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Don't Let Them Leave

By Mike Lucas
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A compelling and spooky thriller in the best classic ghost story tradition. Inspired by Stephen King, Mike Lucas is a modern master of suspense. One island. One house. One curse. Ghosts aren't real and houses can't come to life. Charlotte knows these facts to be true.... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
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Don't Let Them Leave

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A compelling and spooky thriller in the best classic ghost story tradition. Inspired by Stephen King, Mike Lucas is a modern master of suspense.

One island.

One house.

One curse.

Ghosts aren't real and houses can't come to life.

Charlotte knows these facts to be true.

Yet when Charlotte and her siblings are orphaned and sent to live with their grandmother on remote Black Island, she begins to realise that only one thing is certain—they shouldn't be there.

But will they ever be able to leave?

A treacherous tale of revenge and repair, and a true Gothic masterpiece that draws deep from the well of Cornish folklore. Sinister, shocking and utterly terrifying. - Margot McGovern, author of This Stays Between Us

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781761355462

Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 May 2026

Country: Australia

Imprint: Penguin Random House Australia

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 1.0mm

Width: 1.0mm

Height: 1.0mm

Weight: 1g

Pages: 384

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Children's Books Children's Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Mike Lucas Penguin Books Pre-orders Pre-orders by Release Date Young Adult

About the Author

Mike Lucas is an author of picture books and young adult novels. His YA fiction has been shortlisted for the Readings Book Prize, CBCA Book of the Year Awards and the Prime Minister's Literary Awards. His picture book Where is Cheeky Monster? won the 2025 Speech Pathology Award for children from birth to 3 years. Mike presents writing and poetry workshops at schools, owns a bookshop in Blackwood, South Australia, and works as a full-time engineer. He has very little time to sleep, but often thinks up a poem or two while he does.

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