Alan Garner

During a summer vacation in a secluded Welsh valley, three young people find themselves driven by the spirits of three mythical lovers to reenact an ancient tragedy. Reissue. 25,000 first printing.

The Owl Service

Treacle Walker

The definitive collection of traditional British folk tales, selected and retold by the renowned Alan Garner.

Collected Folk Tales

Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity of time, vivid storytelling that brilliantly illuminates an introspective young mind trying to make sense of everything around him.

Colin and Susan are on a desperate search to locate and return the Weirdstone, a magic stone that will wake the sleeping knights, to their homeland before Evil takes over, but an army of wicked creaturs is making things extra difficult for them. Reprint.

A Tale of Alderley

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen

"HERE JOHN TURNER WAS CAST AWAY IN A HEAVY SNOW STORM IN THE NIGHT IN THE YEAR 1755" "THE PRINT OF A WOMAN'S SHOE WAS FOUND BY HIS SIDE IN THE SNOW WHERE HE LAY DEAD" John Turner was a packman. With his train of horses he carried salt and silk across distances incomprehensible to his ancient and static community. He brings ideas as well as gifts that have come, by many short journeys, from market town to market town, and from places as distant as the campfires of the Silk Road. John Turner's death in the 18th century leaves an emotional charge Ian and Sal find affects their relationship in the 21st, challenging the perceptions they have of themselves and of each other. A visionary fable firmly rooted in a verifiable place, this novel is an evocation of the lives and the language of all people who are called to the valley of Thursbitch.

Thursbitch

While exploring a church that is being razed in a Manchester slum, four English children are drawn into another world where they are compelled to combat the evil power which grips most of the land. Reissue. 25,000 first printing.

Elidor

The lives of three young men in three different periods of British history converge and each influences the destiny of the others.

Red Shift

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’...

Boneland

With the help of the wizard Cadellin, Colin and Susan struggle to contain the forces of evil unleashed by the inadvertent awakening of the band of ancient horsemen known as the Wild Hunt.

The Moon of Gomrath

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A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR A GUARDIAN BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2021 Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity time, vivid storytelling that illuminates an introspective young mind trying to make sense of everything around him.

A 50th Anniversary Edition featuring a new introduction by Philip Pullman, THE OWL SERVICE is an all-time classic, combining mystery, adventure, history and a complex set of human relationships. It all begins with the scratching in the ceiling. From the moment Alison discovers the dinner service in the attic, with its curious pattern of floral owls, a chain of events is set in progress that is to effect everybody's lives. Relentlessly, Alison, her step-brother Roger and Welsh boy Gwyn are drawn into the replay of a tragic Welsh legend - a modern drama played out against a background of ancient jealousies. As the tension mounts, it becomes apparent that only by accepting and facing the situation can it be resolved.

Nella brughiera del Cheshire non succede mai nulla per Joe Coppock, un ragazzino che vive senza genitori in un cottage di tre stanze senza porte con, a tenergli compagnia, solo un fumetto custodito come una reliquia. Non c’è anima viva a Podere Fienile né al Campo Gora né al Gran Prato, e neppure sul viottolo fra il cancello alto e il cancello basso. È un mondo senza tempo, la brughiera, scandito solo dal fischio del treno di mezzogiorno, unico istante in cui Joe può rendersi conto di che ora è, di che momento è «adesso». La brughiera dorme, e cosí dev’essere, e in quel sonno sogna il sogno del mondo. Fino al giorno in cui alla porta di Joe bussa Treacle Walker, uno stracciaiolo, o forse un mendicante, un guaritore, dal gran cappotto e dal cappello floscio sopra un cespuglio di capelli ingarbugliati. L’uomo gli propone un bizzarro baratto: in cambio di stracci e ossa avrà cocci e pietre. Scegliendo dalla sua collezione di tesori minimi, umili ma a lui preziosissimi – uova di uccello dal guscio azzurrino, ossa di animali, vecchi indumenti – Joe ottiene cosí da Treacle Walker una pietra e un vasetto invetriato. Il vasetto, scoprirà Joe quasi per caso, contiene un ungento dagli straordinari poteri, un dono che gli consentirà di vedere ciò che non c’è, di percepire il tempo collassare su sé stesso e l’eternità nello spazio infinitesimale del presente. Vedere il mondo, d’altronde, non è lo stesso che vedere quello che il mondo realmente è. Racconto iniziatico, favola metafisica che trabocca di suggestioni della tradizione popolare, meditazione sul tempo, la morte e l’assurdità della vita in generale, La pietra e lo specchio mescola fantasia e fisica dei quanti, storia collettiva e storia personale, magia e scienza, possibile e impossibile: reami i cui estremi si allungano, si intrecciano, si scambiano e si fondono. «Il piú importante scrittore di fantasy dopo Tolkien». Philip Pullman «Alla fine della sua vita Philip Roth scrisse Nemesi, un tentativo di esprimere in una sola opera tutte le preoccupazioni di una vita. La pietra e lo specchio compie un miracolo simile, includendo piú idee e immagini di quante molti autori riescano a trattare nella loro intera carriera. Qui c’è tutta l’esuberanza, l’eccentricità, la mitologia e il pensiero del Garner migliore». The Guardian «Scritto magistralmente, evocativo ed emozionante in ogni pagina». Daily Telegraph

La pietra e lo specchio

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.

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