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Charles Murray 'Charlie' Higson is an English actor, comedian, author and former singer. He has also written and produced for television. Higson was educated at Sevenoaks School and at the University of East Anglia where he met who would become his bandmates in 'The Higsons'. They released two singles.
Higson then became a decorator, then began writing and performing comedy. He came to attention as one of the main writers of the BBC 2 sketch The Fast Show.
Higson published many novels through the 1990s which took a slightly dystopian look at everyday life, centering around characters teetering on the edge of society and finding themselves to be out of control, following in the footsteps of Aldous Huxley and George Orwell in their 'new worlds.' In 2004, Higson created the Young Bond series of James Bond novels, aimed at younger readers and concentrating on Bond's school days. The first novel was SilverFin, and was followed by four more novels, all written by Higson.
Higson also wrote a zombie-horror series of books for younger readers. The first book was called The Enemy.
Higson lives in London with his wife and children.
Synopsis
Synopsis
Stan is going on holiday to Italy with his (fifth) best friend Felix and a load of strangers.
Stan is absolutely terrified.
Luckily, his mum's given him an emergency list that includes how to survive a shark attack, and what to do if he gets kidnapped.
Stan thinks that a better list would include how to cope with odd food, and what to do if he accidentally calls Felix's mum 'mum' in front of everybody.
And it soon turns out Italy is full of dangers and things that can go wrong.
One thing's for certain, Stan's not going to come back the same boy he left. He just hope he comes back at all . . .
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