Don't think this has been posted before but I may be wrong...
The story concerns the adventures of a group of children as they struggle to hold back a terrible darkness by fulfilling a prophecy from another world. The plot moves to and from the world of Elidor, and the city of Manchester and parts of northern Cheshire in the real world.
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Thank you very much.
And finally - the last of my Alan Garners, The Moon of Gomrath. Unfortunately quality is not great - only 32k.
Same link as before.
The Moon of Gomrath also revolves around the adventures of Colin and Susan, with the latter being possessed by a malevolent creature called the Brollachan who has recently entered the world. With the help of the wizard Cadellin, the Brollachan is exorcised, but Susan's soul also leaves her body, being sent to another dimension, leading Colin to find a way to bring it back.
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Wiki:
Alan Garner OBE (born 17 October 1934) is an English novelist best known for his children's fantasy novels and his retellings of traditional British folk tales. His work is firmly rooted in the landscape, history and folklore of his native county of Cheshire, North West England, being set in the region and making use of the native Cheshire dialect.
Born into a working-class family in Congleton, Garner grew up around the nearby town of Alderley Edge, and spent much of his youth in the wooded area known locally as 'The Edge', where he gained an early interest in the folklore of the region. Studying at Manchester Grammar School and then briefly at Oxford University, in 1957 he moved to the nearby village of Blackden, where he bought and renovated an Early Modern building known as Toad Hall.
His first novel, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, was published in 1960. A children's fantasy novel set on the Edge, it incorporated elements of local folklore in its plot and characters. Garner completed a sequel, The Moon of Gomrath (1963), but left the third book of the trilogy he had envisioned. Instead he produced a string of further fantasy novels, Elidor (1965), The Owl Service (1967) and Red Shift (1973).
Thank You, Garner is a new author to me but I am willing to try anything. Why do you have to split the files? Did ge.tt lower it's accepted file size? I am on premium but even when I wasn't I didn't have to do that. If you have to split quality items try Skydrive or Adrive, they both have higher accepted file size. ------------ R
They are children's stories but none the worse for that. We're all big kids on here anyway - yes? :)
You have that right. I love children's scifi and Fantasy. I listen to a lot of stories of that kind. I am old enough to be in my second childhood anyways. --------------- R
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Owl Service now uploaded too. Same link as before:
Link to Elidor, Weirdstone, Owl Service
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
Duration: 1 hour
First broadcast: Saturday 19 November 2011
Written by Alan Garner.
A much-loved story firmly rooted in an ancient landscape offers a thrilling and moving adventure.
Say 'Alderley Edge' to a lot of people and they'll think of footballers with their wives, living in grand mansions. But for a great many the words will conjure up wizards and a hundred knights sleeping in a cave for thousands of years.
Alan Garner used a local legend as the starting point for his book The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and the story is firmly set in the part of Cheshire that he knows so well. The book has been cherished by readers of all ages for fifty years.
Alan Garner's story,dramatised by Peter Thomson, is set on Alderley Edge and stems from a local legend of knights sleeping in a cave for hundreds of years, ready to awake and save the world from evil when the need comes.Wizards and dwarfs play their part, but it's two children who seem to hold the key to the future.
Dramatised by Peter Thomson
Music by Mia Soteriou.
Special Effects Wilfredo Acosta
Produced and directed by Jane Morgan
Credits
Colin............Robert Powell
Susan............Fern Deacon
Gowther..........Trevor Cooper
Bess.............Rachel Atkins
The Owl Service
Mysterious events in a house turn frightening in Alan Garner's reworking of the Welsh Blodeuwedd myth. Stars Siriol Jenkins.
Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes
First broadcast: Sunday 07 December 2008
It appears I have 2 more Alan Garners - The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Owl Service. Unfortunately the first is more that 50Mb so I'll have to split it before I can upload them.
Thank You very much. -------------------- R