future career are all falling into place. But when the local heartthrob Aiden...

In 1969 the small Asian nation of Cambodia was under attack: first by US bombers as the Vietnam war spilled over the border, and then by the Khmer Rouge as they began their brutal reign of terror...

Talking fruit. Time reversing. A scheming liver. A lighter's journey. Vengeful teddy bears. Vending machine salvation. The Annual Meeting of Words. Everyone on Earth moving six feet to the left...

Author: Mark NewmanPublisher: Odyssey BooksPublication Date: Feb 18, 2020Number of Pages: 162 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1922311030ISBN-13: 9781922311030

Contessa and Ettore Saforo awake to a normal day in war-stricken, occupied Italy. By the end of the day, however, their house is in ruins and they must seek shelter and protection wherever they can...

When Sannah the Storyteller, a descendant of environmental refugees from drowned Pacific islands, finds a White stranger on her domestep, she presumes he's a political prisoner on the run seeking...

With a treacherous ice journey behind them and Long's health restored by the Healing Stone, Mai, Akra and Kalin must now find the falcon guard called Tupuck in the fireruler's city of Calor.It's not...

STENDHAL SYNDROME: Feelings of increased heart rate, dizziness, disorientation, amnesia, hallucinations etc. in response to immense beauty present in either artistic works or the natural world. A...

Stories to Read by Candlelight contains eight stories first published in the 1890s by the French author, Jean Lorrain, translated here into English by Patricia Worth. Jean draws the reader back in...

The foreshadowing of a dark future threatens the seven nations of Sahas. Mai is selected to train with the mysterious elemental master Sah Dohba, who will prepare her to become the protector of the...

With a new addition to their journey, a sealer boy who is bound by the collar of slavery, Mai, Long, and Akra escape the clutches of the sand slavers and then vicious Melkarie beasts. They travel to...

Some people are so broken they can only cut us. With poetic dexterity, Kathryn Gossow interweaves eight short stories of longing and alienation featuring outcasts and the misunderstood. At the heart...

'Falling in love is a luxury for a prince, my son. You have twenty women in your harem. Your duty is to make love with all of them and produce male heirs for the empire.' But charismatic Prince...

After escaping the attacking forces, Mai, Akra, and Kalin must find a way to purge the evil that has consumed Long. As news of the Underworld king spreads, gloom and fear begins to sweep over the...

Threatened by the monsters moving beneath her feet and pirates on the horizon, the only weapon Dance has to protect her home is her name. The Monster Apprentice is a powerful story of looking at the...

Prophetic dreams have haunted Dan Tenney since childhood, foretelling him of a life-changing event that is soon to take place. But before he can learn the meaning of his visions, he is attacked by a...

Princess Ana is trapped in her own home, unable to leave the castle walls to avoid a fever that is plaguing Ratu Island. Her mother, devastated after the death of Ana's father, has hardened,...

Marriage transplants Sarah thousands of miles from home; a failed love affair forces Phoebe to make drastic choices in a new environment; a sudden, shocking discovery brings Mrs Ellis to reconsider...

Sarah is a nurse at the Geelong hospital, going about her Boxing Day shift while her family recovers at home after indulging in the usual Christmas feasting. But when a wild-eyed patient is admitted...

Written in consultation with award-winning author, Elizabeth Jane Corbett, The Tides Between Study Guide includes a plot overview, social and historical background, detailed chapter analysis, major...

Uisge beatha, Scottish Gaelic for 'whisky', is literally 'the water of life'. However, it also frequently proves lethal. Driven by a mysterious voice, Elizabeth Legrand plunges headlong into an...

On Christmas Day, Connie Chase opens the twenty-fifth door on her advent calendar, eating the last chocolate as she tries to swallow the memory of her former love, Viggo MacDuff. His dazzling green...

Life on Mars is in danger of becoming boring. Fame is fleeting so, following the Martian uprising and Jodi's abduction, a little time has seen life return to relative normality. At least that's the...