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I wouldn't include contemporary fantasy not set in an urban centre - so stuff like The Limits Of Enchantment or The Owl Service (in fact all of Garner's work) would not be urban fantasy.
Oops - got the wrong Joyce novel. Have you read The Owl Service by Alan Garner? It's on my TBR, so I'll be reading it at some point. ... Cafe by Jo-Ann Mapson
5. I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven
6. Fortress of Owls by C. J. Cherryh
7. The Owl Service by Alan Garner
8. The Blind Owl by Ṣādiq Hidāyat
9. The Owl Killers by Karen Maitland
10. Owls Do Cry by Janet Frame
This list is subject to ... ... Elephant Chase - Gillian Cross (Smarties and Whitbread Award)
iii. Listen to the Dark Maeve Henry (Smarties Award)
iv. The Owl Service - Alan Garner (Carnegie Medal)
v. Midnight Blue - Pauline Fisk (Smarties Award)
vi. Skellig - David Almond (Carnegie Medal, Whitbread award + others)
... I've got The Owl Service by Alan Garner on my TBR. It's Young Adult fiction. I found The Owl Service is best read after reading the underlying Welsh Mythology - the four branches of the Mabinogi: The Mabinogi. One of these stories has all the elements which underpin the book. I fortuitously re-read The Owl Service about six months after steeping myself in a load of Celti ... ... I did not come away seeing quite why this is a classic. I suspect it was more the right book at the right time.
#87 The Owl Service - Alan Garner. This is an old award winning book, written by the writer of some wonderful stories, set very close to where I live. Nevertheless I did not ... #87 The Owl Service - Alan Garner. This is an old award winning book, written by the writer of some wonderful stories, set very close to where I live. Nevertheless I did not get on well with this book. The link with the story of Blodeuwedd from the Mabinogion was interesting, but I did not ... ... Children and It
I liked some of the Chalet School books but not all.
Elsie J. Oxenham's Abbey Girls series
The owl service by Alan Garner
The Secret garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
There was also a series of books called The (colour) fairy Book, e,g, The Blue ... #47,
The Owl Service is one of my all-time favourite books and is probably the book I have re-read the most in my life! Have read it several times as a child, then again as a teenager,and once in my 20s and once in my 30s. (Must be due up again soon, thinking about it as I'm now 40!) Each ... ... to remember to look at the book again next time I'm in the library.
I have been off challenge for a while, re-reading The Owl Service (thoughts here) for a childhood favourites reading challenge ... ... Arthur and his men are sleeping in the series I mentioned. Much of his work is based on older Welsh mythology. Especially The Owl Service, which is similar in theme.
I also am not anti-Arthur. I just find the story unbearably tragic and doomed, and unless done beautifully, want to bypass ... Sounds a bit like The Owl Service although I haven't read it since I was in single digits ...
There's a plot description on wikipedia here, but this bit sounded like your description. Also early 80s I read it ...
"Huw directs Gwyn ... (lots of messages back coming late to the party) Alan Garner!! Fantastic. Well worth a look. The Owl Service is genuinely creepy.
He's published one for adults reasonably recently, Thursbitch, which I had put on my TBR list but Scott Pack was not impressed, which did cause me a moment's ... Today I got Bury me Deep and The Wicked Heart by Christopher Pike The Devils of Loudun Huxley, The Owl Service Garner, Cryptozoic Aldiss and a lovely 1896 illustrated hardback of Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress. i stood there talking to the shop owner for 2 hours and 2 more books lept into ... ... Weirdstone of Brisingamen (1960)
The Moon of Gomrath (1963) - Sequel to The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
Elidor (1965)
The Owl Service (1967)
Red Shift (1973)
all of which I picked up in the late 70s, early 80s. I like the first two best, but have read them all numerous times. Heavy ... ... how little known he is. I talk to friends who are fantasy readers and most say, "Who?"
He's won the Carnegie Medal (for The Owl Service) plus several other awards, has been awarded an OBE for his work in YA and Children's literature, and many serious studies of YA fantasy put his works very ... 76. The owl service by Alan Garner
Not as good as I hoped, but I enjoyed it nevertheless. ... in Wonderland, and have put it aside for the moment. I also working my way through the middlesea slowly and finished the owl service the other day I just finished The Owl Service by Alan Garner. I'm feeling really dense, because I just don't get it. I think it's the Mabinogion -- I never really got into The Dark Is Rising, either. The Owl Service reminds me of Patricia McKillip's books -- I didn't "get" them, either. S ... ... me when I got back from lunch break:
Alice's Adventure in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass for my May read
the owl service as it references The Malbogonian which I studied last year
Catherine the Great cause she is just facinating - though the touchstone is wrong
Yasabel ... ... i'm happy to share the joy. so far this year i've read:
I can’t believe I’m buying this book by Evan Marc Katz
The Owl Service by Alan Gardner
and
Trapped in the Mirror by Elan Golumb Some of Alan Garner's work
Weirdstone for one. Owl Service for another.
Also I don't think Taran Wanderer series has been mentioned?
And everything that appears as a fantasy tag should be included. These are the books most LTers ... ... book for ages. I used to get to read more to him, but nowadays he's falling asleep after a few pages. I'm about to start The Owl Service a book borrowed from his Nanna. I started it while visiting and was pleased by the spookiness of the opening.
Deltora Quest 2 3/5 Finished 10/12/07
This ... Alan Garner's Owl Service ?
UK based, girl lives in I think the Welsh valleys. I remember something about a tea set in the loft too?
Originally published a lot longer than 10 yrs ago though! ... or not, but the two books I found most difficult when I first read them were Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones and The Owl Service by Alan Garner. Both of them involve highly complex interactions between ordinary characters and mythological or other-worldy goings-on, and they can be ... ... idea, even if it's a bit quiet.
Where is the group picture from?
Dark is Rising was one of my early favourites, Owl service another. The Bird in the Tree by Elizabeth Goudge
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems
The Owl Service by Alan Garner
Linnets and Valerians by Elizabeth Goudge
Master Skylark by John Bennet
the Adventures of Maya the Bee by Waldemar Bonsels
Ant and Bee by Angela Banner
The ... OOooh Alan Garner there's a blast for the past. Owl service had me gripped when I was young, though I don't think I ever quite got into The weirdstone of Brisingamen I no longer own any, wonder where they went to..... alan garner bizare touchstones if I put the author's name in book ... ... brilliant though slightly dated dark is rising and that I really enjoyed as a child Alan Garner particularly Owl Service and weirdstone. ... Ishtar
The Broken Sword by Poul Anderson
The Dreaming Jewels by Theodore Sturgeon
Elidor by Alan Garner , and The Owl Service
On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers, and The Drawing of the Dark
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