Loamhedge
core novel 2003 Redwall
Record
| First published | 2003 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.96 (11,631 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780399237249 |
Synopsis
The sixteenth Redwall novel follows Martha Braebuck, a young hare at the Abbey who has never been able to walk, alongside her brother Horty and friends Springald and Fenna. A vision convinces Martha that a cure for her condition may be found within the walls of the long-abandoned Loamhedge Abbey, prompting her to set out with two former Abbey residents, Bragoon and Sarobando, as guides, while the vengeful badger warrior Lonna Bowstripe pursues his own path through the same wilderness. While Martha's party journeys toward Loamhedge through Mossflower Woods, Redwall itself comes under threat from a vermin band led by Badredd and from the pirate Raga Bol and his sea-rat crew, leaving the Abbey's defenders to face down danger at home while Martha searches for her cure.
Where it sits
- Universe: Redwall
- Series: Redwall core; position 16 of 22 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Brian Jacques
Notes
- From the series record (Redwall): Brian Jacques's 22-novel high-fantasy sequence of anthropomorphic animals centered on Redwall Abbey, one continuous author-written saga (1986-2011; Jacques died shortly after The Rogue Crew's publication, completing the series). Listed here in original publication order; internal chronology deliberately left unpopulated -- the series' own well-documented publication-vs-internal-chronology divergence (e.g. Mossflower and Martin the Warrior are set generations before Redwall itself) is stated in prose per the same convention already applied to Valdemar's Last Herald-Mage set. Registered per the genre-boundary-transparency convention (talking-animal fantasy, same treatment already extended to Pern's dragons) -- this canon's marketing/critical consensus treats Redwall unambiguously as fantasy, not an animal fable in the Watership Down sense. No independently confirmable award history found.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Redwall: position 16 of 22: previous Triss (2002) · next Rakkety Tam (2004)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Redwall
- FantasticFiction: Brian Jacques's Redwall books in order
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loamhedge
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