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It's 76 A.D. and the Roman legions are moving west towrd Glastonbury Tor. The shrines are burning and three hundred Snibble Goats are about to make a series of increasingly poor decisions.
The Hollow Vale is the ancient home of the Snibble Goats of Somerset, a people of long memory, strong opinions and an unfortunate relationship with democratic proceedings. When the Imperial Legions push into their territory, the goats flee westward toward the legendary Wenderbeast of Bodmin Moor, a scholarly hog of considerable repute who has been living alone with his scrolls for twenty years and is, it will emerge, not entirely trustworthy.
Left behind in the burning Vale is Rex Oswyn, one quiet goat with muddy hooves and a vow: that whatever burns, the memory of this place will not.
Drawing on the real landscapes of Roman Somerset, an invented ancient tongue and a mythology rooted in Glastonbury Tor, Avalon and the deep lore of the West Country, The Hollow Vale is a story about what a community loses when it runs, what it discovers when it returns, and what one person - or one goat - can preserve simply by refusing to leave.
Funny, moving and unlike anything else in print, this is the first book in the Tharion Cycle.
The fire was never fully out. It was simply waiting to be found.
Author: Alexander Paul Burton
Format: Paperback, 208 pages (ISBN 9781069415837)
Language: English
Publisher: Tremolo A Tiempo Design House
It's 76 A.D. and the Roman legions are moving west towrd Glastonbury Tor. The shrines are burning and three hundred Snibble Goats are about to make a series of increasingly poor decisions.
The Hollow Vale is the ancient home of the Snibble Goats of Somerset, a people of long memory, strong opinions and an unfortunate relationship with democratic proceedings. When the Imperial Legions push into their territory, the goats flee westward toward the legendary Wenderbeast of Bodmin Moor, a scholarly hog of considerable repute who has been living alone with his scrolls for twenty years and is, it will emerge, not entirely trustworthy.
Left behind in the burning Vale is Rex Oswyn, one quiet goat with muddy hooves and a vow: that whatever burns, the memory of this place will not.
Drawing on the real landscapes of Roman Somerset, an invented ancient tongue and a mythology rooted in Glastonbury Tor, Avalon and the deep lore of the West Country, The Hollow Vale is a story about what a community loses when it runs, what it discovers when it returns, and what one person - or one goat - can preserve simply by refusing to leave.
Funny, moving and unlike anything else in print, this is the first book in the Tharion Cycle.
The fire was never fully out. It was simply waiting to be found.
Author: Alexander Paul Burton
Format: Paperback, 208 pages (ISBN 9781069415837)
Language: English
Publisher: Tremolo A Tiempo Design House