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Obernewtyn Chronicles

  • The Stone Key Readings

    Here are the transcripts of Isobelle Carmody’s readings from Convergence in June 2007. Watch all the recordings via this Playlist on Youtube. Reading 1 I thought of the premonition that had assailed me earlier. “I begin to fear we were too quick to let people know of our refuge. Suddenly everything seems less sure, than when the rebellion ended.” Brydda shook his head. “If you’d kept your refuge secret, it...

  • An Excerpt from The Journey

    She recognized him from the holovids and nuscan bites as soon as she was ushered into his office. Tall and handsome, electric blue eyes, a great eccentric mane of white-blond hair and a smile that seemed just a little too bright and wide in real life. William Reichler was fleshier than in the vids, but the visual slimdown might not be vanity. Cam crews always shaved off podge claiming it...

  • A Nibble from The Sending

    At the far end of a narrow passage, a yellow light flashed a dull summons in the grainy dimness. The ground underfoot was broken and dangerously uneven, but a sense of urgency drove me on. ‘Stop!’ a woman’s voice commanded. The murk quivered and thinned and I saw Dragon ahead, sitting on a broken stone column and gazing into an ornamental pond surrounded by a terrace of cracked paving stones....

  • Unmasking The Wild

    A unique collection of masks created by 22 of Australia’s incredibly talented children’s book illustrators and artists. The collection was unveiled at The Masked Ball that celebrated the completion of the the final book in the Obernewtyn series, The Red Queen and is currently on display at the Geelong Library and Heritage Centre until July 3rd.   Unmasking the Wild – The Auction. more information on Isobelle’s project, the illustrators...

  • The Sending New Paperback Edition

      The Sending: The Obernewtyn Chronicles Book 6 will be available again in a new paperback edition from April 24th. RRP $22.99 For overseas fans you can purchase a copy with free worldwide shipping online at fishpond.com