Isobelle Carmody Bibliography

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"I 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 fourteen stories written over a period of thirteen years. Within these stories you will find paths travelled by seekers of the deepest truths never found on straight roads: here a princess might reject a prince to save a rooster, a boy searches for his truename, a group of pilgrims is led by a song 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...

Isobelle Carmody was awarded the Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction for Best Young Adult Short Story for her story Green Monkey Dreams.

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First Published: Australia: 1996 - Penguin (Viking) [Out of Print] 1997 - Louis Braille Productions (audiobook) (narrated by: Rachel Morris) 2012 - Allen & Unwin UK: 1997 - Penguin (Puffin) [Out of Print] Reviews / Recommendations Green Monkey Dreams review by Pizzagreen. Now this book was first published back in 1996 by Penguin, and is actually a collection of 14 short stories, and I guarantee you that these are definitely some of the best, if not the best, short stories you will ever read (if I am wrong, I really want to know which short stories top them!)! Copies of this first print were highly prised, and until recently cost over $300 on ebay. So it was with great delight that in 2012 it was republished by Allen & Unwin, and is now available from their website... Read On... "Green Monkey Dreams is a deeply unified collection, its stories linked together in complex and complementary ways. It contains humour, lyricism, breathcatching adventure and powerfully idiosyncratic narrative voices...the best kind of fantasy writing." ~ Australian Book Review
Reviews / Recommendations: Green Monkey Dreams review by Pizzagreen. Now this book was first published back in 1996 by Penguin, and is actually a collection of 14 short stories, and I guarantee you that these are definitely some of the best, if not the best, short stories you will ever read (if I am wrong, I really want to know which short stories top them!)! Copies of this first print were highly prised, and until recently cost over $300 on ebay. So it was with great delight that in 2012 it was republished by Allen & Unwin, and is now available from their website... Read On... "Green Monkey Dreams is a deeply unified collection, its stories linked together in complex and complementary ways. It contains humour, lyricism, breathcatching adventure and powerfully idiosyncratic narrative voices...the best kind of fantasy writing." ~ Australian Book Review Purchase Green Monkey Dreams online:
Published: Australia: 1996 - Penguin (Viking) [Out of Print] 1997 - Louis Braille Productions (audiobook) (narrated by: Rachel Morris) 2012 - Allen & Unwin UK: 1997 - Penguin (Puffin) [Out of Print]

Many of the short-stories from Green Monkey Dreams have been published in other collections:

Story

Collection Title

Editor/Compiler(s)

First Published:

Corfu

Crazy Hearts

Frank Willmott & Robyn Jackson

Hodja Educational Resources, 1985

Roaches

Into the Future

Toss Gascoigne, Jo Goodman & Margot Tyrrell

Penguin (Viking), 1992

Seek No More

Goodbye and Hello

Clodagh Corcoran & Margot Tyrrell

Penguin (Viking), 1992

The Witch Seed

Bittersweet

Toss Gascoigne

Penguin (Puffin), 1992

Long Live the Giant

The Lottery
AKA Altered Voices

Lucy Sussex

Omnibus, 1994

The Monster Game

Family

Agnes Nieuwenhuizen

Mammoth, 1994

The Pumpkin Eater

She's Fantastical

Lucy Sussex & Judith R. Buckrich

Sybylla Feminist Press, 1995

The Keystone

Dream Weavers

Paul Collins

Penguin, 1996

The Phoenix

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Tenth Annual Collection

Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling

St. Martin's Griffin, 1997

The Phoenix

The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy

Jonathon Strahan & Jeremy G. Byrne

HarperCollins, 1997

The Phoenix

Forever Shores

Peter McNamara & Margaret Winch

Wakefield Press, 2003

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