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Boneland by Alan Garner
16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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'... 'A woman was reading a book to a ...Show more
Boneland by Alan Garner
29.99 AUD
Category: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror
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...IF THE SLEEPER WAKES, THE DREAM DIES. ...Show more
Collected Folk Tales by Alan Garner
19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
From the author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted Treacle Walker and the Carnegie Medal and Guardian Children's Fiction Prize-winning classic, The Owl ServiceThe definitive collection of traditional folk tales, selected and retold by the renowned Alan Garner.A collection of Alan's folk tales, told with hi ...Show more
Elidor (Essential Modern Classics) by Alan Garner
14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Essential Modern Classics
Roland, Helen, Nicholas and David, four Manchester children, are led into Elidor, a twilight world almost destroyed by fear and darkness. On a gloomy day in Manchester, Roland, Helen, Nicholas and David are lured into a ruined church, where the fabric of time and place is weak enough to allow them into ...Show more
Owl Service by Alan Garner
34.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11
Something is scratching around in the attic above Alison's room. Yet the only thing up there is a stack of grimy old plates. Alison and her stepbrother, Roger, discover that the flowery patterns on the plates, when traced onto paper, can be fitted together to create owls--owls that disappear when no one ...Show more
Strandloper by Alan Garner
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Harvill Panther S.
Based on the true story of William Buckley, Strandloper begins in the rural Cheshire of the 1790s. Where young William and Het are preparing for the annual festival known as Shick-Shack Day. William has been chosen as the village's Shick-Shack, an ancient fertility figure. Het is to be his "Teaser". Whe ...Show more
The Moon of Gomrath (Alderley #2) by Alan Garner
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Category: Fiction | Series: Alderley | Reading Level: From 9 To 99
Enthralling sequel to The Weirdstone of Brisingamen It is the Eve of Gomrath - the night of the year when the Old Magic is aroused. Had Colin and Susan known this, they would never have lighted a fire on the Beacon, thereby releasing the uncontrollable ferocity of the Wild Hunt. Soon they are inextricab ...Show more
The Owl Service by Alan Garner
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Category: Childrens | Reading Level: From 12 To 99
Winner of both the Guardian Award and the Carnegie Medal, this is an all-time classic, combining mystery, adventure, history and a complex set of human relationships. Featuring a new introduction by Philip Pullman. It all begins with the scratching in the ceiling. From the moment Alison discovers the ...Show more
The Stone Book Quartet by Alan Garner
26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A classic work of rural magic realism from one of Britain's greatest children's novelists Four interconnected fables of a way of living in rural England that is now disappeared. Craftsmen pass on, or withhold, secrets of their relationship with the natural world, which gives them the material from which ...Show more
The Voice That Thunders by Alan Garner
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Alan Garner is an exceptional lecturer and essayist. This collection, taken form the work of more that 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 serve ...Show more
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (Alderley #1) by Alan Garner
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Category: Middle Readers | Series: Alderley
When Colin and Susan are pursued by eerie creatures across Alderley Edge, they are saved by the Wizard. He takes them into the caves of Fundindelve, where he watches over the enchanted sleep of one hundred and forty knights. But the heart of the magic that binds them -- Firefrost, also known as the Weir ...Show more
Thursbitch by Alan Garner
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Category: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror
HERE JOHN TURNER WAS CAST AWAY IN A HEAVY SNOW STORM IN THE NIGHT IN OT ABOUT THE YEAR 1755. THE PRINT OF A WOMAN'S SHOE WAS FOUND BY HIS SIDE IN THE SNOW WHERE HE LAY DEAD. This enigmatic memorial stone, high on the bank of a prehistoric Pennine track in Cheshire, is a mystery that lives in in th ...Show more