Tales from Watership Down

Tales From Watership Down is the enchanting sequel to Richard Adams’s bestselling Watership Down, the enduring classic of contemporary literature that introduced millions of readers to a vivid and distinctive world. Here, he returns to the delightful characters we know and love – including Fiver, Hazel, Bigwig, Dandelion, and the legendary rabbit hero El-ahrairah – and presents new heroes as they struggle to survive the cruelties of nature and the shortsighted selfishness of humankind.These whimsical tales include all-new adventures and traditional stories of rabbit mythology, charming us once again with imagination, heart, and wonder. A spellbinding book of courage and survival, Tales From Watership Down is an exciting invitation to come home to a beloved world.

'Utterly captivating.' -- PEOPLE
'A return to the rabbit world so memorably conjured by Richard Adams in Watership Down ... Affectionate, compelling, and oddly convincing.' -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
'It's grand to see Mr Adams's characters again.' -- The New York Times Book Review
'An exercise in enchantment ... Adams is a master of characterisation and description – and his rabbit vocabulary is priceless ... Tales from Watership Down is the sort of work that can transport the reader to a parallel existence.' -- The Baltimore Sun

Richard Adams is the author of many bestselling novels, including Watership Down (1974), Shardik (1976), The Plague Dogs (1978), The Girl in a Swing (1980), Maia (1985), and Traveller (1988), as well as several works of non-fiction, including his autobiography, The Day Gone By (1991). The winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Award for Children's Literature, he currently lives in Hampshire, England. Clive Andrew Mantle is best known for playing general surgeon Dr Mike Barrett in the BBC hospital drama series Casualty and Holby City in the 1990s, and is also noted for his role as Little John in the cult 1980s fantasy series Robin of Sherwood.

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