The ballad of songbirds and snakes (film

The tie-in edition to the star-studded blockbuster movie. ''Everything you would expect from Collins is here: fraught teenage love, plenty of violence... the themes of friendship, betrayal, authority and oppression will please and thrill'' The Guardian ''It works beautifully... please don't make us wait another decade'' The Times Ambition will fuel him. Competition will drive him. But power has its price. It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmanoeuvre his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute.