The Last Wild (#1 The Last Wild)

Author(s): Piers Torday

Junior Fiction | Environmental Fiction

In a world where animals no longer exist, twelve-year-old Kester Jaynes sometimes feels like he hardly exists either. Locked away in a home for troubled children, he's told there's something wrong with him. So when he meets a flock of talking pigeons and a bossy cockroach, Kester thinks he's finally gone crazy. But the animals have something to say. And they need him. The pigeons fly Kester to a wild place where the last creatures in the land have survived. A wise stag needs Kester's help, and together they must embark on a great journey, joined along the way by an overenthusiastic wolf cub, a military-trained cockroach, a mouse with a ritual for everything, and a stubborn girl named Polly. The animals saved Kester Jaynes. But can Kester save the animals?

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Shortlisted for Waterstones Children's Book Prize: Fiction 5 - 12 Category 2014.

'A darkly comic and hugely inventive adventure' --Eoin Colfer. 'Splendid stuff' Eva Ibbotson. 'A gripping, original and memorable debut' --Francesca Simon. 'I haven't read a book this good [...] since The Hunger Games' --Guardian.

Piers Torday was born in Northumberland. His career started in theatre and live comedy at the Edinburgh Festival. He then moved into television, where he develops programme ideas. Piers' father is the celebrated author Paul Torday (Salmon Fishing in the Yemen). The Last Wild is Piers' first novel.

General Fields

  • : 9781780878300
  • : Hachette Children's Books
  • : Quercus Children's Books
  • : 0.328
  • : August 2013
  • : 198mm X 132mm
  • : September 2013
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Piers Torday
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : [Fic]