Rebecca Lim was born in Singapore, migrating to rural Australia in the early 1970s. She works across the genres of crime, fantasy and mystery, and brings Chinese mythology, dialect and culture into contemporary Australian and global settings. She is the co-founder of the Voices from the Intersection initiative and a co-editor of Meet Me at the Intersection, a groundbreaking anthology of YA #OwnVoice memoir, poetry and fiction.

Rebecca is the creator of nineteen books, including The Astrologer’s Daughter (a Kirkus Best Book of 2015 and CBCA Notable Book for Older Readers) and the bestselling Mercy. Her work has been shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award, Aurealis Award, INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award and Davitt Award, and longlisted for the Gold Inky Award and the David Gemmell Legend Award.

Rebecca wrote the adventures of Qing and Harley for kids like her own, and their diverse group of friends, because when she was growing up (and this is not a writerly exaggeration) she never read any stories featuring people like her.

Rebecca’s latest novel, The Race for the Red Dragon: Children of the Dragon 2, is out now through Allen & Unwin. 

Find out more about Rebecca at:

Facebook: @Rebecca.Lim.906

Instagram: @rebeccalim_writer

Photo credit: Eugenia Lim

The Endsister, by Penni Russon

Meet the Outhwaite children. There's teenage Else, the violinist who abandons her violin. There's nature-loving Clancy. There's the inseparable twins, Oscar-and-Finn, Finn-and-Oscar. And then there is Sibbi, the baby of the family. They all live contentedly squabbling in a cottage surrounded by trees and possums... until a letter arrives to say they have inherited the old family home in London. 

Outhwaite House is full of old shadows and new possibilities. The boys quickly find their feet in London, and Else is hoping to reinvent herself. But Sibbi is misbehaving, growing thinner and paler by the day, and she won't stop talking about the mysterious endsister. Meanwhile Almost Annie and Hardly Alice, the resident ghosts, are tied to the house for reasons they have long forgotten, watching the world around them change, but never leaving.

The one thing they all agree on - the living and the dead - is never, ever to open the attic door...

Thanks to our friends at Walker Books, we have three copies of new middle grade release Hapless Hero Henrie to give away. This is book one in a new series by Petra James, a funny, action-filled story about heroes in training.

Head to our WIN page and simply tell us your favourite fantastical creature. Enter your answer (or ask a parent to) by 5pm Tuesday 21st May to be in the running.