Whilst searching for some storytelling cds earlier on I came across these two novels (which aren't cds incidently but regular paperback books) which reminded me a wee bit of the earlier discussion of Mythago Wood. I've not read either of these books but very much like the sound of both, especially as one gets the thumbs up from Ronald Hutton.

The Long Woman - Kevan Manwaring
Set in 1923, it is the story of Maud Kerne, First World War widow who discovers
the journals of her antiquarian husband and goes on a journey of healing and
remembrance across the ancient landscape of Britain, a journey on which she
must stray from the path to find her way...An enchanting odyssey through the
sacred landscapes of Wessex and the secret landscapes of the soul.
‘An impressive first novel...one I am proud to possess’ Ronald Hutton

AWEN/ARTS COUNCIL OF ENGLAND £7, ISBN: 0-9546137-5-9

Windsmith - Kevan Manwaring
Alive in the lands of the dead – trapped in Paradise or the Place of Reckoning…?
Welcome to Shadow World When Isambard Kerne, officer of the Royal Flying Corps,
goes missing in action in the opening battle of the First World War in a biplane piloted
by Harry ‘Mad Duck’ Malleard, he is transported into a nightmarish limbo – trapped
by his wife’s grief. Separated from his pilot, Kerne finally arrives in an unknown
mountainous land where he meets an irascible talking falcon – Merlin, who becomes
his guide - and is taken to a Bronze Age tribe: the Chalk Folk, who carve giants from
the foothills of the dead. They treat him with fear and awe – for he has fallen from the sky,
and a previous stranger has become a warmongering tyrant: Taranis, the Iron King.
The tribe is attacked by his Iron Warriors – who kidnap the chieftain’s daughter. Kerne
feels responsible for bringing this doom upon them – for the Iron King is no less than his pilot, gone
mad with power in this strange land. He must stop his brother-in-arms, or perish himself – for their presence
in the Afterlands has caused a rift. They crossed through the Angel Gate alive – one of them must die to
pay the price, or the whole fabric of Shadow World is threatened. Isambard Kerne – a man of peace
in a time of war, must choose between the power of words or swords. The fate of both Earth and its
Shadow hangs in the balance. Will he be able to master the Way of the Windsmith in time to save the valley
of his ancestors? Or will the terror of war change him into what he fears the most?

Sulis Underground/Awen, ISBN:0-9546137-6-7 £9.99