Just published, an academic book surveying the work of our local fantasy author Alan Garner, Alan Garner and the work of time (September 2026). Rather expensive, as academic books are these days. But here it is. Complete with a gloomy picture of local landmark Mow Cop, on the cover.

CONTENTS:

Introduction.

placeworntime.

Alan Garner and folk fantasy in The Weirdstone of Brisingamen.

The view from the vanishing point.

The melancholy matter of Britain.

‘Aback of everything’.

Dancing on the Edge.

‘We both look, but we see differently’.

Boneland.

Are you alright, Colin? Brisingamen to Boneland and back.

Strandloper, Treacle Walker and unified field theory.

Circles in the eternal.

Afterwords.

Stones, bones, Mr Garner and me.

Thin places.

Index.