A Kestrel for a Knave

Informationen zum Autor Barry Hines was born near Barnsley! Yorkshire! in 1939 and was a promising footballer before taking a teaching qualification at Loughborough. He taught PE in London and in Yorkshire before writing full time. He has written nine novels! and co-wrote the screenplay of Kes with Ken Loach. He lives in Yorkshire. Klappentext Billy Casper is beaten by his drunken brother! ignored by his mother and failing at school. He seems destined for a hard! miserable life down the pits! but for a brief time! he finds one pleasure in life: a wild kestrel that he has raised and tamed himself.

Product details

• Authors: Barry Hines
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 08.04.2010
• EAN: 9780141041704
• ISBN: 978-0-14-104170-4
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Decades; Penguin Decades; Penguin Decades
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature