Mythago Wood - Robert Holdstock

"Hood is back - like all Jack-in-the-Greens, is a nuisance, and several times moved into the ridge-zone around the hog-back glade. He shot at me, and this is becoming a cause of great concern! But I cannot enrich the oak vortex sufficiently with the pre-mythago of the Urscumug. What is the answer? To try to enter more deeply, to find the wildwoods? Perhaps the memory is too far gone, too deep in the silent zones of the brain, now, to touch the trees." Mythago Wood is a novel by Robert Holdstock originally published in 1985. It concerns the experiences of a family living next to an ancient woodland that contains a very strange power. This is a book ...  Read the complete review

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! ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review