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Cath Crowley is the author of the multi–award-winning Graffiti moon as well as several other books for young adults and children.


Wildlife Launch – 23 May

Fiona Wood’s new book Wildlife is divine.

Lou and Sibylla are the kind of people I’d want as friends.

This book is funny, it’s smart, it’s a snick in the heart. It’s beautifully written. Read it. And come to the launch to celebrate that a book like this is in the world.

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Life? It’s simple: be true to yourself.
The tricky part is finding out exactly who you are…

“In the holidays before the dreaded term at Crowthorne Grammar’s outdoor education camp two things out of the ordinary happened.
A picture of me was plastered all over a twenty-metre billboard.
And I kissed Ben Capaldi.”

Boarding for a term in the wilderness, sixteen-year-old Sibylla expects the gruesome outdoor education program – but friendship complications, and love that goes wrong? They’re extra-curricula.

Enter Lou from Six Impossible Things – the reluctant new girl for this term in the great outdoors. Fragile behind an implacable mask, she is grieving a death that occurred almost a year ago. Despite herself, Lou becomes intrigued by the unfolding drama between her housemates Sibylla and Holly, and has to decide whether to end her self-imposed detachment and join the fray.

And as Sibylla confronts a tangle of betrayal, she needs to renegotiate everything she thought she knew about surviving in the wild.

A story about first love, friendship and NOT fitting in.

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It’s no secret how much I loved Six Impossible Things (I read it more than six times). And I have just as much love for Wildlife.


A few people have been emailing me about The Howling Boy, asking for a taster. It won’t be ready for a little while yet, but it’s on the way. The only taster I have is this piece I wrote for one of my very talented students – Anna Cowan. Look out for her writing. She’s [...]

my morning walk my lovely creek turned to foam, which I don’t love. And a piece of artwork that I do.  

This month I went to stay with an old friend who lives in Derby, WA. So. Some pictures and a soundtrack to go with them.                       My favourite times were dusk and dark. The stars were ripe for wishing.               [...]

So I’m finishing up at Derby High School in The Kimberley.   Just one more day on Friday. I’ve been lucky enough to work with very talented storytellers. Lucky enough to read stories about what it’s like to fish for Barra, what it’s like to ride a motorbike. I can now imagine the death roll [...]

It’s National Bookshop Day! Head along to your local bookshop – fun times to be had at The Sun Bookshop in Yarraville. (I was there this morning, hanging out with the lovely crew.)     And at Dymocks Collins Street in the city, there’s a heap of things going on too.  

books and birds and butterflies, music, old cars waiting to be fixed, hoosie-watsits in the shed, and fat lights in the kitchen. my brother’s house is a writing spell.    


Book cover of 'Graffiti moon'; illustration of yellow spray can on plain black background

Graffiti moon is out now from Pan Macmillan Australia.

Find out more about Graffiti moon


We make light roads across each other

She orbits slowly, anti clockwise, like she’s unravelling air bandages

paints birds trapped on brick walls and people lost in ghost forests