Book of the Week. Alan Garner's TREACLE WALKER is a spare and moving story of a lonely boy who strikes up a friendship with a wandering rag-and-bone man who opens his eyes to new depths of experience. Melding myth, folklore and quantum physics, Treacle Walker is a novel about the acquisition of human depth, and an exploration of the possibilities and limitations of our understanding of time (“time is ignorance.” —Carlo Rovelli).

"Treacle Walker crams into its 150-odd pages more ideas and imagination than most authors manage in their whole careers." —Alex Preston, The Guardian
>>Where did all the children go?
>>Blackden and beyond. 
>>Myth meets modern science. 
>>Knowing your place. 
>>"You don't want to have a brilliant idea for a novel at the age of 87." 
>>"Age, in itself, is irrelevant."
>>Read an extract. 
>>Short-listed for the 2022 Booker Prize.