Redwall

When the peaceful life of ancient Redwall Abbey is shattered by the arrival of the evil rat Cluny and his villainous hordes, Matthias, a young mouse, determines to find the legendary sword of Martin the Warrior which, he is convinced, will help Redwall's inhabitants destroy the enemy.

Brian Jacques has lived an extraordinary life. Having left school at fifteen, he has worked as a docker, seaman, truck driver, policeman, comedian, broadcaster and playwright. A resident of Liverpool, he is at present host of his own Sunday afternoon radio program on BBC, Jakestown. It is a program that includes "grand opera, humor, American music ... laced with nostalgia and social comment." Father of two grown children, Mark and David, Jacques is above all a storyteller. His stage plays include Brown Bitter, Wet Nellies, and Scouse. Redwall, teeming with the exuberance of his own life, is Jacques' first novel, the middle volume of a trilogy about the Redwall mice.