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Dec 22, 2025 2:57 PM

Author:Andrew Motion

Silver

‘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…

Reviews

All aboard! All aboard!

—— Guardian

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

—— Daily Mirror

Genuinely exciting

—— Daily Express

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

—— Daily Mirror

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

—— The Times

Gripping

—— Daily Mail

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

—— Glasgow Herald

Thrilling... Beautifully written and genuinely exciting




—— Daily Express

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

—— Observer

Beautifully written

—— Sunday Telegraph

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

—— Sunday Times

The Wolf Gift is pure Anne Rice. It is dark. It is romantic. It is fast-paced and gripping. It is engaging and perhaps most importantly, it is fresh. Anne Rice has done with werewolves, exactly what she’s done for vampires, witches and angels and given them a complete make-over and her individual twist on their background. She’s re-invented and re-written the mythology of the genre.

—— iamelpi.com

Anne Rice of the famous Vampire Chronicles is back, but this time she has put her fangs away and comes baring claws... This is sure to mark the beginning of a new saga for Rice and is equally sure to the guilty pleasure for many a fantasy horror fan.

—— welovethisbook.com
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