Lily and the Fairy House

Jane Tanner

Lily knows that fairies live near the gum tree. She has created a fairy house with a rose petal bed and a gum leaf table, and today she is preparing a fairy party . . . But will the fairies come and play? Lily and the Fairy House is pure wish-fulfillment, a magical fairy book for girls of all ages....

The Chemistry of Tears

Peter Carey

When her lover dies suddenly, all Catherine has left is her work. In an act of compassion her manager at London's Swinburne Museum gives her a very particular project- a box of intricate clockwork parts that constitute a nineteenth-century automaton, a beautiful mechanical bird. It's an object made of e...