A former television writer now an award-winning children’s novelist and playwright, Piers’ offcuts include an attempt at a romantic novel, a social media status update about a bossy weevil, and a sitcom based on the unlikely topic of his early life growing up on a farm during the foot & mouth pandemic.

CAST: Kenny Blyth, David Monteath, Helen Goldwyn, David Lane Pusey

Piers Torday is a British writer whose work for children and the stage spans more than a decade. His debut novel, The Last Wild, was published in 2013, shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, and translated into 14 languages. It became the first in a series including The Dark Wild, winner of the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize in 2014, The Wild Beyond in 2015, and the prequel The Wild Before in 2021. He has also written ...