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New fiction Series
- Terry has started writing“Master Crook’s Crime Academy” which will be published by Scholastic Children's books. It's an adventurous fiction series set in 1837. The publication dates have been announced as follows:-
Book 1: March 2009
Book 2: June 2009
Book 3: August 2009
Book 4: January 2010
Here's an advance sample from the first book ...
“Never forget,” Mrs Smith said. “Never forget what your Granny said with her last breath.”
“What was that, Mum?” the boy with ragged black hair breathed.
“Your Granny looked up from her death-bed …”
“I thought she was run over by a muck-cart,” the boy interrupted.
“She was Smiff."
The woman went damp around the eyes. “We carried her into the house and laid her on the kitchen table,” Mum said and sniffed sadly.
“So it wasn’t a death bed?”
Mum was starting to look a bit cross and her lips went thin and white. “All right. Your Granny looked up from her death-table and said, ‘Never forget, Belinda … You can never have too many mop buckets!’”
“Too many mop buckets? What’s that supposed to mean?” the boy asked.
Mum Shrugged. “Dunno, Smiff. She died before she could tell us. Oh, how I cried!”
“Because Granny was dead?” I asked gently.
“No, because we couldn’t afford a funeral!” she snapped.
Author in action
- UK readers can look in the newspaper The Daily Telegraph in September 2008 and get Terry's latest DVD free. It's called "50 things you need to know about British History". If you can't get the DVD then you can see Terry telling 5 horrid stories from British History on The Daily Telegraph website. More details nearer the time.
Dramatic news
- Horrible Histories plays Terrible Tudors and Vile Victorians are on tour with Birmingham Stage Company. See if there are any performances near you by checking their website. Meanwhile there has been a fine review of the plays when they appeared at Blackpool. Go to the review to read all about it!
- Meanwhile ... the first of the Horrible Histories City plays opens on 12 June and it's at Nottingham Thetare Royal. It's a horrible hsitory of Nottingham (of course). Details are still being finalised but click here for more information or try the theatre.
HORRIBLE HISTORIES Live on Stage
Theatre Royal, Theatre Square,
Nottingham NG1 5ND
t: 0115 989 5555
www.royalcentre-nottingham.co.uk
- Next year will see the launch of two large-scale Horrible Histories plays - "Frightful First World War" and "Woeful Second World War". There will also be a Horrible Histories City play "Cardiff" in 09 at Cardiff Castle, followed by "Windsor", "York" and "London".
Book signings
Terry does two public book signing most years and this year they are in ...
- Cardiff at the Borders Book Shop in "The Hayes", Cardiff. He will be there at 4 - 5 p.m.on Friday 27 June 2008.
- Edinburgh 14 July 08 at Dynamic Earth - check back here or contact the venue for times.
US Readers
- For US readers wanting cheap editions of Horrible Hisdtories, the next Horrible Books and Horrible Magazines Order will be June 8, 2008, for mid-July delivery. 25% off, as usual, with all the gory details at www.horriblebooks.com
May 08
- This month sees the start of filming for Horrible Histories as a British television series. Through May, June and July Terry will be acting and writing the comic songs.in the series that will be broadcast in Summer 2009.
- This month Terry will be writing Horrible Histories Fiction title number 6, The Blitz.
- The "Horrible Histories - Frightful First World War" exhibition opens 24th May 08 in the Imperial War Museum, Manchester. Created by Terry it will be an entertainment for all the family.
- Terry will be giving a lecture for Lanchester History Society on the subject of "Durham City" on 2 May 08.
- Terry will also be working on a new Horrible Histories project - a Press-out-and-build book
- Terry will be writing the scripts for pilot episodes of two television programmes that he will present. And this month sees the start of filming for Terry's Horrible Histories on UK television. Terry will be acting in the series and writing the comic songs.
- On 18 May 08 Terry will be putting on his running shoes to race from the River Tyne to the River Wear in the "Pier to Pier" race. It's only 7 miles so he may survive. If he does he'll run the tough "Tram Challenege" at Beamish Museum on Sunday 29 June 08. Why not join him? There's still time to enter at http://www.beamish.org.uk/tramchallenge.html
- Terry will be in Manchester to do press, radio and television interviews for the launch of his Horrible Histories - Frightful First World War exhibition at the Imperial War Museum North, Trafford Park, Manchester
Horrible Histories on Television
The television newspaper "Broadcast" has announced the following ...
CBBC to remake Horrible Histories with live action
Horrible Histories: Lion will film new version of former ITV show The BBC is planning a live action kids show based on the Horrible Histories books, six years after ITV's animated version came to an end.
The 13 x 30-minute sketch show will straddle the boundary between factual and comedy. CBBC controller Anne Gilchrist said: "It's being done in a very comic way that follows the spirit of the books by cherry-picking the gross and amazing facts of history."
The series was ordered from Lion TV and is being produced by Richard Bradley and Caroline Norris. "The books are in the British comedy tradition of the likes of Monty Python and Blackadder and are well suited to a live action version," Bradley said.
Top of the library pops ...
Every February The "Public Lending Right" figures are published, These show which books and authors in British libraries are the most popular. This year is another massive success for Terry Deary. The figures show ...
- Terry Deary is Britain's 15th most-borrowed Children's Author.
- He has 10 of the top-twenty most-borrowed non-fiction titles.
- He has the No. 1 book - "Horrible Histories - Woeful Second World War"
Here is the full list ...
Latest Internet articles
- To see an interview with Terry where he talks about his passion for Sunderland football club go to Interview
- And if you want to see what the "Daily Telegraph" newspaper thinks of Terry's "Horrible Histories" series then click on this link to find out about "History as it bloody well was" !!!
Looking forward
Go to The Deary Diary and see the news for the rest of the year updated. For the new books due out soon and the ones being written now. |
