Noah Barleywater Runs Away
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  • Published: 1 October 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409012269
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240

Noah Barleywater Runs Away

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1 Oct 2010
Audiobook
14 May 2020
Paperback
15 Mar 2014
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From the author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas; a magical story about the choices we make.

Noah is running away from his problems the day he takes the untrodden path through the forest - or at least that's what he thinks. When he comes across a very unusual toyshop and meets the even more unusual toymaker, he's not sure what to expect. But the toymaker has a story to tell, a story full of adventure, wonder and broken promises. And Noah travels with him on a journey that will change his life for ever.

A thought-provoking fable from the author of the bestselling Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.
  • Published: 1 October 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409012269
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240
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About the author

John Boyne

John Boyne was born in Ireland in 1971. He is the author of eleven novels for adults, six for younger readers and a collection of short stories. Perhaps best known for his 2006 multi-award-winning book The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, John’s other novels, notably The Absolutist and A History of Loneliness, have been widely praised and are international bestsellers. Most recently, The Heart's Invisible Furies was a Richard & Judy Bookclub word-of-mouth bestseller, and A Ladder to the Sky was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award in association with Listowel Writers’ Week.

His novels are published in over fifty languages.

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Also by John Boyne

The Heart's Invisible Furies
Fire
Earth
Water
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket
All The Broken Places
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Praise for Noah Barleywater Runs Away

With goodly dollops of magic and wonderful surrealism, it has a fable-like quality. If they like magical stories, and if they like to deal with serious issues in a metaphorical way, they will love this sweet, funny and kindly book. I certainly did

The Bookbag

It's inventive, wily, twisty . . . Noah Barleywater Runs Away is a carefully crafted whimsical gem, a story to share with others and to discuss at book clubs, a true publishing event

Irish Independent

Destined to become something of a children's classic

Mail On Sunday

Boyne has interesting things to say about identity, self knowledge and how we cope with life's travails and the book really does benefit from a second reading. Oliver Jeffers has produced beautiful cover artwork and his line drawings are suitably enigmatic helping to make this both an attractive and desirable package

The School Librarian

This delightful, bittersweet 'fairytale' is a flight of fantasy with playful use of language and a joy from start to finish. Noah's heartbreaking emotional journey is lightened by a rich vein of absurd humour and eccentric characters

Daily Mail
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