Duncton Quest and Duncton Found could not have been written without the love, support and help of my partner Debbie Crawshaw, and nor would the last months of writing Duncton Found have been so happy without the presence and pleasures of our newly born son, Joshua.
First published in the United Kingdom in 1989 by Century
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Endnotes
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The extraordinary truth behind these long-stancing rumours was only revealed after the delving expedition of Fewl of Tulwick whose scribing on the matter is now well known and beyond reasonable dispute, though a dissenting view is to be found in the scrivenings of Wordmole Nodblail of Cannock. « Back
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The subsequent history of Walden, son of Wyre, is told in Tales of Longest Night. « Back
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Wort’s long and despicable career as persecutor of Stone followers did indeed start young. Among the ‘modest services’ she performed while still a pup at Nuneham, was to spy on followers, whose numbers she pretended to join. Her reports resulted in the routine torture and killing of several leading followers, including her mother, one brother, and an uncle. « Back
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There is evidence, not conclusive, that Wort murdered the eldrene of her time; and further evidence, reliable, that she ordered that the sideem Gerne be put to death when he threatened to report his suspicions of this murder to Wyre. « Back
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See Gareg's Strategy and Attack and his more philosophical On Ending Wars; and, of course, Haulke's Memoirs of the Western Front. « Back
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