Thursbitch

Author : Alan Garner
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448162920
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thursbitch written by Alan Garner and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping time-slip novel by the author of the 2022 Booker Prize-longlisted Treacle Walker Here John Turner was cast away in a heavy snow storm in the night in or about the year 1755. The print of a woman's shoe was found by his side in the snow where he lay dead. So reads an enigmatic memorial stone, high on the bank of a prehistoric Pennine track in Cheshire, a mystery that lives on in the surrounding hill farms. John Turner was a packman. With his train of horses he carried salt and silk, travelling distances incomprehensible to his community. John brought ideas as well as gifts, from market town to market town, from places as distant as the campfires of the Silk Road. In the twenty-first century, two hundred and fifty years after John's life, Ian and Sal's world resounds with the echo John's death. Walking on the moor one day they slip between time and are lost somewhere between Jack's vanished world and their own. This poetic, fantastical novel is is an evocation of the lives and the language of all people who are called to the valley of Thursbitch. 'Eerie and immaculately written' Olivia Laing, Observer

Author : Alan Garner
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448162858
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strandloper written by Alan Garner and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating novel by the author of the 2022 Booker Prize-longlisted Treacle Walker Based on a true story, Strandloper tells the extraordinary tale of a nineteenth-century Englishman, William Buckley, who was convicted and transported to Australia. Refusing to accept his fate he escaped and lived among the Aborigines for thirty years. In this visionary novel, Alan Garner is as true to William the Cheshire bricklayer and William the Aboriginal spiritual leader, as William is true to his fate. The result is extraordinary. 'A remarkable feat of literary imagination' Sunday Times

Author : Alan Garner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780007463251
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boneland written by Alan Garner and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concluding volume of the 'Weirdstone trilogy' features Professor Colin Whisterfield who spends his days at Jodrell Bank, using the radio telescope to look for his lost sister in the Pleiades. At the same time, and in another time, the Watcher cuts the rock and dances, to keep the sky above the earth and the stars flying.

Author : Alan Garner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780007735273
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Moon of Gomrath written by Alan Garner and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alan Garner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1668025515
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Elmore Leonard
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061832960
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City Primeval written by Elmore Leonard and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “As gritty and hard-driving a thriller as you’ll find….The action never stops, the language sings and stings.” —Washington Post The City Primeval in Elmore Leonard’s relentlessly gripping classic noir is Detroit, the author’s much-maligned hometown and the setting for many of the Grand Master’s acclaimed crime novels. The “Alexander the Great of crime fiction” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) shines in these urban mean streets, setting up a downtown showdown between the psychopathic, thrill-killing “Oklahoma Wildman” and the dedicated city copy who’s determined to take him down. The creator of U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens of TV’s Justified fame, Elmore Leonard is the equal of any writer who has ever captivated readers with dark tales of heists, hijacks, double-crosses, and murder—John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Robert Parker included—and nobody then or now is better.

Author : Iain Banks
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684855364
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Song of Stone written by Iain Banks and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-09-07 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in a war-torn country not unlike Bosnia, this internationally bestselling novel concerns a band of soldiers who find refuge in a rural castle.

Author : Alan Garner
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008672210
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Voice that Thunders written by Alan Garner and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2024-09-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of writings by the author of the 2022 Booker Prize-shortlisted Treacle Walker

Author : Andrew Michael Hurley
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 : 1328489884
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Devil's Day written by Andrew Michael Hurley and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2018 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A gripping and unsettling new novel by the award-winning author of The Loney that asks how much we owe to tradition, and how far we will go to preserve it"--

Author : Alan Garner
Publisher : Fourth Estate
ISBN 13 : 9780008306007
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where Shall We Run To? written by Alan Garner and published by Fourth Estate. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 208 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. 'The war went. We sang in the playground, "Bikini lagoon, an atom bomb's boom, and two big explosions." David's father came back from Burma and didn't eat rice. Twiggy taught by reciting "The Pied Piper of Hamelin", "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and the thirteen times table. Twiggy was fat and short and he shouted, and his neck was as wide as his head. He was a bully, though he didn't take any notice of me.' In Where Shall We Run To?, Alan Garner remembers his early childhood in the Cheshire village of Alderley Edge: life at the village school as 'a sissy and a mardy-arse'; pushing his friend Harold into a clump of nettles to test the truth of dock leaves; his father joining the army to guard the family against Hitler; the coming of the Yanks, with their comics and sweets and chewing gum. From one of our greatest living writers, it is a remarkable and evocative memoir of a vanished England.