One starlit night in southern Englalond the birth of a child sets in motion events that will affect not only the human world but the Hyddenworld as well – that place that exists alongside our own but is invisible to human eyes. As earth tremors ravage the Earth a lost gem is found and the…
One evening a frightened and bedraggled golden eagle is brought to London Zoo and confined forever to a bleak cage far from his native Scotland. Soon it becomes tempting for Creggan to forget his past and bury his memories of the mountains and sea and, above all, the glorious skies of his homeland. But there…
When young, inexperienced but very ambitious female reporter, Emily Strauss, blags her way into newspaper magnate Joseph Pulitzer’s office, she comes away with a treacherous assignment: to discover what happened to Anna Zemeckis, one of many women who have disappeared during the 1893 World’s Fair. With the support of a young man who is just…
The Duncton Chronicles now reach an inspiring and triumphant conclusion… Under the ruthless leadership of Henbane of Whern, the grikes have taken over moledom. Now her son by Tryfan, Lucerne, will consolidate their ascendancy and root and and kill the last followers of the Stone. But a mole called Beechen is born and his coming has been prophesied. His role is so important that only the aging Tryfan can be entrusted with the task showing him how he must lead moles back to path of liberty and justice, which is to the Silence of the Stone…
As the glorious events of Duncton Wood ended, Tryfan, son of Bracken and Rebecca, was entrusted with a special task – to accompany the old scribemole Boswell back to the Holy Burrows of Uffington and take the seventh Stillstone to its rightful resting place. But a dark evil is spreading across moledom, whispering falseness to the weak and giving corrupting power to the cunning and faithless…
‘A passionate, lyrical, appealing tale…’ Cosmopolitan
This is the second book in The Book of Silence, the second of the Duncton Trilogies… As Privet, scholar and scribemole and her adopted son Whillan escape from Duncton Wood in search of the Book of Silence, the Newborn Inquisitors seek to take the system over. Only old Stour, Master Librarian, and the timid aide…
Under the cruel leadership of Quail, sectarian Newborns have taken control of the key systems of Moledom. But the loyal followers of the Stone have not given up. In Duncton Wood, home of spiritual truth and liberty, resistance lives on. Its champion is the timid Library aide Pumpkin, while in holy Uffington, Fieldfare inspires revolt.…
A century after the great days of moledom described in the great Chronicles, Privet, a lonely female pilgrim from the north, arrives in fabled Duncton Wood. Only old Stour, Master of the Library, realizes the importance of her quest. For Privet seeks an answer to moledom’s final mystery: where and what is the Book of…
A quest into the nature of love and greed, oppression and freedom, courage and corruption – and finally into the nature of grace and the power of the spirit… Despite their differences the moles of Duncton Wood are members of the same once-proud system. But all are now under the cruel tyranny of Mandrake, a mole corrupted by absolute power. Only in the shadow of the Stone, the inspiring half-forgotten symbol of a better past, can the strength to resist oppression be found and led by Bracken.
It is harvest-time and a season of plenty in sea-bound Englalond, which lies in the farthest reaches of the Hyddenworld. But within its borders disaster looms. A blight ravages the land, marked by quakes and unnatural blizzards. Judith is tasked with healing the land, and through it the hydden and human worlds, but her burden…
Breaking a silence of fifteen years William Horwood returns to his hallmark fantasy for a journey to the very edge of the Universe. A fragment of glass and metal has lain forgotten for fifteen hundred years in Englalond’s ancient heartland. It is the lost core of a flawless Sphere made by the greatest of the…
The time has come for the wolves of Europe to take back their ancient Heartland. For centuries it has been corrupted and poisoned by the Mennen and by the evil Magyar wolfpack. Only by reclaiming it can the true gods be reborn and the natural order restored. Now all over Europe wolves are beginning the…
