In the first two books of his Last Wild trilogy, he introduced us to a world ruined by climate change and dominated by the fear of disease and the wild creatures carrying it The Dark Wild won last year’s Guardian children’s fiction prize. Signed by Author(s).T here seems to be no end to Piers Torday’s anarchic imagination.

Out there, somewhere, a brave mouse holds the key to the future. A mysterious steel dome has risen from the Four Towers. The only blue whale on the planet has brought news from across the ocean. But now he must face his greatest challenge yet because 1. He has rescued the last wild animals in the world and saved his capital city from destruction. Some very slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners very slightly bruised, some slight yellowing to page block, not price clipped (£9.99), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. SIGNED, DATED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, IN BLACK PEN, ON TITLE PAGE 'To Alice, Thank you! Piers Torday 28.6.15'. First edition, first impression with full number line.

Born in Northumberland, he now lives in London with his husband and hopefully a cat. In regular demand as a speaker at schools and festivals, Piers is also a reading helper with Beanstalk, a former judge on the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a Patron of Reading at Heathmere School and a trustee of the Pleasance Theatre. The son of the late Paul Torday (author of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen) Piers recently completed his father's final unfinished novel, The Death of an Owl (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, April 2016).

His next book for children, There May Be A Castle, will be published in October 2016. The third book in the trilogy, The Wild Beyond, was published in 2015 to critical acclaim. His second book, The Dark Wild, won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. His bestselling first book for children, The Last Wild, was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Award and nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal as well as numerous other awards. Piers began his career in theatre and then television as a producer and writer.

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