Books

The Last Wild Trilogy: The Wild Beyond

Book 3

Piers Torday, Author

Paperback

Series: The Last Wild Trilogy

Imprint: Quercus Children's Books

Publication date: September 3, 2015

Category: Adventure stories (Children's / Teenage)

ISBN: 9781848669536

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FROM THE WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN CHILDREN’S FICTION PRIZE

A thrilling animal adventure for fans of Roald Dahl, David Walliams and Katherine Rundell

This is the story of a boy named Kester. He has rescued the last wild animals in the world, and saved his capital city from destruction. But now he must face his greatest challenge yet, because:

1. The only blue whale on the planet has brought news from across the ocean
2. A mysterious steel dome has risen from the Four Towers
3. Out there, somewhere, a brave mouse holds the key to the future…

Reviews

Gripping, original and memorable.

A magnetic adventure ... find yourself glued like tar to this satisfying, spine-tingling book.

Wildly inventive, moving and gripping.

A must-read: brings to mind the smarts and silliness of Roald Dahl.

New York Post

Inventive, with laughs, tears and cliffhangers.

Sunday Times

I haven't read a book this good and interesting since The Hunger Games ... an edge-of-your-seat fast-paced read.

Guardian Children's website

Splendid stuff

An amazing story

The Guardian

The sequel had better come soon.

Observer

Written in vivid and urgent style ... As thrilling as James and the Giant Peach ... The Last Wild may be as critical to the new generation as Tarka the Otter.

The Times

Full of suspense without ever sacrificing warmth.

A darkly comic and hugely inventive adventure ... it could be the next big thing.

An excellent, punchy adventure tale with vivid characters and an impassioned eco message.

The Financial Times

Piers Torday

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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