New Releases by Judith Clarke

Exploring startup journalism and digital media platform trends in China, Taiwan and Southeast Asia, this book offers a practical insight into how to launch and run successful news operations as digitisation spreads through the region. Drawing from a range of case studies of news and journalism startups, including Malaysiakini, Hong Kong Free Press, The News Lens of Taiwan, Thailand’s The Standard, Ciwei Gongshe of China, Indonesia’s IDN Media, Sabay of Cambodia and Frontier Myanmar, this book provides tips on how to launch a news media startup, how to find funding and how to sustain and scale the enterprise. Blending a theoretical approach with core business and newsgathering expertise, the author offers an engaging overview of contemporary entrepreneurial concepts and their vital relationship in finding new markets for journalism today. Entrepreneurial journalism in greater China and Southeast Asia is an invaluable resource for both students and professionals interested in new media, startups and the Asian media market.

Frankie believed in Heaven quite literally, as if it was another lovely world out past the stars. And when he spoke the word ''''''''love'''''''', it seemed to spring free and fly into the air like a beautiful balloon you wanted to run after. But I couldn''t tell my parents about Frankie, not properly. I told them I''d made friends with the boy in the room next to mine, and how he''d come from this little town out west. I couldn''t tell them how he was becoming the best thing in my world. I couldn''t tell anyone, I hardly admitted it to myself. In the 1950s, ''entering'' the seminary was for ever, and young boys were gathered into the priesthood before they were old enough to know what they would lose. Tom went to St Finbar''s because he was looking for something more than the ordinary happiness of his home and school. But then he discovered that being able to love another person was the most important thing of all. For Tom, loving Frankie made him part of the world. Even when Frankie was gone...

This wholly satisfying Michael L. Printz Honor Book is told from multiple points of view. Lily Samson both loves and is embarrassed by her eccentric family. Her grandmother has an invisible friend; her grandfather is a racist (she believes); her mother brings elderly clients home from work for dinner; and her older brother keeps dropping in and out of school. Lily wishes her family could be "normal" for just one day. Then serendipity strikes. Through a series of surprising encounters, Lily''s family members all reach new understanding about themselves and make changes for the better—and Lily gets her dream of one whole and perfect day.

The path of Ruth''s life was shaped in one fateful moment when, as a baby she was tossed clear from a car crash. Her grandmother raised her, with a fierce hope that she would one day go to university and see every marvellous place in the world. But to do that she will have to leave Tam.

Clementine thinks her cousin Fan is everything that she could never be: beautiful, imaginative, wild. The girls promise to be best friends and sisters after the summer is over, but Clementine''s life in the city is different from Fan''s life in dusty Lake Conapaira. And Fan is looking for something, though neither she nor Clementine understands what it is. Printz Honor Winner Judith Clarke delivers a compassionate, compelling novel with the story of a friendship between two young women, and of the small tragedies that tear them apart from each other, and from themselves.

His family, peers, and teachers despair of eighteen-year-old Luke, who seems to have turned himself into a loser, failing at school, paralyzed with fear and indecision, losing touch with reality.

Poor Dulcie. After the overworked baking fairy nearly ruins breakfast, Queen Clarion tells her to take a holiday. But Dulcie''s holiday is no fun at all as her friends are too bust to spend time with her. Even worse, the bossy new baking fairy, Ginger, has taken over Dulcie''s job.

Enter Home Tree for the first time and take a peek at your favourite fairies'' bedrooms!

Neema''s great grandmother, Kalpana, is coming to visit. She''s been dreaming of flying again, and now she''s ready to leave her village in India. Neema and her friend, Kate, have just started at Wentworth High. For English they have pale Ms Dallimore; everyone calls her the Bride of Dracula. Ms Dallimore wants her students to think, and imagine - and learn to fly! At first, Neema is awkward with Kalpana. Kalpana doesn''t speak English and Neema doesn''t speak Hindi. But when they meet the flying boy, they both remember something they had lost long ago. Judith Clarke writes with tenderness and humour in this story of coming together and finding the essence of who you are. Clarke''s quiet wisdom and keen understanding will touch hearts and stimulate imagination'' Wolf on the Fold - Publishers Weekly US

Guilty over their older brother''s drowning and their mother''s subsequent breakdown, fourteen-year-old Vida ventures into the occult but it is ten-year-old Jess who meets the ghost who is trying to help them.

A collection of six interlinked stories spanning 70 years by award-winning author Judith Clarke.

Presents an abridged version of the three Al Capsella adventures.

Only Luke hears the night train. He is threatened at school, pressured by his parents, paralysed by anxiety about his final exams, Luke begins to doubt himself.

Collection of seven humorous stories for teenagers, featuring characters such as 18-year-old Andy who still harbours a grudge against his primary school teacher, and Christopher, who is convinced he''ll be bald before he turns 20. The author''s other publications include ''Friend of My Heart'', shortlisted for the 1995 Children''s Book of the Year Award, and ''The Heroic Life of Al Capsella'' which was shortlisted for the 1988 NSW Premier''s Literary Awards.

Will anyone find true love? Daz is searching for Bonny Lewis, her grandmother''s oldest friend. She''s also in love - with Valentine O''Leary, the biggest Pig at Mimosa High. Her brother William is in love with a girl he''s never spoken to; Eleanor Wand, the music teacher at Mimosa High, is in love with the Headmaster; Emerald Burns, the librarian, is in love with Dr Michael Slope ... in "Friend of My Heart", everyone is in love and everyone is doing rather badly. Just as, long ago, Bonny Lewis was in love with her best friend''s brother ... Will Daz find Bonny Lewis? Will Fat Joanna discover the secret of being thin? "She joins a growing number of outstanding writers who are bringing life ''down under'' to American readers." "American Library Association Booklist"

Al is nearly sixteen - a very dangerous age according to Mrs Capsella and the other mothers. Known to Al and his friends as the Watchdogs, they stalk the suburbs, ever alert to the perils of parties and other suspect activities.

Sixteen-year-old Al and his best friend Lou vacation without their parents in the wild, partying beach town of Scutchthorpe with unexpected results.

Sixteen-year-old Al and his best friend Lou vacation without their parents in the wild, partying beach town of Scutchthorpe with unexpected results.

Sophie and Jezebel believe they have a hard time knocking their parents into shape. They are ingenious in their efforts to frustrate and disgrace their parentss in public to gain sympathy from unsuspecting passers by.

A collection of eleven short stories on supernatural themes.

Spinechilling collection of weird and spooky stories.