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Boneland by Alan Garner
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | 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
Collected Folk Tales by Alan Garner
$19.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA
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: Children's & YA | 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: New Hardbacks | 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
The Owl Service by Alan Garner
$15.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | 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
$24.95 AUD
Category: Children's & YA
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 Weirdstone of Brisingamen (Alderley #1) by Alan Garner
$15.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | 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
Treacle Walker by Alan Garner
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 ...Show more
Treacle Walker H/B by Alan Garner
$24.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
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. 'Ragbone! Ragbone! Any rags! Pots for rags! Donkey stone!'Joe looked up from his ...Show more
Where Shall We Run To? - A Memoir by Alan Garner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
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 ...Show more
Where Shall We Run To?: A Memoir by Alan Garner
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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, T ...Show more
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