![]() ![]() His 22nd Redwall book, “The Rogue Crew,” is scheduled to be published in May. ![]() Jacques’s survivors include his wife, Maureen two sons, Marc and David and a brother, Jim. He wrote several non-Redwall books, including a series about the Flying Dutchman, the storied ghost ship. Jacques’s other books include “The Redwall Cookbook” (2005), a collection of recipes for the dishes featured in the series his unstinting descriptions of food, he often said, sprang from childhood memories of wartime rationing. ![]() He left school at 15 to work as a merchant seaman, the first in a decades’-long series of blue-collar jobs. At 10, after writing a fine short story about a bird and a crocodile, he was caned by his teacher, who thought it too good to have been the work of a child. Jacques, who died in 2011, published Redwall in 1986. Later titles in the series include “Mossflower” (1988), “Martin the Warrior” (1993), “Doomwyte” (2008) and “The Sable Quean,” published last year.Ī truck driver’s son, Brian Jacques was born on June 15, 1939, and reared by the Liverpool docks. The movie will be based on the series’s first book, Redwall, while the TV show will tackle the story of Martin the Warrior. ![]()
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