Treacle Walker

Author: Alan Garner
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1668025515
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize An extraordinary, “playful, moving, and wholly remarkable” (The Guardian) coming-of-age novel filled with myth and magic from one of England's greatest living writers. An introspective young boy, Joseph Coppock is trying to make sense of the world. Living alone in an old house, he spends his time reading comic books, collecting birds’ eggs, and playing with marbles. When one day a rag-and-bone man called Treacle Walker appears on a horse and cart, offering a cure-all medicine, a mysterious friendship develops and the young boy is introduced to a world beyond his wildest imagination. Luminous, evocative, and sparely told, Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth, folklore, and the stories we tell ourselves.

Red Shift

Author: Alan Garner
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590174437
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
Three young men from three different time periods influence each other's destiny with the help of a stone axe.

Strandloper

Author: Alan Garner
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448162858
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211

Book Description
A captivating novel by the author of the 2022 Booker Prize-longlisted Treacle Walker Based on a true story, Strandloper tells the extraordinary tale of a nineteenth-century Englishman, William Buckley, who was convicted and transported to Australia. Refusing to accept his fate he escaped and lived among the Aborigines for thirty years. In this visionary novel, Alan Garner is as true to William the Cheshire bricklayer and William the Aboriginal spiritual leader, as William is true to his fate. The result is extraordinary. 'A remarkable feat of literary imagination' Sunday Times

Collected Folk Tales

Author: Alan Garner
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007446101
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
From the author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted Treacle Walker and the Carnegie Medal and Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize-winning classic, The Owl Service The definitive collection of traditional British folk tales, selected and retold by the renowned Alan Garner.

Elidor

Author: Alan Garner
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152056247
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
Four children discover a dangerous world of magic--buried in a slum--in this Alan Garner classic.

Alan Garner's Book of British Fairy Tales

Author: Alan Garner
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description
A collection of twenty-one traditional tales from the British Isles.

Boneland

Author: Alan Garner
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 000746326X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description
A major novel from one of the country’s greatest writers, and the crowning achievement of an astonishing career, ‘Boneland’ is also the long-awaited conclusion to the story of Colin and Susan – a story that began over fifty years ago in ‘The Weirdstone of Brisingamen’...

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen

Author: Alan Garner
Publisher: Sandpiper
ISBN: 9780152056360
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
Susan and her brother Colin are catapulted into a battle between good and evil for possession of a magical stone of great power that is contained in her bracelet. Reissue.

The Life of Stuff

Author: Susannah Walker
Publisher: Doubleday UK
ISBN: 9780857525406
Category : Bereavement
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Only after her mother's death does Susannah Walker discover how much of a hoarder she had become. Over the following months, sorting through a dilapidated house filled to the brim with rubbish and treasures, she goes in search of a woman she'd never really known in life. Hoping to piece together her mother's story and make sense of their troubled relationship, what emerges from the mess of scattered papers, discarded photographs and an extraordinary amount of stuff is the history of a sad and fractured family, haunted by dead children, divorce and alcohol."--

The Moon of Gomrath

Author: Alan Garner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Book Description
On the English moors, two children become involved in an age-old struggle, working with the wizard of the High Magic to destroy or at least control the more and more powerful Old Magic.