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Dear Writer ...revisited...: The Classic Guide to Writing Fiction by Carmel Bird
$24.99 AUD
Category: Writing Guides | Reading Level: General Adult
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
Field of Poppies by Carmel Bird
$29.99 AUD
Category: General 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: Short Stories
'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
Telltale: Reading Writing Remembering by Carmel Bird
$32.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
'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: General 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
The Penguin Century Of Australian Stories by CARMEL BIRD (ed)
$49.27 AUD
Category: General Fiction
This landmark collection brings together the best Australian short stories written in the twentieth century.From early bush life to contemporary urban existence, The Penguin Century of Australian Stories celebrates our finest writers in all their modes: The lively comic fiction of Henry Lawson and Steel ...Show more
The Stolen Children -Their Stories by CARMEL BIRD (ed)
$23.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous
Following the unprecedented demand for the Report on the stolen children which was published by The Human Rights and Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (HEROC) and retailed at $60.00, here are extracts from the Report which are mostly comprised of the actual stories told by the stolen generations ...Show more
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