25/04/13….Author Charlie Higson talks zombies with Thame pupils

LORD Williams?s School had the privilege of hosting the very first leg of acclaimed author and comedian, Charlie Higson?s ‘The Sacrifice’ tour.

Charlie Higson is a highly successful author, actor, comedian and writer for television and radio. He wrote the phenomenally successful Young Bond series and has just released book four of his Zombie series, The Sacrifice, which started with The Enemy, a former winner of the Oxfordshire Book Award.

In three separate sessions Charlie used his well-known dry humour to engage and inspire the children of Years seven, eight and none, as well as the Year six children from two of the Partnership Primary Schools, St Joseph?s and John Hampden. At the end of each interactive session students had the opportunity to ask questions followed by book signings.

In response to student requests following this successful event, the school library has doubled its stock of Charlie Higson books!

*****HERE’S pupil, Nathan Cartwight’s description of Charlie’s visit to his year group, year Nine:

“On April 22, 2013, a shuffling creature crawled into Lower School. Its name, Charlie Higson. He came to speak about his career, his life and of course ZOMBIES!

His books are dead famous, from Silverfin to The Fear. He explained that he had been writing from a young age and that however much girls may fancy Robert Paterson Vampires, they were stuck with zombies, as that is how he describes teenage boys!

Charlie went on to explain how his own kids decided that every character he introduced into his Young Bond books should be decapitated and destroyed in some gruesome and disgusting way. He also explained how he couldn’t scare his eldest with the sample chapters of The Enemy, and so determined to make him wet himself with fear, he upped the scares until, one night, he burst into the room cold and frightened. Charlie thought, as he put it: “A ha! got the little b*%