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Cape Grimm by Bird Carmel
$22.95 AUD
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
Fair Game A Tasmanian Memoir by Carmel Bird
$10.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
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
Family Skeleton by Carmel Bird
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
From inside her Toorak mansion, Margaret, matriarch, widow of Edmund Rice O'Day of O'Day Funerals, secretly surveys her family in the garden. Everyone, including Margaret herself, is oblivious to the secrets that threaten to be uncovered by a visiting American relative who is determined to excavate the ...Show more
Field of Poppies by Carmel Bird
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Keen to escape the pressures of city life, Marsali Swift and her husband William are drawn to Listowel, a glorious historic mansion in the seemingly tranquil small town of Muckleton. There is time to read, garden, decorate, play chess and befriend the locals. Yet one night Listowel is robbed, and soon a ...Show more
Love Letter to Lola by Carmel Bird
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'You clamber up, heading for the exit, the circle of faint light, as the radiance of the pre-dawn leads you on toward freedom. I follow. You spread your darling wings. You enter the net that awaits you.'Bold, tender, and often fantastical, Love Letter to Lola enters the very pain of loss and grief while ...Show more
My Hearts are Your Hearts by Carmel Bird
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
What are the hares getting up to among the sunflowers? Who is paying $6000 for a raincoat? The priest is good, kind, adored, believed - but can the schoolgirl trust him? Who kills his wife and dumps the body in the pool? What if you find your death was listed long ago online? With lightness in the telli ...Show more
Penguin Century Of Australian Stories The by Carmel Bird
$35.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
This landmark collection brings together the best Australian short stories written in the 20th century. From early bush life to urban existence it celebrates our finest writers in all their modes: the lively comic fiction of Henry Lawson and Steele Rudd, the distinctive imaginations of Christina Stead a ...Show more
Telltale: Reading Writing Remembering by Carmel Bird
$32.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
'I was confined, locked into my library, tracing my heartbeats from way, way back.’ In Telltale, Carmel Bird seizes on an enforced isolation to re-read a rich dispensary of books from her past. A rule she sets herself is that she can consult only the books in her house, even if some, such as the much-l ...Show more
The Dead Aviatrix by Carmel Bird
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: SW Smalls Ser.
In prose that sparkles with wit, shocks with insight, and beguiles with the air of legend, these seven stories take the reader from post-apocalyptic Tasmania to the tragedy of surrogate pregnancy in the 1950s. Loss of species, the whims of publishers, the question of Islam in regional Australia - these ...Show more
Writing the Story of Your Life: The Ultimate Guide to Writing Your Memoir by Carmel Bird
$24.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
Ever wanted to write your own life story but didn't know where to start. Full of down to earth advice, inspirational references and suggestions and practical exercises.
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