Download or read book Alan Garner s Fairytales of Gold written by Alan Garner and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1989 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New edition containing four original stories. 8-11 years.
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.
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.
Download or read book The Well of the Wind written by Alan Garner and published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley). This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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.
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’...
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.
Download or read book Where Shall We Run To A Memoir written by Alan Garner and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 115 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.
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.
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.
Download or read book Alan Garner s Book of British Fairy Tales written by Alan Garner and published by Delacorte Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1984 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of twenty-one traditional tales from the British Isles.
Download or read book A Bag Of Moonshine written by Alan Garner and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 10 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 much-loved classic, finally in ebook. Stunning new CollinsVoyager edition of Alan Garner’s collection of folklore.
Download or read book By Seven Firs and Goldenstone written by Alan Garner and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Stone Book Quartet written by Alan Garner and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic work of rural magic realism from one of Britain’s greatest children’s novelists.
Download or read book The Guizer written by Alan Garner and published by Fontana Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories about fools drawn from American Indian, African, Irish, Gypsy, Sumatran, Flemish, and British sources.
Download or read book The Golden Legend written by Nadeem Aslam and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When shots ring out on the Grand Trunk Road in the fictional Pakistani city of Zamara, Nargis’s life begins to crumble around her. Soon her husband—and fellow architect—is dead and, under threat from a powerful military intelligence officer, she fears that a long-hidden truth about her past will be exposed. For weeks someone has been broadcasting people’s secrets from the minaret of the local mosque, and, in a country where even the accusation of blasphemy is a currency to be bartered, the mysterious broadcasts have struck fear in Christians and Muslims alike. A revelatory portrait of the human spirit, in The Golden Legend, Nadeem Aslam gives us a novel of Pakistan’s past and present—a story of corruption and resilience, of love and terror, and of the disguises that are sometimes necessary for survival.
Download or read book Arrival of Missives written by Aliya Whiteley and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Aliya Whiteley, author of the critically-acclaimed The Beauty, comes a genre-defying story of fate, free-will and the choices we make in life.In the aftermath of the Great War, Shirley Fearn dreams of challenging the conventions of rural England, where life is as predictable as the changing of the seasons.The scarred veteran Mr. Tiller, left disfigured by an impossible accident on the battlefields of France, brings with him a message: part prophecy, part warning. Will it prevent her mastering her own destiny?As the village prepares for the annual May Day celebrations, where a new queen will be crowned and the future will be reborn again, Shirley must choose: change or renewal?The Arrival of Missives is a unique work, deftly marrying literary and genre influences. It heralds the arrival of a major new voice in speculative fiction.
