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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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’...
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.
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.
Where Shall We Run To?: A Memoir
Author: Alan Garner
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008305994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR From one of our greatest living writers, comes a remarkable memoir of a forgotten England.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008305994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR From one of our greatest living writers, comes a remarkable memoir of a forgotten England.
Spreading My Wings
Author: Diana Barnato Walker
Publisher: Grub Street Publishers
ISBN: 1908117656
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The remarkable autobiography of a pioneering female aviator who left a privileged life to serve in World War II. Her father was a millionaire race-car driver who became chairman of Bentley Motors, and her grandfather cofounded the De Beers mining company. But by the late 1930s, debutante Diana Barnato had enough of her affluent, chaperoned existence and sought excitement in flying—soloing at Brooklands after only six hours’ training. Joining the Air Transport Auxiliary in 1941 to help ferry aircraft to squadrons and bases throughout the country, she flew scores of different aircraft—fighters, bombers, and trainers—in all kinds of conditions, and without a radio. By 1945, Barnato had lost many friends, a fiancé, and a husband—but she continued to fly. In 1962 she was awarded the Jean Lennox Bird Trophy for notable achievement in aviation, but her greatest moment was yet to come, when in 1963 she flew a Lightning through the sound barrier, becoming “the fastest woman in the world.” Spreading My Wings is her remarkable memoir, brimming with history and adventure.
Publisher: Grub Street Publishers
ISBN: 1908117656
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The remarkable autobiography of a pioneering female aviator who left a privileged life to serve in World War II. Her father was a millionaire race-car driver who became chairman of Bentley Motors, and her grandfather cofounded the De Beers mining company. But by the late 1930s, debutante Diana Barnato had enough of her affluent, chaperoned existence and sought excitement in flying—soloing at Brooklands after only six hours’ training. Joining the Air Transport Auxiliary in 1941 to help ferry aircraft to squadrons and bases throughout the country, she flew scores of different aircraft—fighters, bombers, and trainers—in all kinds of conditions, and without a radio. By 1945, Barnato had lost many friends, a fiancé, and a husband—but she continued to fly. In 1962 she was awarded the Jean Lennox Bird Trophy for notable achievement in aviation, but her greatest moment was yet to come, when in 1963 she flew a Lightning through the sound barrier, becoming “the fastest woman in the world.” Spreading My Wings is her remarkable memoir, brimming with history and adventure.