Year of the Griffin

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Year of the Griffin

Front cover of the US first edition
Author	Diana Wynne Jones
Cover artist	John Sullivan (UK)[note 1] Joseph A. Smith (depicted)
Language	English
Series	Derkholm
Genre	Fantasy novel, parody
Published	2000 (Gollancz/UK, William Morrow/US)
Publication place	United Kingdom United States
Media type	Print (hardcover)
Pages	218 (UK) 267 (US)[note 1]
ISBN	978-0-575-07046-2
OCLC	42726020
LC Class	PZ7.J684 Yc 2000
Preceded by	Dark Lord of Derkholm

Year of the Griffin, later The Year of the Griffin in the UK, is a fantasy novel by the British author Diana Wynne Jones, published 2000 simultaneously in the UK and the US^{[note 1]} It is the sequel to The Dark Lord of Derkholm, set primarily at the university several years after that novel's radical conclusion.

Year is centred on six first-year students of magic, in relation to the administration and teachers, their families and studies, and each other. A review in Publishers Weekly called it a "boisterous spoof of the campus novel"; another in Booklist said that it continues "Jones' spoof of traditional fantasy conventions".^[1]

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