The Owl Service

By Alan Garner

From the author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted Treacle Walker

Winner of the Guardian Award and Carnegie Medal.

A tale combining mystery, adventure, history and a complex set of human relationships.

Format: Hardback
Ageband: 11 to 15
Release Date: 01 Aug 1967
Pages: 192
ISBN: 978-0-00-184603-6
Price: £12.99 (Export Price) , £12.99, €20.49
Alan Garner was born and still lives in Cheshire, an area which has had a profound effect on his writing and provided the seed of many ideas worked out in his books.His fourth book, ‘The Owl Service’ brought Alan Garner to everyone’s attention. It won two important literary prizes – The Guardian Award and the Carnegie Medal – and was made into a serial by Granada Television. It has established itself as a classic and Alan Garner as a writer of great distinction.