Duncton Wood

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His hold on her fell limp and she crossed over to where Mandrake lay, paused for a moment as she touched his head gently, looked back at Bracken and Stonecrop with a fierce and cold pity, and then went out of the clearing and into the dark.

Bear in mind that as the Dark sound combined with knowledge of the Old Speech can be fatal, this is like snapping someone out of their angst by aiming a loaded gun at them. It is unfortunate that this work must be compared to Watership Down but that is the only book with which I can really compare it to in terms of story-line and excellence. S. I don't know how many printings it went through, but I was a bookworm boy who had purchased it while living in Singapore, and I attempted to evangelize it to friends in the States and I never saw a single one. It's a fantasy adventure with anthropomorphised moles, not dissimilar to Watership Down in many ways. The only thing this book has in common with the first two books is that it features anthropomorphic animals but it contains none of the whimsy or sweetness of .

What can I say about this book that will sufficiently warn people that they're about to experience a grown man imagining the feelings of a female mole in heat?

The way it flows and how the world is shaped but just the most simple of things like a adjective here instead of there. The religion the moles practice hints to me of pagan celtic nature worship, they revere the standing stones, still standing, left by that civilization in the fringes of western Europe and Ireland millennia ago. In such societies mythologies develop much more often than does one in a society like ours where pretty much everything is recorded. Maybe they're not as good as I remember or perhaps I just wasn't quite ready to settle down for an six-book epic series about moles and religion!This was recommended to me because I loved Watership Down but the books are very different aside from the obvious small animals. So many memories came flooding back once I started reading, both of the book itself, and the beautiful English countryside. Luke from Durham, north England The duncton series as a hole was a series which was recommended to me at the age of twelve, but which I only managed to track down four years later. Duncton Wood' is a book I well remember coming out and about which I was a little scathing at the time. Similar to Watership Down, but with moles, this book demonstrates an excellently-crafted world populated by moles (not cutesy anthropomorphic ones but real ones that live and die among nature's often brutal indifference.

The worship of the Stone colours every little part of this book, which Horwood declares in his notes at the end is an allegory - probably for pagan worship. It's the story of two Moles, Bracken and Rebecca, and the adventures they have as they try to protect Duncton Wood from Mandrake an outsider and oddly enough, Rebecca's father. DUNCTON WOOD has been the benchmark, for me, in how to faithfully create an animal experience that most people will leap to identify with.Gordon from United Kingdom Where do I start, I read this book mid 80's and found I couldn't put it down. So, lofty reviews granted, and nodded to, but these books are drenched in crimson, and in the best way: Up close and personal! In short: in discovering Horwood avod readers discover a whole new wonderland of varied kinds of fiction, well worth pursuing. William from Shropshire The Duncton Wood books really are magical, I'd never have thought the a story about moles could be so moving and realistic.