Lisette's Paris Notebook
Lisette's Paris Notebook

Author: Catherine Bateson

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Published: 2017-01-03

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1952535816

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What do you wear to Paris? Ami and I discussed it for hours but I still couldn't think of anything suitable. Ami said a trench coat with nothing underneath but your best underwear. That was only if some boy was meeting you at the airport, I said. Eighteen-year-old Lisette has just arrived in Paris (France!) - the city of haute couture and all things stylish - to practise her French and see great works of art. Her clairvoyant landlady Madame Christophe forces her to attend language lessons with a bunch of international students but soon Lise discovers she's more interested in studying boys than art or verbs ... When the undeniably hot Anders jogs into her life it feels too good to be true. Things get even more complicated when she is pursued by Hugo, a charming English antiques dealer. Can she take a chance and follow her own dreams? How far into the future can Madame Christophe see? And could Lise really be falling in love - in Paris?

Painted Love Letters
Painted Love Letters

Author: Catherine Bateson

Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 9780702232893

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"Dave is dying. Chrissie, Mum, Nan and Badger are going to be left behind. Sometimes life is like that--Back cover.

His Name in Fire
His Name in Fire

Author: Catherine Bateson

Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9780702234781

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His Name in Fire is told from three points of view Molly a circus worker employed to engage bored and disaffected local youth - to put on a circus performance; Matthew a teenager and son of TJ the local blues man. Matthew is in love with Emma the snakeman s daughter. Emma is new to the town, a loner who is trying to come to terms with her mother s rejection.Each of these characters are confronting a major crisis in their lives and trying to make sense out of them. Set against the backdrop of a country town the very real issues of unemployment, lack of educational opportunities, lack of facilities, drought and poverty in outback Australia are skilfully woven into the narrative without ever being preachy.His Name in Fire is a celebration of community in a country town. It is a beautiful novel about relationships, love and trust.

Rain May and Captain Daniel
Rain May and Captain Daniel

Author: Catherine Bateson

Publisher: University of Queensland Press

Published: 2015-07-01

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 0702256277

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Rain May and her mum escape their old inner-city life for a dream house in the country. But there are more than a few suprises in store - like discovering a platypus or the fun of fridge poetry and phenomenally bright eleven-year-old, Captain Daniel, who lives next door. Together these unlikely friends adventure where no one has gone before.

Being Bee
Being Bee

Author: Catherine Bateson

Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780702235665

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" . . . You are going to be pleasant and helpful, Bee, and not chase Jazzi away. I like Jazzi. I want her to be a permanent fixture in our lives and I don't want any bratty, selfish behaviour from you spoiling things . . . "Since her mother died, it'd been just her, her dad and her guinea pigs, Lulu and Fifi. A perfect, non-nuclear family. Exactly how Bee liked it. Nothing stays the same forever though, and when Jazzi moves in, bringing with her a whole new way of looking at the world and a whole lot of secrets, Bee knows things are going to be completely different from now on.But change can be a scary thing, and when someone reaches out to you, sometimes the hardest thing to do is to take their hand.This heartwarming, humorous and vibrant story from award winning author Catherine Bateson reminds us that love comes in many shapes and sizes . . . . . . even in the form of guinea pigs.

The Airdancer of Glass
The Airdancer of Glass

Author: Catherine Bateson

Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9780702233937

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Anyone can be in that place and turn their back on it. You have to be prepared to act. Lulianne is an Airdancer of the cirque d'Espoir. With her pink dreadlocks, ribbons and bells, she embodies strength, vitality and grace. Egan, a hunter and gardener, has led a very different life in the seclusion and peace of Clan. They meet in the crowded contamination of Tip, where the flames of revolution smoulder. Together anything is possible, and the world they know will be altered forever.

Millie and the Night Heron
Millie and the Night Heron

Author: Catherine Bateson

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780702235269

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The daughter of an artist and a scientist, and your own interesting self, Millie. What more could you need? But Millie isn't sure that Tom, her mum's boyfriend, is right about that. A new town, a school project due, an enemy called Tayla, a boy with the initials RH and Tom himself.... It's all too much even for an interesting girl like Millie. But as her father says, change is needed, and sometimes it's the biggest changes that make us who we are.

A Dangerous Girl
A Dangerous Girl

Author: Catherine Bateson

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9780702231681

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A verse novel for young adults which explores the emotional games played by teenagers and their parents.

Star
Star

Author: Catherine Bateson

Publisher: Omnibus Books

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 9781862919815

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Star lives with her mum and her mum's old university friend, Charlie, who has broken up with his wife. Star doesn't always like Charlieshe certainly doesn't like his two kids, Talia and Gabe. So when Star's mum, Nell, begins to fall in love with Charlie and he moves in properly, Star isn't sure how she feels about it. Charlie hates the way his kids just want to eat Maccas and have mobile phones, so he proposes a complete change of lifestyle. Star discovers that moving to the country doesn't solve her friendship problemsmaybe Charlie has an innovative solution to that as well. After a Japanese Hamani viewing of the new backyard's plum tree, Star finds a friend who shares some of her interests. At the same time she realises that being a step-sister to Talia and Gabe might not be such a bad thing after all.

Marriage for Beginners
Marriage for Beginners

Author: Catherine Bateson

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13: 9780980526967

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This poetry collection has at its centre three lively sequences that address the hard graft of spiritual negotiation. Imagined for present, past and future times, each of them tracks the slow and the sudden dissolution of love - yet love stories they are. 'Marriage' is the familiar here - or at least the otherness of daughterhood, motherhood and being a lover. 'Beginners', it is suggested, is what we remain.