The Last Wild: Book 1 (The Last Wild Trilogy)

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It is a story of a young boy Kester who realises one day that he can speak to animals and he decides to help them. The reason both witnesses mention big cats is that the Cannock Chase Wolf was formerly the Cannock Chase Panther AKA the Cannock Chase Beast. Moments that are rooted in land and wing, moments of kingmaking and of destiny, and of becoming who you were always meant to be. However, it is highly likely that our animals will one day become extinct, our lands turned to waste, and that our food will be nothing but re-hydrated flavours. Meanwhile in the outside world, a strange plague has wiped out many of the world's animals -- and government agents have been killing every animal they can find.

In between, I have just been trained as a Volunteer Reader by VRH and can’t wait to start helping children in my local London schools to enjoy books and stories like I did when I was younger. There are many deep themes and ideas, and it has been good to talk about these along the way, and afterwards. BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.And yet, on the other hand, it was about infinitely more, because Piers Torday does not sugar coat much. In truth though the last wolf in England never died, we did something much more human to it than that, something which began some fifteen-thousand years ago.

Piers Torday was born in Northumberland, which is possibly the one part of England where more animals live than people. Do not miss this magical and astounding debut: The Last Wild by Piers Torday (yes mums and dads, his Dad Paul wrote Salmon Fishing in the Yemen) - a wonderfully imaginative tale of magical self-realisation and endless possibility. So when he meets a flock of talking pigeons and a bossy cockroach, Kester thinks he’s finally gone a bit mad. Nevertheless wolves have been sighted, and even killed, in the fields and forests of England long after Henry VII was dead and buried. Look past all of that to see the truth, stuff that truly exists; corrupt corporations, injustice to animals, and the everlasting effects of our footprint upon the grounds of our environment.

I also enjoyed the message that the author was trying to get across which was combined with such a wonderful sense of humour and fun that it was always a treat to be reading it.