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The Nature of the Beast

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Three of the bestselling, most acclaimed fiction titles of the past decade, reissued with stylish and attractive new covers.

Turned into a major feature film, Janni Howker's The Nature of the Beast is an immensely powerful and gripping story about a community devastated by unemployment and the fear of an unknown beast roaming the moors - and which young Bill Coward is determined to track down.

Isaac Campion is an equally explosive tale, depicting the difficult, often bitter relationship between a son and his horse-dealer father at the turn of the century.

Badger on the Barge contains five stories, each concerning the relationship between the young and the old and full of memorable characters.

Each of these books is a major award-winner.

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Walker Books Ltd
0744590329 / 9780744590326
Paperback
823.92
06/01/2003
United Kingdom
English
173 p.
20 cm
teenage Learn More
Quiz No: 204577, Points 6.00, Book Level 5.10,
Middle Years - Key Stage 2 Learn More
Reprint. Originally published: London: Julia MacRae, 1985.
This book has been turned into a feature film. It won the Whitbread Children's Novel Award, the Observer Teenage Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maughan Award, the International Reading Association Children's Award and was highly commended for the Carnegie Medal. "Badger on the Barge" is a set book for Key Stage 3 of the National Curriculum, and one of its stories has been made into a film. Janni Howker's story "The Egg Man" has been broadcast on Channel 4.
This book has been turned into a feature film. It won the Whitbread Children's Novel Award, the Observer Teenage Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maughan Award, the International Reading Association Children's Award and was highly commended for the Carnegie Medal. "Badger on the Barge" is a set book for Key Stage 3 of the National Curriculum, and one of its stories has been made into a film. Janni Howker's story "The Egg Man" has been broadcast on Channel 4. YFCB Thrillers (Children's / Teenage)