The Wilful Eye (Tales From The Tower #1)

Author: Carmody Isobelle and McNab Nan

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  • : $27.99 AUD
  • : 9781742374406
  • : Allen & Unwin
  • : Allen & Unwin Children's Books
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  • : 0.385554
  • : December 2010
  • : 234mm X 138mm
  • : Australia
  • : 27.99
  • : March 2011
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  • : Carmody Isobelle and McNab Nan
  • : Tales from the Tower
  • : Paperback
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  • : English
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Barcode 9781742374406
9781742374406

Description

Six writers - Margo Lanagan, Rosie Borella, Isobelle Carmody, Richard Harland, Margaret Mahy and Martine Murray - have taken inspiration from stories that have shaped us all, like 'Beauty and the Beast,' 'The Steadfast Tin Soldier' and 'The Snow Queen'.  This collection carries universal themes of envy and jealousy, deception and abandonment, control and power, courage and sacrifice, violence and deception.  Characters are enchanted, they transgress, they yearn, they hunger, they hate and sometimes, they kill.  Some of the stories inhabit a traditional fairytale world, while others are set in the distant future. Some are set in the present and some in an alternative present.  The stories offer no prescription for living or moral advice and none belong in a nursery.  Open the covers and submit to their enchantment.

Author description

Isobelle Carmody has had over 30 books and many short stories published. She is now working on the last book of her award-winning fantasy series, The Obernewtyn Chronicles, and on a second collection of her own short stories, titled Metro Winds. She lives between Prague in Central Europe and her home on the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, with her partner and daughter.Nan McNab is a writer and editor whose books include Body Bizarre Body Beautiful and Victoria's Market. She lives in Airey's Inlet, Victoria.