Dr Isobelle Carmody is an award-winning Australian science fiction and fantasy writer. She has authored over 40 books, including the acclaimed Obernewtyn Chronicles, The Legend of Little Fur series, and The Kingdom of the Lost series. In this short seven-minute digital story, Isobelle speaks with writer and journalist Susan Johnson about her early life and writing career. A longer one-hour interview with Dr Carmody is also available via our One Search catalogue: https://qld.pulse.ly/0tasgwho8x |

🌻Over the weekend Toowoomba's Carnival of Flowers held their annual floral parade, a tradition blooming since 1950. These colourful, edited film snippets, thought to be from the 1960s, come from the recently digitised Nicko Productions home movies collection. More footage from this collection can be viewed via our One Search catalogue: https://qld.pulse.ly/sqbls9drqt This film was digitised as part of the Queensland Library Foundation's Reel Rescue campaign: https://qld.pulse.ly/gwr7nhd4zv | St