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  • Kes

    by Barry Hines, Lawrence Till ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    A tried-and-tested stage adaptation of Barry Hines' novel A Kestrel for a Knave, about a troubled young boy who finds and trains a kestrel.Billy, a disaffected young boy, has problems at school and at home: he's neglected by his mother, beaten by his brother and bullied on all sides. He adopts a fledgling kestrel and treats it with all the tenderness he has never known. Slowly, he begins to see ... Read more

    $16.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Kestrel for a Knave

    by Barry Hines ...
    Billy Casper is a fifteen-year-old with no future, growing up in poverty and seemingly destined to follow his older brother into a life of toil in the coal mines. Life at home is hard: his father has left, his mother's main interest is in picking up men at the pub, and his brother bullies him mercilessly. Nor are things better at school, where Billy is tormented by the other kids and treated as a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Gamekeeper

    by Barry Hines ...
    George Purse is an ex-steelworker employed as a gamekeeper on a ducal country estate. He gathers, hand-rears and treasures the birds to be shot at by his wealthy employers. He must ensure that the Duke and his guests have good hunts when the shooting season comes round on the Glorious Twelfth; he must ensure that the poachers who sneak onto the land in search of food do not. Season by season, over ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    The Gamekeeper

    by Barry Hines, Barry Hines ...
    Narrated by Luke R. Francis ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 7 min

    Through the changing seasons, amidst a sprawling ducal country estate, ex-steelworker George Purse's role as a gamekeeper goes beyond mere employment. With determination, he safeguards the birds, nurturing them with care, even as they become targets for the wealthy elite.As the Glorious Twelfth approaches, George must orchestrate flawless hunts for the Duke and his esteemed guests, ensuring their ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Barry Hines: Kes, Billy’s Last Stand & more

    A BBC Radio Drama Collection

    by Barry Hines ...
    Narrated by Arthur Lowe, Ronald Baddiley, Sharon Duce, Colin Edwynn, Bernard Gallagher, Juliet Cooke, Peter Bell, Stephen Tompkinson, Charles Booth, Chris Brailsford, Gillian Waugh, Gerry Kersey, Robin Polley, Full Cast ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 21 min

    Three dramas by Barry Hines and an abridged reading of his classic Kes (A Kestrel for a Knave)Yorkshire-born author Barry Hines is renowned for his 1968 novel *A Kestrel for a Knave (*later turned into Ken Loach’s award-winning film Kes) and for scripting the BAFTA-winning BBC TV film Threads. The titles in this collection explore his signature theme – working-class life in Northern England – and ... Read more

    $19.11 USD

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  • Candles and Roses

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    by Jilly Cooper OBE ...
    If Emily hadn't gone to Annie Richmond's party, she would never have met the impossible irresistible Rory Balniel - never have married him and been carried off to the wild Scottish island of Irasa to live in his ancestral home along with his eccentric mother, Coco, and the dog, Walter Scott. She'd never have met the wild and mysterious Marina, a wraith from Rory's past, nor her brother, the ... Read more

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  • The Fever Tree

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    “There is nothing more exciting than a new writer with a genuine voice. I loved it.” —Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton AbbeyFrances Irvine, left destitute in the wake of her father’s sudden death, has been forced to abandon her life of wealth and privilege in London and emigrate to the Southern Cape of Africa. 1880 South Africa is a country torn apart by greed. In this remote and inhospitable ... Read more

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  • Little Foxes

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    A spellbinding animal story from War Horse author and former Children's Laureate, Michael Morpurgo.Bullied at school, nagged in Aunty May's tenth-floor council flat, there's only one place ten-year-old Billy really feels alive – in the wilderness by the canal. There he watches a cygnet on the water and protects a family of fox cubs. Then his secret place is discovered and the fox family decimated. ... Read more

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    by Marjorie Quarton ...
    This sparkling memoir gives a personal view of Irish rural life from the Economic War of the 1930s to the farming boom and recession of the 1970s. It describes the upbringing of a Protestant only child on a farm near Nenagh in north Tipperary-an idyll interrupted by school in Dublin during the 1940s. Taking over the farm on her father's death, working the land and animals (dogs, sheep, horses, ... Read more

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    by Peter Dickinson ...
    Series Book 2 - The James Pibble Mysteries
    Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year: Peter Dickinson targets England's upper classes in this murderous and strikingly original theme-park mysteryTourists are waiting in line for entry into the world of Old England, a graceful, elegant country house run as a theme park, complete with wrought-iron gates, pet lions, and maids in white caps greeting visitors with a bob and a ... Read more

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