Meet the Author: Isobelle Carmody - Redcliffe

Next date: Sunday, 08 December 2024 | 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM

Join Australia's queen of young adult fantasy, Isobelle Carmody as she shares her latest novel, Comes the night.

Isobelle will chat about the story behind her book, her life and work in general and kites! She will demonstrate kite making and will be signing copies of her book after the event. Book sales on the day courtesy of QBD The Bookshop North Lakes.

Critics have declared that Australia's queen of young adult fantasy has done it again.

Comes the night offers delicious twists and deceptions in a high stakes tale where dreams will entice you, according to C.S. Pacat, New York Times bestselling author of Dark rise. 

The book centres on the character of Will, who lives with his father in a future domed Canberra where citizens are safe from extreme weather events, dangerous solar radiation and civil unrest. He does not question his carefully controlled existence until the recurrence of an old nightmare propels him on a dangerous quest.

Gradually Will discovers his dreams hold cryptic clues that lead him into a shadowy alternate dimension. Here he must grapple with dark forces that operate in both worlds, with the help of his best friend Ender, her brilliant but difficult twin sister Magda, and a mysterious gift from his uncle.

Free. Bookings required.

About the author

Isobelle Carmody is one of Australia's most highly acclaimed authors of fantasy. At 14, she beganObernewtyn, the first book in her much-loved Obernewtyn Chronicles, and she has since written many works in this genre. Her novel The Gathering won the 1993 Children's Literature Peace Prize and was joint winner of the 1994 CBCA Book of the Year Award. Greylands was joint winner of the 1997 Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction (Young Adult category), and was named a White Raven at the 1998 Bologna Children's Book Fair.

Isobelle's work for younger readers includes her two series, The Legend of Little Fur and The Kingdom of the Lost, the first book of which, The Red Wind, won the CBCA Book of the Year Award for Younger Readers in 2011. She has also written several picture books as well as collections of short stories for children, young adults and adults, and is currently working on Darkbane, the final book in The Legendsong series.

After living in Europe for more than a decade, these days Isobelle divides her time in Australia between her home on the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, and Brisbane, where she completed a PhD at the University of Queensland, and has been conducting postgraduate research.

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Redcliffe Library, 476 Oxley Avenue, Redcliffe, 4020, View map