Carmel Bird Book List

Carmel Bird was born in Launceston, Tasmania, was educated at the University of Tasmania and lived for a period in Europe and the USA before settling in Melbourne. Bird's fiction blends real and surreal, mundane and macabre with inventive irony. A witty writer with a wide but always highly original tonal range, Bird raises what is often potentially dour or even sinister or horrific to something approaching comedy. The Bluebird Cafe, was short-listed for three major awards including the Miles Franklin, The White Garden, was also short-listed for seven major awards including the Miles Franklin.