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Garner is one of those writers who, though mostly aiming at children and young adults, produces books which are readable by anyone who is prepared to suspend disbelief and enjoy fantasy. His books have matured from the early adventure fantasies to dark mixtures of time where the past and the present mingle uneasily in a very mysterious way. Like Madeleine L'Engle (though a mirror image of her message of hope from within, Garner is more about despair from without), if you've never tried Garner, it's not too late to start - and if you have, you'll want to expand your collection. US readers are strongly recommended to see some of the books only available in the UK store.

Elidor -
In Garner's halfway phase, Elidor is still a children's book, but darker than its predecessors. From a ruined site in Manchester a group of children discover a different world. They bring back a number of treasures, but when they move to a new house in the country, the other world starts to reach back, for the treasures and them. A gripping book with some very realistic feelings. New 11 November 98

The Moon of Gomrath -
Sequel to the Wierdstone of Brisingamen. Not quite as successful as a sheer children's adventure, but this tale of the wild hunt becoming intermingled with the lives of the children who have moved from suburbia to the (rather refined) wildness of Alderly Edge is still very readable.  New 11 November 98

The Owl Service -
Perhaps the greatest of Garner's books, The Owl Service is a hypnotic tale of young adults finding themselves as they become immersed in a strange mix of Welsh folklore, recent history and the present. Garner's ever-present themes of mixing time and the power in the land are never better, and the conclusion is balanced on a knife edge. Superb. New 11 November 98

Red Shift -
The most taxing of Garner's young adult books, Red Shift is incredibly effective - but be warned, it is also a very bleak book. Mixing up the present day, a massacre from a few hundred years ago and the Roman past, Garner uses the pivotal point of Mow Cop and its strange folly castle to pull together forces that turn a blossoming romance into decay. Hard work, but well worth it. New 11 November 98

 Strandloper -
In this rare foray into adult writing, Garner produces what could be seen as a pure work of historical fiction. It tells the story of William Buckley, a bricklayer from rural Cheshire who was arrested and transported to Australia in the 1790s. He vows to his girl that he will return, and escapes from the settlement with the unfortunate notion that Australia is connected by land to the rest of Asia, and so expects to travel North to China then turn left to return home. This would be a fascinating enough tale in its own right - but this is Garner at work, and so there is a strange intertwining of the rituals that kept magic ritual alive in 18th century Cheshire and the magic of the Australian aborigines, who take in Buckley as one of their own. New 24 October 2001

The Stone Book Quartet -
After getting increasingly dark, these short books were a refreshing change for Garner. Aimed at a younger audience they are charming evocations of a past childhood. There's still the Garner fascination with the power of stone and of place, but this is nature in benevolent mood. New 11 November 98

Thursbitch -
Just as it's possible to listen to a piece of music by Beethoven or Tavener and recognize the composer by the feel of the music, so Garner's books have a distinctive feel that is embedded in the rocks and soil of his beloved Cheshire/Derbyshire borders. And all those elements are brought to a new height in Thursbitch. It's quite slim as novels go, and there are times when Garner gets carried away with his fascination with old religions and his antipathy to historical Christianity, but it's still a great book. Garner fans could see this is the positive antithesis of Red Shift - despite having death as a major theme, it's much more uplifting than the shattering conclusion of that book. If you think it's impossible for a fantasy writer to produce a good novel, read this one. New 8 December 2003

The Wierdstone of Brisingamen -
Garner's first children's book, a fast-moving fantasy adventure when two children move from suburbia to a farm in the country and discover the strange underground world in the copper mines of Alderly Edge. I've been down those mines - and you can understand where Garner got his inspiration. Though the cast is derivative of The Lord of the Rings, the approach is very different in the way the strange is laid alongside the normal. Wonderful cataclysmic ending. New 11 November 98

The Wierdstone of Brisingamen  New 11 November 98

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