From the author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted Treacle Walker and the Carnegie Medal and Guardian Childrens Fiction Prize-winning classic, The Owl Service The Weirdstone of Brisingamen is one of the greatest fantasy novels of all time. Alan Garners fiction is something special. Neil Gaiman When Colin and Susan are pursued by eerie creatures across Alderley Edge, they are saved by the Wizard. He takes them into the caves of Fundindelve, where he watches over the enchanted sleep of one hundred and forty knights. But the heart of the magic that binds them Firefrost, also known as the Weirdstone of Brisingamen has been lost. The Wizard has been searching for the stone for more than 100 years, but the forces of evil are closing in, determined to possess and destroy its special power. Colin and Susan realise at last that they are the key to the Weirdstones return. But how can two children defeat the Morrigan and her deadly brood?
This book features in the following series: Complete Classics, Junior Classics, Lions Series, The Wierdstone Trilogy .
This book has been graded for interest at 9 years.
There are 288 pages in this book. This book was published in 2017 by HarperCollins Publishers .
Alan Garner was born in Cheshire, where he still lives today.
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The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
When Colin and Susan are pursued by eerie creatures across Alderley Edge, they are saved by the Wizard. He takes them into the caves of Fundindelve, where he watches over the enchanted sleep of one hundred and forty knights. But the heart of the magic that binds them Firefrost, also known as the Weirdstone of Brisingamen has been lost.The Wizard has been searching for the stone for more than 100 years, but the forces of evil are closing in, determined to possess and destroy its special power. Colin and Susan realise at last that they are the key to the Weirdstone's return. But how can two children defeat the Morrigan and her deadly brood?
"Alan Garner's fiction is something special. Garner's fantasies were smart and challenging, based in the here and the now, in which real English places emerged from the shadows of folklore, and in which people found themselves walking, living and battling their way through the dreams and patterns of myth."- Neil Gaiman
"The Weirdstone of Brisingamen is one of the most important books in children's fantasy. It has been an enormous inspiration to me and countless other writers, and is as enjoyable and fascinating now as it was when I first read it, wide-eyed and mesmerized, at the age of ten."- Garth Nix
"Alan Garner is indisputably the great originator, the most important British writer of fantasy since Tolkien, and in many respects better than Tolkien, because deeper and more truthful. His work is where human emotion and mythic resonance, sexuality and geology, modernity and memory and craftsmanship meet and cross-fertilise. Any country except Britain would have long ago recognised his importance, and celebrated it with postage stamps and statues and street names. But that's the way with us: our greatest prophets go unnoticed by the politicians and the owners of media empires. I salute him with the most heartfelt respect and admiration." - Philip Pullman
