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Black Spring by Alison Croggon
Category: Young Adult Fiction
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 spoiled and the pair are devoted to each other to the point of obsession. But times are changing. Vendetta is coming. And tragedy is stalk ...Show more
Duino Elegies - Translated by Alison Croggon by Rainer Maria Rilke; Alison Croggon (Intro and Notes by, Translator); John Kinsella (Preface by)
Category: Poetry
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of Germany's major Modernist poets, notable for the lyric intensity of his work. He considered the Duino Elegies - a cycle of ten poems written in inspirational bursts between 1912 and 1922 - to be his major achievement. The restless movement of these poems reflects ...Show more
Monsters by Alison Croggon
Category: Biography
A hybrid of memoir and essay from award-winning writer and critic Alison Croggon.'This figure I see in the foreground, this me. How monstrous am I? What does it mean to be a monster? From Latin monstrum, meaning an abomination ... grotesque, hideous, ugly, ghastly, gruesome, horrible ...'I was born as p ...Show more
Pellinor #4: The Singing by Alison Croggon
Category: Children's fantasy
In a desperate race against the Dark, Maerad must solve the final Riddle of the Treesong. Only then will the Nameless One be defeated and peace restored to the Seven Kingdoms. But Maerad only holds the key to half the riddle - her long-lost brother, Hem, has the other. For ages 14 and over.
Remembered Presences by Alison Croggon
Category: Dramatic Arts
In 2010, the Guardian named Melbourne critic Alison Croggon as a must read critic. She was the first online critic to be awarded the Geraldine Pascall Critic of the Year, in 2009. Her blog Theatre Notes was the first theatre blog in Australia and, over its eight years of existence, made Croggon the most ...Show more
The Bone Queen (Pelinor Series Prequel) by Alison Croggon
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Cadvan of Lirigon, one of the most brilliant Bards of his generation, has been exiled for a terrible crime that unleashed the power of the Bone Queen and wrought destruction across Annar. Meanwhile, in Lirigon, several unnerving events suggest that the Dark is growing in strength once again, and that th ...Show more
The Crow by Alison Croggon
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Pellinor Ser.
As this enthralling epic nears its climax, the young heroine's brother discovers his own hidden gift -- and the role he must play in battling the Dark. Hem is a weary orphan whose struggle for survival ends when he is reunited with his lost sister, Maerad. But Maerad has a destiny to fulfill, and Hem is ...Show more
The Crow (Pellinor #3) by Alison Croggon
Category: Children's
In the darkness the light shines more brightly... The earth is poisoned by a deep wrongness and the forces of the Nameless One grow ever stronger. The Treesong - the key to restoring peace - is lost, and only Hem's sister, Maerad, can unravel its mysteries. While she seeks answers in the north, Hem i ...Show more
The Crow: The Third Book of Pellinor by Alison Croggon
Category: Young Adult
This is the third book in the epic "Pellinor" series - four books telling an extraordinary tale of another world. Whilst his sister, Maerad, pursues her dangerous destiny in the frozen North, Hem is sent south to Turbansk for his own safety. But soon the forces of the Dark overrun the great city and Hem ...Show more
The Crow: The Third Book of Pellinor by Alison Croggon
Category: Fantasy | Series: Pellinor Ser.
As this enthralling epic nears its climax, the young heroine's brother discovers his own hidden gift -- and the role he must play in battling the Dark. Hem is a weary orphan whose struggle for survival ends when he is reunited with his lost sister, Maerad. But Maerad has a destiny to fulfill, and He ...Show more
The Gift by Alison Croggon
Category: Audio Books | Series: Pellinor
Maerad is a slave in a desperate and unforgiving settlement, taken there as a child when her family is destroyed in war. She is unaware that she possesses a powerful gift, a gift that marks her as a member of the School of Pellinor. It is only when she is discovered by Cadvan, one of the great Bards of ...Show more