Isobelle divides her time between Prague in the Czech Republic and her home on the Great Ocean Road in Australia. Isobelle's first book in a new series for younger readers, Kingdom of the Lost: The Red Wind was winner of the CBC 2011 - Younger Readers Award. She has written many short stories for both children and adults and her picture book The Wrong Thing, illustrated by Declan Lee.

Obernewtyn & The Farseekers (2000) O/1,2 also appeared as. Also, Greylands, was joint winner of the 1997 Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction - Young Adult Division, and was named a White Raven at the 1998 Bologna Children's Book Fair. Author: Isobelle Carmody Author Record 3182 Legal Name: Carmody, Isobelle Jane.

Whilst she is perhaps best known for the Obernewtyn Chronicles (now comprising six volumes), her novel The Gathering was joint winner of the 1993 Children's Literature Peace Prize and the 1994 CBC Book of the Year Award. She began her first book, Obernewtyn, when she was fourteen and since then she has written some of our greatest works of fantasy.

(Aug.Isobelle Carmody is Australia's most highly acclaimed author of fantasy titles for older readers. The suspense never slackens, and the resolutions of the many conflicts are powerfully wrought. The foreboding atmosphere achieves a nearly visceral intensity as Nathaniel, the narrator, describes ever more specific phenomena-a pervasive stench from the town slaughterhouse the erratic behavior of his well-trained dog, who meets a grotesque fate the uncanny similarities between the school principal and the charismatic dancing teacher of a previous generation. But Carmody transcends the genre by relating the story through an unusually lifelike narrator, and she gives it urgency by suggesting that its supernatural elements can be interpreted as symbols for the tensions and painful mysteries of ordinary life, the dark causalities between the sins of the past and present crises. Her plot has all the ingredients of a supernatural horror tale: a new kid arrives in a strange, Stepford-like village and joins up with a group of fellow students who undertake a cosmic battle against a mysterious evil force. The Seeker by Isobelle Carmody: 9780307974341 : Books New from acclaimed fantasy author Isobelle Carmody comes The Seeker, an omnibus edition of the first two books in the dystopian fantasy the Obernewtyn.

Carmody, an Australian author previously unpublished here, is certain to ensnare readers with this superbly crafted novel.

The Farseekers by Isobelle Carmody