Alan Garner

A classic work of rural magic realism from one of Britain's greatest children's novelists.

‘I salute him with the most heartfelt respect and admiration’ PHILIP PULLMAN ‘One of Britain’s greatest writers’ FINANCIAL TIMES ‘Alan Garner’s world is unbearably beautiful and dangerous’ GUARDIAN In this lyrical and revelatory memoir, Alan Garner, Booker shortlisted author of Treacle Walker, traces the line of his life: from a working-class childhood in the landscape of Cheshire during World War II, through a grammar school education and on to the University of Oxford, and then home to see if he could become what he most desired: a writer. We see the serendipitous moments that drove his course, from coming-of-age in a period of great cultural change, to crossing paths with a famous mathematician while out long-distance running, to the fateful day he chanced across Blackden, the medieval hall, miraculously located next to the giant telescope at Jodrell Bank, that was to become his lasting home and the setting for Treacle Walker. As Garner tells us, a lifetime of working with a pen produces the powsels and thrums of research, imagination and story. These oddments can be shaped into something more than its parts: a vivid tapestry of a creative life that will inspire any reader, and what a celebration it is. 'Better than anyone else writing in English today' THE TIMES ‘A unique genius’ NEW STATESMAN ‘One of the most distinct and profound writers we have’ GUARDIAN

A captivating novel by the author of the 2022 Booker Prize-shortlisted Treacle Walker

A romantic thriller which follows its protagonist from his teens into adulthood and is set against a backdrop of recent historical events. The main theme that permeates throughout is the lasting impact of trauma, demonstrating a range of human vulnerabilities: love, loss, loyalty, betrayal, and survival.

‘I salute him with the most heartfelt respect and admiration’ PHILIP PULLMAN ‘One of Britain’s greatest writers’ FINANCIAL TIMES ‘Alan Garner’s world is unbearably beautiful and dangerous’ GUARDIAN In this lyrical and revelatory memoir, Alan Garner, Booker shortlisted author of Treacle Walker, traces the line of his life: from a working-class childhood in the landscape of Cheshire during World War II, through a grammar school education and on to the University of Oxford, and then home to see if he could become what he most desired: a writer. We see the serendipitous moments that drove his course, from coming-of-age in a period of great cultural change, to crossing paths with a famous mathematician while out long-distance running, to the fateful day he chanced across Blackden, the medieval hall, miraculously located next to the giant telescope at Jodrell Bank, that was to become his lasting home and the setting for Treacle Walker. As Garner tells us, a lifetime of working with a pen produces the powsels and thrums of research, imagination and story. These oddments can be shaped into something more than its parts: a vivid tapestry of a creative life that will inspire any reader, and what a celebration it is. Alan Garner's book Treacle Walker was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2022. 'Better than anyone else writing in English today' THE TIMES ‘A unique genius’ NEW STATESMAN ‘One of the most distinct and profound writers we have’ GUARDIAN

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 folk tales, selected and retold by the renowned Alan Garner. A collection of Alan’s folk tales, told with his unique storytelling skill and inimitably clear voice. Essential reading for young and old alike. Among the stories collected here are:• Kate Crackernuts• Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree• Yallery Brown

Pochemu ljudi delajut drug drugu i sebe bolno? Strast, revnost, sotsialnoe neravenstvo, zavist, obida, strakh - prichin ne perechest......Nachalos vse letnim pogozhim dnem, so sluchajno najdennoj na cherdake tarelki, uzor kotoroj strannym obrazom napominal krivovatuju sovu. Ili krasivyj tsvetochnyj ornament. Tarelok mnogo - serviz - no stoit pererisovat na bumagu uzor, kak tarelka ili razbivaetsja ili sovy s nee ischezajut. Ischezajut s tarelok, no pojavljajutsja vokrug geroev: podrostkov Gvina, Elison i Rodzhera, - to v vide staroj legendy, to strashilkoj v temnom lesu, to litsom na stene, to chuchelom v kamorke...Umnyj, no bednyj malchik-buntar vljubljaetsja v bogatuju devochku - sjuzhet staryj kak mir, kak drevnjaja temnaja legenda, v kotoroj nashestvie temnykh sil mozhet ostanovit lish velichie dushi, rytsarstvo, blagorodstvo. A sovy?.. V tom i tsennost istorii Garnera, chto ona ne svoditsja k odnomu znamenatelju, - i vy, navernjaka, najdete v nej chto-to svoe.Za etu knigu Alan Garner poluchil Medal Karnegi (Carnegie Medal) i premiju Gardian (Guardian Award, Luchshaja detskaja kniga). V novom perevode Nadezhdy Andreevny Sosnovskoj - populjarnoj perevodchitsy fantastiki i fentezi (Azimov, Sajmak, Zheljazny i drugie).Dlja detej srednego shkolnogo vozrasta.Perevodchik: Sosnovskaja Nadezhda Andreevna

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. 'Ragbone! Ragbone! Any rags! Pots for rags! Donkey stone!' Joe looked up from his comic and lifted his eye patch. There was a white pony in the yard. It was harnessed to a cart, a flat cart, with a wooden chest on it. A man was sitting at a front corner of the cart, holding the reins. His face was creased. He wore a long coat and a floppy high-crowned hat, with hair straggling beneath, and a leather bag was slung from his shoulder across his hip. Joe Coppock squints at the world with his lazy eye. He reads his comics, collects birds' eggs and treasures his marbles, particularly his prized dobbers. When Treacle Walker appears off the Cheshire moor one day - a wanderer, a healer - an unlikely friendship is forged and the young boy is introduced to a world he could never have imagined. 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.

V odin pasmurnyj den Khelen i tri ee brata - Roland, Nikolas i Devid - v poiskakh prikljuchenij zashli v staruju tserkov i okazalis v inom mire, v strane, objatoj tmoj, - Elidore. Brodjaga, igravshij na skripke v Manchestere, v Elidore okazalsja korolem i poprosil detej o pomoschi. V knige drevnikh predanij bylo predskazano, chto imenno oni chetvero pomogut spasti Sokrovischa Elidora: chashu, kamen, mech i kope. Deti khoteli otkazatsja, no dva mira tak tesno svjazany, chto gibel Elidora otrazilas by i na nashej realnosti, poetomu oni zabirajut i prjachut Sokrovischa. No temnye sily, kotorye razrushajut Elidor, vse blizhe - prizrachnye siluety voznikajut iz niotkuda, za dverju ujutnogo doma razverzajutsja propasti i podnimajutsja skaly... I uzhe sovsem skoro poslyshitsja stuk kopyt edinoroga - sijajuschego, no smertelno opasnogo...Dlja srednego shkolnogo vozrasta.

Alan Garner - kultovyj avtor, chi fentezi-romany stojat v rjadu s proizvedenijami Tolkiena i Ljuisa. Mozhet byt, ego istorii chut naivnee, no eto i delaet ikh takimi beskonechno obajatelnymi i ujutnymi. I esche to, chto elfami, gnomami, vedmami, goblinami i charodejami Alan naselil okrestnosti svoego rodnogo Cheshira. Tam gde proshlo ego detstvo (gde on zhivet i sejchas), keltskie mify perepletajutsja s sovremennostju: vedma popytaetsja zataschit vas v svoj avtomobil, podkolodnaja nechist poprobuet pojmat v seti, a khrabryj gnom mozhet stat vernym drugom. ...Kolin i Sjuzen priezzhajut v gosti k staroj njane Bess i ee muzhu. Kak i vse deti, oni nachinajut osvaivat okrestnosti ujutnoj derevenskoj usadby: guljajut po lesistym sklonam, zabirajutsja v starye shakhty (khotja obeschali etogo ne delat) i, nezametno dlja sebja, okazyvajutsja vtjanuty v volshebnuju, nemnogo zhutkuju, no uzhasno uvlekatelnuju istoriju, kotoraja nachalas sotni let nazad. V velikoe i vechnoe protivostojanie Dobra i Zla, temnykh i svetlykh sil... Marina Boroditskaja, chej perevod my vam predstavljaem, zamechatelnyj poet i perevodchik, avtor knig dlja detej, chlen gildii "Mastera literaturnogo perevoda". Za perevody Garnera Marina Jakovlevna poluchila diplom Britanskogo Soveta po kulture. Dlja detej srednego shkolnogo vozrasta.Perevodchik: Boroditskaja Marina JakovlevnaRedaktor: Tjuleneva Natalja

Sjuzen i Kolin sluchajno popadajut v mir volshebstva i magii. Etot mir polon opasnostej, no takzhe i neverojatnykh, zakhvatyvajuschikh prikljuchenij. Razve vy otkazalis by zajti v gosti k magu, podruzhitsja s gnomom, pogovorit s elfom?.. No, slomav nadezhnye chary, na volju vyryvaetsja drevnee bezlikoe zlo - i brat s sestroj okazyvajutsja u nego na puti... Knigi Alana Garnera stojat v rjadu s proizvedenijami Tolkiena i Ljuisa. Mozhet byt ego istorii bolshe pokhozhi na skazku, no, navernoe, eto i delaet ikh takimi beskonechno obajatelnymi i ochen ujutnymi. Marina Boroditskaja - zamechatelnyj poet i perevodchik, avtor knig dlja detej - poluchila diplom Britanskogo Soveta po kulture za perevod etogo fentezi.Perevodchik: Boroditskaja Marina JakovlevnaRedaktor: Tjuleneva Natalja

A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR From one of our greatest living writers, comes a remarkable memoir of a forgotten England.

In The Lobster's Birthday and Other Stories, discover what happens when you wake up thirsty in the middle of the night. How do you play a trick on the most insufferable boy in the village, while helping out Aunt Arabelle at the same time? What would you do on your birthday if you were a lobster? Find out when you join Harriet, Just William, and Harold and Gloria in this comical collection of short stories. Chucklers is a series of funny novels, short stories, anthologies and comics that make reading a pleasure for 7-11 year olds. There is something for everyone in this varied collection which is packed with fantastic illustrations. Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading. Help with children's reading development also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk. The series is written by top children's authors and edited by award-winning author Jeremy Strong. The books are finely levelled, making it easy to match every child to the right book.

The crowning achievement of an astonishing career, â??Bonelandâ?? concludes the story that began over fifty years ago in â??The Weirdstone of Brisingamenâ??.

From the author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted Treacle Walker and the Carnegie Medal and Guardian Childrenâ??s Fiction Prize-winning classic, The Owl Service The Weirdstone of Brisingamen is one of the greatest fantasy novels of all time.