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🚂 Look out for our books on Aussie public transport
🖊 Co-authors @aliandmichelle
#️⃣ #booksontherail
📍Australia

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🚂📚 BOOKS ON THE RAIL

Yesterday, I joined the @booksontherail movement!

I left a copy of A Few Shades Greener and Eye to Eye on a random seat on a metro train bound for Melbourne.

Who knows where they are now!

How does it work?
👉🏽 Find a book on a train, tram or bus & take it home with you!

👉🏽 Read it, love it, review it

👉🏽 Return it to any train, tram or bus for others to enjoy!

I'm adding my own in there: sign it!

Are there any book ninjas out there?
Has anyone played this game?

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To celebrate the special editions of Scythe @nealshusterman being released on 2nd of September @booksontherail & @walkerbooksaus have given me a few copies. So now I can do my civic duty and become a book ninja! So look out Brisbane - today there are some Scythe books on the loose!

Synopsis:

A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery. Humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Now scythes are the only ones who can end life—and they are commanded to do so, in order to keep the size of the population under control.
Citra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scythe—a role that neither wants. These teens must master the “art” of taking life, knowing that the consequence of failure could mean losing their own.

* Dystopian
* Trials & Tribulations
* Reluctant Heroes
* Corrupt Institution
* Political Intrigue

Have you read this one yet?

#scythenealshusterman #bookninja #newrelease #specialeditionbooks #bookstagram

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Scythe by @nealshusterman has been seen riding the bus between Ballarat and Melbourne as well as travelling on local buses in Ballarat and Delacombe courtesy of @booksontherail @walkerbooksaus and some very sneaky book ninjas 🥷

A TIME MAGAZINE BEST YA BOOK OF ALL TIME

SYNOPSIS:
What if death was the only thing left to control?

In the not-too-distant future, humans have cured hunger, disease, war, crime – even death. Now scythes are the only ones who can end a life – and they are commanded to do so to keep the size of the population under control.

Citra and Rowan are both chosen to be apprentices to a scythe – something neither of them wants. Forced together, they must perfect the skill of taking a life, competing against each other for just one scythe position. But then it becomes clear that the winning apprentice’s first task will be to kill the loser...
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#scythe #yabooks #booksontherail #walkerbooksaus

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✨Book Mail✨

Come open some book mail from @walkerbooksaus and @booksontherail with me!

#bookishreel #bookmail #bookcommunity #booksontherail #books

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WRITING WORKSHOPS

In the lead-up to WPW26, we are delighted to announce two writing workshops on Saturday 19 September. And even more thrilled to welcome presenters Melissa Manning, and Ali Berg & Michelle Kalus.

In The Craft of Short Stories, Melissa Manning explores the art of creating engaging short stories, from story arc to characters, in a 90-minute hands-on workshop.

In Writing Romance, co-authors Ali Berg and Michelle Kalus share their experience of what makes a captivating romance in a practical, interactive workshop that includes writing exercises.

Book a great value Day Pass to attend both sessions. Or purchase tickets to the session that suits you.

🗓️ Saturday 19 September
⏰ 11am to 2pm
📍Hastings Community Hub
1973 Frankston-Flinders Rd Hastings
🔗 Link in bio

#WPW26
#writingworkshops
#emergingwriters
#tellingstories

THE CRAFT OF SHORT STORIES
Presenter: Melissa Manning

There’s an art to creating a compelling short story. Join award-winning writer Melissa Manning to discover the
elements of an engaging story. In this workshop Melissa will focus on building a convincing narrative, a persuasive
story arc, and creating characters with depth – all in short form. The workshop includes writing exercises to help
refine your technique and captivate readers.

Melissa Manning’s debut short story collection, Smokehouse, won the 2022 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction, and was shortlisted for the University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award. Her award-winning stories have been published widely, including in The Best Small Fictions (US), To Carry Her Home (UK), Award Winning Australian Writing and Overland.

@lissmanning
#smokehouse
#frogsong
@uqpbooks

WRITING ROMANCE
Presenters: Ali Berg & Michelle Kalus

Join Ali Berg and Michelle Kalus, co-authors of four romance novels, and
hear their tips on how to craft authentic characters and build chemistry; the impact of a compelling narrative; romance genres and tropes; and the road to publication.
The workshop will include writing exercises and Q&A.

Ali Berg and Michelle Kalus, best friends since primary school, are the co-founders of Australian social initiative Books on the

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🚂 Books on the Rail 🚂

Five Found Dead
by @sularigentill

What a fabulous selection for my Indian Pacific train trip! I actually received 5 of these to distribute last year but knew I had this trip booked so I sneakily kept one back. I read it on the rails, left it in the Chairman's Lounge, then went back in the morning and it was gone!!! Someone found a book on the rail!!! I hope they loved it as much as I did. It was the perfect train choice but would have been awesome anywhere. A moody, Christie-esque mystery.

Thanks @booksontherail for sending these and sorry I held one back for so long. It was just too perfect. 🥰

#booksontherail #fivefounddead #indianpacific #orientexpress

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#BookDrop

My first book drop of 2026 for @booksontherail it’s so awesome to be back, I get such a buzz about going out being a Ninja and dropping books for people to find!

Today I dropped copies of the YA thriller The Game of Oaths by S. C. Bandreddi in St Helens on Tasmania’s North East Coast.

See more about the book in the comments below ⬇️

A big thank you to @booksontherail and @walkerbooksaus for making this drop possible.

#BookNinja #YAThriller #ComeFindMe

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✨ @booksontherail Ninja Book Drop✨

We’re on last leg of our holiday and when I saw we were flying out of the international terminal in Cairns I had to do a book drop!

I’ve had the best time away and I’ve been thinking about the books I’ve dropped along the way. Has anyone found them? Have they enjoyed a little bit of book joy? I really hope one day I find one in the ‘wild’

I hope everyone has an amazing week this week! I can’t wait to show you the bookish goodies I’m coming home with

Thank you again @booksontherail and @walkerbooksaus for sending me some copies to take away with me!!
#booksontherail #bookninja #bookishreels #bookcommunity #bookstagrammer

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This wonderful YA novel by S C Bandreddi is riding the buses and the trains around Ballarat this week. THE perfect read to get your heart pounding and your blood pumping during this extreme burst of winter weather we have been hit with. The perfect excuse to curl up in front of the heater and out of the rain.

Power, revenge and sisterhood combine in this heart-pounding YA fantasy debut, set in a magical circus in Belle Époque Paris.

Trapeze artist Falan Sunkara is a performer in Paris’s famous magical circus, le Cirque des Ombres. Le Cirque is ruled by Jean-Pierre, ringmaster and Enchanteur, one of the few magicians in the city legally allowed to use magic for entertainment. But the glamour of the circus is just another illusion. Each year, twelve members must compete in the Game of Oaths, a brutal tournament watched by the city’s elite. Only one will survive.

Last year, Falan’s sister was one of the unlucky eleven. This year, Falan is out for revenge.
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#booksontherail @booksontherail @walkerbooksaus @scbandreddi #thegameofoaths #yafiction

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