richard adams

So! After a few technical hitches and delays our bumper new episode is finally up. @The Big Peat and I are joined by the award-winning fantasy author RJ Barker, whose novel The Bone Ships won the British Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 2020. Together we rabbit on about Richard Adams's 1978...

Watership Down (1972) and The Plague Dogs (1978) lead my list of top 10 favorite novels - of any kind. Adams brought back the animal fantasy story, made it compelling for both young people and adults, and inspired a short revival of the type: Walter Wangerin, Jr.'s The Book of the Dun Cow (1978)...

Black Gate » Articles » Richard Adams, May 9, 1920 – December 24, 2016 I wrote him three fan letters (Shardik, Plague Dogs, Girl in a Swing) and he wrote back every time. What a gentleman.

I've just finished a rereading of The Girl in a Swing and thought Chrons people might like a place in the Literary Fiction area to discuss this author. My sense is that, like me, quite a few people have read his first few novels, but I don't seem to run across comments on books written in the...

I got this book for free when I was in High School (5 years ago??), But I have yet to read it...anybody have any opinions about it?