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Rainer Maria Rilke
Alison Croggon’s inspired new translation captures the energies of Rainer Maria Rilke’s masterpiece Duino Elegies with an urgent, acute clarity. ‘Croggon lives in the wild beauty of these Elegies and…
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Alison Croggon
From award-winning writer and critic Alison Croggon, Monsters is a hybrid of memoir and essay that takes as its point of departure the painful breakdown of a relationship between two…
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An atmospheric and riveting fantasy adventure, perfect for fans of Frances Hardinge and Cornelia Funke.
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In this paper Alison Croggon, one of Australia’s most insightful cultural critics, looks back from the days when the daily broadsheet newspapers were unrivalled in authority, to the collapse of…
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Alison Croggon (Author)
From the internationally bestselling author of The Books of Pellinor comes a powerful story about the exploitation of indigenous people by the First World.
Raw, passionate and dazzling, Alison Croggon’s poetry confronts a world fractured by different kinds of violence - patriarchal, colonial, sexual and emotional - and finds there a difficult beauty. Selected…
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Lina is enchanting, vibrant but wilful. And her eyes betray her for what she truly is – a witch. With her childhood companion, Damek, she has grown up privileged and…
A hybrid of memoir and essay from award-winning writer and critic Alison Croggon.
The third book in the epic Pellinor series - four books telling an extraordinary tale of another world.
In a gripping stand-alone fantasy from the acclaimed Alison Croggon, a pickpocket steals the cursed Stone Heart and is propelled into a power struggle, woven with witchcraft, that will change…
Inspired by the gothic classic Wuthering Heights, this stunning new fantasy from the author of the Pellinor series is a fiercely romantic tale of betrayal and vengeance.
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Previously published in Australia by Penguin Books, 2016.
In 2010, the Guardian named Melbourne critic Alison Croggon as a 'must read' critic. This collection of 25 years of Croggon's writing shows why.
Maerad must confront new and powerful forces in Annar as she continues her journey, desperate to find her brother Hem once more and to confront the conflicting forces that seem…
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This first book in the Pellinor series introduces the reader to Maerad, a young girl just coming into adulthood, rescued from slavery by Cadvan, an ancient and powerful Bard. Whe…
First published as The gift by Penguin Books Australia, 2002 –Title page verso.
In these four hallucinatory texts for theatre, written over the past two decades, the past is never dead: its violence reaches into the fractured present. Disturbing, ecstatic, ambiguous, affirming, these…
Follows Hem, Maerad’s brother, into the heart of civil war as the forces of the Black Army gather to launch their attack on Annar. It is clear that once Annar…
Maerad must try to solve the final riddle of the Treesong. Only then will the Nameless One be defeated and peace restored in the Seven Kingdoms. But Maerad only holds…
The long-awaited prequel to the highly acclaimed Books of Pellinor, a high fantasy quartet that has captivated readers worldwide.
Alison Croggon’s highly acclaimed fantasy The Gift is a captivating and lyrical story that takes readers deep into the world of the Books of Pellinor, a great series of fantasy…
Maerad is a girl with a tragic past, but her powers grow stronger by the day. Now she and her mentor, Cadvan, hunted by both the Light and the Dark…
Alison Croggon’s enthralling Books of Pellinor series nears its climax in The Crow, which follows on from The Riddle, as Maerad’s younger brother is forced to confront the powers of…
The stunning conclusion to the epic high fantasy Books of Pellinor series.
In this third installment of Croggon’s saga, the orphaned Hem is reunited with his lost sister, Maerad. When the forces of the Dark threaten, Hem discovers his own hidden gift…
The Riddle is the riveting follow-on from The Gift by acclaimed author Alison Croggon, whose Books of Pellinor will delight fans of high fantasy.
The climactic volume of the epic quartet follows Merad and Hem, the Bards of Edil-Amarandh, on a vital quest to merge their powers against a nameless evil. Can brother and…
Alison Croggon,Daniel Keene
When Dez accidentally kills a cop during a routine raid and discovers that Newport City OpSec is planning to exterminate millions of fleshers, everything begins to unravel. The first in…
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The revolution has begun. But where does it end? The banns are in lockdown, making it all but impossible for Dez, Bo and their friends to resist the authoritarianism of…
Originally published: Newtown, NSW: Walker Books Australia, 2016.
Judith Ridge
Just as authors create books, books create authors–and these essays by thirty-one writers for young people offer a glimpse at the books that inspired them the most.
