Redwall Series & more by Brian Jacques ~ 24 MP3 AUDIOBOOK COLLECTION

Brian JacquesJames Brian Jacques (as in "Jakes"; 15 June 1939 – 5 February 2011) was an English writer best known for his Redwall series of novels and Castaways of the Flying Dutchman series. He also completed two collections of short stories entitled The Ribbajack & Other Curious Yarns and Seven Strange and Ghostly Tales. Brian Jacques was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, on 15 June 1939. His parents were James Alfred Jacques, a haulage contractor, and Ellen Ryan. James Alfred Jacques was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, in 1907. His parents, Thomas Jacques and Ada Smith, moved to Liverpool from the St Helens area in the 1890s. The Jacques family had Lancashire roots; there is no record of them having French ancestry. Ellen Ryan was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, in 1908. She came from a Liverpool Irish family with roots in a number of different Irish counties. Ellen's father, Matthew Ryan, was born in County Wexford, Ireland in 1872. Ellen's mother, Elizabeth "Cissy" McGuinn