At 87, Alan Garner is the oldest author ever to be nominated for the Booker Prize. He is rightly beloved for The Owl Service and his other early novels aimed at young people. But since the seventies he has been producing increasingly dark, vivid and complex fiction, which probes the relationship between myth, time and human experience. In Treacle Walker young Joe Coppock squints at the world with his lazy eye. He reads his comics, collects birds' eggs and treasures his marbles. When a mysterious wanderer appears off the Cheshire moor one day, an unlikely friendship is forged and the young boy is introduced to a world he could never have imagined. #treaclewalker #alangarner #dauntbooks #bookerlonglist