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Arabella (HB) by Carmel Bird
Category: Picture Books
A children's picture book about the relationship between two cats
Cape Grimm by Carmel Bird
Category: Fiction
On the far northwest coast of Tasmania at Cape Grimm lies the isolated and idiosyncratic community of Skye, which practises a religion that reveres the imagination. One clear evening in 1992 all the inhabitants enter the church hall, where they are locked in and burned alive. They have been persuaded to ...Show more
Cape Grimm by Bird Carmel
Category: Fiction
An evil wind blows through the air of Bass Strait, promising the birth of a charismatic child. On the far northwest coast of tasmania at Cape Grimm lies the isolates community of Skye, which practises a religion that reveres the imagination. When Caleb Mean is born, his grandmother has a vision telling ...Show more
Child of the Twilight by Carmel Bird
Category: Fiction
Sydney Kent was a longed-for IVF baby, Her mother Avila prayed to the Bambinello, a small carved and jewelled statue of the infant Jesus housed in the church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli in Rome. Father Roland Bruccoli, whose mother mother also prayed to the Bambinello is visiting the church of Santa Mari ...Show more
Dear Writer by Carmel Bird
Category: Fiction
So, you want to be a writer...First published in 1988, "Dear Writer" is Carmel Bird's classic on fiction writing, now revised and expanded for this Vintage edition. Written as a series of letters from Virginia O'Day, proprietor of the O'Day Manuscript Assessment Service, to Writer, author of the short s ...Show more
Dear Writer ...revisited...: The Classic Guide to Writing Fiction by Carmel Bird
Category: Languages and Reference
This book about writing and the imagination is essential reading for any writer, emerging or experienced. Re-released with new material and updated advice for the 21st writer. 'I first read Dear Writer as a nervy, secretive scribbler-in-journals 20 years ago. Reading this revised version I'm struck agai ...Show more
Fair Game A Tasmanian Memoir by Carmel Bird
Category: Fiction
This long essay is an engagingly personal, playful and thoughtful examination of the arrival in 1832 in Tasmania of a shipload of women, sent to redress the imbalance of genders in that colonial settlement. Carmel also has a collection of stories, My Hearts Are Your Hearts, released recently by Spineles ...Show more