Isobelle Carmody
Author of Obernewtyn
About the Author
Isobelle Carmody was born in Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia on June 16, 1958. She is the author of the Obernewtyn Chronicles, the Legend of Little Fur series, and the Kingdom of The Lost series. She also illustrated the last two series. She has received numerous awards including the Talking Book show more of the Year in 1992 for Scatterlings, the Children's Literature Peace Prize in 1994 for The Gathering, an Aurealis Award for Darksong, a Golden Aurealis for Alyzon Whitestarr, and the 2016 Bronze Ledger Award for Evermore. She was also voted Australia's Favourite Author in Booktopia's annual poll in 2016. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Series
Works by Isobelle Carmody
Darkbane 8 copies
The Stone Key 7 copies
The Man Who Lost His Shadow 3 copies
Perchance To Dream 3 copies
The Phoenix 3 copies
The Sending 2 copies
The Pumpkin-Eater 1 copy
The Keystone 1 copy
Long Live the Giant! 1 copy
The Dove Game 1 copy
Associated Works
Dreaming Again: Thirty-five New Stories Celebrating the Wild Side of Australian Fiction (2008) — Contributor — 96 copies, 6 reviews
The Road to Camelot: Tales of the Young Merlin, Arthur, Lancelot and More (2002) — Contributor — 39 copies
She's Fantastical: The First Anthology of Australian Women's Speculative Fiction, Magical Realism and Fantasy (1995) — Contributor — 34 copies, 1 review
Into the Future: another exciting collection of stories from sixteen of Australia's top children's authors (1991) — Contributor — 13 copies
Bittersweet [eleven new stories of... anguish, thrills, heartache, and humour] (1992) — Contributor — 4 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Carmody, Isobelle Jane
- Birthdate
- 1958-06-16
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- Australia
- Birthplace
- Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia
- Places of residence
- Victoria, Australia
- Occupations
- fantasy writer
- Relationships
- Stolba, Jan (husband)
- Awards and honors
- Aurealis Awards
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Discussions
a gate? in Name that Book (June 2014)
Fantasy wolf novel in Name that Book (September 2012)
Reviews
The Farseekers: The Obernewtyn Chronicles - Book Two by Isobelle Carmody
2nd in the Obernewtyn Series, I liked this better than the first one.
I loved this SO MUCH and the only thing I was sad about was that there wasn't more of the last third of the book; I felt like the first third was so intricately detailed and then by the end it was a wee bit rushed. Not enough to take a star off though!
Banana, anyone?
Banana, anyone?
Love Isobelle Carmody. Would have loved the book a whole lot more if I wasn't dealing with depression right now, because I didn't cotton on going in that I was going to be reading about depression and suicide. OOPS. She still deserves four stars though because it's not her fault I read it at a bad time and as usual her prose was fab and the story all fit together beautifully.
Representation: N/A
Trigger warnings: Imprisonment, near-death experience, fire, death of a person from a weapon shot, disappearance of a person
Score: Seven points out of ten.
This review can also be found on The StoryGraph.
I wanted to read this for a while and when I saw one of the two libraries I regularly go to have this I picked it up and read it. This was again, another piece of Australian literature like the last book I've read but this is different from that though it is, dare I say it, not that original since it reminded me of The Prison Healer by Lynette Noni. The novel starts with the backstory explaining superficially and vaguely I might add about how the world in this story came to be and then it cuts main character Elspeth Gordie or Elspeth for short who has powers that no one knows about yet. Elspeth soon finds herself in a prison called Obernewtyn, hence the title where she stays for most of the book and that part is where the novel slowed its pacing. At least I got to see what living in Obernewtyn was like but the vague worldbuilding dampened my enjoyment and I struggled to connect to any of the characters. There are six more books in the series but I'm not rushing to finish the series.… (more)
Trigger warnings: Imprisonment, near-death experience, fire, death of a person from a weapon shot, disappearance of a person
Score: Seven points out of ten.
This review can also be found on The StoryGraph.
I wanted to read this for a while and when I saw one of the two libraries I regularly go to have this I picked it up and read it. This was again, another piece of Australian literature like the last book I've read but this is different from that though it is, dare I say it, not that original since it reminded me of The Prison Healer by Lynette Noni. The novel starts with the backstory explaining superficially and vaguely I might add about how the world in this story came to be and then it cuts main character Elspeth Gordie or Elspeth for short who has powers that no one knows about yet. Elspeth soon finds herself in a prison called Obernewtyn, hence the title where she stays for most of the book and that part is where the novel slowed its pacing. At least I got to see what living in Obernewtyn was like but the vague worldbuilding dampened my enjoyment and I struggled to connect to any of the characters. There are six more books in the series but I'm not rushing to finish the series.… (more)
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