WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN CHILDREN'S FICTION PRIZE 2014. A thrilling animal adventure for fans of Roald Dahl, David Walliams and Katherine Rundell
WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN CHILDREN'S FICTION PRIZE 2014.
A thrilling animal adventure for fans of Roald Dahl, David Walliams and Katherine Rundell
Twelve-year-old Kester thought he had discovered the last wild animals in the land. He thought his adventure was over. He was wrong.
Below the sparkling city of Premium, deep underground, a dark wild remains: animals who believe the time is right to rise up against their human enemies.
And soon Kester realises: he is the only one who can stop them.
Kester Jaynes saved the animals. Can he save the humans too?
An excellent, punchy adventure tale with vivid characters and an impassioned eco message. The Financial Times
Piers Torday began his career in theatre and then television as a producer and writer. His first book for children,
The Last Wild, was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Award and nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. His second book,
The Dark Wild, won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.
There May Be A Castle was a People's Book Award finalist and a Times Children's Book of the Year.
The Lost Magician was a Book of the Year in six national newspapers and won the Teach Primary Book Award. The follow up,
The Frozen Sea, was published in 2019. Piers has also completed an unfinished novel by his late father Paul (author of
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen,
The Death of an Owl) and adapted
The Box of Delights and
A Christmas Carol for the stage.
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Now in paperback. Sequel to "The Last Wild". 12yr old Kester's adventure continues, as he discovers a remaining dark wild where animals plan to rise up against their human enemies.
