The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood

The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte WoodTwo women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in an abandoned property in the middle of a desert in a story of two friends, sisterly love and courage a gripping, starkly imaginative exploration of contemporary misogyny and corporate control, and of what it means to hunt and be hunted. Strangers to each other, they have no idea where they are or how they came to be there with eight other girls, forced to wear strange uniforms,

Aboriginal Australians lived on a wonderful larder of fresh fruit

The magic begins at teatime

It has guns

trees in a family or community are protected and can live to be very old

The lines between friend and enemy have blurred

replenishing meals and snacks

succinct intervention into a stale consensus

If a single punch kills someone because of their thin skull

It details the remarkable agricultural and land-care techniques of First Nations peoples and shows how such practices are needed now more than ever

Rod Campbell's classic lift-the-flap book has been a firm favourite with toddlers and parents alike ever since it was first published in 1982 “ no child's bookcase is complete without a well-worn copy of Dear Zoo

You might be suffering from glossophobia

Billys stories and knowledge inspired David to write the fascinating history of their family