The Weirdstone Of Brisingamen by Alan Garner
From the author of the Booker Prize-longlisted Treacle Walker and the Carnegie Medal and Guardian Childrens Fiction Prize-winning classic, The Owl Service A tale of AlderleyReviewers hailed Alan Garner as a great new writer in 1960:
“Excellent and overflowing with largesse and imagination is this first novel by Alan Garner…a piece of marvellously sustained inventionThis is a fine, new-mint book with echoes in it from the best of the old.” Times Literary Supplement
“The suspense is superb. Mr Garner has written grand tales that may well be read a hundred years hence as eagerly as it is read now.” Scotsman.
“Absolutely first class. Well written, well told, it mixes legend, fact and fairy tale.” Manchester Evening News
Alan Garner was born in Cheshire on 17th October 1934, and his childhood was spent in Alderley Edge, where his family has lived for more than four hundred years. He was awarded the OBE in 2001, for his services to literature.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780007127887 |
| ISBN 10 | 000712788X |
| Title | The Weirdstone Of Brisingamen |
| Author | Alan Garner |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 2002-08-05 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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