The official site for WILLIAM HORWOOD, author of Hyddenworld

The start of an epic story that picks up the story of Duncton Chronicles one hundred years later when Privet, a lonely female scribe from the North, makes a pilgrimage to fabled Duncton Wood. Only old Stour, Master of the great library, realizes the importance of her quest. For Privet seeks an answer to moledom’s final mystery: where and what is the Book of Silence, whose scribe nomole knows, whose content none can guess, whose existence many still doubt?

‘More readable and rewarding than The Lord of the Rings’ The Times

HarperCollinsPublishers 1992 ISBN 0002239418
Fontana 1993 ISBN 0006473024