Thomas Covenant, The Unbeliever

Another charity shop find! A mere £1 for the trilogy of Stephen Donaldson’s The Chronicles of Thomas Covenent, The Unbeliever. It’s a fantasy series started in the mid-1970s in that early wave of post-Toklien novels and I read the first volume way-way-back when I was in my middle-teens (recomended by the owner of Stargate One bookshop) but feel that a great deal went over my head at the time and I have the memory of it being something intriguing that I should return to later in life. At the time I was starting to read writers like Le Guin, Heinlein and Clake. It’s later in life and – bearing in my my current noticing of the little synchronicities in life – probably time to give the first novel at least another read.

I am looking nervously at my ever-increasing tsundoku…