Spring 2024
Posted on 16th May 2016
This year I'll be writing two new books and a play.
1. 'Actually I'm a murderer' a murder-mystery will be published in 2025 but I'll be starting the next title in the series, 'Actually I'm a corpse' in 2024. These mystery thrillers for adults will be published by Constable and Robinson.
2. 'A history of Britain in ten enemies' will be published by Transworld for adult readers in September 2024 while this year I work on a follow-up title 'Revolting People'.
3. Horrible Histories of Animals entitled 'Paws, Claws anjd Jaws' is out in March 24 while threee new titles will be published later in the year, 'Horrible Histories - Cardiff' and 'Horrible Histories Liverpool' will appear after Easter 24. 'Horrible Histories - Toilets' Published by Scholastic September 2024
4. A new play for the "Horrible Histories Terrible Thames" river cruise will be available to book after Easter 24. The script is being completed and ready for Birmingham Stage Company to perform live on the river. "Terrible Thames 1" will still run for those who haven't seen it and it will be joined by the new "Terrible Thames 2" from Easter to October 2024.
The following article appeared in 'The Bookseller' on 20 October 2023 and outlines a new direction for my publishing career.
Horrible Histories creator Deary pens story of Britain's past for Transworld
Editorial director Alex Christofi bought world all-languages rights in A History of Britain in Ten Enemies in an exclusive submission from Oli Munson at A M Heath. It will be published by the Bantam imprint in autumn 2024.
The publisher said that in the single-volume history of Britain, Deary will argue that nations and their leaders are defined by the enemies they make. Boudicca would be forgotten if it weren’t for the Romans, Elizabeth I a minor royal without the Spanish Armada, "Churchill an opposition windbag without Germany and Thatcher remembered mainly as a ’milk-snatcher’ if it weren’t for the Argentines. Britain and the British have a proud history of choosing their enemies; in fact, for centuries at a time, it’s been the only thing we can all agree on".
Deary’s Scholastic-published Horrible Histories series has shifted £33.8m through Nielsen BookScan UK, making him one of Britain’s biggest-selling non-fiction authors for children since records began. It has been published in more than 40 languages and adapted into both animated and live-action television shows.
Christofi said: “What a privilege, as one of countless people who owe their love of reading to the Horrible Histories, to be publishing Terry’s adult history as a grown-up. He is a wonderful storyteller and a brilliantly anti-establishment historian. A History of Britain in Ten Enemies will give him an opportunity to tell it like it is.”
Appearances
There are no dates planned for signings or book events until Autumn 2024 to launch A History of Britain in Ten Enemies. Dates will appear here.
e-books
- I have about 100 children's fiction titles that are now out of print. I have been working to convert some of them into e-books and make them available to a new generation of readers. In June 2013 I relaunched his fabulous "Tudor Chronicles" historical fiction series as Kindle downloads.
