A Kestrel for a Knave - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Kestrel for a Knave write by Barry Hines. This book was released on 2000-05-25. A Kestrel for a Knave available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Life is tough and cheerless for Billy Casper, a disillusioned teenager growing up in a small Yorkshire mining town. Violence is commonplace and he is frequently cold and hungry. Yet he is determined to be a survivor and when he finds Kes, a kestrel hawk he discovers a passion in life. Billy identifies with her proud silence and she inspired in him the trust and love that nothing else can. Intense and raw and bitingly honest, A KETREL FOR A KNAVE was first published in 1968 and was also madeinto a highly acclaimed film, 'Kes', directed by Ken Loach.
Kes
Kes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kes write by Barry Hines. This book was released on 2000. Kes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This new stage adaptation of Barry Hines' well-known film and novel once again proves its gritty charm and popular staying power..." --Back cover.
No Way But Gentlenesse
No Way But Gentlenesse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook No Way But Gentlenesse write by Richard Hines. This book was released on 2016-03-10. No Way But Gentlenesse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “There is no way but gentlenesse to redeeme a Hawke” Edmund Bert, 1619 Born and raised in the South Yorkshire mining village of Hoyland Common, Richard Hines remembers sliding down heaps of coal dust, listening out for the colliery siren at the end of shifts, and praying for his father's safe return. It seemed all too likely that he would follow in his father's footsteps and end up working in the pits, especially when to his mother's horror and his own he failed the 11+, so that unlike his older brother Barry, who had passed the exam to grammar school and who seemed to be heading for great things, Richard was left without hope of academic achievement. Crushed by this, and persecuted by the cruelty of his teachers, Richard spent his time in the fields and meadows just beyond the colliery slag heap. One morning, walking in the grounds of a ruined medieval manor, he came across a nest of kestrels. Instantly captivated, he sought out ancient falconry texts from the local library, and pored over the strange and beautiful language there. With just these books, some ingenuity, and his profound respect for the hawk's indomitable wildness, Richard learned to “man”, or train, his kestrel, Kes, and in the process grow into the man he would become. Richard and his experiences with kestrels inspired Barry's classic novel A Kestrel for a Knave. When production began on what would become Ken Loach's iconic film Kes, Richard found himself training the kestrels that would soar on screen and into cinematic history. No Way But Gentlenesse is a superb, moving memoir of one remarkable boy's love for a forgotten culture, and his attempt to find salvation in the natural world.
Passage to Juneau
Passage to Juneau - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Passage to Juneau write by Jonathan Raban. This book was released on 2011-06-22. Passage to Juneau available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The bestselling, award-winning author of Bad Land takes us along the Inside Passage, 1,000 miles of often treacherous water, which he navigates solo in a 35-foot sailboat, offering captivating discourses on art, philosophy, and navigation and an unsparing narrative of personal loss. "A work of great beauty and inexhaustible fervor." —The Washington Post Book World With the same rigorous observation (natural and social), invigorating stylishness, and encyclopedic learning that he brought to his National Book Award-winning Bad Land, Jonathan Raban conducts readers along the Inside Passage from Seattle to Juneau. But Passage to Juneau also traverses a gulf of centuries and cultures: the immeasurable divide between the Northwest's Indians and its first European explorers—between its embattled fishermen and loggers and its pampered new class.
Shades of Scarlet
Shades of Scarlet - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shades of Scarlet write by Anne Fine. This book was released on 2021-03-04. Shades of Scarlet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Mum gives her the notebook, Scarlet should be happy. It's beautiful, with its shiny scarlet cover and its blank pages full of promise. But Scarlet is absolutely NOT in the mood for a peace offering.Does Mum really think she can tear their family apart and expect Scarlet to be happy about it?Scarlet decides there's only one thing she can write in the notebook. The truth, about everything . . .
