Cecilia Dart-Thornton

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. She was born in 1969.

The Bitterbynde Trilogy
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)

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) The Stolen Swanmaiden (Published in Australian Women's Weekly, September 2005)
 * 3) The Lanes of Camberwell (Published by HarperCollins in the anthology Dreaming Again, 2008)
 * 4) The Enchanted (Published by HarperCollins in the anthology Legends of Australian Fantasy, 2010)