Duncton Wood

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However, he didn’t just take over but he also destroyed the religion of the moles as well by preventing them from worshiping at the stone and killing anybody who knew the sacred chants. The theme of love runs strong throughout Duncton Wood, Bracken and Hulver, the aged mole who teaches him so much runs parallel to Rebecca and Rose, the healer who trains her to take over her duties as she ages. The author would love this to be a ‘meaningful’ novel full of subtle comparisons with human society but the made up languages and poor poems are trite and meaningless. It is this capacity to love that brings us the story of Bracken and Rebecca, two moles who grow up in the Duncton Wood system.

Would Hurt a Child: Rune has no hesitance to kill Bracken's pups to further his cause in which he blames it on Mandrake to get him deposed; worst of all, he kills them right in front of their sister, whom he spares, leaving her traumatized no doubt for life, knowing she was too frightened to convey the whole story, which only made his plan succeed all the more impressively. 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.

On reading this for the first time, it seemed to have been inspired by the popularity of Watership Down by Richard Adams. I remember first reading Watership Down, Shardik, and Maia, books I also got at the base library, during the times my husband was doing assignments in Sardinia and I was back in our little house with our cat. 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. 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. A complete break from what he usually does, there is nevertheless the telltale Horwood style, the way of stringing words together that leaves you captivated into the wee hours of the morning.

The goal of finding the seventh book isn't mentioned till several chapters in, then it is forgotten while the moles go and do other things. However there are other books that start off good but are so long that by the time I start getting close to the end my eyes start glasing over and I quickly begin to lose interest.Mole characters vividly imagined and clearly known intimately by the author, and in the end by the determined reader.

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. Amhelina from Earth As a lesbian I really enjoyed the book it made me look at moles in a new spiritual light. Two years after the publication of Duncton Found, Horwood wrote another sequel, entitled Duncton Tales, set around a century after the original books.Disney Death: at least three characters simply "disappear" and come back later: Bracken, though it's fairly obvious he'll be alright since it's very early in the book; Mandrake, who seals himself inside the Ancient System without a way out; and Rune, who suffers the same fate of Bracken, only to come back in the sequel. Religion actually plays a central role in the book, namely because we have Mandrake coming along and dominating the system by destroying the religion and then ruling through brute force. However, I guess the originality comes out in how you produce your writings, and if you let your own personality and style dictate your work as opposed to simply copying something else. The moles are given human elements (speech and faith for example) and this makes them easily identifiable to the reader. The story focuses less on epic tales of the mole lands and more on the love story of two moles, Bracken and Rebecca, daughter of the tyrannical Mandrake.

My heart went out to each and everyone of them as I was there with them at their passing into the silence.They exchange a few words and scurry off in the different directions, never to forget a moment which will change the course of their lives for ever.