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  • Dear Writer Revisited

    The Classic Guide to Writing Fiction

    par Carmel Bird ...
    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 century writer. Contains advice for writers, inspirational quotes from numerous authors as well as writing exercises.'Dear Writer Revisited is warm and nudging, firm and affirming.' Angela Meyer, Literary Minded‘I first read Dear ... En savoir plus

    $4.91 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Crimson Velvet Heart

    par Carmel Bird ...
    There was a kind of grotesquerie to the dazzle and magnificence, a vicious underlay of thorns beneath the bed of roses, and a vast shadow floating, looming overhead. The kingdom was forever at war, and there was an eerie strangeness in the shining trio of the king, his wife, and the little princess from Savoy.It is 1696. Louis XIV, absolute monarch in his sunset years, with his secret wife by his ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD

  • Field of Poppies

    par Carmel Bird ...
    *Longlisted for the 2020 Davitt Awards: Adult Crime*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 after a neighbour is murdered. The violent ... En savoir plus

    $16.79 CAD

  • The Dead Aviatrix

    Eight Short Stories

    par Carmel Bird ...
    Collections series Capsule Collections
    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 are among the subjects Carmel Bird addresses in her characteristic probing style.Carmel Bird's ... En savoir plus

    $4.91 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Love Letter to Lola

    par Carmel Bird ...
    '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 preserving a wise, sly, humorous, and ironic point of view. The thylacine, the dodo, the ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • Child of the Twilight

    par Carmel Bird ...
    A luminous novel that both questions and celebrates the miraculous 'fresh and brilliant ... the sort of book that keeps on unfolding in the imagination, long after you've finished reading it.' Gabrielle Lord'It is strange and fascinating to me to think of people - Avila in particular - praying me into existence.' Nineteen-year-old Sydney Peony Kent was a longed-for IVF baby. Her mother, Avila, not ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • Telltale

    Reading Writing Remembering

    par Carmel Bird ...
    '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-loved Thornton Wilder’s The Bridge of San Luis Rey, appear to be stubbornly elusive. Her library is ... En savoir plus

    $16.79 CAD

  • Writing The Story Of Your Life

    par Carmel Bird ...
    In Writing the Story of Your Life, Carmel Bird, author of the classic writing guide Dear Writer, brings you down-to-earth advice, inspirational quotations and suggestions and practical exercises. Clear and easy-to-use, it is an essential reference tool for anyone thinking about writing, or anyone who loves writing. ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • Red Shoes

    Mandala Trilogy 2

    par Carmel Bird ...
    Collections Livre 87 - Untapped
    Petra Penfold-Knight is the leader of a religious cult. Many join because of the persuasive charm of privileged Petra. But not all. Some ‘members’ are babies stolen from their unmarried mothers.Red Shoes—so-called because the wearing of them is a mark of membership —could have been a straightforward thriller or suspense novel. It’s not. Carmel Bird has Petra’s guardian angel tell the story. And ... En savoir plus

    $11.80 CAD

  • The White Garden

    Mandala Trilogy 1

    par Carmel Bird ...
    Collections Livre 86 - Untapped
    ‘It is an intensely emotional experience to read The White Garden; although an intensely aesthetic one as well. Dr. Ambrose Goddard is a psychologist who sadistically abuses his patients. (He is based on a real-life Australian case of about a generation ago). His air of superiority and professional know-how masks a desperate and seemingly imperturbable desire to control others, especially young ... En savoir plus

    $11.80 CAD

  • Cape Grimm

    Mandala Trilogy 3

    par Carmel Bird ...
    Collections Livre 88 - Untapped
    Caleb Mean is born into a religious community in remote north-west Tasmania and grows up believing he is the Chosen One. On his 33rd birthday, he commits a terrible, destructive act: but why?First published in 2004, Cape Grimm concludes award-winning author Carmel Bird’s compelling Mandala trilogy, which examines the dark danger of charismatic leaders.Novelist, essayist and non-fiction writer ... En savoir plus

    $11.80 CAD

  • Livre audio

    Cape Grimm

    par Carmel Bird ...
    Lu par Humphrey Bower, Nicki Paull ...

    Version Longue

    10 heure 33 min

    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 do this by a young man called Caleb Mean - also known as El Nino, the Christ Child. The only ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD