The Gathering

Novel for young adults about a sinister town and a group of teenagers who together have the power to rid the town of evil if they can unravel the messages from the past.

By the author of 'Obernewtyn', shortlisted for the 1988 Children's Book Council of Australia Children's Book of the Year Award, 'The Farseekers', an honour book in the same category in 1991, and 'Scatterlings', winner of the 1992 Variety Club Young People's Talking Book of the Year Award.

About the Author

Isobelle Carmody is Australia's most highly acclaimed author of fantasy titles for older readers. She began her first book, Obernewtyn, when she was fourteen and since then she has written some of our greatest works of fantasy. She is perhaps best known for her Obernewtyn Chronicles and for her novel The Gathering (joint winner of the 1993 Children's Literature Peace Prize and the 1994 CBC Book of the Year Award). Another of her novels, Greylands, was joint winner of the 1997 Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction - Young Adult Division, and was named a White Raven at the 1998 Bologna Children's Book Fair. She has also written many short stories for both children and adults.

Isobelle divides her time between Prague in the Czech Republic and her home on the Great Ocean Road in Australia.

Isobelle's final book in the award-winning Obernewtyn series – The Sending – will be published in May 2011. Her first book in a new series for younger readers – The Red Wind – will be published in 2010.