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|title=Wild Wood

|author=Jan Needle and Willie Rushton

|publisher=Golden Duck

|date=May 2014

|website=http://www.janneedle.com/novels/wildwood.php

|video=Q9WRJ5Xc4gU

|summary=This is a wickedly witty masterpiece of satire. Ably assisted by the accomplished political caricaturist Rushton, Needle paints a picture of the socio-economic and political realities of the destitute Wild Wooders which drive them inexorably towards an uprising against the privileged River Bankers. But will their social manifesto become a reality as greed versus need?

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Bank clerk Kenneth Grahame’s 1908 classic ''Wind in the Willows'', populated with lovable anthropomorphic characters, started life as a bed time story for his son Alistair. He fused these adventurous tales with later descriptive epistles for a holidaying Alistair to create a tale which was, as Grahame described in a letter to Teddy Roosevelt, ''an expression of the very simplest joys of life as lived by the simplest beings''. Indeed the four iconic protagonists - the outrageous, irrepressible toad, the loyal and humble mole, the brave and paternalistic badger and the resourceful and determined rat have a fond place in many childhood memories but are they as valiant as they seem? What if they were suddenly recast as the villains of the piece?