Order of Alan Garner Books

Alan Garner is a British author of children’s and young adult fantasy, best known for his novels steeped in British folklore and myth. His works, including The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and Red Shift, often blend magical realism with vivid depictions of place, exploring themes of history, memory, and the supernatural. Garner’s storytelling is celebrated for its rich language, imaginative depth, and lasting influence on modern fantasy literature.

Alan Garner made his debut as an author in 1960 with The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, beginning the Weirdstone Trilogy series. Below is a list of Alan Garner’s books in order of when they were first released:

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Alan Garner Synopses: Treacle Walker is a standalone novel by Alan Garner. Joseph Coppock is a thoughtful, solitary boy trying to understand the world around him. He lives alone in an old house, passing his days with comic books, birds’ eggs, and games of marbles. Then a rag-and-bone man named Treacle Walker arrives by horse and cart, peddling a supposed cure-all. From this strange encounter grows an unlikely friendship, drawing Joseph into a reality far stranger and more wondrous than anything he has known.

Thursbitch is a standalone novel by Alan Garner. An old memorial stone stands high above a prehistoric Pennine track in Cheshire, bearing a stark inscription: John Turner was cast away in a snowstorm around 1755, his body found beside the print of a woman’s shoe. The mystery of his death still haunts the surrounding hill farms.

John Turner was a packman, travelling vast distances with his string of horses, carrying salt and silk across landscapes his community could scarcely imagine. Along with goods, he carried stories and ideas, moving from market town to market town, from the edges of England to echoes of far-off trade routes.

Two and a half centuries later, John’s death still reverberates. In the twenty-first century, Ian and Sal are drawn into its shadow when a walk on the moor slips them out of their own time and into the spaces between past and present. Lost between John’s vanished world and their own, they discover that Thursbitch is a valley where lives, voices, and histories continue to converge.

The Well of the Wind is a standalone novel by Alan Garner. In prose rich and echoing, a celebrated novelist tells a tale of youthful bravery facing ancient malice. When her brother fails to return after an encounter with a quiet, dangerous witch, a young girl ventures alone into the forest to find him, relying on courage and wit to confront a power far older than herself.

Strandloper is a standalone title by Alan Garner. Based on the true story of William Buckley, an 18th-century Englishman, this novel begins with William chosen as the village’s Shick-Shack, an ancient fertility figure, during the annual festival. When the local landowner interrupts the celebration, William is arrested, tried, and exiled to Australia. Alone in a strange land, he wanders for over a year before being taken in by a group of Aborigines who believe him to be Murrangurk, their legendary hero and healer. Eventually, English colonialists find him, grant him a pardon, and William must confront the life he left behind when he returns to England.