How To Write Like Alan Walker

“Ragbone! Ragbone! Pots for rags! Donkey stone!” The aperture words of Alan Garner’s arresting new book are the cry of the titular Treacle Walker, a rag-and-bone man whose arrangement with the novel’s protagonist, Joseph Coppock, sets in motion the aberrant activity of the plot. Joe is a boy active in a baby abode in the … Read more