Duncton Rising (Book of Silence)

THE QUEST FOR THE BOOK OF SILENCE CONTINUES HERE, AND NOW

William Horwood's bestselling Duncton Tales saw Privet, female scholar and scribemole, leave Duncton Wood in search of the fabled Book of Silence.

Now she and her friends must cross Moledom to dread Caradoc in their search for the lost Book, and face the sinister Thripp, leader of the evil Newborns.

Prepare for the greatest pilgrimage of your life as Privet risks sacrificing all to succeed in her quest.

William Horwood was born in Oxford and grew up on the south coast. After taking a geography degree at Bristol University, he became a journalist. His first novel, Duncton Wood, was published in 1980 and was followed by The Stonor Eagles, Callanish, Skallagrigg, Duncton Quest and Duncton Found. He recently completed Seekers at the WulfRock, the second volume in his bestselling new series, The Wolves of Time.

His position as one of Britain's best-loved storytellers has been confirmed by the success of The Willows in Winter, his acclaimed sequel to Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, and the two equally popular subsequent volumes in the Tales of the Willows series, Toad Triumphant and The Willows and Beyond. Since beginning the sequence, he has received letters from hundreds of readers thanking him for recapturing the spirit of Grahame's great work.