Sherryl Clark

Find out where it all began for Ellyse Perry, Australia's most prominent sportswoman! All Ellyse wants to do is play sport. Cricket, soccer, touch footy, athletics – you name it! But now that she's in high school, playing sport and having fun doesn't seem so simple. For starters, there's more homework, and a mix-up with her electives has her stuck...

Did someone press fast forward? Ellyse is bursting with excitement—she's been invited to try out for a new youth soccer academy along with her friends Hu and Jamie. Could this be the start of something big? Fingers crossed! But that's not the only thing. Cricket season has started up again and there's both school and club competitions to play. Certain...

A powerful story about a young girl, Mina, and how she copes when her family take in a refugee boy and give away what was meant to be her first very-own bedroom. Mina and the Whole Wide World is about a young girl who wants her own bedroom more than anything else in the whole wide world. And it's almost...

Attending the National Ballet School is every aspiring dancer's dream. It's been Brynna's for as long as she can remember. When her parents move her family to Melbourne so Brynna can attend a top ballet school, it looks like her dream is about to become a reality. But why does she feel so awful about the move? Her brother Tam...

It's 1900 and Rose lives with her family in a big house in Melbourne. She wants to play cricket, climb trees, and be an adventurer! But Rose's mother has other ideas, and only wants Rose to be a proper young lady, wear frilly dresses, and learn how to sew. Then Rose's favourite young aunt, Alice, comes to town, and everything...

A poignant middle-grade verse novel about family estrangement and reconciliation from Prime Minister's Literary Award-winning author Sherryl Clark. It's always been Gemma and her mum - just the two of them. As close as best friends. But while researching a class project about family, Gemma makes a life-changing discovery. Her nan is not dead, like Mum told her, but alive...

Tracey Binns is trouble. Or at least that's what she wants everyone to believe. While her parents work hard to provide the perfect life in the perfect house, Tracey is working hard at misbehaving. But new girl Isabella, convinced there's more to Tracey than meets the eye, enters her in the inter-school Best Brands Computers competition. And that's when Tracey's...

I arch my back high, feel my night tiger paws and night tiger claws stalk across the grass,flick my tiger tail, twitch my tiger ears,growl my night tiger groooooowwwwwl.After the sun sets, the night creeps in and it's time for bed. But darkness shrinks as the full moon springs up above the trees, lighting the garden and inviting a child...

Tough and gutsy PI Lou Alcott returns with a terrifyingly gritty new case that takes her deep into the dark web. Perfect for fans of Jacqueline Bublitz and Jane Caro. While juggling a missing person case with unexpected ties close to home and saving an innocent woman and her child from a dangerous domestic situation, Lou ends up in the...

Gutsy PI Lou Alcott takes charge in this brilliantly crafted, gritty thriller. Perfect for readers of Jacqueline Bublitz, Jane Caro, and Sarah Bailey. SHORTLISTED - 2025 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Novel SHORTLISTED - NZ Booklovers Awards 2025 She's the one to turn to when you need saving. But first, she has to save herself... Lou Alcott is turning over...

Shortlisted for the 2018 CWA Debut Dagger for unpublished first novel Longlisted for the Ngaio Marsh Award 2020 She hasn't seen her brother in years. Now, he's dead. When Judi Westerholme finds out her estranged brother has been murdered, she assumes it's connected to his long-term drug addiction. Returning home, she is shocked to discover he had been clean for...

There's nothing more dangerous than revenge. Judi Westerholme has been through it. Brave and strong-willed, she's just about coping in her new role as foster parent to her orphaned niece, taking a job at the local pub to help make ends meet. Then the pub's landlord and Judi's friend, army veteran Pete 'Macca' Maccasfield, is murdered, and her world is...

A dead employee. A missing child. Anonymous phone calls in the dead of night. Judi Westerholme's troubles aren't over yet... Already struggling to juggle co-running the local pub with her childcare responsibilities for her orphaned niece, Judi does not need life to become any more complicated. Yet, as usual, complications arrive in spades: she starts receiving threatening, late-night phone calls...

Gutsy new PI Lou Alcott takes charge in this brilliantly crafted thriller. Twisty, gritty and unputdownable, in this story the underdog is fighting back. Perfect for readers of Sarah Bailey and Jane Caro's The Mother. She's the one to turn to when you need saving. But first she has to save herself... Lou Alcott is turning over a new leaf...

Nicholas Nosh, the littlest pirate in the world, wasn't allowed to go to sea. So his parents boarded their ship, The Pig's Breakfast, and sailed off to capture treasure. Left at home with his babysitter and some lazy pirates, Nicholas had other ideas. He was so bored that he decided to run away from home and learn how to be...

Now I Am Bigger captures all the excitement and wonder of a small child's world, when every day brings something new — new teeth, new words, new shoes, new bed — and every little change is very, very BIG.

When cricket season is over, there's only one thing to do... play soccer! Soccer season is here, and Ellyse is desperate to pull on her boots and start dribbling and defending. Unlike club cricket where she is the only girl on the team, her best friends Charlie and Jazz also play soccer, and it's so much fun! But on the...

Catch, run, sidestep ...score! Ellyse Perry 3: Winning Touch follows Ellyse, who is eager to start playing touch footy again - touchdowns are the best! However, with homework piling up and training every night of the week, it seems like everything might be getting too much to handle. Ellyse realises she may need to make some major changes. There's also...

While Nicholas Nosh, the Littlest Pirate, is sailing home from an expedition to get special food for his birthday party, his crew is overcome by a terrible smell. Soon the Golden Pudding is boarded by a band of pirates led by Captain Stinker, the dirtiest, ugliest, smelliest pirate in the Seven Seas, and Nicholas and his crew are taken captive....