What books has William Horwood written?
What books are to come?
How can I get copies of the books?
How can I contact William Horwood?
Wasn't The Wolves of Time supposed to be a trilogy?
In The Stonor Eagles, what is a Sleark?
How do I pronounce those names?
Who does this website?
What books has William Horwood written?
For a full listing of editions, consult The Book List. In short form, the works, and their date of first publication, with a note of series what species they feature, are:
The Duncton Chronicles:
[ First Duncton Trilogy - Moles ]
Duncton Wood [ 1980 ]
Duncton Quest [ 1988 ]
Duncton Found [ 1989 ]
The Book of Silence:
[ Second Duncton Trilogy - Moles ]
Duncton Tales [ 1991 ]
Duncton Rising [ 1992 ]
Duncton Stone [ 1993 ]
"The Museum Bell", a short story about humans, with elements of fantasy or surrealism. This was published in Lands of Never: an anthology of modern fantasy in 1983.
The Stonor Eagles [ 1982 ]
[ Standalone novel - White-tailed Sea Eagles, Humans ]
Callanish [ 1984 ]
[ Standalone novel - Golden Eagles, Humans ]
Skallagrigg [ 1987 ]
[ Standalone novel - Humans ]
The Tales of the Willows:
[ Sequels to Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows ]
The Willows in Winter [ 1994 ]
Toad Triumphant [ 1996 ]
The Willows and Beyond [ 1997 ]
The Willows at Christmas [ Oct. 1999 ] (Chronologically first)
The Woles of Time:
[ Duology - Wolves, Humans ]
Volume 1: Journeys to the Heartland [ 1995 ]
Volume 2: Seekers at the WulfRock [ 1997 ]
The Boy With No Shoes [ 2004 ]
[ Fictionalised biography - Humans ]
Dark Hearts of Chicago [ 2007 ]
City of Dark Hearts [ 2008 ]
[ Historical mystery fiction - Humans ]
Co-authored with Helen Rappaport.
Hyddenworld: Spring will be published in 2009 by Macmillan. It is a fantasy novel "about the human race as it approaches a crisis point after its careless exploitation of natural resources" and is the first in a series, the other books to follow at yearly intervals. This information is from Six-figure deal for Horwood, a February 2008 headline piece on theBookseller.com.
The Codburg Conspiracy, co-authored with Helen Rappaport and published under the name James Conan, is also due to be published in 2009.
How can I get copies of the books?
I'm assuming here that you've already tried local libraries and bookstores.
Some books can still be ordered, new or second-hand, from Amazon.co.uk
How can I contact William Horwood?
The usual procedure is to write to an author c/o his publisher. William Horwood's most recent publishers are Random House, HarperCollins, and and Hodder Headline. The address given in The Boy with no Shoes is
William Horwood,
c/o Headline Book Publishing
338 Euston Road
London NW1 3BH
However, it has been several years since he has been able to read all the letters sent to him, let alone answer.
He did have an e-mail address available for a time prior to 2003.
This website, WilliamHorwood.net, is a fan website rather than an official one. I do not have an e-mail address for William Horwood and I have no ability to forward messages to him.
Wasn't The Wolves of Time supposed to be a trilogy?
Yes, that was the original plan. However, it did not comes to pass. To quote the answer William Horwood gave to me in August 1999, when I asked this question:
When Volume 1 [ of The Wolves of Time ] was published in the UK as a hardback it was extremely successful. Unfortunately a trade dispute between the publisher HarperCollins and our biggest book retailer WH Smith meant that the latter took punitive action against the former in the autumn of WOLVES 1 paperbacking, along with two other of that publisher's autumn titles. As a result Volume 1 of Wolves was effectively wiped out. Because trilogies rely on a high sale of the initial volume to sell on the next two volumes there was statistically no chance of Vols 2 & 3 having significant sales. Publishers and the public are unforgiving and attach blame to authors not themselves and booksellers [...] I myself took the decision to rewrite Volume 2 to include the main part of Volume 3. Effectively it was Volume 2 that was scrapped not Volume 3.
In The Stonor Eagles, what is a Sleark?
Sleark is another, local name for a Golden Eagle.
How do I pronounce those names?
I haven't had the definitive word on many of them, but for a few:
Characters in The Duncton Chronicles:
Tryfan [ Trih - fan ] or [ Trih - fin ]
Alternatively, Andria Police mentioned that "I speak a bit [of Welsh], and Tryfan is pronounced tree-van. The "F" in welsh is spoken as a "V", and the double "FF" is spoken as "F"."
Jim Finnis wrote that "correctly, this name is pronounced "TRUHvan". The UH is a schwa sound, like the "o" in "honey"."
Characters in The Stonor Eagles:
Cuillin [ Coo - lin ] — Rhymes with 'win'
Finse [ Fins ] As in Fish, as the character himself mentions at one point in the novel.
Bjorg [ Bee - org ] — The 'g' is soft. (Supposition on my part, following the pattern of 'fjord'.)
Characters in The Wolves of Time:
On being asked about these three, William Horwood do not offer a pronounciation, but agreed that those I offered "sounded fine". Specifically about the name Jicin, he said that he had never considered it as a name to be said aloud—had chosen it instead as something with looked good and worked well on the page.
Dendrine [ Den - dreen ] — Rhymes with 'clean' — Emphasis on the seconnd sylable.
Vollutt [ Voll - utt ] — Rhymes with 'cut'
Jicin [ Jih - kin ] — My own inclination has been to rhyme with 'thin' — Emphasis on the first syllable. There's a fair bit of debate about this one. I've tended to lilt it as [ Jih - ken ], and I've run into two people who pronounce it with a soft 'c', as [ Jih - sin ].)
My name is Katherine Delany, and I live in Canada. As of 2007, I'm a library paraprofessional. Ten years ago, when I began this website, I was still a high-school student.
This website is a fan website rather than an official one. I do not have an e-mail address for William Horwood and I have no ability to forward messages to him.