Boneland

Over 50 years ago Alan Garner wrote The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and its sequel, The Moon of Gomrath, two books of magic and myth, featuring the children Colin and Susan. They encounter a wizard who guards sleepers beneath the hills – Arthur and his knights, perhaps – sleepers who will wake to save......more

I often see disparaging reviews (many of them of my own books) begin with 'I wanted to like this', it combines both a sense of personal disappointment in the author along with the double put-down of 'even with a following wind I couldn't like this'. I wanted to like this book more than I did. This is......more

This is a first review, on first reading of a book I will read again and again for the rest of my life, and each time it will be different; deeper. At one level, this is the sequel, fifty years on, to The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath. For those of us who came to them young, these......more

Growing up is weird, and can seem quite sad, especially when you remember the things that used to ring and resonate and you can almost remember what the ring and the resonance sounded like but not why it set your nerves on fire and filled your head with light. I suppose they were simple things in th......more

I was utterly disappointed with this. It's supposed to be a sequel to two of the greatest books of my childhood; books full of magic and adventure and wonder. This was mostly dialogue between an unhinged genius and his psychiatrist. The book centres around a now grown up Colin who remembers the bare......more