A Bag of Moonshine

Alan Garner

HarperCollins Publishers Limited, 2002 - Juvenile Fiction - 144 pages

From the author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted Treacle Walker and the Carnegie Medal and Guardian Children's Fiction Prize-winning classic, The Owl Service

Stunning new CollinsVoyager edition of Alan Garner's collection of folklore.

Boggarts and gowks, fools and hobgoblins are only some of the strange and wonderful creatures in A Bag of Moonshine - a veritable treasure trove of stories chosen from the folklore of England and Wales.
There are 22 tales in all, beautifully illustrated in black and whitel by prize-winning illustrator Patrick Lynch.

About the author

Alan Garner was born and still lives in Cheshire, an area which has had a profound effect on his writing and provided the seed of many ideas worked out in his books. His fourth book, 'The Owl Service' brought Alan Garner to everyone's attention. It won two important literary prizes - The Guardian Award and the Carnegie Medal - and was made into a serial by Granada Television. It has established itself as a classic and Alan Garner as a writer of great distinction.

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Bag of Moonshine
• Author: Alan Garner
• Illustrated by: Patrick Lynch
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited, 2002
• ISBN: 0007127901, 9780007127900
• Length: 144 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Dragons, Unicorns & Mythical; Juvenile Fiction / Fairy Tales & Folklore / Anthologies; Juvenile Fiction / Fairy Tales & Folklore / Country & Ethnic; Juvenile Fiction / Fantasy & Magic; Juvenile Fiction / Science Fiction / General; Juvenile Fiction / Short Stories