Life After 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 Life After Kes write by Simon W. Golding. This book was released on 2014-10-29. Life After Kes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Life After Kes examines the history and legacy of the 1969 award-winning British film, Kes, about a boy's (Billy Casper) relationship with a kestrel. This fascinating book not only pays homage to the vision and extraordinary talent involved both in front and behind the camera but also looks at subsequent changes in the educational system, posing some important questions. Are we any better off today? Have schools and teaching staff moved forward over the last few decades? Have successive government's learnt anything from the mistakes of the past? Life After Kes explores the lives of the cast and production team since the making of the film including David (Dai) Bradley who played the lead role and examines why the legacy of Billy Casper and the national perception of Kes cast a shadow over South Yorkshire. Does Casper’s ghost still haunt this ex-mining community and is director Ken Loach’s gritty northern drama as relevant today as it was then? This book is a must-have for all film fans, anyone who enjoyed Kes and all those with an interest in British social history.
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.
A Kestrel for a Knave
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.
Daisy and the Trouble with Zoos
Daisy and the Trouble with Zoos - 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 Daisy and the Trouble with Zoos write by Kes Gray. This book was released on 2011-09-30. Daisy and the Trouble with Zoos available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It's Daisy's birthday and she's having a special birthday treat! Mum has invited her best friends, Gabby and Dylan, on a trip to the zoo - and, best of all, Mum has arranged for Daisy to go into the actual penguin cage with the actual zoo keeper and FEED actual penguins! REAL ACTUAL PENGUINS! With actual beaks and everything!! Trouble is, Daisy doesn't just feed the penguins, she 'adopts' one to take home and everything . . .
