William Horwood

Background

He grew up on the East Kent coast, primarily in Deal, within a model modern family—fractious with "parental separation, secret illegitimacy, alcoholism and genteel poverty".

Education

Between the ages of six and ten, he was raised in foster care, attended school in Germany for a year, then went on to Grammar School at age eleven. In his eighteenth year, he attended Bristol University to study geography, after which he had any number of jobs—fundraising and teaching, among others, as well as editing for the London Daily Mail.

Career

In 1978, at age 34, he retired from the newspaper in order to pursue novel-writing as his primary career, inspired by some long-ago reading of Frances Hodgson Burnett"s The Secret Garden. His first novel, Duncton Wood, an allegorical tale about a community of moles, was published in 1980. lieutenant was followed by two sequels, forming, and also a second trilogy.

William Horwood has also written two stand-alone novels intertwining the lives of humans and of eagles (The Stonor Eagles and Callanish), and duology.

Skallagrigg, his 1987 novel about disability, love, and trust, was made into a British Broadcasting Corporation film in 1994. In addition, he has written a number of sequels to The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame.

Boy with Number Shoes, published in August 2004, is a fictionalised memoir that explores challenging themes of childhood in Kent. In 2007, he collaborated with historian Helen Rappaport to produce Dark Hearts of Chicago, a historical mystery and thriller set in nineteenth-century Chicago.

lieutenant was republished in 2008 as City of Dark Hearts with some significant revisions and cuts under the pen name James Conan.

After almost fifteen years, Horwood returned to his hallmark genre of fantasy, publishing the first novel in his quartet in 2010. Each novel is named after a season—the first is: Spring, the next meant to be published is: Summer and so on—and deals with the adventures of a cast of humans and "hydden" ("little folk," with some distinct fae overtones) on a quest to find gems holding the powers of the season for which each is named. "If they can be brought together they may combine to re-kindle the fires of a dying universe.".

Works

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  • Toad Triumphant

    (In a second enchanting sequel to The Wind in the Willows,...)

  • Skallagrigg

    (Unites Arthur, a little boy abandoned many years ago in a...)

  • Toad Triumphant (Tales of the Willows)

    (The adventures of Toad of Toad Hall continue in this stor...)

  • Journeys to the Heartland (The Wolves of Time, Vol. 1)

    (In this first of three volumes, wolves driven out of remo...)

  • The Willows at Christmas

    (Toad, Mole, Ratty and Badger return once more in a new ta...)

  • Duncton Rising (Book of Silence)

    (This novel continues the story of a community of moles in...)

  • Duncton Wood (The Duncton Chronicles)

    (Duncton Wood is the title of the first novel by author Wi...)

  • Duncton Tales: Volume One of "the Book of Silence"

    (This novel continues the story of a community of moles in...)

  • The Willows at Christmas (Tales of the Willows)

    ( The twelve days of Christmas are fast approaching and M...)

  • Duncton Wood

    (Duncton Wood and the subsequent novels in the series revo...)

  • Duncton Stone - Volume Three of The Book of Silence

    (1st UK hardcover edition 1st print fine condition book fi...)

  • The Stonor Eagles

    (paperback, vg In stock shipped from our UK warehouse)

  • Callanish

    (1st Penguin 1985 edition paperback vg condition. In stock...)

  • Hyddenworld: Spring

    (The adventure of a lifetime is just beginning ...It has l...)

  • Duncton Found

    (The conclusion to the "Duncton Chronicles". The war waged...)

  • Duncton Wood by William Horwood (1980-03-01)

    (Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)

  • Large-Type Reader (Mrs Pollifax and the Golden Triangle, Callanish, Mama and the Graduation Present) (Selections From Reader's Digest Condensed Books and Other Digest Publications)
  • The Willows and Beyond
  • By William Horwood - Duncton Rising (Book of Silence) (1992-10-29) Hardcover
  • By William Horwood - The Wolves of Time: Journeys to the Heartland v. 1 (1995-02-23) Hardcover
  • Duncton Stone (The book of silence) by William Horwood (1993-05-10)
  • The Willows in Winter (Tales of the Willows) by William Horwood (1996-11-15)
  • The Wolves of Time (2) - Seekers at the Wulfrock: Seekers at the Wulfrock v. 2 by William Horwood (1998-04-20)
  • By William Horwood - Duncton Stone - Volume Three of The Book of Silence (1993) Hardcover
  • The Willows in Winter by William Horwood (1994-10-05)
  • Winter (Hyddenworld Quartet 4) by Horwood, William (2013) Hardcover
  • Duncton Wood - the Duncton Chronicles 1
  • Harvest (Hyddenworld Quartet 3) by Horwood, William (2013) Paperback
  • By William Horwood - Duncton Rising (Book of Silence) (1993-04) Paperback
  • The Wolves of Time (1) - Journeys to the Heartland: Journeys to the Heartland v. 1 by William Horwood (1996-02-05)
  • By William Horwood - Duncton Tales: Volume One of "the Book of Silence" (1992-10) Paperback
  • The Willows and Beyond (The Tales of the Willows) by William Horwood (2011-02-11)
  • Awakening (Hyddenworld Quartet 2) by William Horwood (2012-08-02)
  • The Willows in Winter by William Horwood (1994-10-01)
  • Duncton Tales: vol. 1 (The Book of Silence) by William Horwood (1992-10-22)
  • Hyddenworld by William Horwood (2011-01-01)
  • Duncton Rising (Book of Silence) by William Horwood (1993-04-01)
  • The Wolves of Time (2) - Seekers at the Wulfrock: Seekers at the Wulfrock v. 2 by William Horwood (1998-04-20)
  • The Boy with No Shoes: A Memoir by Horwood, William (2005) Paperback
  • The Willows in Winter (Tales of the Willows)
  • The Willows at Christmas (Tales of the Willows) by William Horwood (2001-11-09)
  • The Stonor Eagles by William Horwood (1982-10-01)
  • By William Horwood - Duncton Tales (1991-07-25) Hardcover
  • Seekers Wulfrock (The Wolves of Time, Vol. 2)