![]() ![]() The ancients in the village have just decided that Samkad is ready to become a man, which means he will receive a shield, a spear and an axe and receive the Cut. It’s 1899 in the mountainous Bontok region of the Philippines.ġ0-year-old Samkad lives in a small village with his father (his mother having died shortly after he was born). ![]() I earn commission on any purchases made through these links. You can buy BONE TALK by Candy Gourlay from Amazon UK, Waterstone’s or UK. And he brings news of a people called ‘Americans’, who are bringing war and destruction right to his home … He calls himself Samkad’s brother, yet he knows nothing of the ways of the mountain. His best friend, Luke, wants all the same things – except she is a girl, and no girl has ever become a warriorīut everything changes when a new boy arrives in the village. And he wants to become a man, to be given his own shield, spear and axe to fight with. More than a hundred years ago, a boy called Samkad thinks he knows everything about the world. ![]()
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