The Lad Of The Gad

By Alan Garner

From the author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted Treacle Walker and the Carnegie Medal and Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize-winning classic, The Owl Service

The much-loved classic, finally in ebook.

In ‘The Lad of the Gad’ Alan Garner has reworked five stories from the Gaelic layers of British folktale.

Folk and fairy tales have not always been relegated to children, and older readers will appreciate Garner’s ability to give these stories a new vitality for our time.

Format: ebook
Ageband: 9 to 13
Release Date: 15 Aug 2013
Pages: None
ISBN: 978-0-00-753910-9
Alan Garner was born in Cheshire on 17th October 1934, and his childhood was spent in Alderley Edge, where his family has lived for more than four hundred years. He was awarded the OBE in 2001, for his services to literature.

Praise for Alan Garner -

”Praise for The Moon of Gomrath: 'Not only powerful but full of wild and whirling adventure… the reader is drawn right into the midst of it all.” - Guardian

”Praise for The Weirdstone of Brisingamen: 'Marvellously exciting… Alan Garner is at his best writing of night and dark water… the story is ferocious and deeply felt.” - New Statesman

”Praise for The Owl Service: 'Not meant only for children… The power grows, throbs nearer, builds to unbearable tension, and comes to wild release in the last few pages.” - The Guardian

”Praise for Red Shift: 'A magnificently multilayered novel… and a superbly exciting piece of literature.” - The Times