Barry Hines: KESTREL FOR A KNAVE W3 [2016] paperback Condition:Very Good An arm peppered with tiny

An arm peppered with tiny holes dangles from a sick girl's window

and the two are inevitably swept into a conflict between human and fae

landscape architecture and garden design

I can imagine that one of Maja's classmates is now praying in a bomb shelter

At the start of it all

Barry Hines: KESTREL FOR A KNAVE W3 [2016] paperback Condition:Very Good An arm peppered with tinyThe classic book that inspired Kes, the famous film, now published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Barry Hines's A Kestrel for a Knave was published in 1968, and was made into one of the key British films of the sixties. Billy Casper is beaten by his drunken brother, ignored by his mother and failing at school. He seems destined for a hard, miserable life down the pits, but for a brief time, he finds one pleasure in life: a wild kestrel