Isobelle Carmody (Author)

About

Isobelle Carmody is Australia's most highly acclaimed author of fantasy titles for older readers.  She began her first book, Obernewtyn, when she was fourteen and since then she has written some of our greatest works of fantasy. Whilst she is perhaps best known for the Obernewtyn Chronicles (now comprising six volumes), her novel The Gathering  was joint winner of the 1993 Children's Literature Peace Prize and the 1994 CBC Book of the Year Award. Also, Greylands, was joint winner of the 1997 Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction - Young Adult Division, and was named a White Raven at the 1998 Bologna Children's Book Fair.  She has written many short stories for both children and adults and her picture book The Wrong Thing, illustrated by Declan Lee.

Isobelle's first book in a new series for younger readers, Kingdom of the Lost: The Red Wind was winner of the CBC 2011 – Younger Readers Award. The Red Queen, the much-anticipated final book in The Obernetwyn series, will be released at the end of 2012.

Isobelle divides her time between Prague in the Czech Republic and her home on the Great Ocean Road in Australia. 

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Book Cover: A Fox Called Sorrow: The Legend of Little Fur
A half-starved fox was limping towards the outskirts of the sprawling grey city over which the storm spread its black and ragged wings. It stopped to sniff at the wind and read the warnings and signals. But its anguish was so great that if the world were to end it would not have minded. It limped on. The fate of the elf-troll Little Fur, becomes entangled with the mysterious fox, Sorrow, who longs...
A half-starved fox was limping towards the outskirts of the sprawling grey city over which the storm spread its black and ragged wings. It stopped to sniff at the wind and read the warnings and signals...
Published: 01/05/2006
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780670040940
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover: A Fox Called Sorrow: The Legend of Little Fur
Little Fur is an elf troll who lives in a secret wilderness at the heart of a great human city. She is a healer and she sings to the ancient trees that protect the small wilderness.
Little Fur is an elf troll who lives in a secret wilderness at the heart of a great human city. She is a healer and she sings to the ancient trees that protect the small wilderness.
Published: 25/01/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143300731
RRP: $16.95
Book Cover: A Fox Called Sorrow: The Legend of Little Fur
Little Fur is an elf troll who lives in a secret wilderness at the heart of a great human city. She is a healer and she sings to the ancient trees that protect the small wilderness.
Little Fur is an elf troll who lives in a secret wilderness at the heart of a great human city. She is a healer and she sings to the ancient trees that protect the small wilderness.
Published: 25/01/2012
Format: Digital
ISBN: 9781742534602
Book Cover: A Riddle of Green: The Legend of Little Fur

'The words of the deepest foretellings are riddles that want solving.'

'A riddle,' Little Fur echoed, and the word tasted tricky and complicated on her tongue and in her mind.

'Only in understanding the riddle can its solution be found.'

All her life, Little Fur has healed others. This time, it is she who needs healing.

'The words of the deepest foretellings are riddles that want solving.'

'A riddle,' Little Fur echoed, and the word tasted tricky and complicated on her tongue and in her mind.

'Only in understanding the...

Published: 27/10/2008
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780670040957
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Alyzon Whitestarr
Published: 26/09/2005
Format: Digital
ISBN: 9781742280790

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21 Feb 2012
The 60th Annual APA Book Design Awards - Shortlisted

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The Art of Pasta, cover designed by Daniel New, internal design by Daniel New, published by Lantern

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