Cart and Cwidder
Cart and Cwidder relates the fortunes of Clennen and his family, itinerant musicians who travel the villages of Dalemark in their colorful cart. With warring earldoms and spies everywhere, there is little contact between the North and South of the country, and so the musicians often carry news – and sometimes, as now, a passenger. Who is this Kialan? Is there any connection between him and the sudden violence that overtakes them? The family's fate and Kialan's are bound together in terror and flight – and in music, for the songs of Dalemark mean more than they say.
Diana Wynne Jones
Diana Wynne Jones (1934–2011) was a British writer, principally of fantasy novels for children and adults, as well as a small amount of non-fiction. Some of her better-known works include the Chrestomanci series and the novels Howl's Moving Castle and Dark Lord of Derkholm.
Dalemark
The first three books can be read in any order, but the last in the sequence, Crown of Dalemark, has to be read last.
Dalemark consists of four books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.