Alan Garner

Alan Garner is an English novelist whose children's and crossover fiction reshaped the genre through mythology rooted in his native Cheshire landscape. Works such as The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Owl Service and the late-career triumph Treacle Walker blend archaeology, folklore and spare, glittering prose.

A classicist by training, Garner has always weighed ancient myth against modern poverty and technology. Treacle Walker, a short Booker-shortlisted masterpiece published when he was eighty-seven, confirmed his place as one of the great living masters of British writing.