Piers Torday

Piers Torday is a British children's author whose novels combine environmental themes with imaginative adventure storytelling. His novel The Dark Wild is the second book in The Last Wild trilogy, a series set in a future where animals are disappearing and a young boy discovers he can communicate with the few that remain. Torday's fiction addresses environmental crisis and the loss of biodiversity through compelling adventure narratives that engage young readers with some of the most important issues facing the planet. His father was the novelist Paul Torday, author of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. Piers Torday's writing has been praised for its imagination, its ecological awareness and its ability to create stories that are both thrilling and thought-provoking. The Last Wild series has won awards and has been widely praised by critics and educators for making environmental themes accessible and exciting for children. Torday has also written for theatre and has been involved in environmental advocacy. The audiobook editions bring his imaginative, ecologically conscious fiction to young listeners and families who care about the natural world.