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Old 12-12-2022, 04:17 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by issybird View Post
Harris and Garner are familiar to me in name only.
Harris is famous for Chocolat series. But she's done Norse, both sort of traditional and imaginative. Quite varied so I've loved some of her books and hated two!
Gaiman has done a straight retelling of Norse (a very good one) and uses myth & tradition as background in many. Coroline, Graveyard and Stardust are very different. He's very diverse so you could love one book and hate another. I've not read any of his comics. I've 5 novels and a couple of DVDs.

Garner: I don't recommend Boneland (2012), a more recent book supposedly a sequel to The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (1960). I read Boneland recently so I have started re-reading the originals below:

Classic ones with Welsh, Arthurian and other mythic inspirations (1960s to early 1970s)
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen 1960
The Moon of Gomrath 1963 (Recent first read)
Elidor 1965
The Owl Service 1967
Red Shift 1973
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