What is a Borrible? Borribles are runaways who dwell in the shadows of London. Apart from their pointed ears, they look just like ordinary children. They live by their wits and a few Borrible laws--the chief one being, Don't Get Caught! The Borribles are outcasts--but they wouldn't have it any ...
The last of the Borribles trilogy, this seemed to have an even greater level of anti-establishment sentiment. The police are portrayed as completely idiotic, vicious, unsympathetic, mean, nasty, and truly disgusting human beings with no sign of redemption or goodness. The other adults are viole...
The houses in that part of Wandsworth wore a desolate air and there was hardly any movement in the streets, but then it was past nine thirty in the morning; children were at their lessons, their parents at work. The Borribles kept close together, eyes flickering to left and right. It was the firs...
Such a darkness was difficult to live with, suffocating and soft, but the fugitives were obliged to make the best of it. They had no option and nowhere else to go. It was daylight now and there would be no hiding place for them or the horse on the streets above. All they could do for the time bei...