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Alison Croggon
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Alison Croggon is the award winning author of the acclaimed fantasy series The Books of Pellinor. You can sign up to her monthly newsletter and receive a free Pellinor story at alisoncroggon.com
Her most recent book is Fleshers, the first in a dazzling new SF series co-written with her husband, acclaimed playwright Daniel Keene. Her latest Pellinor book, The Bone Queen, was a 2016 Aurealis Awards Best Young Adult Book finalist. Other fantasy titles include Black Spring (shortlisted for the Young People's Writing Award in the 2014 NSW Premier's Literary Awards) and The River and the Book, winner of the Wilderness Society's prize for Environmental Writing for Children.
She is a prize-winning poet and theatre critic,, and has released seven collAlison Croggon is the award winning author of the acclaimed fantasy series The Books of Pellinor. You can sign up to her monthly newsletter and receive a free Pellinor story at alisoncroggon.com
Her most recent book is Fleshers, the first in a dazzling new S
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Alison Croggon biography
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Pellinor
Fantasy book series by Alison Croggon
For the character from Arthurian legend, see Pellinore.
Pellinor is a fantasyseries by Australian author Alison Croggon, spanning four books and a prequel.
The series is the retelling of the "Naraudh Lar-Chanë", the Riddle of the Treesong, set in the fictional world of Edil-Amarandh. The series mainly revolves about the character of an adolescent girl named Maerad, who was forced into slavery along with her mother as a child, after the sacking of the Bard school of Pellinor.
Books
[edit]So far the books which make up the series have been published by Penguin Books in Australia, Walker Books in the UK, Candlewick Press in the US (except The Bone Queen published by Walker Books), and Bastei-Lübbe in Germany, with the translation done by Michael Krug.
The Bone Queen
[edit]A prequel, published in 2016. The promising young Bard Cadvan summons a revenant, the Bone Queen, which causes him to be exiled. Cadvan and his friend Dernhil the poet must then track down and vanquish the Bone Queen.
The Friendship (short story)
[edit]A prequel story of how Cadvan and the healer Bard Saliman became friends.
The Gift (also: The Naming)
[edit]Main article: The Gift (Croggon novel)
First published in Australia in 20