A Kestrel For A Knave

Author : Barry Hines
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 014190383X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Kestrel for a Knave written by Barry Hines and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2000-05-25 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is tough and cheerless for Billy Casper, a disillusioned teenager growing up in a small Yorkshire mining town. Violence is commonplace and he is frequently cold and hungry. Yet he is determined to be a survivor and when he finds Kes, a kestrel hawk he discovers a passion in life. Billy identifies with her proud silence and she inspired in him the trust and love that nothing else can. Intense and raw and bitingly honest, A KETREL FOR A KNAVE was first published in 1968 and was also madeinto a highly acclaimed film, 'Kes', directed by Ken Loach.

Author : Barry Hines
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9781854594860
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kes written by Barry Hines and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This new stage adaptation of Barry Hines' well-known film and novel once again proves its gritty charm and popular staying power..." --Back cover.

Author : Richard Hines
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408868032
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Way But Gentlenesse written by Richard Hines and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “There is no way but gentlenesse to redeeme a Hawke” Edmund Bert, 1619 Born and raised in the South Yorkshire mining village of Hoyland Common, Richard Hines remembers sliding down heaps of coal dust, listening out for the colliery siren at the end of shifts, and praying for his father's safe return. It seemed all too likely that he would follow in his father's footsteps and end up working in the pits, especially when to his mother's horror and his own he failed the 11+, so that unlike his older brother Barry, who had passed the exam to grammar school and who seemed to be heading for great things, Richard was left without hope of academic achievement. Crushed by this, and persecuted by the cruelty of his teachers, Richard spent his time in the fields and meadows just beyond the colliery slag heap. One morning, walking in the grounds of a ruined medieval manor, he came across a nest of kestrels. Instantly captivated, he sought out ancient falconry texts from the local library, and pored over the strange and beautiful language there. With just these books, some ingenuity, and his profound respect for the hawk's indomitable wildness, Richard learned to “man”, or train, his kestrel, Kes, and in the process grow into the man he would become. Richard and his experiences with kestrels inspired Barry's classic novel A Kestrel for a Knave. When production began on what would become Ken Loach's iconic film Kes, Richard found himself training the kestrels that would soar on screen and into cinematic history. No Way But Gentlenesse is a superb, moving memoir of one remarkable boy's love for a forgotten culture, and his attempt to find salvation in the natural world.

Author : Misty Massey
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466825979
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mad Kestrel written by Misty Massey and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rip-roaring pirate romance and mystery In a world where infants with magical powers are torn from their parents to be raised by the mysterious and powerful Danisoba, who have a monopoly on magic, Kestrel has managed to keep her abilities concealed—and herself free. First hiding in back alleys as a street urchin, she hid when they killed her parents, and then served as a young tavern maid before escaping to sea, where magic is cancelled by water. Now an adult, as the quartermaster of a pirate ship, Kestrel loves the freedom of living on the seas. But her way of life could end if anyone on board learns her closely guarded secret—that she has magical control over the wind. One day a black ship appears, and her life changes. Its captain is a handsome rogue of whom Kestrel is strangely, constantly aware. When Kestrel's captain is led into a trap and is arrested, she gathers her crew and sets sail in relentless pursuit. . . . At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Jonathan Raban
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307797260
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Passage to Juneau written by Jonathan Raban and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-06-22 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling, award-winning author of Bad Land takes us along the Inside Passage, 1,000 miles of often treacherous water, which he navigates solo in a 35-foot sailboat, offering captivating discourses on art, philosophy, and navigation and an unsparing narrative of personal loss. "A work of great beauty and inexhaustible fervor." —The Washington Post Book World With the same rigorous observation (natural and social), invigorating stylishness, and encyclopedic learning that he brought to his National Book Award-winning Bad Land, Jonathan Raban conducts readers along the Inside Passage from Seattle to Juneau. But Passage to Juneau also traverses a gulf of centuries and cultures: the immeasurable divide between the Northwest's Indians and its first European explorers—between its embattled fishermen and loggers and its pampered new class.

Author : Barry Hines
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140470963
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blinder written by Barry Hines and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chris Packham
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473529425
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fingers in the Sparkle Jar written by Chris Packham and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voted the UK’s Favourite Nature Book The memoir that inspired Chris Packham's BBC documentary, Asperger’s and Me Every minute was magical, every single thing it did was fascinating and everything it didn't do was equally wondrous, and to be sat there, with a Kestrel, a real live Kestrel, my own real live Kestrel on my wrist! I felt like I'd climbed through a hole in heaven's fence. An introverted, unusual young boy, isolated by his obsessions and a loner at school, Chris Packham only felt at ease in the fields and woods around his suburban home. But when he stole a young Kestrel from its nest, he was about to embark on a friendship that would teach him what it meant to love, and that would change him forever. In his rich, lyrical and emotionally exposing memoir, Chris brings to life his childhood in the 70s, from his bedroom bursting with fox skulls, birds' eggs and sweaty jam jars, to his feral adventures. But pervading his story is the search for freedom, meaning and acceptance in a world that didn’t understand him. Beautifully wrought, this coming-of-age memoir will be unlike any you've ever read.

Author : Simon W. Golding
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1910295302
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life After Kes written by Simon W. Golding and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life After Kes examines the history and legacy of the 1969 award-winning British film, Kes, about a boy's (Billy Casper) relationship with a kestrel. This fascinating book not only pays homage to the vision and extraordinary talent involved both in front and behind the camera but also looks at subsequent changes in the educational system, posing some important questions. Are we any better off today? Have schools and teaching staff moved forward over the last few decades? Have successive government's learnt anything from the mistakes of the past? Life After Kes explores the lives of the cast and production team since the making of the film including David (Dai) Bradley who played the lead role and examines why the legacy of Billy Casper and the national perception of Kes cast a shadow over South Yorkshire. Does Casper’s ghost still haunt this ex-mining community and is director Ken Loach’s gritty northern drama as relevant today as it was then? This book is a must-have for all film fans, anyone who enjoyed Kes and all those with an interest in British social history.

Author : Barry Hines
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781913505301
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gamekeeper written by Barry Hines and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humankind's relationship to nature is governed by money in this first US publication of a classic by the greatest chronicler of the British working class

Author : Anne Fine
Publisher : David Fickling Books
ISBN 13 : 1788451368
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shades of Scarlet written by Anne Fine and published by David Fickling Books. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Mum gives her the notebook, Scarlet should be happy. It's beautiful, with its shiny scarlet cover and its blank pages full of promise. But Scarlet is absolutely NOT in the mood for a peace offering.Does Mum really think she can tear their family apart and expect Scarlet to be happy about it?Scarlet decides there's only one thing she can write in the notebook. The truth, about everything . . .