He remained a patron of the school until his death.īrian lived in Liverpool, where his two grown sons, Marc, a carpenter and bricklayer, and David, a professor of Art and a muralist, still reside. Because of the nature of his first audience, he made his style of writing as descriptive as possible, painting pictures with words so that the schoolchildren could see them in their imaginations. He wrote Redwall for the children at the Royal Wavertree School for the Blind in Liverpool, where as a truck driver, he delivered milk. He had always loved to write, but it was only then that he realized he had a talent for it. When young Brian refused to falsely say that he had copied the story, he was caned as 'a liar'. Brian's teacher could not, and would not believe that a ten year old could write so well.

John's foreshadowed his future career as an author given an assignment to write a story about animals, he wrote a short story about a bird who cleaned a crocodile's teeth. At the age of ten, his very first day at St. John's School, an inner city school featuring a playground on its roof. Along with forty percent of the population of Liverpool, his ancestral roots are in Ireland, County Cork to be exact.īrian grew up in the area around the Liverpool docks, where he attended St. A new Redwall book is introduced once every year.īrian Jacques (pronounced 'jakes') was born in Liverpool, England on June 15th, 1939. The father of two sons, Jacques enjoys walking his West Highland Terrier, Teddy and spends most of his time writing. He went on to work as a radio show host, playwright, longshoreman, lorry driver, folk singer and comedian prior to his career as a writer. Growing up on the docks of Liverpool, he attended St.

With he help of a motley band of animals, Mariel leads the charge to recover a bell and avenge her father.īrian Jacques was born in Liverpool, England, in 1939. Sure that her poor father is dead, Mariel swears an oath of vengeance against the filthy pirates who killed her father. Mariel washes ashore, starved and near death, and is taken in by the hospitable inhabitants of Redwall Abbey. Hapless voyagers Mariel and her father Joseph the Bellmaker are mercilessly thrown into the sea by the pirates. In the fourth volume of the epic Redwall saga, a mouse-ship is attacked by the pirate rat Gabool and his heinous band of cut-throats.

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