Author: Alan GarnerPublisher: 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.
Alan Garner's Book of British Fairy Tales
Author: Alan GarnerPublisher: 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.
Collected Folk Tales
Author: Alan GarnerPublisher: 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.
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
Author: Alan GarnerPublisher: 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.
Elidor
Author: Alan GarnerPublisher: 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.
Boneland
Author: Alan GarnerPublisher: 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’...
Strandloper
Author: Alan GarnerPublisher: 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
The Voice That Thunders
Author: Alan GarnerPublisher: Fourth Estate
ISBN: 9780008672201
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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 Alan Garner is an exceptional lecturer and essayist. This rich collection of writings, spanning more than twenty years, explores an enviable range of scholarly interests: archaeology, myth, language, education, philosophy, the spiritual quest, mental health, literature, music and film. The book also serves as a poetic autobiography of one of England's best-loved but least public writers. He hears himself declared dead at the age of six; he draws on the deep vein of a rural working-class childhood in a family of craftsmen who instilled the passion for excellence and for innovation and humour. The disciplines he learnt as a Classicist give a shape and clarity to that passion in this richly various book that would have fascinated his forebears, whose work and lives are also celebrated here. This most unusual, most candid, most vivid picture of an English family and its home, its country's history, is also a devastating revelation of a writer's own life. Alan Garner's account of his mental illness will become a classic, and each strand of the book will be a source of fascination to anyone who has ever fallen under the spell of an Alan Garner story, as also to all who concern themselves with the craft of writing.
Treacle Walker
Author: Alan GarnerPublisher: 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.
Alan Garner's Fairytales of Gold
Author: Alan GarnerPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780001952638
Category : Children's stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
New edition containing four original stories. 8-11 years.
The Well of the Wind
Author: Alan GarnerPublisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN: 9780789425195
Category : Fairy tales
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In language as resonant as bells, a renowned novelist tells of young courage outwitting old evil. When a boy doesn't return from his confrontation with a subtle witch, his sister sets out through the forest to find him. Full color.