Download my 2025 Book Week poem, 'Book an Adventure' here.

Coming in June 2025

This endearing picture book in rhyme is a love letter to bookshops and the space they provide for discovery and delight. A little boy adores visiting the old bookshop down Lemon Tree Lane with his grandpa – its nooks and crannies, its endless stories, and even the bookshop dog at the back. That is, until the day the owners box up the books, take down the shelves and lock the doors, and the bookshop is no more. But then something wonderful happens …
Published by Hardie Grant
Illustrated by Sofya Karmazina


YA Fiction

The fog is coming. And when it does, everything disappears . . .
One girl. Two identities. Three friends.
One disappears. One forgets. One remembers.
There is truth in every tale . . . Find it!


A frighteningly creepy supernatural YA thriller that chills to the bone with imagined and real horrors.


Witches only exist in stories. Everyone knows that. But what if the stories are real?
FOUR FRIENDS. FOUR TRUTHS. ONE NIGHTMARE.
If you wander into the wood …
If you hear scratching sounds from the Old Quarry …
If you go too close to the edge
WATCH. OUT.

2023 CBCA Shortlist - Older Readers 2023 Prime Minister's Literary Prize Shortlist - Young Adult

2022 Readings Prize - Young Adult

Picture Books

Where is Cheeky Monster?

Penguin Australia

The Christmas Train

Hardie Grant

Let's Build a Backyard

Hachette Australia

Let's Build a House

Hachette Australia

Bad Herbert

Larrikin House

Olivia's Voice

MidnightSun Publishing

Vanishing

MidnightSun Publishing


Mike's Funny Poetry Books

Each with 99 poems
A Load of New Nonsense
Tales from an Alien's Toe
Things and Other Stuff
Big Silly and Little Sensible
© Copyright Mike Lucas