Michael Tod: 8 books

When author Michael Tod was thirteen, he looked up at the star-filled night sky and realised that he was just a tiny speck of humanity on a small planet circling a minor sun in a far corner of a vast universe. If God was bigger than the Universe, as he had been taught to believe, then such a God could...

In this engrossing and utterly convincing adventure Michael Tod has created a world to rival Watership Down and Duncton Wood – and has succeeded in putting a mirror up to contemporary human problems as well. The Silver Tide is the first book in the trilogy, The Dorset Squirrels (also known as The Woodstock Saga).

Michael Tod’s thrilling novel tells the story of the dissolving of the communications barrier between humans and dolphins through music. The recording of their heart-rending but beautiful Songs of Truth leads to unforeseen and dramatic consequences both for the humans involved and for the whole of Whalekind. If you love dolphins – you’ll love Dolphin Song.

A spellbinding story to rival Watership Down or Duncton Wood, The Second Wave is packed full of adventure, intrigue and heroism in this triumphant follow up to Michael Tod’s first book, The Silver Tide.

When an airman gets on to an aircraft at Nairobi Airport to fly home for demobilisation, he has no idea of the background of his fellow passenger, wildlife photographer, ‘Tigerface’ Townsend. When Tigerface relates a story of a magical summer spent in the mountains of Wales whilst recuperating...

The dazzling finale to The Dorset Squirrels Saga. If harmony is to be restored in Ourland, the Reds must draw upon all their resources and loyalties, calling on help from unexpected quarters including the dolphins and mute swans.

In a remote coastal village in medieval Wales, the King’s tax assessor and a woman he knows only as The Ferryman’s Daughter, sit up by a fire of driftwood through a long winter’s evening and far into the night. She tells him how she once stupidly helped the man she loved, Jack Ladd, steal into...

Joined by an ever-growing company of other elephants as they carry the tusks across the plains of Africa to The Place of Peace, they face man-made and natural hazards and have to use every ounce of their resourcefulness to overcome these. The hunter, Walt Schwiner, and his disgraced Maasai guide,...