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Holdstock, Robert

Holdstock, Robert

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Books by Holdstock, Robert

Mythago Wood

Mythago Wood

'Unique' is a vastly overused word. It has about as much meaning as Kim K's twitter feed. But in the case of Mythago Wood, it's warranted. Firstly, Holdstock tells the...

Lavondyss

Lavondyss

The Bone Forest

The Bone Forest

A collection of eight short stories set in a mystical wood features a snow woman, a scientist succumbing to an age-old madness, roaming demons, conjurers working their pagan magic, and...

The Mythago Cycle

The Mythago Cycle

A wonderfully beautiful novel that explores the ideas of myth and reality and the connection between the two. You'll find here a hauntingly story about a primeval forest somewhere undefined...

Merlin's Wood

Merlin's Wood

A powerful and compelling return to Robert Holdstock's award-winning Mythago cycle.

Gate Of Ivory

Gate Of Ivory

Magic is what lures people like anthropology student Theodora to the exotic, dangerous world of Ivory, where everything is for sale and magic really works. But cut off from her...

Avilion

Avilion

At the heart of Ryhope Wood, Steven and the mythago Guiwenneth live in the ruins of a Roman villa close to a haunted fortress from the Iron Age, from which...

The Hollowing

The Hollowing

After the disappearance of his son into the mysterious depths of Ryhope Wood, a father braves the powerful forces of the strange, magical forest on a quest that takes him...

Gate Of Ivory Gate Of Horn

Gate Of Ivory Gate Of Horn

A son searching for his father in a British forest discovers a world teeming with live mythological characters. One of them is a Celtic princess-warrior and he falls in love...

Mythago Wood (1985)

Mythago Wood (1985)

Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock  won the 1985 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel

1985: Mythago Wood

1985: Mythago Wood

The Mythago Wood series explores a magical wood that has produced every mythical and legendary character that ever existed in any culture. The wood is a place where space and...