Barry Hines captures the raw soul of the pit in a novel that is tough and uncompromising as Kes.\nThe Milton colliery exacts its daily toll of sweat and fear from the men who grope down its dark tunnels. Beer, snooker,rose-growing in the allotment and Geoff Boycott are sacrificed to the imperatives of clawing coal from the earth.\nA visit by the Prince of Wales only gently interrupts its well-oiled-machinery - soft soap in the gents, grass hastily transplanted to the slag heap, lashings of white paint - although it is an occasion for some ripe and well-aimed humour.\nBut when disaster strikes, the laughter fades, and the horror takes over.\n'A rare novel that stands out' - New Statesman\n'Lucid, visual and immediate... Hines brings it all chillingly close' - Books and Bookmen

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Literature & Fiction

Barry Hines

Dramas & Plays

Nelson Thornes Ltd

Billy Casper is a boy with nowhere to go and nothing to say; part of the limbo generation of school leavers too old for lessons and too young to know anything about the outside world. He hates and is hated. His family and friends are mean and tough and they're sure he's going to end up in big trouble. But Billy knows two things about his own world. He'll never work down the mines and he does know about animals. His only companion is his kestrel hawk, trained from the nest, and, like himself, trained but not tamed, with the will to destroy or to be destroyed. This in not just another book about growing up in the north - it's as real as a slap in the face to those who think that orange juice and comprehensive schools have taken the meanness out of life in the raw working towns.

A Kestrel for a Knave

Contemporary

Penguin Books, Ltd.

The Price of Coal

Penguin

Looks and Smiles

Penguin??Books

Unfinished Business

The Heart Of It

Elvis Over England

From the author of KESTREL FOR A KNAVE, a contemporary novel about a middle-aged rocker. After the death of his mother, a man begins to think about his teenage years as a Teddy Boy, something which is a far cry from his unemployed, middle-aged life.

Elvis over England

Billy Casper has few prospects. He is floundering at school and under pressure at home. The wild hawk he finds and trains gives him a direction and a passion he has never experienced before. But events threaten not only the fate of the hawk, but also Billy's growing self-respect.

A Kestrel for a Knave (M-Books)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

One of the 'New Windmills' series offering classic and contemporary fiction for schools to suit a range of ages and tastes. Determined not to follow his brother down the pit, Billy Casper is floundering at school and under pressure at home, but the wild hawk he finds and trains gives him a direction and passion.

Kestrel for a Knave

Teen & Young Adult

Heinemann ed

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