Alan Garner is an English novelist best known for his fantasy novels and his retellings of traditional British folk tales. He was born in Cheshire in 1934 and his childhood was spent in Alderley Edge, where his family has lived for more than four hundred years. His fourth book, The Owl Service, won The Guardian Award and the Carnegie Medal, and was made into a TV series. It has established itself as a contemporary classic and Garner as a writer of distinction. In 2022, his novel Treacle Walker was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He was awarded the OBE in 2001 for his services to literature.

Praise for Powsels and Thrums: ‘Who could resist such a title? … an evocative metaphor for the writings collected herein … These snippets, produced on the same magical loom, together attain a mesmerising wholeness, vibrating with life and curiosity, capturing both the pungently time-bound and the luminously eternal’ Observer‘Thrilling … An author steeped in ancestral landscapes, alert to the history and dialects of his parish … Reading Garner’s essays one is reminded of other landscape-obsessives such as Tim Robinson … Ted Hughes and Geoffrey Hill, who could likewise sense the mythic England behind the everyday’ New Statesman‘Offers a remarkable window into Garner’s mind and heart … You don’t have to know his work well to become immersed in this little book’ Spectator‘This rich collection underlines the homogeneity of his life’s work: how themes and processes jostle against each other again and again – deep history, ancestry, cosmology, archaeology, anthropology, myth and legend. Mind-bending, but all of a piece’ Guardian‘Here is a writer profoundly rooted in landscape … and one to whom landscape is endlessly legible … There’s magic here … It adds up to something like a creative manifesto’ Telegraph‘A creative manifesto … We are all the richer for it’ Byline Times‘Lyrical and rich … Alan Garner’s writing is part of the landscape of our own lives, of our childhoods and of our memories’ Stone Club

Alan Garner is an English novelist best known for his fantasy novels and his retellings of traditional British folk tales. He was born in Cheshire in 1934 and his childhood was spent in Alderley Edge, where his family has lived for more than four hundred years. His fourth book, The Owl Service, won The Guardian Award and the Carnegie Medal, and was made into a TV series. It has established itself as a contemporary classic and Garner as a writer of distinction. In 2022, his novel Treacle Walker was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He was awarded the OBE in 2001 for his services to literature.

Praise for Powsels and Thrums: ‘Who could resist such a title? … an evocative metaphor for the writings collected herein … These snippets, produced on the same magical loom, together attain a mesmerising wholeness, vibrating with life and curiosity, capturing both the pungently time-bound and the luminously eternal’ Observer‘Thrilling … An author steeped in ancestral landscapes, alert to the history and dialects of his parish … Reading Garner’s essays one is reminded of other landscape-obsessives such as Tim Robinson … Ted Hughes and Geoffrey Hill, who could likewise sense the mythic England behind the everyday’ New Statesman‘Offers a remarkable window into Garner’s mind and heart … You don’t have to know his work well to become immersed in this little book’ Spectator‘This rich collection underlines the homogeneity of his life’s work: how themes and processes jostle against each other again and again – deep history, ancestry, cosmology, archaeology, anthropology, myth and legend. Mind-bending, but all of a piece’ Guardian‘Here is a writer profoundly rooted in landscape … and one to whom landscape is endlessly legible … There’s magic here … It adds up to something like a creative manifesto’ Telegraph‘A creative manifesto … We are all the richer for it’ Byline Times‘Lyrical and rich … Alan Garner’s writing is part of the landscape of our own lives, of our childhoods and of our memories’ Stone Club

Alan Garner is an English novelist best known for his fantasy novels and his retellings of traditional British folk tales. He was born in Cheshire in 1934 and his childhood was spent in Alderley Edge, where his family has lived for more than four hundred years. His fourth book, The Owl Service, won The Guardian Award and the Carnegie Medal, and was made into a TV series. It has established itself as a contemporary classic and Garner as a writer of distinction. In 2022, his novel Treacle Walker was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He was awarded the OBE in 2001 for his services to literature.

Praise for Powsels and Thrums: ‘Who could resist such a title? … an evocative metaphor for the writings collected herein … These snippets, produced on the same magical loom, together attain a mesmerising wholeness, vibrating with life and curiosity, capturing both the pungently time-bound and the luminously eternal’ Observer‘Thrilling … An author steeped in ancestral landscapes, alert to the history and dialects of his parish … Reading Garner’s essays one is reminded of other landscape-obsessives such as Tim Robinson … Ted Hughes and Geoffrey Hill, who could likewise sense the mythic England behind the everyday’ New Statesman‘Offers a remarkable window into Garner’s mind and heart … You don’t have to know his work well to become immersed in this little book’ Spectator‘This rich collection underlines the homogeneity of his life’s work: how themes and processes jostle against each other again and again – deep history, ancestry, cosmology, archaeology, anthropology, myth and legend. Mind-bending, but all of a piece’ Guardian‘Here is a writer profoundly rooted in landscape … and one to whom landscape is endlessly legible … There’s magic here … It adds up to something like a creative manifesto’ Telegraph‘A creative manifesto … We are all the richer for it’ Byline Times‘Lyrical and rich … Alan Garner’s writing is part of the landscape of our own lives, of our childhoods and of our memories’ Stone Club