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Is your mum's idea of the perfect Mother's Day a breakfast in bed and a great new book to read? You're on your own with the breakfast part, but we can help with the book. Load up Mum's e-reader with something from our selection today. Songbird (GriffinSong Trilogy #1) A twentieth century woman is lost in a fantasy world with nothing but the clothes on her back and her innate humanity. This is the story of her compelling need to redefine herself. When Irenya O’Neil suffers a panic attack and falls into the realm of Dar Orien, a world with...

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We are psyched about Halloween, which is just around the corner. It's growing in popularity outside the US, and most of us just see it as a bit of fun. But did you know, before Halloween became all about costumes and candy, it had its roots in things more soulful? Or dare I say, even morbid? In the olden days, having a cemetery within walking distance was common. People lived quite close to death. Plagues, crop failures, and witch hunts were not novelties. Halloween scholars say perhaps this intimate association with incomprehensible things gave birth to Halloween later on.  As...

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Odyssey Book is 10 years old this July. Help us celebrate in our biggest book sale yet! This weekend only: A Perfect Square, by Isobel Blackthorn Across two continents, two sets of mothers and daughters are bound by a dark mystery. On a winter’s day in the Dandenongs, Victoria, pianist Ginny returns home to stay with her eccentric mother and artist, Harriet. Consumed by disturbing dreams, speculations and remembering, she tries to prise from her mother the truth concerning her father’s disappearance and why, when she was seven, Harriet abducted her. In an effort to distract her daughter’s interrogations, Harriet...

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Canberra's own pop culture event, GAMMA.COM, is not far away so we thought we'd flash back a couple of years to Odyssey intern Kate's first time at the convention. (This post was first published at Internal Phrasing, a blog for Odyssey interns to share their experiences with other young people wanting a career in publishing.) It was a couple of weeks ago now that I attended my first GAMMA.CON, Canberra’s answer to Comic-Con. Being my first experience not only of GAMMA.CON, but in fact any Con, I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect. At first I did a loop around...

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