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   Who is Alan Garner?

   • Alan Garner OBE FRSL (born 17 October 1934) is an English novelist best known for his children's fantasy novels and his retellings of traditional British folk tales.

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   • If not, help out and invite Alan to Goodreads. 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 Briti...

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   What books did Alan Garner write?

   • He also published a series of British folk tales which he had rewritten in a series of books entitled Alan Garner's Fairy Tales of Gold (1979), Alan Garner's Book of British Fairy Tales (1984) and A Bag of Moonshine (1986).

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   What books did Alan Garner retell?

   • Garner retold legends and folktales in the collections Alan Garner’s Fairy Tales of Gold (1979), The Lad of the Gad (1980), A Bag of Moonshine (1986), Once upon a Time (1993), and Collected Folk Tales (2011).

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   Where did Alan Garner grow up?

   • Garner grew up in Alderley Edge, a Cheshire village at the base of a steep escarpment of red sandstone, often known as The Edge (Credit: Alamy) "She wants to be flowers but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting." Alan Garner's most beloved and enduring novel is The Owl Service.

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   How old was garner when he found a cottage in Blackden?

   • Aged 22, Garner was out cycling when he came across a hand-painted sign announcing that an agricultural cottage in Toad Hall – a late medieval building situated in Blackden, seven miles from Alderley Edge – was on sale for £510.

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   Alan Garner OBE FRSL (born 17 October 1934) is an English novelist best known for his children's fantasy novels and his retellings of traditional British folk tales. Much of his work is 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.

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   Oct 17, 2022 · With his latest novel, Treacle Walker, Alan Garner has become the oldest writer to be nominated for The Booker Prize. His strange and wonderful books have delighted generations and would make...

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   Oct 13, 2024 · Alan Garner, English writer whose works, noted for their idiosyncratic style, were rooted in the myth and legend of the British Isles. His notable books included a trilogy that consists of The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (1960), The Moon of Gomrath (1963), and Boneland (2012).

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   Aug 15, 2018 · Alan Garner’s memoir is one of the best things he’s ever written. The prose is so clear that it feels less like writing and more like a surrendering to memory itself.

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   Alan Garner is a British novelist who has been recommended many times on Five Books; he is arguably best known for his fantasy works aimed at children and young adults—including the Carnegie Medal-winning The Owl Service, a YA novel based on the Welsh myth of Blodeuwedd, and Red Shift, a 1973 fantasy that moves from Roman Britain, to the time ...

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   Sep 6, 2022 · Alan Garner interview: 'Age is irrelevant, but an apprenticeship has to be served' As his latest book is shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022, we spoke to Alan Garner about the eight-year process behind it, how he went from reading comics to becoming a classicist… and the real Treacle Walker

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   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.