Local author Tristan Bancks launched his new book for readers 10+, Raised By Wolves, at Byron Book Room last night (Thursday 4 June).
It’s a sequel to the bestselling Two Wolves book, which is about two kids on the run with their parents who have committed a crime.
Bancks said the book was inspired by readers’ questions about what happens next. ‘I would visit schools,’ says Bancks, ‘and kids would ask whether Ben becomes a cop, what happens to his little sister Olive and whether Dad ever gets justice for his crime. So, I thought I’d write a book to find out.’
Two Wolves has been staged as a play at Byron Theatre by Bang! and is Bancks’s biggest book to date, selling over 140,000 copies in Australia. The Byron launch caps the end of a five-state tour for the book in schools, bookshops and festivals.
At the launch, Bancks took the audience behind-the-scenes on the journey from Two Wolves to Raised By Wolves, sharing the book soundtrack, vision board, book trailer and doing a giveaway. He told The Echo, ‘The launch was a treat last night. Lots of great friends, family, teachers, librarians, young readers and curious bookshop patrons’.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
