Billy Elliot

Billy Elliot's tough, funny and heartwarming story is given new depth by Melvin Burgess, winner of the Carnegie Medal, who captures the warmth and passion of the original film while demonstrating the skill and inspiration he showed in his bestselling novel JUNK.

Billy's mother is dead, and his father and brother are fiercely involved in the bitter miners' strike. Billy's father wants his son to learn to box, like he did and his father before him, but Billy becomes fascinated by the grace and magic of ballet. This is Billy's gritty and determined struggle, at first in secret, but then with the wholehearted backing of his family, to dance his way to a different future.