The eighth Redwall novel. An escape into the snowbound winter night starts a life-long feud between two young creatures, a badger and a ferret. By turns, Swartt Sixclaw and his sworn enemy, Sunflash the Mace, become hunter and hunted, in a tale stretching from the north to the east wastelands.

 

This book is part of a book series called Red Fox Older Fiction .

There are 368 pages in this book. This book was published 2000 by Random House Children's Publishers UK .

Allan Curless was a political cartoonist for 16 years, working mostly for the Sunday Times . His first children's book, Cat's Song with Andrew Matthews, was shortlisted for the Mother Goose Award and the Smarties Prize in 1994. He died in 1997. Mark Burgess has written and illustrated over 40 books and illustrated a further 40 by other authors. He lives in Taunton, Somerset. Penguin mourns the passing of celebrated children's book author Brian Jacques