Charlie Higson
Charlie Higson is the author of the phenomenally successful Young Bond and The Enemy series. Charlie is a man of many talents. He is a successful actor, comedian and writer for television and radio, but has been writing books for children since 2005.
After studying at the University of East Anglia, Charlie formed a band, The Higsons. He then became a decorator before turning to the world of television and going into partnership with his friend Paul Whitehouse. His successes include Saturday Live, the Harry Enfield Television Programme, The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer, Shooting Stars, Randall and Hopkirk Deceased, the film Suite 16, Swiss Toni and of course, the Fast Show. He lives in London with his wife and three sons.
Books
Blood Fever
Author: Charlie Higson
Publisher: Penguin
Interest age: 9+
Reading age: 9+
A sinister and secret society seems to be operating at Eton, while in the Mediterranean a young girl and her tutor are taken captive by a Hungarian pirate - but are the two linked?
Double or Die
Author: Charlie Higson
Publisher: Penguin
Interest age: 9+
Reading age: 9+
The young James Bond finds himself on the tough streets of London's East End, embroiled in the sabotage of a Russian code-breaking machine and facing danger almost everywhere he turns.
Freddy and the Pig
Author: Charlie Higson
Illustrator: Mark Chambers
Publisher: Red Squirrel Books
Interest age: 5-8
Freddy hates school and thinks that it is boring, but he comes up with clever plan. The dyslexia-friendly features make this book highly accessible.
SilverFin
Author: Charlie Higson
Publisher: Penguin
Interest age: 9-14
Reading age: 9+
Meet Bond. James Bond. But not as you will have seen him before... James is a recently orphaned boy starting his first term at Eton.
The Dead
Author: Charlie Higson
Publisher: Puffin
Interest age: 11+
Reading age: 10+
Jack and Ed think things are looking up after they escape boarding school in this sequel to The Enemy, but then something terrible happens that will put them in more danger than ever.
The Enemy
Author: Charlie Higson
Publisher: Puffin
Interest age: 11+
Reading age: 10+
When the sickness came, the adults became ill. The lucky ones died but many mutated into brainless, deformed monsters with a seemingly insatiable appetite - for children.