Re: Alan Garner's favourite book on prehistory | Forum

moss Aug 5, 2018 11:25:46

Replying to nix

nix wrote:

Anyone read it?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Prehistory-Britain-Ireland-Cambridge-Archaeology/dp/0521612705

No, but I do have his two other books, 'The Significance of Monuments' and 'An Archaeology of Natural Places' He is very erudite, and the book you quote seems to cover more of our history than those two. In many ways I could not get on with his thinking but that could be my fault his writing is very fluid. We all see things differently.
Alan Garner, master of mystery and weirdness, now what is he finding in this book Nix?

Rhiannon Aug 12, 2018 19:54:14

Replying to moss

Alan Garner has a new book out. I had no idea it was in the pipeline. He's written about his childhood. Or at least, he's written about his childhood from his point of view as that child, at Alderley Edge. I'm very much looking forward to reading it.

nix Sep 10, 2018 19:37:16

Replying to moss

Hi Moss. Sorry for the long delay. I guess I am just inclined to take anything he says on the subject very seriously. Apart from the wonderful evocation of prehistoric landscape in his novels, he has made several significant discoveries himself. And his understanding of 'stone' seems without compare in living writers (he does after all come from stonemason stock).

In his last novel Boneland, his evocation of the prehistoric mind is completely convincing. x