Sonya Hartnett Book List
Sonya Hartnett
A complete list of all Sonya Hartnett's books in order (23 books). Browse plot descriptions, book covers, genres, pseudonyms, ratings and awards.
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Black Foxes

Feb-1997

/ General Fiction

In this epic tale of desire and devastation, of enemies and strong friendships, of bloody revenge and lasting love, Sonya Hartnett traces the extraordinary life of Lord Tyrone Sully a man who voyages to the edges of the heart to find, at last, joy...

Sleeping Dogs

Sep-1997

/ General Fiction

When a stranger enters a family's midst and insists on discovering all of their darkest secrets, the family begins a slow and painful descent into decay and madness. By the author of Wilful Blue. ...

All My Dangerous Friends

Jan-1998

/ General Fiction

Louie has finished with her old life, and stepped into a world of sinners. For her, nothing is going to be the same again. This darkly funny, disturbing novel explores a lawless world where morality is a nuisance, everything can be bought, and the pr...

Princes

Mar-1998

/ Horror

In a dilapidated mansion overrun by rats, Indigo and Ravel Kesby have gone to war. Identical twins, their two selves have gradually entwined until they have become all but interchangeable: no one can tell them apart. But when one twin attempts to sev...

Stripes of the Sidestep Wolf

Apr-1999

/ General Fiction

"A complex, introspective novel with vivid characters. . . . Hauntingly beautiful." -- School Library Journal Two loners in a country town find cause for hope when one of them encounters a long-lost animal in this taut, shimmering tale about daring...

Surrender

May-2007

/ Suspense

I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of a cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it. As life slips away, Gabriel looks back over his brief twenty years, which have been clouded by frustration and...

What the Birds See

Sep-2007

/ General Fiction

Nine-year-old Adrian watches his world closely, but there is much he cannot understand. He does not, for instance, know why three neighborhood children might set out to buy ice cream one summer's day and never be seen again. . . . In a suburb that is...

The Ghost's Child

May-2008

/ General Fiction

Maddy, an old lady now, arrives home one day to find a peculiar boy waiting for her. Over tea, she tells him the story of her life long ago, when she wished for her days to be as romantic and mysterious as a fairy tale. It was then that she fell pain...

Butterfly

Aug-2010

/ General Fiction

In masterful prose, the author of SURRENDER tells a quiet but powerful tale about the shifting bonds and psychological perils of adolescence. Plum Coyle is on the edge of adolescence. Her fourteenth birthday is approaching, when her old life and h...

Sadie and Ratz

Apr-2012

/ General Fiction

Sadie and Ratz are the names of Hannah's hands. They aren't animals, but they behave like wild beasts, says Dad. For one thing, they're always after four-year-old Baby Boy (whom Sadie wishes were a dog). They jump onto his head and try to rub his ear...

The Best Australian Stories 2012

Nov-2012

/ General Fiction

'These stories are breath-takers, the ones which render nothing more important than discovering what happens next.'-SONYA HARTNETT

The Best Australian Stories 2012 is the country's premier annual collection of short fiction. This year sees ...

The Boy and the Toy

Nov-2013

/ General Fiction

One day a man invented the best toy in the world. He gave the toy to his son. The boy thought the toy was marvellous. It could do anything! But as time passed, the boy started to wonder about the toy. Was it really the best toy in the world?...

Come Down, Cat!

Nov-2013

/ General Fiction

The day is ending, night is falling, and Nicholas's cat won't come down. High on the roof she licks her paws while Nicholas worries about her up there all alone. How does he coax her into the safe, warm house? She doesn't even want to come down from ...

The Children of the King

Mar-2014

/ Historical

Internationally acclaimed author Sonya Hartnett tells a hauntingly beautiful story set during World War II. Cecily and Jeremy have been sent to live with their uncle Peregrine in the English countryside, safe from the war, along with a young refu...

The Wild One

Sep-2014

/ General Fiction

From acclaimed Australian children's picture-book partnership Sonya Hartnett and Lucia Masciullo comes a celebration of the wonders of childhood, the beauty of nature and the wild one who lives in us all. Here is a story about growing up that will st...

The Devil Latch

Dec-2015

/ Fantasy

He draws her close, envelops her as if with wings. She does not resist him or the kisses over her face when he tilts her chin up, she lets him, exposing the flesh of her throat. When she goes home that day she will wear the marks of the devil, the...

Of a Boy

Dec-2015

/ Psychological Suspense

The year is 1977, and Adrian is nine. He lives with his gran and his uncle Rory; his best friend is Clinton Tull. He loves to draw and he wants a dog; he's afraid of quicksand, shopping centres and self-combustion. Adrian watches his suburban worl...