Torday, Piers

Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.

(?   -    ) UK author whose very Young Adult Near Future Dystopian Last Wild sequence comprising The Last Wild (2013), The Dark Wild (2014) and The Wild Beyond (2015) focuses on the attempts of a mute Telepathic boy and his companions to save the last animals at a time when Homo sapiens has come very close to exterminating all other species. There May Be a Castle (2016), a fantasy for younger children, explores similar territory. [JC]

Piers Torday

born Northumberland

works

series

Last Wild

• The Last Wild (London: Quercus, 2013) [Last Wild: hb/Thomas Flintham]
• The Dark Wild (London: Quercus, 2014) [Last Wild: hb/Thomas Flintham]
• The Wild Beyond (London: Quercus, 2015) [Last Wild: hb/Thomas Flintham]
• The Wild Before (London: Quercus, 2021) [Last Wild: hb/Thomas Flintham]

individual titles

• There May Be a Castle (London: Quercus, 2016) [hb/]

links

• Piers Torday
• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Picture Gallery

previous versions of this entry

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