Mythago Wood - Robert Holdstock

Somewhere in the South West of Britian lies the strange and ancient Ryhope wood. If you circle it from the outside, it's not so very big. Ordinary people live on its permieters and its close to a very old village called Shadox. But those few people who go into the wood, often don't come out again. 'Mythago wood' is a gloriously strange tale of magic, myth and possibility. It's beautifully written, if flawed. One of the problems in talking about it, is that any description of the plot ruins some of the surprises, but I'll do my best to keep it minimal. This is the sort of book where you don't even want to have read the dust jacket! ...

Mythago Wood is arguably one the best fantasy novels,(the first of a series),ever written. Written by Robert Holdstock and published in 1984, it tells the story of George Huxley and his two sons, Steve and christian. The family live in a detached house with a wildwood called Ryhope wood, backing onto their property. George is obsessed with this wood and dissapears into it for days, weeks or months at a time,the nature of his dissapearances he keeps to himself and his diary,much to the consternation of his sons. George has discovered another world or dimention deep in the heart of the wood and in his drive to find out all he can he shuts his sons out of his ...