Brian Jacques (1939–2011)
Author of Redwall
About the Author
Brian Jacques was born in Liverpool, England on June 15, 1939. After he finished St. John's School at the age of fifteen, he became a merchant seaman and travelled to numerous ports including New York, Valparaiso, San Francisco, and Yokohama. Tiring of the lonely life of a sailor, he returned to show more Liverpool where he worked as a railway fireman, a longshoreman, a long-distance truck driver, a bus driver, a boxer, a police constable, a postmaster, and a stand-up comic. During the sixties, he was a member of the folk singing group The Liverpool Fishermen. He wrote both poetry and music, but he began his writing career in earnest as a playwright. His three stage plays Brown Bitter, Wet Nellies, and Scouse have been performed at the Everyman Theatre. He wrote Redwall for the children at the Royal Wavertree School for the Blind in Liverpool, where he delivered milk as a truck driver. His style of writing is very descriptive, because of the nature of his first audience, for whom he painted pictures with words, so that they could see them in their imaginations. After Alan Durband, his childhood English teacher, read Redwall, he showed it to a publisher without telling Jacques. This event led to a contract for the first five books in the Redwall series. He also wrote the Castaways of the Flying Dutchman series. He died on February 5, 2011. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Disambiguation Notice:
Chris Baker is the real name of Fangorn, the artist, who is not Brian Jacques.
(eng2) Chris Baker is the real name of Fangorn, the artist, who is not Brian Jacques.
Series
Works by Brian Jacques
Brian Jacques Redwall Series 1-6 (Redwall, Mossflower, Mattimeo, Mariel of Redwall, Salamandastron, Martin the Warrior) (2019) 28 copies
Redwall Series Books 1 - 6 Collection Set by Brian Jacques (Redwall, Mossflower, Mattimeo, Mariel of Redwall,… (2021) 11 copies
Outcast of Redwall, Martin the Warrior, Redwall, Mariel of Redwall, Mossflower, Bellmaker, Redwall Map (REDWALL) (1998) 5 copies
Brian Jacques Collection Redwall Series 9 Books Set (Outcast of Redwall, Redwall, Mattimeo, The Pearls of Lutra, Martin… (2017) 3 copies
Enter the World of Redwall 3 copies
Where Legends are Made 2 copies
Brian Jacques Redwall Series 7-12 (Set of 6) : Bellmaker, Outcast, Pearls of Lutra, Long Patrol, Marlfox, Legend of… (1995) 2 copies
The Redwall Series, Books 1-19 2 copies
Tribes of Redwall 2 copies
Fantasy - Redwall Series 6-8 1 copy
14 Redwell Books- Redwell, Mossflower, Mattimeo, Salamandastron, Martin the Warrior, Bellmaker, Outcast of Redwell,… (1900) 1 copy
Lot of 10 Brian Jaques Paperbacks Redwall, Mattimeo, Mariel, Salamandastron, Martin Warrior, Outcast Pearls of Lutra,… (1990) 1 copy
Redwall (DVD) 1 copy
Viagem Sem Fim 1 copy
4 Book set by Brian Jacques Novels of Redwall~ The Bellmaker/Marlfox/The Outcast of Redwall/Triss 1 copy
Redwall: Season Two (video) 1 copy
5 Titles By Brian Jacques Redwall Series : Redwall Mossflower Mattimeo Salamandastron Lord Brocktree 1 copy
The Flying Dutchman Series - Books 1-3: Castaways of the Flying Dutchman, The Angel's Command & Voyage of Slaves (2007) 1 copy
Redwall Set of 5 (Mossflower, Pearls of Lutra, Meriel of Redwall, Meriel of Redwall, Martin the Warrior) (1998) 1 copy
Associated Works
The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy (2006) — Contributor — 243 copies, 9 reviews
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Jacques, James Brian
- Birthdate
- 1939-06-15
- Date of death
- 2011-02-05
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Country (for map)
- England, UK
- Birthplace
- Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
- Place of death
- Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
- Cause of death
- heart attack
- Places of residence
- Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
- Education
- St. John's School, Kirkdale, Liverpool
- Occupations
- merchant seaman
firefighter
longshoreman
truck driver
bus driver
boxer (show all 12)
postmaster
comedian
novelist
police officer
radio presenter
folk singer - Awards and honors
- Honorary Doctorate (Letters ∙ University of Liverpool ∙ 2005)
- Disambiguation notice
- Chris Baker is the real name of Fangorn, the artist, who is not Brian Jacques.
Members
Discussions
Ship stowaway Ben cursed and made like an angel in Name that Book (April 2013)
Reviews
Mattimeo (Redwall) by Brian Jacques
This installment of the Redwall series held up very well on a re-read. I remembered virtually nothing about it. It was properly exciting and suspenseful. I did also quite enjoy the descriptions of the food.
Not bad. Not fantastic either. A joy to read but if I let myself I also could have stopped at any time. As someone who usually falls in love with animal fantasy and actually chose to read this when I did because my mouse had passed I wasn't as taken by it as I could have been. Matthias was a flat character to me. Just happened to be an expert warrior without any training ever? K... Still an interesting world and interesting little animal society.
Tammo, a daring young hare hungry for adventure, is sent with Russa Nodrey, the wandering red squirrel, to join the Long Patrol and defend Salamandastron against the Rapscallion horde.
a cute read but is not an adult type book, at least I didn't think so. I was surprised when this was listed as a book for one of my book clubs. I think this story might even be too predictable and "goody two shoe" for my 11 year old. a cute story but definitely for the kids!
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Awards
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Statistics
- Works
- 160
- Also by
- 7
- Members
- 86,097
- Popularity
- #126
- Rating
- 3.9
- Reviews
- 470
- ISBNs
- 1,062
- Languages
- 17
- Favorited
- 129
