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The Walled Orchard

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You can order the book online from the following bookstore:
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Amazon.de (Deutschland): The Walled Orchard

First published 1990
New edition published December 1997 by Warner
ISBN, paperback: 0-75152-138-8 (new edition)
544 pages.
Size (in mm): 198 x 129

The Walled Orchard
The back of the book says:

Athens is in the middle of her golden age: Pericles is building the Parthenon; Sophocles, Euripides and Socrates are writing words which will live forever; and Eupolis is herding goats on Parnes. Unfortunately, Athens is also embarking on the Peloponnesian War, which she will eventually lose.

This new edition of Walled Orchard contains Goatsong as well, (they were intended to be one book from the beginning).

A sequel to Goatsong and The Walled Orchard will be published on the 5th of August 1999.
The title of the book is Alexander At The World's End.

People's reviews of this book

review 1

Bill Hawkins comments (from Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA):

"I'd just finished the combined books (Goatsong and Orchard), and went to Google to see what I could learn about Holt. Your site seemed quite complete, and offered an offline quote generator as well. So I looked at the page for Orchard and found two links to reviews. The first was by someone who did not understand the book, and should have kept quiet so as not to appear so unobservant of anything not closely connected to himself. The other link, to the "Independent", did not work.

This book contains the best description of Democracy that I have ever read in 63 years of taking up space on this planet. But it had to be put in perspective, which the preceding 500 pages do very well. I did not get the Greek references either, but that did not detract from the story. And so I have written this comment, to rebalance things a bit."

If you have read this book and have written down your thoughts, please mail me the location of your review and I will link it from here.

This book has also been translated to German.



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Quote from My Hero

He didn't smile - he was from Yorkshire, after all - but in some inner chamber of his heart he was satisfied.
 
(Tom Holt, "My Hero")
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