Captivating and deeply moving. Richard ColesEvocative, beautifully written . . . conjures locations and feelings almost magically. Jeremy VineMy brain has made the decision . . . I am going to love this book. Richard Hawley There was a time when he felt like the undisputed King of Selston.Then again, there were several years when he was convinced that he could talk to animals and had even mastered the power of flight sailing nightly over the headstocks, slag heaps and doggedly beautiful countryside of an isolated East Midlands mining village.But, deep down, Danny Scott knew that the real King of Selston was and always would be coal. Over the last seven hundred years, coal dust had settled on every inch of Selston. It was in the food he ate, the air he breathed and the words he spoke. It fashioned resilient men like his dad and The Texan feisty women like his mother, whose righthook was feared even more than her fondness for house fires.Danny was a clever bugger dangerously clever, some said and fiercely proud of Selston, his dad and his mining heritage. Five generations of his family had spent their working lives underground, providing fuel for the Industrial Revolution, the electrical, rail and motoring revolutions. Without it, the modern age wouldnt have been so . . . modern.But as this young boy prepared to follow in his dads footsteps, things began to change. The Devil became captain of the local darts team. Fortune tellers held seances in the front room of his...

Binding: Hardback;272 pages; Publisher: Hachette UK Distribution; Classification: BM; Weight: 468 g; Dimensions: 223 x 144 x 24

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