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Thursbitch

Author : Alan Garner
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448162920
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Thursbitch written by Alan Garner and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping time-slip novel by the author of the 2022 Booker Prize-longlisted Treacle Walker Here John Turner was cast away in a heavy snow storm in the night in or about the year 1755. The print of a woman's shoe was found by his side in the snow where he lay dead. So reads an enigmatic memorial stone, high on the bank of a prehistoric Pennine track in Cheshire, a mystery that lives on in the surrounding hill farms. John Turner was a packman. With his train of horses he carried salt and silk, travelling distances incomprehensible to his community. John brought ideas as well as gifts, from market town to market town, from places as distant as the campfires of the Silk Road. In the twenty-first century, two hundred and fifty years after John's life, Ian and Sal's world resounds with the echo John's death. Walking on the moor one day they slip between time and are lost somewhere between Jack's vanished world and their own. This poetic, fantastical novel is is an evocation of the lives and the language of all people who are called to the valley of Thursbitch. 'Eerie and immaculately written' Olivia Laing, Observer

Boneland

Author : Alan Garner
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 000746326X
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Boneland written by Alan Garner and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Garner
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448162858
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Strandloper written by Alan Garner and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Treacle Walker

Author : Alan Garner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1668025515
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Treacle Walker written by Alan Garner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Moon of Gomrath

Author : Alan Garner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book The Moon of Gomrath written by Alan Garner and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

City Primeval

Author : Elmore Leonard
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061832960
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book City Primeval written by Elmore Leonard and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE INSPIRATION FOR JUSTIFIED: CITY PRIMEVAL ON FX “As gritty and hard-driving a thriller as you’ll find….The action never stops, the language sings and stings.” —Washington Post The City Primeval in Elmore Leonard’s relentlessly gripping classic noir is Detroit, the author’s much-maligned hometown and the setting for many of the Grand Master’s acclaimed crime novels. The “Alexander the Great of crime fiction” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) shines in these urban mean streets, setting up a downtown showdown between the psychopathic, thrill-killing “Oklahoma Wildman” and the dedicated city copy who’s determined to take him down. The creator of U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens of TV’s Justified fame, Elmore Leonard is the equal of any writer who has ever captivated readers with dark tales of heists, hijacks, double-crosses, and murder—John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Robert Parker included—and nobody then or now is better.

A Song of Stone

Author : Iain Banks
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684855364
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book A Song of Stone written by Iain Banks and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-09-07 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in a war-torn country not unlike Bosnia, this internationally bestselling novel concerns a band of soldiers who find refuge in a rural castle.

Collected Folk Tales

Author : Alan Garner
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007446101
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Collected Folk Tales written by Alan Garner and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 13 : 9780152056247
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (562 download)

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Download or read book Elidor written by Alan Garner and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1967 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four children discover a dangerous world of magic--buried in a slum--in this Alan Garner classic.

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen

Author : Alan Garner
Publisher : Sandpiper
ISBN 13 : 9780152056360
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (563 download)

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Download or read book The Weirdstone of Brisingamen written by Alan Garner and published by Sandpiper. This book was released on 2006 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

21st-century Gothic

Author : Danel Olson
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810877287
Total Pages : 711 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book 21st-century Gothic written by Danel Olson and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by a poll of more than 180 Gothic specialists (creative writers, professors, critics, and Gothic Studies program developers at universities), the fifty-three original works discussed in 21st-Century Gothic represent the most impressive Gothic novels written around the world between 2000-2010. The essays in this volume discuss the merits of these novels, highlighting the influences and key components that make them worthy of inclusion. Many of the pioneer voices of Gothic Studies, as well as other key critics of the field, have all contributed new essays to this volume, including David Punter, Jerrold Hogle, Karen F. Stein, Marie Mulvey-Roberts, Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Tony Magistrale, Don D'Ammassa, Mavis Haut, Walter Rankin, James Doig, Laurence A. Rickels, Douglass H. Thomson, Sue Zlosnik, Carol Margaret Davision, Ruth Bienstock Anolik, Glennis Byron, Judith Wilt, Bernice Murphy, Darrell Schweitzer, and June Pulliam. The guide includes a preface by one of the world's leading authorities on the weird and fantastic, S. T. Joshi. Sharing their knowledge of how traditional Gothic elements and tensions surface in a changed way within a contemporary novel, the contributors enhance the reader's dark enjoyment, emotional involvement, and appreciation of these works. These essays show not only how each of these novels are Gothic but also how they advance or change Gothicism, making the works both irresistible for readers and establishing their place in the Gothic canon.

The Voice That Thunders

Author : Alan Garner
Publisher : Fourth Estate
ISBN 13 : 9780008672201
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (722 download)

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Download or read book The Voice That Thunders written by Alan Garner and published by Fourth Estate. This book was released on 2024-06-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Where Shall We Run To?

Author : Alan Garner
Publisher : Fourth Estate
ISBN 13 : 9780008306007
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Where Shall We Run To? written by Alan Garner and published by Fourth Estate. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR From one of our greatest living writers, comes a remarkable memoir of a forgotten England. 'The war went. We sang in the playground, "Bikini lagoon, an atom bomb's boom, and two big explosions." David's father came back from Burma and didn't eat rice. Twiggy taught by reciting "The Pied Piper of Hamelin", "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and the thirteen times table. Twiggy was fat and short and he shouted, and his neck was as wide as his head. He was a bully, though he didn't take any notice of me.' In Where Shall We Run To?, Alan Garner remembers his early childhood in the Cheshire village of Alderley Edge: life at the village school as 'a sissy and a mardy-arse'; pushing his friend Harold into a clump of nettles to test the truth of dock leaves; his father joining the army to guard the family against Hitler; the coming of the Yanks, with their comics and sweets and chewing gum. From one of our greatest living writers, it is a remarkable and evocative memoir of a vanished England.

First Light

Author : Erica Wagner
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783522534
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (835 download)

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Download or read book First Light written by Erica Wagner and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Described by Philip Pullman as 'the most important British writer of fantasy since Tolkein', Alan Garner has been enrapturing readers with works like The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Owl Service, Red Shift and The Stone Book Quartet for more than half a century. Now, a group of the writers and artists he has inspired over the years have come together to celebrate his life and work in First Light. This anthology includes original contributions from David Almond, Margaret Atwood, John Burnside, Susan Cooper, Helen Dunmore, Stephen Fry, Neil Gaiman, Elizabeth Garner, Paul Kingsnorth, Katherine Langrish, Helen Macdonald, Robert Macfarlane, Gregory Maguire, Neel Mukherjee, Philip Pullman, Ali Smith, Elizabeth Wein, Michael Wood and many, many more. Whether a literary essay, a personal response to Garner's writing or a story about the man himself, each piece is a tribute to his remarkable impact. Edited by the acclaimed journalist and novelist Erica Wagner, First Light will touch the heart of anyone who grew up reading Alan Garner.

Devil's Day

Author : Andrew Michael Hurley
Publisher : Ecco Press
ISBN 13 : 1328489884
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book Devil's Day written by Andrew Michael Hurley and published by Ecco Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A gripping and unsettling new novel by the award-winning author of The Loney that asks how much we owe to tradition, and how far we will go to preserve it"--

Red Shift

Author : Alan Garner
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590174437
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Red Shift written by Alan Garner and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three young men from three different time periods influence each other's destiny with the help of a stone axe.

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

Author : Susanna Clarke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 160819535X
Total Pages : 1162 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell written by Susanna Clarke and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-06-05 with total page 1162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Hugo-award winning, epic New York Times Bestseller and basis for the BBC miniseries, two men change England's history when they bring magic back into the world. In the midst of the Napoleonic Wars in 1806, most people believe magic to have long since disappeared from England - until the reclusive Mr. Norrell reveals his powers and becomes an overnight celebrity. Another practicing magician then emerges: the young and daring Jonathan Strange. He becomes Norrell's pupil, and the two join forces in the war against France. But Strange is increasingly drawn to the wild, most perilous forms of magic, and he soon risks sacrificing his partnership with Norrell and everything else he holds dear. Susanna Clarke's brilliant first novel is an utterly compelling epic tale of nineteenth-century England and the two magicians who, first as teacher and pupil and then as rivals, emerge to change its history.