ALAN GARNER

I salute him with the most heartfelt respect and admiration PHILIP PULLMAN Entrancing a creative manifesto TELEGRAPH Mesmerising vibrating with life and curiosity OBSERVER

I salute him with the most heartfelt respect and admiration PHILIP PULLMAN One of Britain s greatest writers FINANCIAL TIMES Alan Garner s world is unbearably beautiful and dangerous GUARDIANIn this lyrical and revelatory memoir Alan Garner Booker shortlisted author of Treacle Walker reflects on the lifetime of learning and experience that has led him to become one of the best loved British writers of our time In dazzling essays poetry and stories we trace the line of his life from a working class childhood in the landscape of Cheshire during World War II through a grammar school education and on to the University of Oxford and then home to see if he could become what he most desired a writer We see the serendipitous moments that drove his course from coming of age in a period of great cultural change to crossing paths with a famous mathematician while out long distance running to the fateful day he chanced across Blackden the medieval hall miraculously located next to the giant telescope at Jodrell Bank that was to become his lasting home and the setting for Treacle Walker We also hear the influences and ideas that have shaped his work his Grandfather Joseph and family of craftsmen the history folklore and ancient landscape of Cheshire a profound

A collection of writings by the author of the 2022 Booker Prize shortlisted Treacle Walker His work has a symphonic quality unique in fiction THE TIMES The autobiography of one of the most distinct and profound writers we have GUARDIANIn this rich collection of writings spanning more than twenty years Alan Garner the Booker shortlisted author of Treacle Walker explores his interest in a dazzling range of subjects from archaeology myth and language to education literature film music and philosophy as well as mental health and our most profound quest for the spiritual The Voice That Thunders serves as an early poetic autobiography of one of England s best loved but least public writers These essays chart how after hearing himself declared dead at the age of six he went on to become the writer he is today one drawing on the deep well of a rural working class childhood and one inspired by a family of craftsmen who instilled in him the passion for excellence and innovation and humour that guides him to this day Candid and illuminating The Voice That Thunders is an enchanting collection from one of Britain s greatest living writers A brilliant collection of essays INDEPENDENT

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The crowning achievement of an astonishing career, 'Boneland' concludes the story that began over fifty years ago in 'The Weirdstone of Brisingamen'. If the sleeper wakes, the dream dies... Professor Colin Whisterfield spends his days at Jodrell Bank, using the radio telescope to look for his lost sister in the Pleiades.At the same time, and in another time, the Watcher cuts the rock and dances, to keep the sky above the earth and the stars flying. Colin can't remember; and he remembers too much. Before the age of twelve years and nine months is a blank.

An introspective young boy, Joseph Coppock squints at the world with his lazy eye. Living alone in an old house, he reads comics, collects birds eggs and plays with his marbles. When, one day, a rag-and-bone man called Treacle Walker appears, exchanging an empty jar of a cure-all medicine and a donkey stone for a pair of Joseph's pyjamas and a lamb's shoulder blade, a mysterious friendship develops between them.A fusion of myth, magic and the stories we make for ourselves, Treacle Walker is an extraordinary novel from one of our greatest living writers.All the exuberance and eccentricity, all the deep thought and resounding mythology of [Garners] best work ObserverSpare and allusive luminous and understated Rowan Williams, New StatesmanCryptic, evocative, sparely told and deceptively simple Carolyne Larrington, TLS

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen is one of the greatest fantasy novels of all time. When Colin and Susan are pursued by eerie creatures across Alderley Edge, they are saved by the Wizard. He takes them into the caves of Fundindelve, where he watches over the enchanted sleep of one hundred and forty knights. But the heart of the magic that binds them - Firefrost, also known as the Weirdstone of Brisingamen - has been lost. The Wizard has been searching for the stone for more than 100 years, but the forces of evil are closing in, determined to possess and destroy its special power. Colin and Susan realise at last that they are the key to the Weirdstone's return. But how can two children defeat the Morrigan and her deadly brood?

An urban fantasy, runner up for the Carnegie Medal on its original publication On a gloomy day in Manchester, Roland, Helen, Nicholas and David are lured into a ruined church, where the fabric of time and place is weak enough to allow them into the twilight world of Elidor. It is a place almost destroyed by fear and darkness, and the children are charged with guarding its Treasures while a way is sought to save the dying land. Then the evil forces find a path through to this world...