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His other books for children include T here May Be A Castle, The Lost Magician and The Frozen Sea. The Dark Wild followed in 2014 and The Wild Beyond in 2015 The Last Wild is the first book in a trilogy. It has been published in 14 other countries. The Last Wild won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize. His interest in wildlife may come from growing up in Northumberland where he says “more animals live than people.”

The Last Wild grew out of Piers Torday’s love for animals and animal stories, and his concern about species disappearing from the wild. Piers Torday booked himself onto a writing course at Ted Hughes’s old house on the Yorkshire moors where he started to write about Kester’s adventures. It is a story with a strong environmental message and is widely admired for its imagination, warmth and suspense. The Last Wild was one of the stories featured in our 2016 Animal exhibition. The pigeons break him out of the school and take him thousands of miles away to meet a group of animals who have survived in hiding and who think that Kester can save them from the virus. Kester believes something is wrong with him and this belief is confirmed when he finds a talking cockroach and then meets a flock of talking pigeons. A mysterious “red-eye” virus has killed all of the animals in the world. Kester is a mute twelve-year old boy who lives on “The Island” in a school for troubled children.

The last wild by piers torday