The Wilful Eye
Isobelle Carmody
(editor),
Nan McNab
(editor),
Crows Nest
:
Allen and Unwin
,
2011
Z1767561
2011
anthology
novella
young adult
'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, tales like Beauty and the Beast, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, and The Snow Queen. This collection carries universal themes of envy and desire, deception and abandonment, courage and sacrifice.
'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.' (From the publisher's website.)
Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2011
The Wicked Wood
Isobelle Carmody
(editor),
Nan McNab
(editor),
Crows Nest
:
Allen and Unwin
,
2011
Z1817841
2011
anthology
short story
young adult
fantasy
'In this companion to The Wilful Eye, Catherine Bateson, Victor Kelleher, Cate Kennedy, Maureen McCarthy and Nan McNab, along with British author Kate Thompson, give fresh voice to age-old stories of abandonment, desire and entrapment.'
Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2011
