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(0)Alison Croggon
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English
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"Alison Croggon is one of the most powerful lyric poets writing today." — Australian Book Review 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. New and Selected Poems 1991-2017 brings together works from all nine of her published collections, new poems written since 2008 and previously unpublished...
2) Pinkers
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English
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The revolution has begun. But where does it end?The stakes have never been higher. The banns are in lockdown, making it all but impossible for Dez, Bo and their friends to resist the authoritarianism of Newport City. Bo believes that the mysterious power of the water is the key to winning their struggle, but Dez is deeply troubled about his increasing obsession.Meanwhile up-and-coming soap star Erin Saba is in trouble. And in Newport City, there's...
3) Fleshers
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English
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"We will survive. We will always survive" A powerful new dystopian fiction from award-winning writers Alison Croggon, author of the Books of Pellinor, and acclaimed playwright Daniel Keene Dez is different from the other fleshers struggling to survive in the outskirts of Newport. She's a living quantum computer, the missing link between human and artificial intelligence. If Newport City OpSec knew about her abilities, she'd be dead meat. And when...
4) Black Spring
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English
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Inspired by the gothic classic Wuthering Heights, this stunning new fantasy from the author of the Books of Pellinor is a fiercely romantic tale of betrayal and vengeance. In a savage land sustained by wizardry and ruled by vendetta, Lina is the enchanting but willful daughter of a village lord. She and her childhood companion, Damek, have grown up privileged and spoiled, and they're devoted to each other to the point of obsession. But Lina's violet...
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English
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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 part of a monstrous structure-the grotesque, hideous, ugly, ghastly, gruesome, horrible relations of power that constituted colonial Britain. A structure that shaped me, that shapes the very language that I speak and use and love....
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Pellinor volume Prequel
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Candlewick Press
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English
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Cast out of the Schools of Barding for recklessly unleashing the Bone Queen upon Annar, a guilt-ridden Cadvan attempts to earn back the bards' trust while a young bard, Selmana, is plagued by an unsettling new ability to step between worlds.