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The Weirdstone of Brisingamen

Book Synopsis

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen is one of the greatest fantasy novels of all time.

When Colin and Susan are pursued by eerie creatures across Alderley Edge, they are saved by the Wizard. He takes them into the caves of Fundindelve, where he watches over the enchanted sleep of one hundred and forty knights.

But the heart of the magic that binds them – Firefrost, also known as the Weirdstone of Brisingamen – has been lost. The Wizard has been searching for the stone for more than 100 years, but the forces of evil are closing in, determined to possess and destroy its special power.

Colin and Susan realise at last that they are the key to the Weirdstone’s return. But how can two children defeat the Morrigan and her deadly brood?

Our Review Panel says...

This book was the first stepping point for me. I took a copy of this book to a circle of trees in Brockwell Park in London, near where I lived, and sat down on a stump and started reading. I was instantly transported to an imaginary world that I thought I had forgotten about – one filled with wizards and sleeping knights and unimaginable evil forces. Those first few mythical pages reminded me how much I loved folk tales – I loved how evil characters were invoked through nature and Grimnir smelling of “foul waters”. It reminded me of stories about creatures like Nuckelavee, Redcap, Black Annis and Jenny Greenteeth – all characters who I was desperate to in include in The Midnight Guardians, and some of which I did, but I had to be sparing!