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• Artist: Anthony Horowitz
• Date: Wednesday, June 23rd 2010
• Time: 6:00pm
• City: Anthony Horowitz in London
• Venue: National Theatre
• Address: South Bank London SE1 9PX
• Venue phone: +44 (0)20 7 452 3000
• Country: UK
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• Age restrictions: All Ages
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• Notes: Anthony Horowitz’s Stormbreaker, the first novel about the teen superspy Alex Rider, appeared ten years ago; his eight actionpacked missions have since been translated into 28 languages. He reflects on the success of the series, and his other work, including TV’s Foyle’s War and A Handbag for NT Connections. Tickets £3.50/£2.50 Running time: 45mins This event is followed by a booksigning.
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10 explosive years of Alex Rider?To celebrate ten explosive years of teen superspy Alex Rider, all eight missions have a cool new-look and feature bonus content from Anthony Horowitz, packed with insider secrets! Check them out at www.alexrider.com – the first seven missions are available to buy now, with Crocodile Tears coming in June 2010.

We’ve teamed up with Qantas Holidays to offer a family of four a taste of the action! For your chance to win a 2-week adventure holiday of a lifetime to South Australia and Tasmania, visit www.alexrider.com/australia.  

And, if you love the Alex Rider missions then spread the word! Recruit a new agent to the world of Alex Rider and win a PSP and games. For your Operation Stormbreaker briefing visit www.alexrider.com/newrecruits.

Cool downloads ?Customise your social network and online pages with the Alex Rider 10th anniversary fan pack, crammed with banners, Bebo skins, screensavers and MSN buddy icons featuring the new-look designs. Download them here www.alexrider.com
All the missions on the move ?Get involved in the action on the move – all the missions are now available in eBook and audio format for you to read on your own gadgets.

Tickets still available for Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival

Anthony Horowitz will be in conversation with Paul Blezard about his writing for television and the Alex Rider series. Anthony will reveal why he is proudest of his Power of Five series of novels, and why he names his villains after his schoolteachers…

Thursday 25 March 2010,
7pm ?
Sheldonian Theatre,
Broad St,
Oxford?
Ticket sales: Tel 01497 822 629 ?

Online: http://www.oxfordliteraryfestival.com/index2.php

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And…..you also get to read Snakehead before anybody else! How cool is that?

All the details are on the Alex Rider site. Go there now.

So, NIGHTRISE came out about a month ago and went straight to number one in the best sellers list. I only mention this because if Snakehead does the same next November, then I’ll have done it three times in a year which may be a world record. (And theres even a fourth book coming out in December, a Diamond brothers novella called The Greek That Stole Christmas.)

Its been quite a year and its still only June! Anyway, I’m glad to say that the response to Nightrise has been terrific.

How are you getting on with the competition? A signed typescript is sitting in front of me and it could be worth a quid or two on eBay especially if I get eaten by a crocodile or something in S Africa.

Curiously, I was in Hay-on-Wye last week the whole place is full of second hand bookshops and I saw copies of my earlier books on sale for around £100. Collectors items, apparently. So crack those keys and win the prize. Theres only one typescript left in the world.

I now have a title for the next volume (4) in the Power of Five, although if you dont like it, I can always think again. Its going to be called CITY OF THE DEAD. Most of it is set in Hong Kong, as you know, and I hope to go out there later this year for research. Ive got about 50% of the book in my head. Did any of you guess what Scars secret power is? There are clues in NIGHTRISE. Its going to make a great final chapter with devastation on a massive scale in fact I’m really looking forward to writing the end of the book which is always a good sign.

It makes me keener to start writing the beginning. I don’t know when I’ll get to HK though. I’m in S Africa for ten days Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg and then four days after I get back, I’m off to Los Angeles. A big agency, William Morris, has just taken me on and the idea is to sell a series to American TV. We’ll see. The series is called THE ENEMY and its sort of a cross between The Matrix and Lost. Remember you heard it here first. My son Cass (aka fonos) is coming with me to LA. He finishes his GCSE’s next week. I hope it’s going well this is a message for those of you out there in the middle of exams. If Cass gets more than three b’s, he’s leaving home. Not voluntarily. He’s doing some work experience with me and then were going to Las Vegas. I still love magic and Lance Burton is one of the best magicians on the circuit. So a last bit of fun before the results come in.

SNAKEHEAD is now finally and seriously finished. The final page count is 398, making it the longest Alex so far. With two pages of acknowledgements it breaks the 400 mark! It comes out in November, but in hardback. I’m not sure Im happy with this idea but it was Walker Books who wanted to do it and who am I to argue? Hopefully, the shops will discount it and the paperback will follow in April 08. This is the time when I always worry about a book but I know I’ve said this before I’m fairly confident about this new one. I’ve read a few extracts at school visits and the response has been good.Apart from the books, you may have caught me on TV or the radio. I’ve done a show called NEWSNIGHT REVIEW a couple of times. It means talking about books and plays it’s filmed live at 11.00pm on a Friday. I appear on a book quiz quite soon too look out for it. It’s on BBC3. I wo’nt tell you if I won or not but at least I didn’t make too much of a fool of myself.

FOYLE’S WAR is finished. I dont know if anyone cares or not but I wrote seventeen two-hour films over the last six years so its been a big part of my life. My wife, Jill Green, was the producer. Not sure what we’ll talk about now that its gone.Well, HHQ have read this and they must have OK’ed it because here it is on the site. I’ll blog again when I get back from LA, hopefully with stories to tell.

Anthony

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