Treacle Walker by Alan Garner

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🗓️ 8 November 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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This is a Backlisted special, recorded at the Bodleian Library in Oxford to celebrate the publication of Treacle Walker the new novel by Alan Garner (Fourth Estate). The panel discussion features Erica Wagner, writer and critic and editor of First Light, an anthology of pieces about Alan Garner’s work; Dr Melanie Giles, archaeologist and the author of Bog Bodies, the definitive account of the phenomenon which plays a significant role in the book’s story; and Professor Bob Cywinski, physicist, whose conversations with Alan Garner about time, landscape and local legend provided the inspiration for the novel. * To purchase any of the books mentioned in this episode please visit our bookshop at uk.bookshop.org/shop/backlisted where all profits help to sustain this podcast and UK independent bookshops * For information about everything mentioned in this episode visit www.backlisted.fm *If you'd like to support the show and join in with the book chat, listen without adverts, receive the show early and with extra bonus fortnightly episodes, become a Patreon at www.patreon.com/backlisted Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, it's Andy Miller from Backlisted here and I'm here with my guest, John
0:28.5	Mitchinson from Backlisted, how are you doing? Hi Andy, it's good to see you and this is a little
0:34.9	surprise thing we've got for people you will have hopefully heard an episode of Backlisted last week
0:40.2	and you'll hear another episode of Backlisted this week but we've got a special event
0:45.4	recording for you now that took place at the Bodleian Library in Oxford at the end of October 2021
0:55.2	to celebrate the publication of Alan Garner's new novel which is called Trickle Walker
1:03.1	it's his tenth novel and Alan is in his 80s 87 and the reason why this isn't I don't know
1:11.7	this isn't a canonical episode, that listed for two reasons one because we did Alan Garner
1:19.4	about five years ago we did his book Red Shift episode 31 and that you can find that episode on
1:25.8	our website at batlisted.fm and but also because very happy to say this isn't a batlisted because
1:34.1	Trickle Walker is a new book and we tend to do books from the backlist as the name of the podcast
1:40.1	suggests but so a panel gathered to celebrate Alan's work and his new novel and John is there
1:48.0	anything else you'd like to say before we we go over to the recording yeah fans of Alan Garner
1:53.2	and anybody interested in the craft of fiction I think we'll probably find it quite illuminating
1:58.4	it was a really good panel so we go over now recorded on tape to the Bodleian Library and join
2:05.6	your host John Mitchinson. Good evening and welcome to this special edition of Backlisted
2:11.9	we almost to the day five years ago started this podcast with Andy Miller and myself to
2:19.1	to celebrate to give new life to old books we've never done a podcast on a new book before
2:27.2	but I'm guessing if ever there was a new book that could be located outside time
2:34.0	that is both new and ancient it's a new novel by Alan Garner and Trickle Walker
2:41.0	published today by fourth state is the subject of the discussion that we're going to have I've got
2:47.6	three amazingly well qualified guests to join us today we're breaking the format slightly my
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