Badger on the Barge and Other Stories

Badger on the Barge and Other Stories

by Howker Janni (Author)

Synopsis

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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Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Edition: New
Publisher: Walker Books Ltd
Published: 31 Jan 2007

ISBN 10: 0744590302
ISBN 13: 9780744590302
Book Overview: This book is a set book for Key Stage 3 of the National Curriculum, and one of the stories has been made into a film. Janni Howker's story The Egg Man has been broadcast on Channel 4. Her book The Nature of the Beast 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.

Media Reviews
An amazingly gifted writer. The Times Educational Supplement; One of the leading writers for teenagers of the decade. The Observer