4th Estate signs memoir from Booker-shortlisted author Alan Garner

4th Estate has signed a new memoir in essays from Alan Garner, Booker-shortlisted author of Treacle Walker.

Kishani Widyaratna, publishing director, and David Roth-Ey, executive publisher, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights across formats in Powsels and Thrums: A Tapestry of a Creative Life from Karolina Sutton at CAA London. North American rights have been acquired by Kara Watson at Scribner.

Garner’s memoir follows his life from a working-class childhood in the Cheshire during the Second World War, through to a grammar school education and on to the University of Oxford, and then home to see if he could become a writer.

The book will publish in hardback on 10th October, 64 years to the date since the publication of The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and one week before Alan’s 90th birthday. In November, 4th Estate will reissue the essay collection The Voice That Thunders in paperback.