ALL TITLES BY CATHERINE BATESON
A slick, tough, saucy & bold love story for Young Adults.
Contemporary, racy, spiced with street-speak, contemplative, sensitive & lyrical story.
Strong characterisation with a mixed bag of narrative ...
"And bigger than all of that, I knew that sometimes
you had to do the impossible like eat oysters
or go shopping even when you could hardly breathe
because that is what people did
when they truly love ...
A page turning Young Adult sequel to A Dangerous Girl. Once again, Catherine successfully uses a variety of poetic forms including haiku, free verse, free renga and acrostic to achieve a richly deep n ...
At the heart of this collection is the powerful sequence "Notes from Ward Seven West". It opens with the haunting meditation "This Is the Poem", winner of the prestigious John Shaw Neilson Award. In p ...
Rain May and her mum escape their old inner-city life for a dream house in the country. But there are more than a few suprises in store - like discovering a platypus or the fun of fridge poetry and p ...
"Sometimes you just happen to be in the right place at a time when history is being made - but that doesn't mean anything by itself. Anyone can be in that place and turn their back on it. You have t ...
Abattoir Town is just another town bypassed by the highway until Mollie arrives, lugging more than her suitcase of circus tricks.
"The daughter of an artist and a scientist, and your own interesting self, Millie. What more could you need?”
But Millie isn’t sure that Tom, her mum’s boyfriend, is right about that.
A new town, a ...
“…You are going to be pleasant and helpful, Bee, and not chase Jazzi away. I like Jazzi. I want her to be a permanent fixture in our lives and I don’t want any bratty, selfish behaviour from you spoil ...