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Carmel Bird

Australia

Genres: Children's Fiction

New and upcoming books

November 2025

Crimson Velvet Heart

Series

Courtney Frome
1. Unholy Writ (2000)
2. Open for Inspection (2002)

Novels

   Cherry Ripe (1985)
   The Bluebird Cafe (1990)
   The White Garden (1995)
   Red Shoes (1998)
   Crisis (1999)
   Cape Grimm (2004)
   Child of the Twilight (2010)
   Family Skeleton (2016)
   Field of Poppies (2019)
   Telltale (2022)
   Love Letter to Lola (2023)
   Crimson Velvet Heart (2025)

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Collections

   Births, Deaths and Marriages (1983)
   Woodpecker Point (1988)
   The Common Rat (1993)
   Automatic Teller (1996)
   The Essential Bird (2005)
   My Hearts Are Your Hearts (2015)
   The Dead Aviatrix (2017)

Anthologies edited

   Australian Short Stories (1991)
   The Stolen Children (1998)
   Red Hot Notes (2000)
   Century of Australian Stories (2000)

Series contributed to

After Dark
7. The Mouth (1996) (with Anita Mertzlin)

Picture Books show

Non fiction show

Books containing stories by Carmel Bird

The Time Machine (2024)
edited by
Steve Proposch and Christopher Sequeira

Strange Fruit (1990)
Tales of the Unexpected
edited by
Paul Collins

Award nominations

1995 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novel (nominee) : The White Garden

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