magically well-made and memorable.' The New York Times His enthusiasms are English literature, music, chess, beer and shove-ha'penny, bird-song, folk-song and country walking. Richard Adams lives in the south of England with his wife Elizabeth, who is an expert on English ceramic history, and has two grown-up daughters, Juliet and Rosamond. He has also written a volume of autobiography, The Day Gone By. He wrote the poetry for The Tyger Voyage, illustrated by Nicola Bayley, and The Ship's Cat, illustrated by Alan Aldridge, and edited an anthology of modern poetry entitled Occasional Poets. He also collaborated on Nature through the Seasons and Nature Day and Night (with Max Hooper and David A. His subsequent novels are The Plague Dogs (1977), The Girl in the Swing (1980), Maia (1984) and Traveller (1988), and his other books include The Iron Wolf and Other Stories, The Bureaucats, A Nature Diary and, in collaboration with Ronald Lockley, Voyage through the Antarctic. In 1974 he retired from the Civil Service to devote himself to writing, and in that year he published Shardik, his second novel. Watership Down was awarded both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian award for children's fiction for 1972. In the mid-sixties he completed his first novel, Watership Down, the story of which he originally told to his children to while away a long car journey. He served in the Second World War and in 1948 joined the Civil Service. A return to the world of Fiver, Hazel and Bigwig with a wonderful collection of stories set in Watership Down Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.Richard Adams was born in Berkshire in 1920 and studied history at Bradfield and Worcester College, Oxford. Enchanting us once again with stories of courage and survival, the millions of readers who enjoyed Watership Down now have the chance to re-enter this unique and spell-binding world. These compelling tales include all-new adventures, with the younger generation of rabbits eager to find out about the heroic age that existed before they were born.

Adams returns to the vivid and distinctive world he created in that enduring work, reacquainting readers with the characters we know and love, including Fiver, Hazel, Bigwig, Dandelion and the legendary rabbit hero El-ahrairah. Tales from Watership Down is the enchanting sequel to Richard Adams's bestselling classic Watership Down, which won the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Award.

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