Editing Alan Garner (section)

===''Strandloper'', ''Thursbitch'', ''Boneland'', ''Where Shall We Run To?'' and ''Treacle Walker'': 1996&ndash;present===

[[File:Garner in the field.jpg|thumb|right|Garner at his home in Blackden, 2011]]

In 1996, Garner's novel ''[[Strandloper (novel)|Strandloper]]'' was published. 

In 1997, he next wrote ''The Voice That Thunders, a'' collection of essays and public talks that contains much autobiographical material (including an account of his life with [[bipolar disorder]]), as well as critical reflection upon folklore and language, literature and education, the nature of myth and time. In ''The Voice That Thunders,'' he reveals the commercial pressure placed upon him during the decade-long drought which preceded ''Strandloper'' to 'forsake "literature", and become instead a "popular" writer, cashing in on my established name by producing sequels to, and making series of, the earlier books'.<ref>Alan Garner, ''The Voice That Thunders'' (London 1997), p. 35.</ref> Garner feared that "making series ... would render sterile the existing work, the life that produced it, and bring about my artistic and spiritual death"<ref>Garner, ''Thunders'', p. 36.</ref> and felt unable to comply.

Garner's novel ''[[Thursbitch]]'' was published in 2003. 

The novel ''[[Boneland]]'' was published in 2012, nominally completing a trilogy begun some 50 years earlier with ''[[The Weirdstone of Brisingamen]]''.

In August 2018, Garner published his first set of memoirs, ''Where Shall We Run To?'', which describes his childhood during the Second World War.

The novel ''[[Treacle Walker]]'' was published in October 2021 and nominated to the shortlist for the [[2022 Booker Prize]].<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/news/booker-prize-longlist-dominated-by-indies-as-judges-pick-youngest-and-oldest-ever-nominees|title=Booker Prize longlist dominated by indies as judges pick youngest and oldest ever nominees|first=Sian|last=Bayley|magazine=[[The Bookseller]]|date=26 July 2022|access-date=31 July 2022}}</ref>

In October 2024, a week before his 90th birthday, Garner published a second set of memoirs, ''Powsels and Thrums'', framed and inspired by his grandfather. This book contains short essays on a variety of people and events in Garner's life from his starting at Manchester Grammar in 1946 through to his discovery of Alderley Edge in the 1950s, interspersed with poems.