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Obernewtyn: The Obernewtyn Chronicles Volume 1

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  • Hardcover

    256 pages

  • Release Date

    20 April 2027

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Summary

The iconic fantasy novel of courage and resistance, now available as a beautiful clothbound hardback, part of the Penguin Modern Australian Classics series.

This exquisite clothbound edition features the beloved YA fantasy novel that has become a modern classic. From the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of the Obernewtyn Chronicles and Comes the Night.

For Elspeth Gordie, freedom is a distant memory, a relic of the time before the Great White. It was an era kno…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781761625275
ISBN-10:1761625276
Author:Isobelle Carmody
Publisher:Penguin Random House Australia
Imprint:Penguin Random House Australia
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:256
Release Date:20 April 2027
About The Author

Isobelle Carmody

Isobelle Carmody is one of Australia’s most highly acclaimed authors of fantasy. At fourteen, she began Obernewtyn, the first book in her much-loved Obernewtyn Chronicles, and has since written many works in this genre.

Her novel The Gathering was joint winner of the 1993 Children’s Literature Peace Prize and 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 the latter, 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.

Recently, she completed a PhD at the University of Queensland and currently divides her time between her home on the Great Ocean Road in Victoria and Brisbane.

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