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First Light: a Celebration of Alan Garner Free FREE FIRST LIGHT: A CELEBRATION OF ALAN GARNER PDF Erica Wagner | 336 pages | 05 May 2016 | Cornerstone | 9781783522521 | English | London, United Kingdom Alan Garner | Publication date: May If the rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs and dens of the land of Britain had a voice, it would sound like Alan Garner telling a story. The purpose of the storyteller is to relate the truth in a manner that is simple: to integrate without reduction; for it is rarely possible to declare the truth as it is, because the Universe presents itself as a Mystery. We have to find parables; we have to tell stories to unriddle the world. This extraordinary body of work has fascinated and inspired readers and writers alike for more than fifty years. Alan Garner turned 80 last year, and in celebration, many of the writers, artists, archaeologists and historians he has inspired are contributing pieces to this volume. Edited by the acclaimed novelist and journalist, Erica Wagner, it will make a beautiful and important book for anyone who cares about the power of story to enrich First Light: A Celebration of Alan Garner transform. What am I pledging for? As well as the receiving the book and enjoying the rewards listed opposite, a portion of the proceeds from the sale First Light: A Celebration of Alan Garner First Light will be donated to the Blackden Trusta charitable trust that works to preserve and share the ten thousand years of history, two ancient houses and countless stories that have emerged from the acre of Cheshire land which has sustained Alan Garner for almost sixty years and where all his work has originated. Her first job was helping First Light: A Celebration of Alan Garner mother open the fan mail for The Muppetsbut she came to England in the s, and was educated at Cambridge and the University of East Anglia, where she was taught by Malcolm Bradbury and Rose Tremain. She went on to become the Literary Editor of The Times between and The stone is a mile from Thursbitch. A carved stone on the verge of a Cheshire lane, now perpendicular to the road but when Alan Garner first came across it -- bounding over the moor one Saturday in July, a little over 50 years ago -- it was flat against the bank, its back hidden. Garner saw:. Poor John Turner, but not much more to it. Yet in clearing the grit to read the inscription, Garner realised that the back had been carved as well. As darkness began to fall, his arm hooked behind the stone, his fingers found another inscription:. The "h" of "where", having been mistakenly left out by the carver, is neatly added below, as the mason would have been paid by the letter. John Turner was a local man, a "jagger" or packman, his business in his time to transport goods out of Cheshire and back again. He would have known the road and the weather: why would he have died so close to home? On a grey September morning, as I stood by the stone with Garner's wife, Griselda, this mystery that half a century ago sparked his new novel had lost none of its power. Why this death? Why so memorialised and yet the date uncertain? Only the single print of a woman's shoe? Stone and fiction rang against each other in the air. Read more Updates Erica Wagner has written 1 private update. You can pledge to get access to them all. Greetings, friends! I thought you might like a little update on the continuing journey of First Light. First Light: A Celebration of Alan Garner this past weekend I was at the wondrous Beyond the Border International Storytelling festival in Wales, one of my very favourite places to be in all the wide world. If you've never been, you should go -- inwhen the next festival will run. In the meantime, of course, you can follow BTBStorytelling…. What an exciting time we're having! I'm so thrilled by the reception of First Light -- here's a wonderful blog by Benjamin First Light: A Celebration of Alan Garnerand another by Kate Macdonald. Sometimes puffery and publicity…. As the storytellers say, I wish you all had been there: and yet, of course, you werebecause without your support this extraordinary book would never have come into being. And it is an extraordinary book: yes, I'm the editor, but looking down the list of contributors, and seeing so many of them in the Weston…. Team First Light! First Light: A Celebration of Alan Garner Light is First Light: A Celebration of Alan Garner funded and ready to go -- we've known that for a while. Now we have an official publication date -- May -- and I've seen what the beautiful! Nope, I'm not going to spoil the surprise -- but I will say I am delighted, as I've been delighted with putting this book together every step of the way. It's remarkable to have been in close touch not only with my…. And so to see the Garners on a frosty weekend. Greetings, fellow Unbounders! Sorry for the long silence, but I have been so preoccupied with reading all the marvelous, marvelous pieces which have been pouring in from our contributors that I have been stunned into radio silence. But here I am with a bit of an update. So -- as I say, nearly all the pieces are in, but I am going to be mean and not tell you anything about them because I don…. Well -- I just wanted to send an enormous thank you to everyone for supporting First Light so generously. You know the deal with Unbound already: there's a big U at the beginning of their name for a reason! And it's wonderful for me to know that even before the book is finished and the brilliant contributions are now coming in First Light: A Celebration of Alan Garner and fast there is a great gathering of eager readers out there…. The author of the Sandman comics and so much more and the author of Cloud Atlas and so much more had never met before; it was a privilege to watch them…. It's a rare thing to sit in a chimney, these days; but I'm lucky to have had many evenings in the chimney of the Medicine House. Dr Rowan Williams -- former Archbishop of Canterbury -- appeared in the piece, and what he said about Alan's work was wonderful. Thirty-six per cent! It's hard to get much work done when you're watching the Unbound wheel roll steadily forward. Of course working on this book has made me reflect upon all the years I've known Alan and Griselda, and some of the adventures I've been lucky enough to share with them…. It seems rather cosmic that I should be laid low by a ghastly flu just as First Light is launched -- I'll First Light: A Celebration of Alan Garner of it as a great shifting of energies, rather than a nasty lurgy, and that will be better medicine than any Lemsip. And I'm energized enormously by the great support we've already got for this exciting project: a real sign of the passion people feel for Alan Garner's work. Dear Erica, I am not a published writer, though I try I have a day jobI have written about my experience of how Alan Garner changed my life by a talk he gave at Oxford in I spent a day with Alan at his home inand First Light: A Celebration of Alan Garner was unforgettable. We covered so much ground. At the end, as I was leaving, he pointed out how clearly you could hear the M6 five miles away that evening, and explained in meteorological detail how it depended on the temperature, humidity, and density and height of the clouds. He had the equation somewhere And let us not forget that behind every great man there is a great woman. Griselda is an extraordinary person also, a former actress and published poet, born in Alexandria, her mother Russian. Am signing up for your book. Good luck. Andrew Dale ilo. Dear Andrew -- Thank you so much for this email; I'm so glad you are signing up and I'll read your blog. And absolutely -- here's to the great Griselda. All best! Is it possible to upgrade to a more expensive pledge if I get more money later? Hi Anne, Thanks for getting in touch. It is possible, but there isn't a simple upgrade button on the site we're working on this. When you want to upgrade please email support unbound. Best wishes, Caitlin - Unbound Community Coordinator. Didn't realise it was Alan Garner's 80th birthday this year. Nice project, he's one of our greatest writers of the last 50 years. So very First Light: A Celebration of Alan Garner. Best of luck with the book. Thanks so much for writing, Adrian. I'm grateful for your support -- and hope you enjoy your walk! All very warmest regards -- Erica. Dear Erica, I was so excited to read about your book. I was born in Alderley Edge and was so excited as a child when Alan Garner wrote about our local Arthur legend in his first book, and I met him when the book was published. I've read all his books and think he's an extraordinary author. Thank you for producing this book, and I'm so glad I can support it.
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