3 books by Alan Garner
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Overview: Alan Garner OBE (born 17 October 1934) is an English novelist who is best known for his children’s fantasy novels and his retellings of traditional British folk tales. His work is firmly rooted in the landscape, history and folklore of his native county of Cheshire, North West England, being set in the region and making use of the native Cheshire dialect.
Genre: Fantasy, Mythology, Short Stories
A Cavalcade of Goblins
Here are goblins and demons, ghost, boggarts and dragons, dream creatures and wondrous beings from folklore, myth and legend; some heroic, some monstrous, some eerie, and some absurd – but all of them fascinating. Alan Garner, deservedly renowned as one of the most imaginative of all writers for young people, has explored widely in the realm of the magical, the supernatural and the inexplicable to assemble this distinctive collection of poems and stories. He has retold many of the traditional tales himself and complemented them with several modern poems. Perhaps the most unusual item of all is the story from the great Hindu epic Ramayana, so full of vivid happenings and fantastic characters that it sweeps the reader into a new and exotic world.
The book includes stories from all over the world, from Russia, Wales, India, Japan, America and many other countries. Alan Garner provides riches indeed in a collection which is unfailingly entertaining and full of good things, discerningly chosen, and embellished with his own introduction, comments and notes.
The Guizer: A Book Of Fools
A collection of stories about fools drawn from American Indian, African, Irish, Gypsy, Sumatran, Flemish, and British sources.
Thursbitch
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.
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