Powsels and Thrums by Alan Garner #literature by making maths our friend

by making maths our friend

to the darkest corner of the Arctic Circle

Follow the yellow brick road

quick to make and low on effort

from carol singing in crunching snow to pub conversations and songs

Powsels and Thrums by Alan Garner #literature by making maths our friendIn this lyrical and revelatory memoir, Alan Garner, Booker shortlisted author of Treacle Walker, traces the line of his life: from a working class childhood in the landscape of Cheshire during World War II, through a grammar school education and on to the University of Oxford, and then home to see if he could become what he most desired: a writer. We see the serendipitous moments that drove his course, from coming of age in a period of great cultural