The Strangers Guide To Talliston, John Tarrow
The Strangers Guide To Talliston, John Tarrow
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The Stranger's Guide To Talliston

Author: John Tarrow

Narrator: Joe Jameson

Unabridged: 13 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/12/2022


Synopsis

The Stranger's Guide To Talliston is a YA fantasy adventure set in Britain's most extraordinary home: Talliston House & Gardens.
THE BOOKAbandoned and alone, thirteen-year-old Joe’s world is shattered when he enters a deserted council house and becomes trapped within a labyrinth protecting the last magical places on earth. There, Joe discovers The Stranger’s Guide, a cryptic book charting this immense no-man’s land and his only map through its dark and dangerous puzzle of doors and rooms.Hunted by sinister forces, Joe is forced ever deeper into both the maze and the mystery of his missing parents. What lies at the labyrinth’s centre and will it reunite him with the family he so desperately needs?
THE HOUSEThe novel is inspired by and set inside a unique and amazing house and gardens. Talliston was a 25-year project that took the UK’s most ordinary house and transformed it, room by room, by ordinary people on an ordinary budget, into Britain’s Most Extraordinary Home.Starting as a three-bedroomed, semi-detached, ex-council house in Essex, today not a single square centimetre of the original house remains. In its place is an extraordinary labyrinth of locations, each set in different times and places.
THE AUTHORJohn Tarrow is a storyteller, poet, shaman, award-winning author and creator of Britain’s most extraordinary home; Talliston House & Gardens.

Reviews

[URL not allowed] Starting this novel, I wasn’t sure what I was in for, and I’m glad of that. This book had so much to offer and I was really pleased with Tarrow’s take on this YA fantasy. In Joe, we find a young boy who is alone and struggling to follow the rules his parents ma......more

Goodreads review by Em

TW: this book contains references to incest and rape *I chose this on Net Galley* 2.5 Stars This book was... a lot. I really liked the premise of it (I think the fact that Talliston is a real house is really fun) and the idea of the doors connecting the realms of magic was really fun.I am all for the id......more

Goodreads review by Susan

I can't say enough good things about this book. It was an adventure, a journey into the unknown and an effortless piece of story telling that weaved wonder and magic into every chapter. The story of Joe and his adventures in the mystical place called Talliston is unique, incredibly detailed and rese......more

Goodreads review by Melissa

I had really high hopes for this book. I met the author and we spoke about the book at length and so I bought it as it was right up my street. A YA novel about a magical labyrinth based off a real house right near where I live? Heck yes. I’ll start off by saying I enjoyed the first half of the book,......more

Goodreads review by Karen

When I was a child I loved nothing better than exploring second-hand bookstores or book stalls at summer fayres, hoping to find a magical story I hadn't read before. Holding the stunningly beautiful cover of The Stranger's Guide To Talliston reminded me of the sense of anticipation I felt when I mad......more