Nov 17, 2024
Fieldfare from Duncton Tales but with the coloration of her namesake.
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New book review!
Duncton Tales by William Horwood
Yes, the sequel series to Duncton Wood ! I'm finally giving it a look. Spoilers ahead.
Lovers of fantasy novels will inevitably find themselves in Duncton Wood, at some time or other. William Horwood's tales about Moledom are what my friend calls, Wind in the Willows for adults. Think Lord of the Rings with talking moles. Seems rediculous but actually these books are really captivating. A real tour de force of adventure, adversary, history, destiny and the human or 'mole' condition.
Duncton Wood was my first foray into Horwood's novels, I read this as a young teenager and I think I liked it better than this novel, more gritty action and I liked the main character Braken better. Duncton Tales follows a haunted scribe-mole Privet as she seeks to discover the truth about the Book of Silence. That is the main plot line... but this is a many layered, tappestry like book and the first in a Trilogy.
I'll get to the others in time but I think I need a bit of a break for now... these books are tomes!
If you like animal literature, here are some others that I loved (mainly young adult fiction): 'Firebringer' by David Clement-Davies (deer) 'The Wind in the Willows' by Kenneth Grahame (you know...) 'Duncton Wood' by William Horwood (moles) 'Redwall Series' by Brian Jacques (medieval mice etc) 'Winnie the Pooh' books by A. A. Milne
A Book Adventure: Day 23
A Book You've Wanted To Read For A Long Time But Still Haven't
Mansfield Park, Revolutionary Road and the Duncton Tales trilogy.
The first two I bought but had bought with a great many other books and I just haven't got around to it. I started RR, but Yates is fairly heavy going - the font isn't great, either. But that could be me making excuses.
The Duncton Tales trilogy I've got - they tag onto the Duncton Wood trilogy, by William Horwood, and I've read the first three. But you need a bit of stamina for these books. Despite being told through Moles, it's pretty deep. Maybe I should stop trying to work out which religions exactly he's talking about (could be any, really) and just get into the story.