Best Selling Books by Isobelle Carmody

"Originally published by Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Camberwell in 1999. Published here by arrangement with Penguin Group (Australia)"--T.p. verso.

A stunning collection of 14 short stories, full of provocative ideas and haunting imagesI ride this day upon the Worldroad, alone, except for Courage, who rides on the pommel of my saddle fluffing his feathers. I did not dream of journeying thus as a child . . . This is the unforgettable world of Isobelle Carmody, presented in 14 stories written over a period of 13 years. Within it readers will find roads of paradox on which an angel might be a torturer, or a princess might reject a prince to save a rooster. These are paths traveled by seekers of the difficult deepest truths never found on straight roads; here a boy searches for his true name, a group of pilgrims is led by a song on an ancient journey, and a beast discovers hope. Enter this world and you will never again be sure where reality ends and imagination begins, for sometimes the greatest truths can only be told through imagination. From one of Australia''s finest writers of fantasy comes a stunning collection of stories full of provocative ideas and haunting images.

Remember Jules Verne''s Journey To the Centre of the Earth? Remember the duck they left behind, swimming on the cold underground lake? This is its story, its Journey From The Centre Of The Earth. Ages 8+.

The final book in the award-winning and beloved fantasy series, The Kingdom of the Lost, by the acclaimed author of Little Fur and the Obernewtyn Chronicles. In this last part of their long journey, Bily and Zluty must each travel to the dangerous Velvet City, where they will learn the shocking truth about themselves . . . even as their beloved Monster faces the fate he fled. A thrilling series for younger readers from the award-winning author of Little Fur and The Obernewtyn Chronicles.

The story of a lonesome young insomniac and how his nightmares become reality.

It came to me then, like a chilly draught from an unseen gap, that I had always known in my deepest heart that it would be like this, a slipping away from a life full of people I had come to love, in a place I had helped to shape, in a land I had helped to free. The time has come at last for Elspeth Gordie to leave the Land on her quest to find and stop the computermachine Sentinel from unleashing the deadly Balance of Terror arsenal. But before she can embark on her journey, she must find a lost key. And although she has long prepared for this day, nothing is as she anticipated. Elspeth''s search will take her where she never thought to go, and bestow upon her stranger companions than any she ever imagined. It will lead her far from her destination to those she believed lost forever. And it will test her, as she has never been tested before . . .

A strange, mind-numbing fog shrouds Quentaris and a cat that is more than it seems enters the city. It is a dangerous time in Quentaris. Before it is over, the city and its magical rift caves will face destruction. It is up to Igorik and the girl who visits him in his dreams to do all they can to save Quentaris and its inhabitants... The Quentaris Chronicles is a collection of stand-alone fantasy books from some of Australia''s finest authors. Each book is independent, but all are set in the magical fantasy city of Quentaris, a place created by series editors Michael Pryor and Paul Collins. Read them all! For more information visit www.quentaris.com

Bily and Zluty, the injured Monster and two diggers journey into a land of ice and darkness. Here they find a secret settlement and learn more about the mysterious Makers. But the Monster must make a dreadful choice . . . A magical adventure series for younger readers from the award-winning author of Little Fur.

The story of Jack and his little sister, Ellen, as they try to cope with their father''s despair and their own grief and bewilderment following the horrifying death of their mother. Jack discovers a world on the other side of his bathroom mirror that in time reveals to him the reason for his mother''s death. Suggested level: intermediate, secondary.

Fantasy-roman.

After years spent struggling to balance her desires with her responsibilities, Elspeth Gordie has fully embraced her role as the Seeker. Battle-scarred and lovelorn, haunted by memories of her beloved Rushton, Elspeth is not prepared for what she finds at the end of the black road she travels: the Compound, a lost community with a startling secret. As Elspeth strives against her captors, she learns that Rushton and her friends have fallen into the hands of the deadly slavemasters that rule the Red Land. And worst of all, as Elspeth stumbles, the Destroyer creeps ever closer to his goal: awakening the cataclysmically destructive weapon-machines that Elspeth has been charged with stopping. Has all her sacrifice been in vain?

Six of the world''s most exciting and best - loved writers have chosen six fairytales as inspiration for their own stories in this second volume of Tales from the Tower. In this companion to The Wilful Eye, six much - loved writers - Catherine Bateson, Victor Kelleher, Cate Kennedy, Maureen McCarthy, Nan McNab and Kate Thompson - give fres...

This is the post-apocalyptic fairy tale of Princess Rose, who dwells in a strange, complex walled Kingdom, the final outpost of a lost civilisation. Ruled by a tyrannical and all powerful despot, the Kingdom of Evermore survives and sometimes thrives in an otherwise devastated world of deserts and ruins inhabited by the plague-ridden descendants of those who chose not to sleep away the poisoned eons that followed the end of the old world. Growing up under the watchful eye of her stern but beloved nanny, Pilar, with the loving companionship of the bakers'' son Quiet and the strange, enigmatic boy Enzo, Rose pursues two quests. One is to discover the origins of Evermore and the other is to understand the mysterious tragic death of her mother, a beautiful and gifted storyteller who began as a prisoner of the King before winning his heart and being made Queen of Evermore.

Adventure and danger follow Bily, Zluty, Redwing and the monster as they cross a barren desert and journey over high stony mountains in search of a place where they can make a new home.

Darksong continues the story of twin sisters drawn to the parallel world of Keltor. Only the mysterious Watcher, hidden in the Void, is aware that Glynn and Ember''s world is inextricably linked to Keltor. It waits to see what effect the girls will have in the battle between harmony and chaos - on both worlds ...

Rage undertakes a dangerous journey into the mysterious Valley in search of magick to cure her mother. It''s a world nothing like her own. Streets move, animals talk, and it''s hard to know who to trust--but even harder to find her way home. First published in 2002, shortlisted for the NSW Premier''s Literary Awards Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children''s Literature, [Billy Thunder and the] Night Gate is the first in a planned trilogy by bestselling and much loved fantasy author Isobelle Carmody. It was followed by Winter Door, also in the Untapped Collection, but the third title has long remained unwritten. Will the inclusion of the first two books in the Untapped Collection inspire the author to complete the trilogy? Isobelle Carmody has written numerous works for children and young adults, and won and been shortlisted for many awards. She''s perhaps best known for her long-running, bestselling fantasy series The Obernewtyn Chronicles. For more, visit isobellecarmody.net.au