The Spellcoats
- Published
- 1 January 1979
- Pages
- 289
- ISBN-13
- 9780613360159
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Spellcoats (1979) reaches back furthest of all into Dalemark's near-mythic past at 289 pages, following a family exiled from their river village who discover the coats they're weaving carry a literal, dangerous magic of their own -- published third in Diana Wynne Jones's quartet though set earliest in the country's history.
Key facts about The Spellcoats
Diana Wynne Jones wrote The Spellcoats, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1979. The book has 289 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780613360159 to find the main one.
The Spellcoats is book 3 of 4 in The Dalemark Quartet series. The series has 4 published books. However, the series starts with Cart and Cwidder (1975).
Additionally, Diana Wynne Jones writes Chrestomanci and Howl's Moving Castle as separate series. Those series sit on our fantasy shelf. Meanwhile, The Islands of Chaldea is the latest published Diana Wynne Jones book on file, from 2014.
About Diana Wynne Jones
Diana Wynne Jones was a British author who spent over four decades writing some of the most inventive fantasy fiction published for young readers, prized as much by adults as by children for prose that was witty, structurally daring, and never condescending. See every Diana Wynne Jones book in order.
Its place in The Dalemark Quartet
The Spellcoats is book 3 in the The Dalemark Quartet series. It follows Drowned Ammet. It is followed by Crown of Dalemark. See the full The Dalemark Quartet reading order.
The Dalemark Quartet is Diana Wynne Jones's most ambitious secondary-world fantasy, built not around one continuing hero but around a single invented country, Dalemark, seen at different, widely separated points in its own history. Cart and Cwidder follows Moril, a boy in a family of traveling musicians whose father is secretly running messages for the political resistance in the harsh, feudal North, and who inherits a magical singing instrument, a cwidder, with far more power than anyone realizes. Drowned Ammet…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780613360159