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The Borribles TrilogyThe Borribles Trilogy is a series of young adult books written by Micael de Larrabeiti, made up of The Borribles, The Borribles Go For Broke and Across The Dark Metropolis. Each book contains a seperate story and as such do not need to be read in immediate sucession, but characters are constant from one to the next and as such the books should be read in the given order. The Borribles are a race of perpetual, pointy-eared children, a sort of urban Peter Pans, who live in the shadows of grim, industrialised London. They survive by theft and live by a code of honour to protect one another and the Borrible way of life. They are scruffy, mischevous and somewhat anarchic; their principle enemies are the police and a tribe of oversized rats known as the Rumbles. These books have a strong anti-authoritarian flair, with the neat, orderly and boring adult world positioned in direct contrast to the wild, scruffy and exciting world of the Borribles. Along with structure and organisation, the love of material goods is heavily derided; the Borribles have fufilling existences despite their lack of possessions, while those who crave them are inevitably presented as the villains. Comradeship and cooperation are also presented as highly laudable traits - the Borribles will go to any length and take any risk in order to protect one of their own.
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