Fed to Red Birds

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Prepare to be bewitched by Iceland and the book that has enchanted readers for decades and imprisoned one of them.

Elva loves Iceland for many reasons the epic landscape of gods and volcanoes, weather thats the polar opposite of her home in Australia, and the fact that its where her mother might have gone back to when she disappeared. Iceland is where Elvas beloved grandfather the famous childrens book author lives in a remote village and where the beings that haunt her imagination reside.

Elva is interested in the odd things people make Victorian collectibles, old spells, taxidermy, fairy tales. The weird, the wonderful and the sometimes macabre. Shes got a few quirks of her own that shes (mainly) keeping under control. Except one.

Working in a shop of curiosities, studying at an Icelandic language school, Elva begins to explore her obsessions, and when her grandfather suffers a stroke, they threaten to overtake her. Then she meets Remy, a painter whos got some secrets of his own

In her captivating debut, Rijn Collins has created a beautifully evocative portrait of an enchanted mind in an enchanting place a story of everyday magic, both dark and light; of families and the shadows they can cast; of the delights and dangers of the imagination. Fed to Red Birds will transport you to remote corners of both the world and the human heart.

Fed to Red Birdsis dreamy and immersive both travelogue and beautifully written literary fiction. It is for readers who loved the insightful prose and armchair travel ofCold Enough for Snowby Jessica Au and the brooding, fairytale-esque feelings ofHydraby Adriane Howell. Books+Publishing

'[L]ost in this book, I have only put it down for long enough to write this column, and am already missing Iceland and Elva terribly ... I feel I am typing this with frost-bitten fingers while being watched by trolls.'The Canberra Times

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Fed to Red Birdsis dreamy and immersive both travelogue and beautifully written literary fiction. It is for readers who loved the insightful prose and armchair travel ofCold Enough for Snowby Jessica Au and the brooding, fairytale-esque feelings ofHydraby Adriane Howell. * Books+Publishing *

Author Bio

Rijn Collins is an award-winning short story writer,published in many journals and anthologies, as well as having numerous audio stories produced:Almost Flamboyant won the inaugural Sarah Awards for International Audio Fiction in New York. She has been a guest at many Australian writers festivals. Rijn has also enjoyed two bitterly cold writing residencies:at Lisths in lafsfjrur, an Icelandic fishing village that inspired this work, and at Haihatus in Joutsa, a rural forest community in central Finland. She currently lives in Melbourne.