Rakkety Tam
core novel 2004 Redwall
Record
| First published | 2004 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.18 (11,651 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780399237256 |
Synopsis
The seventeenth book centers on Rakkety Tam MacBurl, a mercenary squirrel from the northern squirrel kingdoms, and his companion Wild Doogy Plumm. Their path crosses that of Gulo the Savage, a wolverine who emerges from a frozen northern realm at the head of a horde of white vermin, pursuing his own brother Askor after Askor makes off with a sacred artifact called the Walking Stone. As Gulo's invasion pushes south through Mossflower Woods toward Redwall Abbey, Tam and Doogy find themselves tasked with recovering property stolen by the wolverine's raiders, drawing them into the escalating conflict between the invading horde and the gathering defenders of Redwall and its allies.
Where it sits
- Universe: Redwall
- Series: Redwall core; position 17 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 17 of 22: previous Loamhedge (2003) · next High Rhulain (2005)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Redwall
- FantasticFiction: Brian Jacques's Redwall books in order
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakkety_Tam
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