Lamont Standing Order - 2024 Secondary Fiction

OCTOBER

Legend of the Lighthouse Moon

By Helen Edwards

It’s the 1970s and on Kangaroo Island, Mona McKenna and her brother Albert live with their grandpare ... Read More

Stepping Sideways

By Edited by Lynne Stringer & Emily Larkin

Stepping Sideways features short stories from talented Australian authors. Some tales are steampunk, ... Read More

Evenfall - The Golden Linnet

By Alexander Armstrong
Illustrated by Tom Roberts

An ancient magic. A deadly enemy. A reluctant hero. 12-year-old Sam’s world is blown apart when he d ... Read More

The Glass Girl

By Kathleen Glasgow

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces comes a raw, heart-wrenching novel a ... Read More

When We Flew Away

By Alice Hoffman

There is a day you never forget, the day the whole world changes. When you close your eyes, light be ... Read More

Heir

By Sabaa Tahir

An orphan. An outcast. A prince. And a killer who will bring an empire to its knees. Growing up in t ... Read More

My Family and Other Suspects

By Kate Emery

Holly Jackson meets Agatha Christie in this cosy modern-day YA murder mystery where your closest fam ... Read More

SEPTEMBER

Six Summers of Tash and Leopold

By Danielle Binks

Alytash and Leopold - Tash and Leo - are neighbours who used to be best friends, but aren't anymore, ... Read More

White Noise

By Raelke Grimmer

Fifteen-year-old Emma is woken up by her dad's nightmares. Again. On Friday evenings they go running ... Read More

Keeper of the Archives

By Lynne Stringer

After their home in Sendirian City burns to cinders, Eden Fittell gets a job to support her family. ... Read More

The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry

By Ransom Riggs

The much-anticipated new fantasy series from Ransom Riggs, his first since introducing the #1 global ... Read More

Aisle Nine

By Ian X Cho

It's Black Friday - and the apocalypse is on sale! Ever since the world filled with portals to hell ... Read More

Anomaly

By Emma Lord

A high-octane YA debut from an exciting new Australian writer. Piper Manning survived the apocalypse ... Read More

Medici Heist

By Caitlin Schneiderhan

Welcome to Florence, 1517, a world of intrigue, opulence, secrets, and murder. The Medici family rul ... Read More

Fyrebirds

By Kate J. Armstrong

With tensions rising and their powers no longer a secret, the Nightbirds must decide for whom and fo ... Read More

AUGUST

The Girl with No Reflection

By Keshe Chow

A young woman chosen as the crown prince's bride must travel to the royal palace to meet her new hus ... Read More

The Light That Blinds Us

By Andy Darcy Theo

Legendborn meets Percy Jackson in this dark and thrilling debut fantasy romance. When consumed by sh ... Read More

Castle of The Cursed

By Romina Garber

A deliciously dark gothic romance from bestselling author Romina Garber! THE HOUSE IS ALWAYS HUNGRY. ... Read More

Silent Sister

By Megan Davidhizar

An unputdownable YA thriller with a twist that will electrify readers, Silent Sister is perfect for ... Read More

The Grandest Game

By Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Return to the world of the #1 bestselling, TikTok sensation, Inheritance Games series in this brand ... Read More

JULY

Return to Sender

By Lauren Draper

After three years away, seventeen-year-old Brodie McKellon has returned to live with her eccentric g ... Read More

Two Sides to Every Murder

By Danielle Valentine

Holly Jackson's A Good Girl's Guide to Murder meets Cynthia Murphy's Win Lose Kill Die in this explo ... Read More

Of Jade and Dragons

By Amber Chen

IRON WIDOW meets SIX CRIMSON CRANES in this immersive YA fantasy inspired by Chinese legend, perfect ... Read More

The Break Up Artists

By Adriana Mather

THE BREAKUP ARTISTS is a funny and playful romance perfect for fans of Jenny Han's The Summer I Turn ... Read More

Eleanor Jones Can't Keep a Secret

By Amy Doak

Eleanor Jones stirs up more mystery and danger in this fast-paced YA mystery. Things have settled do ... Read More

Maria Petranelli is Prepared for Anything (Except This)

By Elisa Chenoweth

Looking for Alibrandi meets Arrested Development in this YA screwball comedy about a student exchang ... Read More

A Sea of Wolves

By Sarah Street

Set in the same world as A Curse of Salt, a heartbreaking sapphic romantasy inspired by Little Red R ... Read More

JUNE

I Fight, You Fight

By Alex Noble

The inspiring story of a young man whose wisdom and strength can teach us all how to live life to th ... Read More

What's Murder Between Friends

By Meg Gatland-Veness

'I think it was one of us,' Walter says - 'We had the perfect opportunity. Everyone's thinking it, I ... Read More

The Dare

By Natasha Preston

In Marley's town, seniors are given a prank as a rite of passage...a dare, if you will. The dares st ... Read More

Father of the Lost Boys

By Yuot A Alaak

The inspiring true story of a teacher and community leader who led twenty thousand Lost Boys to safe ... Read More

Liar's Test

By Ambelin Kwaymullina

A gripping YA fantasy novel featuring a deadly contest for the crown, a heroine determined to right ... Read More

The Bad Ones

By Melissa Albert

House of Hollow meets A Good Girl's Guide to Murder - a YA supernatural thriller about four disappea ... Read More

MAY

One By One They Disappear

By Mike Lucas

The fog is coming. And when it does, everything disappears . . . One girl. Two identities. Three fri ... Read More

Deep Is the Fen

By Lili Wilkinson

A bewitching journey behind the closed doors of a secret society, featuring sinister toadmen, resist ... Read More

Growing Up Torres Strait Islander in Australia

By Samantha Faulkner

A journey through Torres Strait Islander culture and identity, past and present. 'My people are expe ... Read More

The Unexpected Mess of It All

By Gabrielle Tozer

A very funny and fraught 'enemies-to-will-they-won't-they' romance between family friends Jamila and ... Read More

Into the Mouth of the Wolf

By Erin Gough

Part thriller, part queer romance, Into the Mouth of the Wolf is the stunning, long-awaited new YA n ... Read More

I'll Be Waiting For You

By Mariko Turk

Readers of Emily X.R. Pan, Nina LaCour, and Dustin Thao will fall for this story that explores what ... Read More

Then There Was One

By Wendy Cross

They're all murderers. But one of them wants revenge. Let the games begin. Every inhabitant in the Q ... Read More

APRIL

A Way Home

By Emily Brewin

Sixteen-year-old Grace lives under a bridge in Melbourne’s CBD. It’s cold and wet, but hidden. Safe, ... Read More

The Girl in Question

By Tess Sharpe

The highly anticipated sequel to the must-read psychological thriller The Girls I've Been (soon to b ... Read More

The Reappearance of Rachel Price

By Holly Jackson

A stunning new YA thriller from the bestselling, award-winning author of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murd ... Read More

The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist

By Sophie Gonzales

What happens when the fictional 'perfect guy' comes to life and is convinced you're his soulmate? Wh ... Read More

Those Girls

By Pamela Rushby

New, from award-winning historical novelist, Pamela Rushby, exploring the roles, and struggles, of w ... Read More

MARCH

Look Me in the Eye

By Jane Godwin

running late drop it off without me I type drop what off? I don't know what Mish is talking about. W ... Read More

Gus and the Missing Boy

By Troy Hunter

True crime buff Gus Green has always felt out of place in the world. He's overweight, gay, his injur ... Read More

Compass and Blade

By Rachel Greenlaw

Mira is a wrecker, one of the seven chosen to swim out and plunder the wrecked ships beyond the Isle ... Read More

I Hope This Doesn't Find You

By Ann Liang

Unforgettable, snarky and romantic, I Hope This Doesn't Find You is Never Have I Ever meets To All t ... Read More

The Grimmelings

By Rachael King

Spellbinding middle-grade fantasy adventure of loyalty, courage, and being careful what you wish for ... Read More

Snowglobe

By Soyoung Park

WHEN YOU'RE INSIDE, THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING . . . Raised in a climate-ravaged, frozen world, eve ... Read More

FEBRUARY

Smoke & Mirrors

By Barry Jonsberg

I don't know about love. I suspect the emotion that others apparently feel all the time is just . . ... Read More

Birdy

By Sharon Kernot

Maddy is mute. Since the Incident she has barely spoken. And now she and her mother and brother are ... Read More

Dungeons and Drama

By Kristy Boyce

When it comes to romance, sometimes it doesn't hurt to play games. A fun YA romcom full of fake dati ... Read More

Sisters of Sword and Shadow

By Laura Bates

What if the Knights of the Round Table had a female counterpart? An epic Arthurian fantasy reimagini ... Read More

Somewhere in the Deep

By Tanvi Berwah

Krescent Dune is used to fighting monsters on her island, but she's unprepared for the monsters lurk ... Read More

The Colliding Worlds of Mina Lee

By Ellen Oh

Mina has become the hero of her own story. Literally. When Mina Lee woke up on Saturday morning for ... Read More

The Invocations

By Krystal Sutherland

Zara Jones believes in magic because the alternative is too painful to consider - that her murdered ... Read More

What They Told Me

By Hayley Lawrence

We are the luckiest, Elliot’s dad told her. And Elliot, of course, believed him. Elliott and her fam ... Read More