The Bellmaker

Brian Jacques

Jul 2011 · Recorded Books · Narrated by Brian Jacques and A Full Cast

About this audiobook

With millions of copies sold, Brian Jacques’ New York Times bestselling Redwall series has captivated people around the world. A riveting story of unparalleled bravery in the face of terrible danger, The Bellmaker tells of one father’s determination to protect his beloved daughter.

Four seasons ago, Mariel the warrior-mouse left Redwall Abbey to fight evil in Mossflower. Nothing has been heard of her since. When Mariel’s father, Joseph the Bellmaker, is visited in a dream by the legendary Martin the Warrior, he learns his daughter’s life is in peril. Setting off with
his companions, Joseph heads straight for a confrontation with the Foxwolf Urgan Nagru and his ferocious minions, who are holding Mariel captive.

About the author

Brian Jacques was born in Liverpool, England on June 15, 1939. After he finished St. John's School at the age of fifteen, he became a merchant seaman and travelled to numerous ports including New York, Valparaiso, San Francisco, and Yokohama. Tiring of the lonely life of a sailor, he returned to Liverpool where he worked as a railway fireman, a longshoreman, a long-distance truck driver, a bus driver, a boxer, a police constable, a postmaster, and a stand-up comic. During the sixties, he was a member of the folk singing group The Liverpool Fishermen. He wrote both poetry and music, but he began his writing career in earnest as a playwright. His three stage plays Brown Bitter, Wet Nellies, and Scouse have been performed at the Everyman Theatre. He wrote Redwall for the children at the Royal Wavertree School for the Blind in Liverpool, where he delivered milk as a truck driver. His style of writing is very descriptive, because of the nature of his first audience, for whom he painted pictures with words, so that they could see them in their imaginations. After Alan Durband, his childhood English teacher, read Redwall, he showed it to a publisher without telling Jacques. This event led to a contract for the first five books in the Redwall series. He also wrote the Castaways of the Flying Dutchman series. He died on February 5, 2011.