Treacle Walker: Further Resources
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Alan Garner: In His Own Words
Interviews and Talks
(2021) You don’t want to have a brilliant idea for a novel at the age of 87 (Alison Flood, The Guardian)
(2021) Promotional Film (YouTube)
(2021) Alan Garner & Elizabeth Garner in conversation (Yorkshire Festival of Story, YouTube)
(2021) Mind out of Time (Andrew Tate, High Profiles)
(2022) Alan Garner answers readers’ questions about ‘Treacle Walker’ (YouTube)
(2022) I never knew just who Alan Turing was - nobody knew (Sam Leith, The Daily Telegraph)
(2022) Age is irrelevant, but an apprenticeship has to be served (The Booker Library)
(2022) Front Row (BBC)
(2023) Write-Off with Francesca Steele
(2024) The Wit and Wonder of Alan Garner (Emily Rhodes, The Spectator)
(2024) It can feel quite mysterious - Justine Jordan (The Guardian)
Words by Others
Reading Guides
Discussion
(2021) Backlisted Podcast
(2022) Archaeology of a Storyteller (BBC)
Articles & Reviews
(2021) A stunning novel from the master of the uncanny (Sam Leith, Daily Telegraph)(2021) A phenomenal late fable (Justine Jordan, The Guardian)
(2021) The book of a lifetime (Alex Preston, The Guardian)
(2021) Like a Rolling Stone (Felix Taylor, Literary Review, paywall)
(2021) Master of glamorourie. A remarkable new fable captures a lifetime’s work (Carolyne Larrington, Times Literary Supplement)
(2022) The Best Fiction of 2022: Alan Garner’s Treacle Walker and writing outside the constraints of time (Anna Robinson, The Conversation)
(2022) Booker Prize shortlisted ‘Treacle Walker’ is a fantasy in form but a literary novel in every other way (Shubhangi Tiwari, Scroll. in)
(2022) ‘Treacle Walker’ is a seemingly simple story laden with depth and complexity (Pauline Kim, The Michigan Daily)
(2022) A mystical tale of a boy and a riddling peddler (Susie Goldsbrough, The Times)
(2022) Don’t be surprised if this wins the Booker Prize (Max Liu, The I)
(2022) The Critic and the Clue: Tracking Alan Garner’s Treacle Walker (Maureen Kincaid Speller, Strange Horizons)
(2022) Treacle Walker is a confusing mixture of Cheshire dialect and British slang (Alyssa Woo, The Straits Times)
(2022) Of magic myth and mystery (Karthik Keramalu, The New Indian Express)
(2022) British Fairies (blog)
(2025) Selective Luddism - Adam Mars-Jones (London Review of Books)
Your resources lists are always tremendous. I typically dive into them after the reading because I fear spoilers for books that are new to me. But, so delightful to know that the resources await me. Thank you!
Many thanks for this fabulous and irresistible list. I started reading the first article and got hooked completely, had to stop whatever I was in the middle of and just keep going. Very much in for this one.