3 books by Carmel Bird
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Overview: Carmel Bird is an Australian novelist. Her novels include literary fiction, crime, picture books and satire.
Genre: Fiction | General Fiction/Classics | Australia
Cape Grimm
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 her he is the Chosen One. On Caleb’s 33rd birthday, he locks the whole community into the meeting hall and incinerates them. the only survivors are Caleb, his lover Virginia, and their baby daughter, Golden. How could such a thing happen? Do the answers lie in the history of Skye itself, founded by the unlikely survivors of a 19th-century shipwreck? Or do the only real clues lie in the dark truths of fairytales? Cape Grimm is a chilling and bewitching novel about the terrible power of faith, and confirms Carmel Bird as one of our finest and most original writers.
Child of the Twilight
It is strange and fascinating to me to think of people — Avila in particular — praying me into existence.′
Sydney Peony Kent is nineteen years old. She was a longed-for IVF baby, ′product of an unknown egg and unknown sperm′ implanted in her mother, Avila. Avila not only used the latest scientific techniques to conceive Sydney, but also prayed to the Bambinello, a small carved and jewelled statue of the infant Jesus housed in the church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli in Rome and said to have miraculous properties.
Avila′s distant relative Father Roland Bruccoli was conceived in a more conventional manner, but his mother too prayed to the Bambinello before his birth — and that of his twin sister Eleena. It is when the adult Roland is visiting the church of Santa Maria one evening that the Bambinello is stolen. Roland hopes that Father Cosimo, an archivist, poet and riddler said to speak in the ancient green language of the troubadours, can assist in discovering what has happened to the Bambinello. But when matters of belief are involved, nothing is straightforward, as Sydney discovers herself when she too becomes caught up in tracing the Bambinello′s fate. Deftly weaving together religion, science, pregnancies wanted and unwanted, love, loss and belief, Carmel Bird has created a luminous novel that both questions and celebrates the miraculous.
The Essential Bird- The Very Best Stories from Carmel Bird
A landmark selection of outstanding stories from one of Australia’s finest writers Carmel Bird is acknowledged as one of the masters of short story writing in Australia. She is one of the most exciting, original and electrifying writers around. this collection brings together the best of her short stories to date. Stories to beguile, bedazzle, disturb and amuse. Stories that nudge reality’s farthest borders, explore history’s darkest moments, and redefine the human spirit’s infinite capacity for wonder – and love. through the shimmering veil of fiction, Carmel Bird gives us a world that is both whimsical and profound, and unquestionably her own.
—‘I think Carmel Bird’s stories are terrific, and the first thing any review should say is, simply, buy them.’ Sydney Morning Herald
—‘These short stories are of the rare sort that you should avoid reading alone. They are about people we could never have guessed were so loveable.’ The Australian
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