High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Gathering is an allegorical Australian young adults` novel written by fantasy author Isobelle Carmody. The book was published by Puffin Books Australia in 1993, The Gathering has sold over 70 000 copies in Australia and New Zealand alone. The book was a joint recipient of the 1993 Children`s Peace Literature Award and was also named Book of the Year in 1994 by the Children`s Book Council of Australia. In 1994, the novel was also integrated into the literature curriculum for the junior years of Secondary Education in he Australian state of Victoria.