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Cecilia Dart-Thornton
Cecilia Dart-Thornton (2009)
Cecilia Dart-Thornton (2009)
BornMelbourne, Australia
GenreFantasy
Website
dartthornton.com

Cecilia Dart-Thornton is an Australian author of fantasy novels, notably the Bitterbynde Trilogy.

Dart-Thornton was educated at Monash University where she completed a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in sociology.[1] She was born in 1969.[1]

Published works

The Bitterbynde Trilogy

Main article: Bitterbynde

The Bitterbynde Trilogy follows the journey of a mute, amnesiac foundling through a world of beauty and peril.

  1. The Ill-Made Mute (2001)
  2. The Lady of the Sorrows (2002)
  3. The Battle of Evernight (2003)

The Crowthistle Chronicles

A four-part epic fantasy describing the adventures that befall a cursed and gifted family.

  1. The Iron Tree (2005)
  2. The Well of Tears (2005)
  3. Weatherwitch (2006)
  4. Fallowblade (2007)

Other works

Short stories

  1. Long the Clouds Are Over Me Tonight (Published in the anthology Emerald Magic: Great Tales of Irish Fantasy; Tor Books, 2004)[2]
  2. The Stolen Swanmaiden (Published in Australian Women's Weekly, September 2005)[3]
  3. The Lanes of Camberwell (Published by HarperCollins in the anthology Dreaming Again, 2008)[4]
  4. The Enchanted (Published by HarperCollins in the anthology Legends of Australian Fantasy, 2010)[5]

References

  1. ^ a b Austlit. "Cecilia Dart-Thornton". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  2. ^ Emerald Magic Archived November 13, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Australian Women’s Weekly Archived July 20, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Harper Collins Archived 2008-07-21 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ The Enchanted at HarperCollins. Accessed 12 August 2015

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