- Alan Garner

Powsels and Thrums

By Alan Garner
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‘A national treasure‘ NEIL GAIMAN

‘I salute him with the most heartfelt respect and admiration’ PHILIP PULLMAN

‘One of Britain’s greatest writers’ FINANCIAL TIMES

A standalone work of Non Fiction by the bestselling author of Treacle Walker, Powsels and Thrums is a distillation of a lifetime of work. It blends family history, folklore, stories and poetry, bringing to life the language and landscape of Garner’s beloved Cheshire.

It works as a companion piece to The Voice that Thunders, just as Treacle Walker was a companion to Where Shall We Run To.

Full of charm and insight, this book is a celebration of the writer’s life, values and language.

Author: Alan Garner
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 10 Oct 2024
Pages: 176
ISBN: 978-0-00-872521-1
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 Alan Garner: -

'His work has a symphonic quality unique in fiction' The Times -

'Garner is his own man … taut, powerful, credible' Penelope Lively, Independent -

”'A unique genius” - New Statesman

'The words Garner chooses, carves, inserts into his prose are perfect. He deploys short, accurate words better than anyone else writing in English today, and he makes it look simple' Neil Gaiman -

”'His is a consummate artist's vision that matches landscape and people and story'” - Ralph Elliott, Labrys 7

”'Alan Garner's themes are huge, urgent, compassionate, his voice distinguished by clarity, compression, precision, depth of feeling and sharpness of thought” - Neil Philip, A Fine Anger: A Critical Introduction to the Work of Alan Garner