The Day of the Bird - Paperback

by Rosanne Dingli (Author)

Award-winning literary fiction author Rosanne Dingli follows the success of The Astronomer's Pig and Counting Churches - The Malta Stories with another volume. Read fourteen atmospheric stories crammed with exotic ingredients and locations, which engage and somehow ring with the familiar and the unexpected.Historical fiction, folkloric tales, and anecdotes linked strongly with their location are this author's favourite forays into storytelling. Each short story or novella has indelible links with the facts that form its base and background.Rosanne Dingli has authored eight popular novels. Critically acclaimed Death in Malta appeared in 2005. An enthralling mix of historical and contemporary fiction is available in digital and paperback formats.This bumper collection consists of the entire contents of Over and Above (2011) and Vision or Delusion (2010), now both out of print.

Author Biography

Rosanne Dingli is an award-winning Western Australian novelist, author of Death in Malta, According to Luke, Camera Obscura, several collections of short stories and a book of collected poems. She has had numerous articles, stories, reviews, columns and poems published Australia-wide and on the internet since 1986. She has worked as teacher, lecturer, workshop coordinator, magazine and corporate editor, travel consultant, cook, manuscript assessor, heraldic artist and business partner. She has travelled widely in Italy, the UK, Turkey, Greece, South East Asia, Holland, and Belgium, as well as most Australian states.