Alison Croggon Books in Order

Part family memoir and part imagined sea voyage, Navigatio braids two migrations into one searching narrative. It is as interested in memory and history as it is in travel, loss, and the stories people build around home.

This poetry collection turns inward, tracing the self through desire, thought, and the body. The poems are intense and carefully made, balancing philosophical reflection with the immediate feel of emotional life.

A collection of poetry and theatre texts, Attempts at Being explores identity, voice, and the pressure of feeling. Croggon moves between intimate experience and performance, asking how a self is made, spoken, and changed.

Maerad is a slave until Cadvan, a powerful Bard, sees the gift she never knew she carried. Their flight across Annar begins a long quest shaped by hidden history, dangerous magic, and Maerad's dawning sense of who she is.

Focused on the body, states of mind, and emotional turmoil, this collection brings raw feeling into precise poetic form. The poems are personal without being narrow, and keep testing how language can carry difficult experience.

Hunted by both Light and Dark, Maerad and Cadvan cross seas and frozen lands in search of the Treesong's riddle. Maerad's powers are growing fast, but so is the pull of the enemy waiting in the north.

While Maerad searches north, her brother Hem travels south to Turbansk, befriends the white crow Irc, and begins to understand his own part in the struggle against the Dark. It is a war story, a coming-of-age novel, and a widening of Pellinor's world.

As the Black Army advances, Maerad and Hem are separated again, each carrying part of the answer to the Treesong. The fate of the Seven Kingdoms rests on whether they can reunite in time to face the Nameless One.

Using narratives, fables, monologues, and compressed lyrics, this collection looks at female identity and the idea of divine experience. The poems move between the staged and the intimate, always alert to voice and performance.

In a harsh land ruled by vendetta and magic, Lina and her childhood companion Damek grow up bound to each other almost beyond reason. Their fierce loyalty curdles into betrayal, heartbreak, and revenge in this gothic reworking of Wuthering Heights.

This brief Pellinor story goes back to Saliman's student days in Norloch, where homesickness and prejudice leave him isolated. His wary rivalry with Cadvan slowly shifts into the friendship that will matter later in the larger saga.

In Simbala's village, the River and the Book hold the community's road, history, and soul. When the Book foretells change, she is pulled into a journey about power, loss, and what happens when old ways meet new forces.

Before Pellinor's main saga, Cadvan makes a terrible mistake and is cast into exile after unleashing the Bone Queen. As darkness spreads and a young Bard named Selmana discovers her own strange powers, redemption starts to look possible, but never easy.

Drawing from nine collections and adding new, previously unpublished work, this volume offers a wide view of Croggon's poetry. Violence, desire, history, and beauty all meet here in work that is formally varied and emotionally direct.

Dez survives on the edges of Newport City, hiding a dangerous secret: she is a living quantum computer. When she uncovers a plan to exterminate millions of fleshers, survival turns into a fight against a brutal system.

This collection gathers 25 years of Croggon's theatre criticism, from reviews to broader essays on art and the role of the critic. It captures live performance as it happens, and asks what criticism is for in a changing media world.

A hybrid of memoir and essay, Monsters begins with the breakdown of a relationship between two sisters and widens into a reckoning with colonialism and patriarchy. It is intimate, unsparing, and deeply interested in the stories people tell about themselves.