Barry Hines: KESTREL FOR A KNAVE W3 [2016] paperback Condition:Very Good burden of treatment

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family dramas and new friends

the street was once just part of a much larger market - home to a myriad of second-hand clothes dealers

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

Barry Hines: KESTREL FOR A KNAVE W3 [2016] paperback Condition:Very Good burden of treatmentThe 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