But what’s so brilliant about this book is that the story matters. And so Kester and his loyal wild are thrown headlong into another adventure. Right from the start, the story packs pace: Polly is hiding secrets, a helicopter is circling and there is a strange whispering in the drain.

Together with his loyal friend Polly and a brave gang of child outlaws, Kester must find a way to stop them before it’s too late. A dark wild hiding from the deadly virus that destroyed their friends a dark wild with a plan to rise up against their human enemies. Below the sparkling city of Premium, deep underground, Kester finds more survivors: a menacing white dog, a cohort of foxes, an interfering starling, and the world’s most miserable rat. Twelve-year-old Kester Jaynes thought he had rescued the last wild animals in the land. Last seen in his bestselling The Last Wild (and what an impact he made there) – I heard that the sequel, The Dark Wild, was out and there was a chance the white pigeon may be making another appearance. An animal in fact – possibly the most fumbly-brained, accidentally hilarious animal any author has created: Piers Torday’s white pigeon. In regular demand as a speaker at schools and festivals, Piers is also a reading helper with Beanstalk, a former judge on the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a Patron of Reading at Heathmere School and a trustee of the Pleasance Theatre.īorn in Northumberland, he now lives in London with his husband and hopefully a cat.So I’ve been missing someone recently. The son of the late Paul Torday (author of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen) Piers recently completed his father's final unfinished novel, The Death of an Owl (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, April 2016).

His next book for children, There May Be A Castle, will be published in October 2016. The third book in the trilogy, The Wild Beyond, was published in 2015 to critical acclaim. His second book, The Dark Wild, won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. His bestselling first book for children, The Last Wild, was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Award and nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal as well as numerous other awards.

Piers began his career in theatre and then television as a producer and writer.

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