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Alison Croggon

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in Transvaal, South Africa

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Fantasy, Poetry, Young Adult

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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 coll ...more

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Alison Croggon’s books

Average rating: 4.07 · 76,640 ratings · 4,004 reviews · 38 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Naming (The Books of Pellinor, #1) 4.02 avg rating — 25,374 ratings — published 2002 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Riddle 4.11 avg rating — 21,269 ratings — published 2005 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Singing (The Books of Pellinor, #4) 4.22 avg rating — 13,196 ratings — published 2008 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Crow 4.03 avg rating — 13,342 ratings — published 2006 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bone Queen 3.98 avg rating — 1,102 ratings — published 2016 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Spring 3.33 avg rating — 898 ratings — published 2012 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Friendship (The Books of Pellinor, #0.6) 3.95 avg rating — 385 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The River and the Book 3.86 avg rating — 205 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Threads of Magic 3.69 avg rating — 207 ratings — published 2020 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Island (The Books of Pellinor, #4.5) 4.04 avg rating — 149 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Alison Croggon

The Books of Pellinor (4 books)
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Alison Croggon (Goodreads Author)

4.08 avg rating — 74,868 ratings

Newport City (2 books)
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Alison Croggon (Goodreads Author),

Daniel Keene

4.36 avg rating — 28 ratings

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“We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.”
― Alison Croggon

tags: forgiveness, mistakes, trust

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“Love is one of the true mysteries,' he said at last. 'The truest and the deepest of all. One thing, Maerad: to love is never wrong. It may be disastrous; it may never be possible; it may be the deepest agony. But it is never wrong.”
― Alison Croggon, The Riddle

tags: love

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“While the heart beats, hope lingers.”
― Alison Croggon

tags: hope

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Polls

May General Fantasy Poll
Please cast your vote for the book you'd like to read in May, for discussion in June.

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch - Terry Pratchett & Gaiman, Neil

7 votes, 18.4%

Gardens of the Moon - Steven Erikson

6 votes, 15.8%

Assassin's Apprentice - Robin Hobb

5 votes, 13.2%

The Lions of al-Rassan - Guy Gavriel Kay

4 votes, 10.5%

Legend - David Gemmell

3 votes, 7.9%

Tigana - Guy Gavriel Kay

3 votes, 7.9%

Lud-In-The-Mist - Hope Mirrlees

2 votes, 5.3%

The Amulet of Samarkand - Jonathan Stroud

2 votes, 5.3%

The Book of Joby - Mark J. Ferrari

2 votes, 5.3%

Bridge of Birds: A Novel of an Ancient China That Never Was - Barry Hughart

2 votes, 5.3%

The Naming The First Book of Pellinor - Alison Croggon

1 vote, 2.6%

Daughter of the Blood - Anne Bishop

1 vote, 2.6%

The Steel Remains - Richard K. Morgan

0 votes, 0.0%

Thunderer - Felix Gilman

0 votes, 0.0%

Lamentation - Ken Scholes

0 votes, 0.0%

Dies the Fire - S.M. Stirling

0 votes, 0.0%

38 total votes

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