Lamont Standing Order - 2023 Secondary Fiction

OCTOBER

In times of bushfires and billy buttons

By Steven Herrick

What makes a good family? Love or blood? And what if you have to choose between the two? Ethan’s par ... Read More

I Loved You In Another Life

By David Arnold

Evan Taft has plans. Take a gap year in Alaska, make sure his brother and single mother are taken ca ... Read More

If You Tell Anyone, You're Next

By Jack Heath

An exclusive group chat. A deadly challenge. How far would you go to join? Jayden Jones is missing. ... Read More

Thieves' Gambit

By Kayvion Lewis

Challenge: Join the Thieves’ Gambit, a cut-throat competition to crown the world’s greatest thiefRul ... Read More

The Only Girl in Town

By Ally Condie & Read by Elena Rey

What would you do if everyone you love disappeared? What if it was your fault? For July Fielding, no ... Read More

Robert Runs

By Mariah Sweetman

Compulsory reading for early teens and young adults. Based on true events, this gripping thriller sh ... Read More

Summer Change

By Melissa Wray

A secret. A holiday. A summer like never before. Shae knows her parents are keeping something from h ... Read More

Borderland

By Graham Akhurst

Jono, a city-born Indigenous teenager is trying to figure out who he really is. Life in Brisbane has ... Read More

The Weaver

By Melanie Kanicky

In a remote village, bordered by woods and an endless winter, Saatcha lives in the attic of her aili ... Read More

The Deadlands: Trapped

By Skye Melki-Wegner

Dinosaurs fight for freedom and survival in book two of this action-packed middle-grade series.Battl ... Read More

SEPTEMBER

Two Sparrowhawks in a Lonely Sky

By Rebecca Lim

After their family encounters terrible hardship in rural China, siblings Fu and Pei must draw on all ... Read More

Ash Barty

By Ash Barty

Official young readers edition of Ash Barty's #1 bestselling and award-winning memoir. It's a tennis ... Read More

House of Marionne

By J. Elle

A modern-day romantasy set in a glamorous magical world of social elites, forbidden love, and a dark ... Read More

Bite Risk

By S.J. Wills

When everyone's a vicious beast, it's hard to spot the monsters . . . The first book in S. J. Wills' ... Read More

Let's Never Speak of This Again

By Megan Williams

Ella and I have been best friends since grade one. We can spend hours talking about everything and n ... Read More

Goddess Crown

By Shade Lapite

A YA feminist fantasy, full of romance, danger and courtly intrigue, from a dazzling debut writer.Fo ... Read More

Sunbirds

By Mirandi Riwoe

Shortly before the Japanese invade, the van Hoorn family throws their famous Sinterklaas party at th ... Read More

The Brothers Hawthorne

By Jennifer Lynn Barnes

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

Eleanor Jones is Not a Murderer

By Amy Doak

Karen McManus and Holly Jackson meets Fleur Ferris in this fast-paced YA murder mystery.Eleanor Jone ... Read More

AUGUST

Scar Town

By Tristan Bancks

A missing father. A drowned town. A buried secret. Three friends on a dangerous mission to uncover t ... Read More

The Weaver and the Witch Queen

By Genevieve Gornichec

The lives of two women — one desperate to save her missing sister, the other a witch destined to bec ... Read More

What Happens After Midnight

By K. L. Walther

From the author of The Summer of Broken Rules comes a new coming-of-age novel. When Lily Hopper deci ... Read More

Moontide

By Mary Greenwood

Listen. I have a story to share. Will you hear it howling in my eaves? Feel it gusting down my chimn ... Read More

I Am the Mau and other stories

By Chemutai Glasheen

Two worlds collide in Chemutai Glasheen's debut short story collection, I Am the Mau and Other Stori ... Read More

One Song

By A. J. Betts

'In a few months, the four of us will be elsewhere, doing other things, and this chance we have now ... Read More

Immortal Mistake

By Adele Jones

For as long as Rennie Parker’s been alive, his parents have fought—about money, about life, but most ... Read More

In The Secret Place

By Gary Crew with Paul O'Sullivan, Alex Jay McDonald & Carolyn Martinez

What does a teenage boy do when he has no friends? When he is laughed at to his face? The answer is ... Read More

JULY

Picasso and the Greatest Show on Earth

By Anna Fienberg

Frances is in a new house in a new neighbourhood and going to a new school, but no amount of new can ... Read More

Hamlet is Not OK

By R.A. Spratt

Funny, shocking and brilliant- from bestselling author R. A. Spratt, a whip-smart take on Shakespear ... Read More

Inkflower

By Suzy Zail

A gritty YA novel about family secrets, hope and healing. Based on a true story.Lisa’s father has si ... Read More

Sing Me to Sleep

By Gabi Burton

Words sting. Songs kill. The Cruel Prince meets To Kill a Kingdom in this seductive YA fantasy debut ... Read More

Threads That Bind

By Kika Hatzopoulou

Filled with mystery, betrayal and powerful, simmering romance, and inspired by Greek mythology, Kika ... Read More

We Didn't Think It Through

By Gary Lonesborough

The thought comes to me: This is how I die. Dally is going to lose control and crash us into a pole ... Read More

JUNE

A Curse of Salt

By Sarah Street

A heartless king trapped by a curseA brave sister searching for answersAnd a love so strong it will ... Read More

This Summer's Secrets

By Emily Barr

One hot summer, first love, so many buried secrets . . . A bold new story for fans of We Were Liars, ... Read More

MAY

Royals

By Tegan Bennett Daylight

Six teenagers. An empty shopping centre. No Wi-Fi. And … a baby? Acclaimed author Tegan Bennett Dayl ... Read More

The Isles of the Gods

By Amie Kaufman

Magic, romance, and slumbering gods clash in the start of a riveting fantasy series spanning gangste ... Read More

This Is The Way The World Ends

By Jen Wilde

Fans of One of Us Is Lying and The Hazel Wood are cordially invited to spend one fateful night survi ... Read More

Glimpse

By Jane Higgins

The city authorities have abandoned the D-Zone as damaged beyond repair. It's a no-go area where ong ... Read More

When Dark Roots Hunt

By Zena Shapter

Don’t go out onto the lake. Wyann trees search the shallows to spear passing prey with their roots. ... Read More

We Could Be Something

By Will Kostakis

Part coming-out story. Part falling-in-love story. Part falling-apart story. Harvey's dads are split ... Read More

APRIL

The Deadlands: Hunted

By Skye Melki-Wegner

Dinosaurs fight for survival in book one of this action-packed new middle-grade series. Jurassic Par ... Read More

The Quiet and the Loud

By Helena Fox

OUR HOPELESS, HOPEFUL WORLD. A novel about the contours of friendship, family, forgiveness, trauma a ... Read More

The Impossible Story of Hannah Kemp

By Leonie Agnew

The unpublished manuscript was the winner of the 2022 Tessa Duder Award: a powerful exploration of g ... Read More

Stars and Smoke

By Marie Lu

The most famous person in the world is going undercover . . . Global phenomenon Winter Young is the ... Read More

Selfie

By Allayne L Webster

Celebrated Australian author Allayne L. Webster explores the complexities of teen friendships and th ... Read More

A Hunger of Thorns

By Lili Wilkinson

Maude is the daughter of witches. She spent her childhood running wild with her best friend, Odette, ... Read More

The Great Gallipoli Escape

By Jackie French

Renowned for her historical fiction titles, Jackie French now tells the story of the brilliant and f ... Read More

MARCH

The Sinister Booksellers of Bath

By Garth Nix

There is often trouble of a mythical sort in Bath. The booksellers who police the Old World keep a c ... Read More

Below

By David Hill

Caught in a tunnel collapse, Liam and Imogen have to use all their wits to survive in this gripping ... Read More

Saltwater Boy

By Bradley Christmas

Heartfelt and poignant, this coming of age story explores father-son relationships, against a backdr ... Read More

Nightbirds

By Kate J. Armstrong

Magic may be illegal in Simta, but you can find it if you know which whispers to heed. None as tanta ... Read More

Escape From East Berlin

By Andy Marino

December, 1961 - Marta is a young girl who saw thirty miles of barbed wire appear across her city ov ... Read More

Last Man Out

By Louise Park

The evacuation from Gallipoli of Australian and New Zealand troops was a logistically incredible und ... Read More

28 Days

By David Safier

Warsaw, 1942. Sixteen-year-old Mira smuggles food into the Warsaw ghetto to keep herself and her fam ... Read More

FEBRUARY

Two Can Play That Game

By Leanne Yong

Sam Khoo has one goal in life: create cool indie games. She's willing to do anything to make her dre ... Read More

This Time It's Real

By Ann Liang

Get ready to fall in love in this hilarious romcom about a girl who begins a fake relationship with ... Read More

Fritz and Kurt

By Jeremy Dronfield

The incredible true story of The Boy Who Followed his Father into Auschwitz, written for younger rea ... Read More

The Poison Season

By Mara Rutherford

Outsiders are always given a choice: the Forest or the lake. Either way, they’re never heard from ag ... Read More

Spice Road

By Maiya Ibrahim

The first book in an epic fantasy series for fans of Sabaa Tahir, Hafsah Faizal and Elizabeth Lim, s ... Read More

Grace Notes

By Karen Comer

This song has a grace note, a tiny note that's there for embellishment but can easily be ignored, no ... Read More

Wait for Me

By Sara Shepard

Drowning in déjà vu... Who is Casey Rhodes? Is she a no-nonsense realist or a hopeless romantic? A j ... Read More