Smiler Trilogy #01: The Runaways

Smiler Trilogy #01: The Runaways
Victor Canning
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 240pg
15 Jul 2021 UK
International import eta 10-19 days
9781788423489
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On a night of wild storms, two troubled figures escape from captivity. On a night of wild storms, two troubled figures escape from captivity. One is a 15-year-old boy, Samuel Miles, a. k. a. ' Smiler' , wrongly convicted of theft and sent to a young offenders institution. The other is a cheetah, Yarra, a restless resident of Longleat Wildlife Park. Both are in danger from the outside world and each other but somehow their lives become inextricably bound up as they fight for survival on the edge of Salisbury Plain. A fast-moving and compassionate adventure story, The Runaways is the first book in Victor Canning' s classic children' s trilogy. AUTHOR: Victor Canning was a prolific writer throughout his career, which began young: he had sold several short stories by the age of nineteen and his first novel, Mr Finchley Discovers His England (1934) was published when he was twenty-three. It proved to be a runaway bestseller. Canning also wrote for children: his trilogy The Runaways was adapted for US children' s television.

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Victor Canning was a prolific writer throughout his career, which began young: he had sold several short stories by the age of nineteen and his first novel, Mr Finchley Discovers His England (1934) was published when he was twenty-three. It proved to be a runaway bestseller. Canning also wrote for children: his trilogy The Runaways was adapted for US children' s television. Canning' s later thrillers were darker and more complex than his earlier work and received further critical acclaim.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781788423489
Published: 15 Jul 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Farrago
Publisher: Prelude Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 240

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