Алан Гарнер – лучшие книги

В книгу знаменитого прозаика Алана Гарнера вошли две повести - "Камень из ожерелья Брисингов" и "Луна в канун Гомрата". Эти повести занимают почетное место рядом с "Маугли" и "Хоббитом". Недаром же Гарнер - продолжатель традиций великого Киплинга, младший друг, а в чем-то и соперник несравненного Толкина.

В книгу известного английского писателя вошли две повести: "Элидор" и "Совы на тарелках". В "Элидоре" используется малоизвестная легенда о юноше, спасшем своих братьев и сестру из поглотившей их Черной башни. Современные дети, попав в другой мир - Элидор - побеждают силы тьмы и вызволяют из-под власти этих сил священные Сокровища, которые должны спасти мир. В основу повести "Совы на тарелках" повожено одно из средневековых валлийских сказаний о женщине, сотворенной из цветов могущественным волшебником и превращенной за измену в хищную сову. Автор оживляет эти старинные легенды и переносит их действие в наши дни, приоткрывая области, о…

Почему люди делают друг другу и себе больно? Страсть, ревность, социальное неравенство, зависть, обида, страх — причин не перечесть…

…Началось все летним погожим днем, со случайно найденной на чердаке тарелки, узор которой странным образом напоминал кривоватую сову. Или красивый цветочный орнамент. Тарелок много — сервиз — но стоит перерисовать на бумагу узор, как тарелка или разбивается или совы с нее исчезают. Исчезают с тарелок, но появляются вокруг героев: подростков Гвина, Элисон и Роджера, — то в виде старой легенды, то страшилкой в темном лесу, то лицом на стене, то чучелом в каморке...

Умный, но бедный мальчик-бунтарь влюбляется в богатую девочку — сюжет старый как мир, как древняя темная легенда, в которой нашествие темных сил может остановить лишь величие души, рыцарство, благородство. А совы?.. В том и ценность истории Гарнера, что она не сводится к одному знаменателю, — и вы, наверняка, найдете в ней что-то свое.

За эту книгу Алан Гарнер получил Медаль Карнеги (Carnegie Medal) и премию Гардиан (Guardian Award, Лучшая детская книга). В новом переводе Надежды Андреевны Сосновской - популярной переводчицы фантастики и фэнтези (Азимов, Саймак, Желязны и другие).

Колин и Сьюзен приезжают в гости к старой няне Бесс и ее мужу. Как и все дети, они начинают осваивать окрестности уютной деревенской усадьбы: гуляют по лесистым склонам, забираются в старые шахты (хотя обещали этого не делать) и, незаметно для себя, оказываются втянуты в волшебную, немного жуткую, но ужасно увлекательную историю, которая началась сотни лет назад. В великое и вечное противостояние Добра и Зла, темных и светлых сил…

Современные мальчик и девочка, попав в волшебный мир гномов, эльфов, гоблинов, средневековых рыцарей, спящих зачарованным сном, оказываются в центре столкновения сил Добра и Зла.

В один пасмурный день Хелен и три ее брата - Роланд, Николас и Дэвид - в поисках приключений зашли в старую церковь и оказались в ином мире, в стране, объятой тьмой, - Элидоре. Бродяга, игравший на скрипке в Манчестере, в Элидоре оказался королем и попросил детей о помощи. В книге древних преданий было предсказано, что именно они четверо помогут спасти Сокровища Элидора: чашу, камень, меч и копье. Дети хотели отказаться, но два мира так тесно связаны, что гибель Элидора отразилась бы и на нашей реальности, поэтому они забирают и прячут Сокровища. Но темные силы, которые разрушают Элидор, все ближе - призрачные силуэты возникают из ниоткуда, за дверью уютного дома разверзаются пропасти и поднимаются скалы… И уже совсем скоро послышится стук копыт единорога - сияющего, но смертельно опасного…
Для среднего школьного возраста.

Here John Turner was cast away in a heavy snow storm in the night in or about the year 1755.

The print of a woman's shoe was found by his side in the snow where he lay dead.

This enigmatic memorial stone, high on the bank of a prehistoric Pennine track in Cheshire, is a mystery that lives on in the hill farms today.

John Turner was a packman. With his train of horses he carried salt and silk, travelling distances incomprehensible to his ancient community. In this visionary tale, John brings ideas as well as gifts, which have come, from market town to market town, from places as distant as the campfires of the Silk Road. John Turner's death in the eighteenth century leaves an emotional charge which, in the twenty-first century, Ian and Sal find affects their relationship, challenging the perceptions they have of themselves and of each other. Thursbitch is rooted in a verifiable place. It is an evocation of the lives and the language of all people who are called to the valley of Thursbitch.

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 comic and lifted his eye patch. There was a white pony in the yard. It was harnessed to a cart, a flat cart, with a wooden chest on it. A man was sitting at a front corner of the cart, holding the reins. His face was creased. He wore a long coat and a floppy high-crowned hat, with hair straggling beneath, and a leather bag was slung from his shoulder across his hip.

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 a world he could never have imagined.

A retelling of 21 tales from the folklore of England and Wales, including stories of magic, mystery, wizardry and trickery. P.J. Lynch's illustrations for the book won him the Mother Goose Award. Alan Garner's novels for children include "The Owl Service" and "The Weirdstone of Brisingamen".

Professor Colin Whisterfield spends his days at Jodrell Bank, using the radio telescope to look for his lost sister in the Pleiades. At night, he is on Alderley Edge, watching. At the same time, and in another time, the Watcher cuts the rock and blows bulls on the stone with his blood, and dances, to keep the sky above the earth and the stars flying. Colin can’t remember; and he remembers too much. Before the age of thirteen is a blank. After that he recalls everything: where he was, what he was doing, in every minute of every hour of every day. Everything he has read and seen. And then, finally, a new force enters his life, a…

A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARFrom 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”, “The Charge of the Light Brigade” and the thirteen times table. Twiggy was fat and short and he shouted, and his neck was as wide as his head. He was a bully, though he didn’t take any notice of me.’In Where Shall We Run To?, Alan Garner remembers his early childhood in the Cheshire village of Alderley Edge: life at the village school as ‘a sissy and a mardy-arse'; pushing his friend Harold into a clump of nettles to test the truth of dock leaves; his father joining the army to guard the family against Hitler; the coming of the Yanks, with their comics and sweets and chewing gum. From one of our greatest living writers, it is a remarkable and evocative memoir of a vanished England.

A disturbing exploration of the inevitability of life. Under Orion's stars, bluesilver visions torment Tom, Macey and Thomas as they struggle with age-old forces. Distanced from each other in time, and isolated from those they live among, they are yet inextricably bound together by the sacred power of the moon's axe and each seek their own refuge at Mow Cop. Can those they love so intensely keep them clinging to reality? Or is the future evermore destined to reflect the past?

The four books which make up this volume were first published individually. "As the stories grow into one story, so one's awareness of the emblems and symbols deepens! Garner binds the reader to him and he shows us the author working with language to make his book as his characters worked with stone and iron. Not a word is wasted." - "Times Literary Supplement".

Following on from the fiftieth anniversary of Alan Garner′s seminal fantasy classic, THE WEIRDSTONE OF BRISINGAMEN, this beautifully produced hardback collects all of Alan′s folk tales, told with his unique storytelling skill and inimitably clear voice. Essential reading for young and old alike, and a book to be treasured.

A gripping time-slip novel by the author of the 2022 Booker Prize-longlisted Treacle Walker
Here John Turner was cast away in a heavy snow storm in the night in or about the year 1755. The print of a woman's shoe was found by his side in the snow where he lay dead.
So reads an enigmatic memorial stone, high on the bank of a prehistoric Pennine track in Cheshire, a mystery that lives on in the surrounding hill farms.
John Turner was a packman. With his train of horses he carried salt and silk, travelling distances incomprehensible to his community. John brought ideas as well as gifts, from market town to market town, from places as distant as the campfires of the Silk Road.
In the twenty-first century, two hundred and fifty years after John's life, Ian and Sal's world resounds with the echo John's death. Walking on the moor one day they slip between time and are lost somewhere between Jack's vanished world and their own. This poetic, fantastical novel is is an evocation of the lives and the language of all people who are called to the valley of Thursbitch.

This novel opens in Cheshire in the 1790s, with William Buckley being chosen as the village's Shick-Shack - an ancient fertility figure. But when the local landowner discovers the celebrations in church, William is arrested and sentenced to transportation to New Holland.

Renowned storyteller Alan Garner has retrieved three stories from the timeless world of folklore that have the logic of dreams. Here are "The Fox, the Hare, and the Cock"; "The Girl and the Geese"; and "Battibeth", retold in lyrical text that is perfect for reading aloud. Full color.

Originally told around the fireside, this rich and varied collection of tales chosen from all the regions of Britain has a powerful immediacy. Alan Garner has selected the tales for their strength and imagery and they are ideal for reading aloud.

The much-loved classic, finally in ebook. In 'The Lad of the Gad' Alan Garner has reworked five stories from the Gaelic layers of British folktale. Folk and fairy tales have not always been relegated to children, and older readers will appreciate Garner's ability to give these stories a new vitality for our time.

A collection of stories about fools drawn from American Indian, African, Irish, Gypsy, Sumatran, Flemish, and British sources.