Barry Hines

'A Kestrel for a Knave'

Bog | Engelsk

The 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 be

'A Kestrel for a Knave'

Bog | Engelsk

With prose that is every bit as raw, intense and bitingly honest as the world it depicts, Barry Hines's A Kestrel for a Knave contains a new afterword by the author in Penguin Modern Classics. Life is tough and cheerless for Billy Casper, a troubled t