Meet the author

Piers Torday.

Writer · United Kingdom

Piers Torday: creator of the Last Wild trilogy, dark, funny and moving eco-adventures for 9–12s brimming with animal voices and real emotional stakes.

Piers Torday is a British children's author whose thrilling, big-hearted eco-adventures pair breathless action with genuine emotional weight. His debut, The Last Wild (2013), introduced Kester Jaynes, a boy who can talk to animals and sets out to save the last wild creatures on Earth from a deadly plague; the trilogy continues through The Dark Wild — winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize — and The Wild Beyond, before the standalone prequel The Wild Before returns to the same imperilled world with clear echoes of Watership Down. Torday writes for readers of nine and up who like their adventures dark, funny and true, filling his pages with vivid animal voices, real peril and an unshakeable belief that, together, we can still save the natural world. A reliable choice for readers who want their action with heart.