: works

"I have tried to place my literate ear in the way of a preliterate voice, so that, although the word in the air is not the same word on the page, the force may be recreated and felt."

1960 The Weirdstone of Brisingamen

1963 The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (paperback - revised text)

1963 The Moon of Gomrath

1965 Elidor

1966 Holly from the Bongs: A Nativity Play

1967 The Old Man of Mow

1967 The Owl Service

1969 The Hamish Hamilton Book of Goblins (aka A Book of Goblins, aka A Cavalcade of Goblins)

1970 Filming the Owl Service

1973 Red Shift

1973 Red Shift (American edition with variant readings - Garner's preferred text)

1974 Holly from the Bongs: A Nativity Opera

1975 Red Shift (paperback - with corrections)

1975 The Breadhorse

1975 The Guizer

1975 The Guizer (paperback - with revised introduction)

1976 The Stone Book (Stone Book Quartet)

1977 Red Shift (with further corrections)

1977 Granny Reardun (Stone Book Quartet)

1977 Tom Fobble's Day (Stone Book Quartet)

1978 The Aimer Gate (Stone Book Quartet)

1979 The Stone Book, Granny Reardun, Tom Fobble's Day, The Aimer Gate (paperbacks - with new illustrations by Michael Foreman)

1980 The Lad of the Gad

1980 Fairytales of Gold

1981 The Lad of the Gad (American edition - with revised introduction)

1984 Alan Garner's Book of British Fairy Tales

1985 Potter Thompson

1986 A Bag of Moonshine

1993 Once Upon a Time

1993 Jack and the Beanstalk

1996 Strandloper

1997 The Little Red Hen

1997 The Voice that Thunders

1998 Grey Wolf, Prince Jack and the Firebird

1998 The Well of the Wind

2003 Thursbitch

Please note: only major published works (novels, collections of short stories, etc) are listed here. There are also numerous uncollected essays and short pieces, plays, and a number of libretti for operas. Further details can be found in A Fine Anger: A Critical Introduction to the Work of Alan Garner by Neil Philip.

Thanks to numerous correspondents for supplying cover scans.