William Horwood | The Bookseller

Hydden depths

Publication Date: Fri, 06/11/2009 - 13:57

Picture William Horwood writing Duncton Wood, his bestselling series from the 1980s about a group of war-mongering but spiritual moles, filled with lyrical evocations of the British countryside. He must have been tapping away in a sun-dappled forest glade somewhere, surely, or at  the very least sitting in a cottage garden, surrounded by...

Alison Flood | Authors | William Horwood
Six-figure deal for Horwood

Publication Date: Fri, 15/02/2008 - 11:16

Pan Macmillan has signed a "substantial" six-figure deal with Duncton Wood author William Horwood for world rights in a quartet of novels about the "Hyddenworld".

The novels are about the human race as it approaches a crisis point after its careless exploitation of natural resources. Then hidden guardians start to...

Alison Flood | Macmillan | Rights deal | William Horwood