The Owl Service Alan Garner
Publisher: Harcourt

It was these challenging and emotionally highly charged stories which Garner adapted for the television, beginning with his 1967 novel The Owl Service, which he scripted for ITV in 1969. The University of Warwick has issued the following press release on the 21st January this year. A weary traveler driving into Memphis along Summer Avenue would find it hard to resist turning into the Owl Lunch Service and Tourist Court for a tasty meal and a good night's sleep. Recognizing the stewardship practices that private landowners use to protect forestland, the service removed all private land from the habitat required for the owl's recovery. The Owl Service - a collage based on the book of the same name, featuring vintage images of an owl amulet and a Grecian column. It contains 4 great covers of the legendary US psych folk band Pearls Before Swine. First, the Service assumes that fire is a threat to the owl and that this threat can be curtailed by aggressive thinning (logging) to reduce trees and shrubs that fuel fires in the owls' critical habitat. The Owl Service, an exhibition by seven contemporary painters exploring themes of magic and mysticism, is on at the Transition Gallery from March 7-24. I'd been to Café Oto a couple of weeks before this free in-store gig for a reading and Q&A with Rob Young, author of the recently published tome Electric Eden, the subtitle of which is 'Unearthing Britain's visionary music'. The Owl Service have a new EP due out on Rif Mountain titled There Used to be a Crown. On Saturday at Sirens Pub, 823 Water St., it's a triple bill featuring Lifestyles of the Poor and Unknown, Owl Service and the Black Chevys starting at 10 p.m.