Fortune's Son

Jennifer Scoullar

At just fourteen, Luke Tyler has everything going for him- brains, looks and a larrikin charm that already turns heads. The future looks bright, until he defends his sister from the powerful Sir Henry Abbot. His reward is fifteen years hard labour on a prison farm in Tasmania's remote highlands. Luke es...

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The Island of Missing Trees

Elif Shafak

Two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided land, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home. The tavern is the only place that Kostas, who is Greek and Christian, and Defne, who is Turkish and Muslim, can meet, in secret, hidden beneath the blackened beams from which hang garlands of garlic,...