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Obernewtyn: The Obernewtyn Chronicles Volume 1
  • Published: 1 June 1993
  • ISBN: 9780140178548
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $22.99

Obernewtyn: The Obernewtyn Chronicles Volume 1

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1 June 1993
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The iconic YA fantasy that became a much-loved classic, from the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of the Obernewtyn Chronicles and The Gathering.
SHORTLISTED: 1988 CBCA Book of the Year, Older Readers

For Elspeth Gordie freedom is - like so much else after the Great White - a memory.

It was a time known as the Age of Chaos. In a final explosive flash everything was destroyed. The few who survived banded together and formed a Council for protection. But people like Elspeth - mysteriously born with powerful mental abilities - are feared by the Council and hunted down like animals . . . to be destroyed.

Her only hope for survival is to keep her power hidden. But is secrecy enough against the terrible might of the Council?

'Powerful, thrilling and addictive . . . the kind of novel that leaves you thinking long after you devour its pages.' Kids' Book Review
  • Published: 1 June 1993
  • ISBN: 9780140178548
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Isobelle Carmody

Isobelle Carmody is one of Australia's most highly acclaimed authors of fantasy. At fourteen, she began Obernewtyn, the first book in her much-loved Obernewtyn Chronicles, and has since written many works in this genre. Her novel The Gathering was joint winner of the 1993 Children's Literature Peace Prize and the 1994 CBCA Book of the Year Award, and Greylands was joint winner of the 1997 Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction (Young Adult category), and was named a White Raven at the 1998 Bologna Children's Book Fair.

Isobelle's work for younger readers includes her two series, The Legend of Little Fur, and The Kingdom of the Lost, the first book of which, The Red Wind, won the CBCA Book of the Year Award for Younger Readers in 2011. She has also written several picture books as well as collections of short stories for children, young adults and adults.

Recently she completed a PhD at the University of Queensland and currently divides her time between her home on the Great Ocean Road in Victoria and Brisbane.

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Also by Isobelle Carmody

The Kingdom of the Lost Book 4: The Velvet City
The Kingdom of the Lost Book 3: The Ice Maze
The Red Queen: The Obernewtyn Chronicles Volume 7
The Obernewtyn Chronicles: Books 1 - 6
The Kingdom of the Lost Book 2: The Cloud Road
The Sending: The Obernewtyn Chronicles Volume 6
Obernewtyn Chronicles Volume 1: Popular Penguins
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Praise for Obernewtyn: The Obernewtyn Chronicles Volume 1

A book about persecution, discrimination and freedom . . . an underdog story about fighting for what is right . . . Carmody writes with gripping suspense, splicing in details with mystery and intrigue, leaving you begging for more . . . If you like science fiction and fantasy, you will like this book. If you like adventure and epic tales, you will like this book. If you like stories about strong heroines and underdogs who fight back, you will like this book. And the series that follows.

Kids' Book Review

Beautifully written and painstakingly imagined, with the kind of detailed world-building and intricate plotting that has ensured each new book is better than the last. It also boasts the most iron-willed, big-hearted and strong-minded heroine I have ever encountered.

Sarah McDuling, Booktopia