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Silver

The thrilling follow-up to Treasure Island, as told by one of England's greatest contemporary writers.

Like Stevenson, Motion has achieved that very difficult thing: a children's novel that works even better for adults. Look to your laurels, Rowling

Gripping

Silver provides a fitting sequel to Treasure Island, certainly, but also stands in its own right as a companion volume to a literary classic

Elegant, affectionate homage to Robert Louis Stevenson … A piece of writing born of genuine love and respect for the original

Motion's book is sensitive and porous. It fits seamlessly into the groove left by its parent, and yet is also something that is languidly original. The potency of the story must win out: Treasure Island is 'accursed', and young Jim, too, must suffer hardship and loss. Though the book ends with a powerful affirmation, there is much uncertainty that points to more. For which I, for one, fervently hope

Motion is a beautiful lyricist unpretentiously and precisely describing those things worth having even as he casts unsettling shadows across them

The thrilling follow-up to Treasure Island, as told by one of England's greatest contemporary writers...Silver is a worthy sequel to Treasure Island and a work of extraordinary authenticity

Like Stevenson, Motion has achieved that very difficult thing: a children’s novel that works even better for adults. Look to your laurels, Rowling

A solid adventure yarn, full of ghostly echoes of Stevenson, with a denser tropical atmosphere and an even more palpable sense of evil

There are sequels and prequels aplenty, but this follow-up to Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure island by the former Poet Laureate reeks of authenticity, cunning, intrigue, suspense and adventure.It’s brilliant, and for all ages

He reinvents Stevenson’s world to reveal its dark underside, illuminating both its mysterious beauty and its grim immortality.Silver provides a fitting sequel to Treasure Island, certainly, but also stands in its own right as a companion volume to a literary classic.

Silver is a deeply pleasing and convivial book… As with Treasure Island, Silver is left open to the possibility of its own sequel, and surely no one would wish Motion to swallow the anchor. All aboard! All aboard! All aboard that's coming aboard.

Silver…captures something of the old magic. The thrilling flight across moor and heather that Henry James admired in Kidnapped.... finds expression in Silver’s action scenes set amid Caribbean waters.

Beautifully written and genuinely exciting... Motion’s novel stays true to Stevenson’s original... Outstanding.

Emma Lee-Potter, author of House With No Name

Silver’s plot twists and turns and introduces elements beyond even Stevenson’s imagination. The result is a fascinating and richly coloured novel that can be read by children with an appetite for adventure and adults who will relish reliving the glory days of youth.

Elegant, affectionate homage to Robert Louis Stevenson is straight out of this classic adventure-story mould… A piece of writing born of genuine love and respect for the original.

A thrilling follow-up to Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island...Silver is a novel that will appeal to readers of all ages. Beautifully written and genuinely exciting...Best of all, Motion’s novel stays true to Stevenson’s original tale while adding an extra dimension.

Elegant, thrilling sequel...The plot is gripping, a mixture of high adventure, low cunning and desperation...Motion’s prose vivid and glowingly poetic, is a brilliant counterpoint to the fascinating action.

This is a pacey tale with an appropriately feisty young heroine for modern readers

Andrew Motion brings lyricism but, more importantly, rollicking adventure to this sequel to Treasure Island

Andrew Motion was born in 1952. He began his career teaching English at the University of Hull. He has also been Editor of the Poetry Review, Editorial Director of Chatto &amp; Windus, Poet Laureate, co-founded the Poetry Archive and was knighted for his services to literature in 2009. He is now Professor of Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in London.

Think of the fortune waiting for you… 
 
July, 1802. Young Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver’s daughter, Natty, set off in the footsteps of their fathers. 
 
The lure of hidden treasure and the thrill of the ocean odyssey soon gives way to terror as the Nightingale reaches its destination. 
 
Treasure Island is not uninhabited as it once was…

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THE JOURNEY IS PERILOUS. 
BUT IT’S THE DESTINATION YOU SHOULD FEAR…

Reeks of authenticity, cunning, intrigue, suspense and adventure. It’s brilliant

This follow-up to Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island reeks of authenticity, cunning, intrigue, suspense and adventure. It’s brilliant

Silver’s plot twists and turns and introduces elements beyond even Stevenson’s imagination. The result is a fascinating and richly colourful novel that can be read by children with an appetite for adventure and adults who will relish reliving the glory days of youth

Thrilling... Beautifully written and genuinely exciting

Silver provides a fitting sequel to Treasure Island, certainly, but also stands in its own right as a companion volume to a literary classic

Elegant, affectionate homage to Robert Louis Stevenson… A piece of writing born of genuine love and respect for the original

‘I always liked your father – he was a lad of spirit. He was clever enough to know the value of an adventure, at any rate, and brave enough to carry it out!’ 
 
‘What adventure?’ I asked, although I already knew the answer. 
 
‘Why the map of course, boy!’ Long John Silver’s voice rose into something of a scream. ‘The map and then the treasure across the sea! All the beautiful silver we left there. Your father and I only took what we could carry. But there’s more. Silver lying in the ground and the map will tell you where. Think of the fortune waiting for you’ 
 
With that encouragement, young Jim Hawkins and Silver’s daughter Natty set off in the footsteps of their fathers. They are determined to find Captain Flint’s hidden treasure. But the thrill of the ocean journey soon gives way to terror as the Nightingale reaches its destination. Treasure Island is not uninhabited as it once was…

The Poetry Of Edward Thomas

Andrew Motion is the former Poet Laureate, co-founded the Poetry Archive and was knighted for his services to literature in 2009. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in London.

When Edward Thomas died at Arras in 1917 few people thought of him as a poet. Yet in the two years before his death, after a lifetime writing prose, Thomas wrote some of the most enduring poems of his day: poems of war, nature, friendship, despair and exultation. Andrew Motion's pioneering study of Thomas' life and achievement is scholarly yet utterly absorbing, combining an account of his struggles as a writer with perceptive readings of individual poems. 
 
Andrew Motion's books include a biography, The Lamberts, George, Constant and Kil, and several prize-winning collections of poetry, the most recent of which is Love in a Life. He is currently writing the authorized biography of Philip Larkin.

Andrew Motion

I love The New World... I look forward, hopefully, to more.

It’s written with such gusto and passion that it’s impossible not to enjoy it.

Motion paints an alluring portrait of a land that is in turns bountiful and beautiful, barren and savage.

Motion’s narrative is both more lyrical and more gruesome than Robert Louis Stevenson’s.

Motion has fashioned an exciting narrative that fans of the original will welcome.

THE END OF THE WORLD 
OR THE BEGINNING… 
 
On to the shores of Texas a raging sea coughs up two castaways: Jim and Natty, shipwrecked on their way home from Treasure Island. 
 
The Nightingale sunk, their silver gone, captured, weak and afraid, the pair steal a treasure they should have left well alone. 
 
The adventure of the New World lies in wait…

Andrew Motion

Praise for The New World

I love The New World... I look forward, hopefully, to more.

It’s written with such gusto and passion that it’s impossible not to enjoy it.

Motion paints an alluring portrait of a land that is in turns bountiful and beautiful, barren and savage.

I love The New World... I look forward, hopefully, to more.

It’s written with such gusto and passion that it’s impossible not to enjoy it.

Motion paints an alluring portrait of a land that is in turns bountiful and beautiful, barren and savage.

I love The New World... I look forward, hopefully, to more.

It’s written with such gusto and passion that it’s impossible not to enjoy it.

Motion paints an alluring portrait of a land that is in turns bountiful and beautiful, barren and savage.

Books by Andrew Motion

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