The Beast of Buckingham Palace by David Walliams. Ages 8+.
The Beast of Buckingham Palace (2019) is set in a near-future dystopian Britain. A plague has reduced the country to poverty. Prince Alfred has never left Buckingham Palace. When he finally escapes its walls, he encounters Pa, a street girl, and together they must face both the sinister forces controlling the country and a monstrous creature lurking beneath the palace.
The novel is more ambitious than most Walliams books — part fairy tale, part political allegory. It explores privilege, inequality and what it means to be brave.
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