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• The Blackden Trust
  
• Alan Garner mailing list
  

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• Brian Aldiss and Alan Garner
  
• Bedtime stories 'a must'
  
• Literary giant slams village developments
  
• Age out of the question - Alan Garner celebrates the joy of whimsical reading beyond the brackets of age banding
  
• Pot sherds and pedagogy - School of Everything visits the Blackden Trust, which is also reported among the Blackden Trust's past events
  
• Erica Wagner enters the great children's books age-banding debate
  
• Production notes for the television adaptation of The Owl Service
  
• Alan Garner reopens junior library at the Manchester Grammar School
  
• Bookish Monkey discusses rereading Garner and George Adamson's cover illustrations
  
• Adapting children's books for cinema, including a strange reference to the terrifying adaptations of the Elidor books (warning: this appears to be a fact-free article)
  
• Author joins Jodrell battle in the Manchester Evening News
  
• Garner and the Green Knight
  
• Cantabrigia et Mamucium et Caesaromagus CXXIII
  
• Images from the television adaptation of The Owl Service
  
• A 1992 interview from Books for Keeps
  
• Manchester Evening News and Daily Mail reports on the Blackden Trust
  
• Alan Garner: number 28 on the Times list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945
  
• Bookrags has a number of Garner biographies and essays (fee based but brief extracts are available)
  
• Garner of myths and legends (other flickr images)
  
• SquidWho ("A people-powered Who's Who on the Web") page for Alan Garner
  
• Fantasy Magazine's notices of the Italian editions of The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Moon of Gomrath and Elidor: La Pietra Magica di Brisingamen and La Luna di Gomrath and Elidor
  
• Alan Garner is one of the featured authors at the Salt Museum's Cheshire Writers exhibition running until 13 January 2008
  
• By Seven Stars and Goldenstone: an Account of the Legend of Alderley - a lecture by Alan Garner at the Temenos Academy, November 2007. (PDF flyer)
  
• Google Books makes available a Chinese translation of The Owl Service.
  
• Cooper Renner blogs about Meeting Alan and Griselda Garner.
  
• A report on the First Move Literary Festival held at Jodrell Bank, including Alan Garner's appearance there.
  
• Filadelfia Editore - an Italian biography and mention of The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath from the publisher of the Italian translations.
  
• Why I Write - Alan Garner interviewed by Sarah Kinson.
  
• Erica Wagner: 'I never considered myself a writer for children. A book that can only be read by children isn't a good book.' - An interview with Alan Garner when The Stone Book Quartet was reissued.
  
• Francis Gilbert: The Green Moss Code.
  
• The Carnegie Award page for The Owl Service.
  
• The Books of Alan Garner, including images of the locations in The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Moon of Gomrath and The Stone Book Quartet.
  
• Alan Garner at the Cheltenham Literary Festival.
  
• The Literary Encyclopedia entry for Alan Garner.
  
• A Library Outside of Time - Alan Garner on Manchester's hidden national treasure.
  
• Alan Garner's entry in the Virtual Encyclopaedia of Greater Manchester.
  
• Alan Garner's Wikipedia entry.
  
• A brief review of Garner's appearance at the Edinburgh Festival 2004 from the Fortean Times.
  
• Some letters by Alan Garner to the Congleton Chronicle concerning the Byley Gas Plant: 8th November, 15th November; Councillor's response; Holly from the Bongs auctioned to support the Resident's Action group. Some other mentions of Garner at the site: archaeology, nurkey, and Cheshire's celebrities (and a historical picture of Mow Cop).
  
• Two BBC pages referring in passing to Garner's OBE (though one mistakenly refers to it as an MBE): Arts World Richly Rewarded and Honorary Knighthood for Spike.
  
• A Russian Alan Garner site (some of those pictures look familiar - at least there's a link back here): BiblioGid.
  
• Alan Garner's postings to the genealogy.com forum (of particular interest in relation to his novels are: 4182.html (on fact and fiction), 4130.html (lineage and DNA), and 4058.html (the 1642 Royalist massacre)
  
• Alan Garner is appearing at the Bollington Festival
  
• In honour of Alan Garner: marking the acquisition of the papers of Alan Garner by the Bodleian Library
  
• Alan Garner reading from The Stone Book on BBC's Something Understood.
  
• The IMDb entry for Alan Garner.
  
• A couple of brief mentions of Garner's Edinburgh Festival appearance.
  
• The Brigham Young University reference to their collection of Garner papers also includes a number of interesting discussions of his oeuvre (this link no longer works - this is a locally archived copy of the page).
  
• BBC Open Country program featuring Alan Garner
  
• BrainyEncylopedia entry for Alan Garner
  
• A reader's letter to the Guardian Unlimited concerning manic depression
  
• Independent.co.uk: Happy birthday to the Magus of Macclesfield
  
• Guardian Unlimited biography: England's time lord
  
• Guardian Unlimited: Alan Garner Q&A Monday October 18 2004
  
• An online Weirdstone/Gomrath quiz
  
• Alan Garner's image at the National Portrait Gallery
  
• A 2-CD dramatisation of The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (unfortunately, only in Norwegian)
  
• The History Man: Alan Garner's home
  
• Inside the Time Lord's Lair: an Edinburgh Festivals page about garner
  
• Andrew Dale's page on Garner and brief reviews of some of his books.
  
• Dougald Hine's comments on spiritual activism and english deep magic, including children's literature and Alan Garner.
  
• A review of The Voice that Thunders.
  
• A bibliography of Garner's books, including details of various editions.
  
• Brief reviews of Garner's books.
  
• Alan Garner - an unsolicited account of his writing
  
• A general discussion of Alan Garner and his work
  
• tv.cream.org, a site dedicated to British television, has a mention of the television adaptation of The Owl Service
  
• A precis of an interview with Alan Garner. The complete interview is available for purchase
  
• A recent interview with Alan Garner about influences, writing and language
  
• An interview with Alan Garner discussing his early works and Arthurian influences
  
• An article describing Garner's reaction to receiving an OBE
  
• A page regarding the television adaptation of The Owl Service including an email link to Network Video who are considering releasing it on DVD. Add your vote now!
  
• The Guardian Unlimited Alan Garner page
  
• Guardian Unlimited: Falling Sickness
  
• Guardian Unlimited: Life on the Edge
  
• Guardian Unlimited: Lost in the Bush
  
• Guardian Unlimited: Rubbing Salt in the Wounds
  
• Guardian Unlimited: World of Wonders
  
• An excerpt from Thursbitch
  
• The Owl Service: the single
  
• The Owl Service: the single reviewed, pointing out Harry Potter's influence on the title(!)
  
• Naxos Audiobooks' recording of The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and author biography
  
• An interview with Alan Garner from the Perennial edition of The Stone Book Quartet: The Intense Gaze of My People
  
• Screenonline: The Owl Service television serial
  
• The pleasures of storytelling including a comment from Alan Garner
  
• The blank page is still terror, 50 years on: Alan Garner looks back at half a century’s writing and how it all began
  
• Storybook England has a page on Alan Garner
  
• Encyclopædia Britannica Online entry for Alan Garner
  
• The legend of Alan Garner explored: Times Online book weblog entry
  
• Gawain and the Green Knight - a tale for today
  
• Fantasy Cottage For Sale - buy your piece of Garner history!
  

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