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Issue Details: First known date: 2007... 2007 The Castings Trilogy
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The Castings Trilogy is set in the Eleven Domains, a place where stonecasters tell the future and ghosts of the past still walk.

Source: The Castings Trilogy website (sighted 11/01/10).

Notes

  • This trilogy has been translated into Spanish (Trilogía de los Casting), German (Land der Seher), and French (Le Langage des Pierres).

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y separately published work icon Blood Ties Pamela Freeman , Sydney : Hachette Livre Australia , 2007 Z1423445 2007 single work novel fantasy

'The Eleven Domains were forged in blood a thousand years ago. The blood is about to flow again. Bramble is as wild as the animals she follows deep into the forest near her village. Her dark eyes betray her heritage - she's a Traveller, one of the despised original people of the Domains. And for as long as she can remember, she has wanted to take to the Road like her grandfather. But the gods who dwell near the alders always say no ... In Turvite, where the ghosts drift along dark cobbled streets, Ash must leave his parents, and the Road, to begin an apprenticeship with the only person who will accept a Traveller - the scheming, yet irrestible, Doronit. But the gods who linger in the gloomy square have other plans for him ... From different ends of the Eleven Domains, death casts Bramble and Ash on journeys across valleys and mountains, deep into themselves and the dark history of their ancestors.'

Source: Australian 'blurb' from The Castings Trilogy website (Sighted 11/01/10)

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y separately published work icon Deep Water Pamela Freeman , Sydney : Orbit Australia , 2008 Z1536929 2008 single work novel fantasy 'Saker is raising ghosts from their graves to attack anyone who is not a Traveller, and towns are falling as the armies of ghosts move through them violently and ruthlessly. Bramble must find the bones of the long-dead warlord Acton, to put the ghosts at rest. But first she has to live through Acton's life with the help of Ash and the Well of Secrets. For his part, Ash can only quieten the spirits by singing to them - singing one of the songs his Traveller father refused to teach him. In order to learn the song he must journey to the Deeps and prove he is worthy of this knowledge. Bramble and Ash discover feelings that they never would have expected, and nor would we, the readers...' (Source: Publisher's blurb)
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y separately published work icon Full Circle Pamela Freeman , Sydney : Orbit Australia , 2009 Z1700462 2009 single work novel fantasy

'Saker the enchanter will stop at nothing to destroy the Eleven Domains, but has he unleashed a worse evil? As he builds his terrifying army of ghosts, screams from the nether world torment him, foretelling a greater disaster than he can imagine. When Ash is forced to acknowledge his true self in the caverns of the Deep, he realises that all power is duty-bound. He helps Bramble raise Acton's ghost, although plagued by doubts: Who is this ancient warrior - murderer or saviour? And will he help strangers protect a world he has never known? 

'Grieving an impossible love, Bramble learns the painful truth behind the demon's prophecy. She is a leader born but will she reach Turvite in time to face Saker and save the Domains?' (Sourced from publisher's website.)

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First known date: 2007
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Works about this Work

[Untitled] Chloe Mauger , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 24 no. 5 2009; (p. 39-40)

— Review of The Castings Trilogy Pamela Freeman , 2007 series - author novel
An Interview with Pamela Freeman Edwina Harvey (interviewer), 2009 single work interview
— Appears in: Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine , no. 38 2009; (p. 87-90)
[Untitled] Chloe Mauger , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 24 no. 5 2009; (p. 39-40)

— Review of The Castings Trilogy Pamela Freeman , 2007 series - author novel
An Interview with Pamela Freeman Edwina Harvey (interviewer), 2009 single work interview
— Appears in: Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine , no. 38 2009; (p. 87-90)
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