Her immersive experiences in indigenous culture, animal behaviours, and forest cultures and beliefs for books set in pre-agricultural Stone Age Europe suggest a mind – if not a soul – preternaturally connected to realms many people have little or no obvious access to. Riding 300 miles in north Finland, sleeping in reindeer skins, swimming with killer whales, tracking musk-oxen and eating elk heart is all part of the deal. She prepares like a method actor – think Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant and then some – for the writing process. Michelle’s planning goes far beyond the story arc. “I’m a planner – I like to know I’ve got a stonking good finale, and who dies along the way…” “I was planning the three books as a sequence,” she says with a subtle degree of finality. The first six books were published 2004-2009, and Wolfbane is the final instalment of a trio that began in 2020 – and the story really has reached its end point, explained Michelle Paver on the phone from her home near Wimbledon Common.
The series, a historical fantasy set 6,000 years ago chronicling the adventures of Torak, an adolescent boy, and his friends Renn and Wolf, began in 2004, and has since sold three million copies in 35 countries (30 languages!). Michelle Paver went to the Carpathian Mountains with a guide to learn more about wolves The publicity tour for Wolfbane, the ninth and final book in Michelle Paver’s stunning Wolf Brother (Chronicles of Ancient Darkness) collection, will see the author visit Heffers Bookshop on Trinity Street on the evening of May 6.
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