Carmel Bird's books include the novels The White Garden, Crisis and The Bluebird Cafe. Red Shoes is a novel in hard copy and on CD-ROM.

Carmel's short story collections include Automatic Teller, The Common Rat and The Woodpecker Toy Fact. Her manuals for writers are Dear Writer and Not Now Jack – I'm Writing A Novel. She has edited the anthologies Daughters and Fathers, Relations and The Stolen Children.