Can you tell us about your new book, Wolfbane?

Starting the last book was a bit daunting: could I bring the story of Torak, Renn and Wolf to a satisfying conclusion? Could I make the ninth and final book - and yes, it is definitely the last - up to the same standard as the others? I think I've managed to carry it off, and of that I'm very proud.ģ. How did you feel when you sat down to write Wolfbane, the ninth and final book in the Wolf Brother series? View: through his eyes and ears and nose!Ģ. And of course it also helps that parts of the story are told from Wolf's point of Over the years I've found that this self-sufficiency and respect for the natural world has resonated strongly with readers of all ages. They know all about the animals, plants, trees and rocks around them, and they respect them, because they depend on them for their very existence. They don't have writing, metals or the wheel - but they don't need them, they're superb survivors. (Although I've changed mountains and rivers to suit the stories and I've found that readers all over the world tend to site the stories in the forests of their own countries - which is something I really like.)Īs this is the Stone Age, my hero and heroine, Torak and Renn, are hunter-gatherers. And Scandinavia is where the stories take place, mostly in the vast Forest which at that time covered the whole of northern Europe. The Wolf Brother books are set 6,000 years ago in the Stone Age: that's after the Ice Age, but before farming spread to northern Scandinavia. For those who don't know the series, where and when are the Wolf Brother books set?

We asked Michelle Paver to tell us more about her new book, how she researches her adventures and whether this really is the final book in the Wolf Brother series.ġ. Wolfbane, the final adventure in the bestselling Wolf Brother series by author Michelle Paver, and now available in paperback, takes us back to the Stone Age where we rejoin Torak, Renn and Wolf in an adventure that brings a dangerous confrontation with a powerful demon. Michelle is best known for her prize-winning, million-copy-selling Wolf Brother series for children, and for her painstaking and meticulous method-approach to researching her novels, with treks to Siberia and the Arctic North, exploration of ice caves, swims with killer whales and meals of whale meat and roseroot regular fare. She went on to become a partner in a City of London law firm before turning to writing after her father's death. Michelle Paver was born in Malawi and came to England as a child before studying Biochemistry at Oxford University.

Wolfbane, the ninth book in the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series, brings to a close the internationally bestselling series that began with Wolf Brother.

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