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Felicity Frown isn’t normal. In her hometown of Today, people look at her happy smile and think Oh dear! But what if Felicity visits Tomorrow? It isn’t so very far away…
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Suitable for independent reading by 6-10 year-olds, the Jake series has delighted children in almost two dozen nations and languages as diverse as French, Turkish and Vietnamese.
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It’s the early 1990s and Gus Watson is learning how tough it is to become an adult. In three linked narratives, Across a Fluky Sea navigates four tumultuous years as Gus grapples with the vulnerabilities of love, the disintegration of his closest childhood friend, and a growing awareness that youth is nothing if not fleeting. A haunting exploration of life, love and loss from acclaimed author Ken Spillman.
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Nicholas Steyn is fourteen. He’s learning about kissing. He’s dreaming about a whole lot more. The Most Natural Thing is a sensitive portrayal of a teenage boy steering his way through a summer of desire, daydreams and disappointment.
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Meet Oscar. His father is dead, his mother is a mess and his sister resembles a zombie. Oscar’s growing too fast and trying to find his feet at a new school. When life is freaky and getting freakier, can Oscar get to focus on cricket and kiss the girl who can’t keep still?
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A gritty discontinuous narrative centring on a group of young adults over four years of relationships, jobs and big life decisions. Cumulatively, the work gains power as a multiview exploration of the thresholds to adulthood.
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Compiled by Frank Moorhouse as a showcase of the best Australian short fiction of the late 1970s and early 1980s, this features a piece by Ken Spillman writing under the pen name of Kenneth Gaunt. Other contributors include Peter Carey, Helen Garner, Nene Gare, Michael Wilding, Kate Grenville, John Bryson, Nicholas Jose, Murray Bail, Olga Masters and Morris Lurie.
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Peter Holland’s assortment of stories, articles, poems and images by some of Western Australia’s best loved authors including Ken Spillman, Randolph Stowe, Mary Durack, Brigid Lowry, Dorothy Hewett, Gail Jones, John Kinsella, Dennis Haskell, A.B. Facey, Nicholas Hasluck and Dave Warner.
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Compiled by Peter and Barbara Holland, this miscellany includes writing from Ken Spillman, Tracy Ryan, Elizabeth Jolley, Andrew Lansdown, Glyn Parry, Bill Bunbury, Shane McCauley, Steve Hawke and Andrew Burke.
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This novel for readers aged 10+ features another of Ken Spillman’s funny, feisty Indian girl characters. The five most venomous snake species can all be found in Australia’s Outback and that’s where Jiyaa is headed on her first school camp since moving to Perth from Mumbai. What on earth could go wrong?
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Co-authored by Ken Spillman and Jon Doust, with illustrations by popular children’s book illustrator James Foley, the Amity Kids adventures introduce a bunch of smart and feisty friends from different backgrounds, going all out to meet any challenge that comes their way. The titles in this series are:
Magpie Mischief ISBN 9781618130679
Disturbing the Peace ISBN 9781618130778
Kidnapped! ISBN 9781618131096
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Bookworm Advaita hates boarding school in Dehradun — until she realises that her favourite author, Ruskin Bond, lives just half an hour away!
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Forever daydreaming that’s Dev. Sitting in class or watching the clouds from the roof of Kwality Carpets, he floats off to places all over the world and has wonderful, bizarre adventures. Titles include:
Daydreamer Dev Climbs Mount Everest ISBN 9780143331872
Daydreamer Dev Traces the Amazon ISBN 9780143331889
Daydreamer Dev Crosses the Sahara ISBN 9780143331872
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It wasn’t Radhika’s idea to move from India to some crazy place where kids are 49% fish. Even so, she’s wanted to go swimming since Day 1 in Australia, and is almost drowning in frustration over her mother’s queen-sized water phobia. When Radhika finally gets her chance, will she sink or swim?
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Edited by Ken Spillman. Take fourteen popular children’s authors from Australia and Singapore. Add one universal theme — Family. Let the show begin. Near & Dear carries the reader into a world of fun and adventure. A cross-cultural feast for the young reader.
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Lighthouse in the Storm is an outcome of the unique AWIC (Association of Writers and Illustrators for Children) Book Therapy Project. Ken Spillman contributes a sensitive story dealing with child abuse in this collection of 24 gripping, heartwarming stories that put words to emotions that sometimes cannot be spoken about.
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Ken Spillman is one of eight popular authors featured in this Scholastic India anthology celebrating the true spirit of this joyous festival in ways that are sometimes touching and beautiful, and sometimes simply hilarious.
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Beautifully illustrated by Manjari Chakravarti, this simple story is about name-calling, labelling and self-affirmation.
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A charming picture book about loss and recovery, illustrated by Manjari Chakravarti.
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With illustrations by Suvidha Mistry, this book from the National Book Trust of India is about the magic of imagination in building confidence, success and resilience.
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Arjun is an auto rickshaw, plying the streets of Delhi while wishing for a more glamorous life — or is he?
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Illustrated by Chris Nixon, this series highlights aspects of early childhood safety.
Izzy in the City (ISBN-13 978-0730743972) deals with safety around traffic;
Izzy at the Park (ISBN-13978-0730743965) deals with bicycle safety; and
Izzy on Holiday (ISBN-13 978-0730743958) deals with safety while travelling in cars.
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A meditation on the idea of ‘Otherness’ and an eloquent plea for harmony — a picture book to be treasured.
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This picture book is a feast of art and ideas that will delight readers of all ages.
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Custodians of the public safety and champions of the surf — these are the men and women who have served the City of Perth Surf Life Saving Club in the course of its proud history. Reminiscences are skilfully woven into a sparkling narrative, accompanied by more than a hundred stunning photographs.
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Co-authored by Andy Collins, A Club For All Seasons is packed with detail and enlivened by anecdotes. It tells the story of a club that was founded on a beach and is now one of Western Australia’s oldest and most successful amateur sporting organisations, with a proud record in cricket, football, basketball and baseball.
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In three volumes, Ken Spillman has written the most comprehensive history of any sporting club in Australia. Diehards is sporting history at its best. Carefully researched, delightfully written and lavishly illustrated, it recalls some of the greatest names in Australian football.
The titles are:
Diehards: The story of the Subiaco Football Club 1896-1945 ISBN 0646358340
Diehards: The story of the Subiaco Football Club 1946-2000 ISBN 0957818505
Diehards: The story of the Subiaco Football Club: The Glory Years 2000-2010 ISBN 9780957818514
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Edited and compiled by Ken Spillman and Ross Fitzgerald, Australia’s Game is a collection of writing capturing the agony and the ecstasy of a national sport. Contributors include Martin Flanagan, Peter Helliar, Serge Liberman, John Harms, Basil Zempilas, Jon Doust, Don Watson, Barry Oakley, Peter Corris, Peter Schwab, singer/songwriter Paul Kelly, and many more.
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Edited and compiled by Ken Spillman and Ross Fitzgerald, this book is widely considered a classic of Australian sports literature. It immortalises the football passions of many luminaries including novelists Frank Hardy and Gerald Murnane; playwrights David Williamson, Jack Hibberd and Barry Dickins; poets Bruce Dawe, Philip Hodgins and Fay Zwicky; historians Manning Clark and Geoffrey Blainey; and broadcasters Ramona Koval, Andrea Stretton and Phillip Adams.
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Edited by Ross Fitzgerald, this volume cuts across all divides, including contributions by and about football players, supporters and administrators who are vastly different in politics, religion, class, income, ethnicity, gender, race and sexual preference. Ken Spillman contributes a painfully vivid reminiscence on a famous clash between Leigh Matthews and Barry Cable. He is joined in the collection by Geraldine Doogue, Jeff Kennett, Susan Alberti, Chris Bowen, Amanda Vanstone, Sally Murphy and John Elliott.
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Edited by Jim Main, Coach! brings together contributions by some of the best writers on Australian football. Ken Spillman joins Mike Coward, Martin Flanagan, Robert Walls, Michelangelo Rucci and many others.
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Love, courage and wisdom enrich this remarkable volume, a collection of personal reflections on fathers and fatherhood compiled by Ken Spillman and Ross Fitzgerald. Contributors include Elizabeth Jolley, Bruce Dawe, Rosie Scott, Susan Hawthorne, Thomas Shapcott, Ouyang Yu, Dale Spender and Glyn Parry.
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The story of an eminent US disability rights activist, told in her own voice with Ken Spillman as co-author. The daughter of parents who survived the Holocaust, Susan Sygall was an athletic young woman in college when a car accident changed her plans, but not her course. Intimate, passionate and riveting.
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Edited by Ken Spillman, this tribute to a distinguished academic and Governor of Western Australia includes pieces from Elizabeth Jolley, Sir Ninian Stephen, Fred Alexander, Bill Hayden, Geoffrey Bolton, Sir William Heseltine, Clyde Cameron, Bob Hetherington, Michael Wood, Sir Charles Court and Denis Horgan.
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With a foreword by Janet Holmes a Court, this book celebrates fifteen remarkable women, lovingly photographed by Mary Doyle as a celebration of positive ageing. Edited by Ken Spillman.
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Edited by Ken Spillman, Tapestry is written by participants in workshops he conducted titled ‘Writing your Memoirs’, facilitated by the City of Cockburn. Contributors include Dee Mahuvawalla, Luba Kambourakis, Evanne Fineberg, Vlasta Prpic and Logan Howlett.
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Edited by Ken Spillman, this anthology is a celebration of school and community across a century of change.
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Ken Spillman’s first book, an enduringly popular work of social history, set a new benchmark in the genre and was the winner of a FAW National Literary Award and a WA Premier’s Award for Non Fiction.
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Known for 50 years as the Agricultural Bank, the R&I Bank played a central role in the development of Western Australia’s agricultural industry. Ken Spillman’s history of the institution that became Bankwest is told in immaculate prose and given a human texture through the use of oral history material.
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