The Sable Quean
core novel 2009 Redwall
Record
| First published | 2009 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.15 (4,841 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780399251641 |
Synopsis
The twenty-first Redwall novel follows the young hare Buckler Kordyne, who travels to Redwall Abbey together with his friend Diggs. Their arrival coincides with a crisis: the Ravagers, an evil vermin band led by two sables, Zwilt the Shade and Vilaya, have been kidnapping young creatures from the surrounding country and holding them captive at Althier, a hidden fortress built into the ruins of Brockhall beneath an ancient tree. The captors intend to use the abducted young ones as leverage to force Redwall's surrender. Buckler and Diggs join the effort to locate and free the prisoners and help defend the Abbey against the coming siege, even as growing friction between the two sable leaders threatens to fracture the Ravagers' own forces from within.
Where it sits
- Universe: Redwall
- Series: Redwall core; position 21 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 21 of 22: previous Doomwyte (2008) · next The Rogue Crew (2011)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Redwall
- FantasticFiction: Brian Jacques's Redwall books in order
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sable_Quean
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