Tiger, Tiger. Lynne Banks Reid

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      First published in Great Britain in hardback by HarperCollins Children’s Books 2004

      First published in Great Britain in paperback by HarperCollins Children’s Books 2005

      This edition published by HarperCollins Children’s Books 2017

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      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Source ISBN: 9780007462940

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       Dedication

       For my son, Gillon Stephenson

      Table of Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Prologue

       Chapter One: In the Hold

       Chapter Two: Caesar’s Daughter

       Chapter Three: The Naming

       Chapter Four: Visits

      

       Chapter Five: Marcus

      

       Chapter Six: Aurelia to the Circus

      

       Chapter Seven: ‘The Greatest Treat’

      

       Chapter Eight: The Trick

      

       Chapter Nine: The Catastrophe

      

       Chapter Ten: Freedom

      

       Chapter Eleven: Julius in Chains

      

       Chapter Twelve: Aurelia’s Secret

      

       Chapter Thirteen: Aurelia’s Sacrifice

      

       Chapter Fourteen: The Ides of July

      

       Chapter Fifteen: In the Arena

      

       Chapter Sixteen: A Triumph of Will

      

       Epilogue

      

       Author’s Note

      

       About the Author

      

       Books by Lynne Reid Banks

      

       About the Publisher

       PROLOGUE

      The two tiger cubs, romping in the jungle undergrowth near their den, prick up their ears.

      While they play by themselves, they always half listen for their mother’s return. But these sounds are not what they want to hear. They are strange and alarming. Loud, staccato beats, clattering and banging – hacking and chopping – a trampling of green stems. And voices. Not animal voices, all familiar to them. These are voices alien to the jungle. And when they begin, other sounds, the