Alan Garner
Born
in Congleton, Cheshire, England, The United Kingdom
October 17, 1934
Genre
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (Tales of Alderley, #1)
14 editions
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1960
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The Owl Service
2 editions
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1967
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Treacle Walker
17 editions
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2021
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Elidor
7 editions
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1965
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The Moon of Gomrath (Tales of Alderley, #2)
85 editions
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1963
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Red Shift
32 editions
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published
1973
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Boneland (Tales of Alderley, #3)
13 editions
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2012
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Thursbitch
7 editions
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2003
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The Stone Book Quartet
20 editions
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1976
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Collected Folk Tales
4 editions
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2011
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“She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.”
― The Owl Service
― The Owl Service
“The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone. At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.”
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“... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and to follow Arthur Koestler's dictum: "Soak; and wait.”
― The Voice That Thunders
― The Voice That Thunders
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