Carmel Bird

is an author. Her memoir is Telltale.

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Culture October 07, 2023

The King’s White Hound

“My breed is extinct now and in any case this tale is coming to you from the cloud of history. I don’t speak up often. But there has been so much talk across the centuries about whether the Duchess was poisoned that I have decided to set the record …”

Culture November 19, 2022

Salonika Burning

Salonika Burning, the ninth novel from Gail Jones, is an enthralling narrative that transports readers to the battlefields of Greece in 1917. Jones, whose book The Death of Noah Glass won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction …

Culture March 04, 2023

The Bell of the World

Among the literary honours awarded to Gregory Day is the 2021 prize from The Nature Conservancy Australia. A profound commitment to the future of the planet as well as a passion for all forms of music and language and a keen awareness of the truths of …

Culture September 17, 2022

This Devastating Fever

Angry and enthralling, this novel challenges the reader’s understanding of what a novel might be. In the early years of this century, Sophie Cunningham began working on a fictional account of the life of Leonard Woolf. However, the narrative – as …

Culture July 02, 2022

The fly on the wall

“Emma was a young ballerina at the Paris Opera. She was ethereal, intangible, diaphanous – as beautiful as a falling snowflake. She would bound and leap as if fashioned from the air itself, skimming over surfaces like a feather on the breeze. She …”

Culture May 14, 2022

Completing the 1080 project

“I have recently taken it upon myself to work my way through the internet in search of my ancestry. I call it my 1080 Project. As a wise old tech-savvy male elder of the family Rattus rattus, and with no chance of a pleasant natural death, I’m …”

Culture April 23, 2022

Mothertongues

Almost the first thing you find in Mothertongues is a QR code to the soundtrack that singer–songwriter Keppie Coutts created to be part of the reading experience. This work, co-written by Ceridwen Dovey and Eliza Bell, is in a category all …