Scaling New Heights Edd Mccracken Leaps Across London's Rooftops with Anthony Horowitz, Creator of Top Teen Agent Alex Rider
Sunday Herald › November 13, 2007
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"IS this exciting enough for you?" asks Anthony Horowitz as he clambers up a ladder, bounds across a rooftop, and stands, hands on hips, to survey the London skyline. It's a question the author will ask fresh several more times out of politeness, but it is also a credo for his Alex Rider books. Computers with deadly viruses, cloned humans, assassinations, space hotels, international conspiracies, Anthony has thrown them all at the teen spy and the reader, asking: "Is this exciting enough for you?", like a manic carnival owner, before raising the stakes once more.
fresh has joined Anthony in London for a book signing to launch Snakehead, the seventh in the uber-successful Rider series.See the full content of this document
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Scaling New Heights Edd Mccracken Leaps Across London's Rooftops with Anthony Horowitz, Creator of Top Teen Agent Alex Rider
The day starts in a pleasant, if not rib-shakingly exciting, manner.
First it's coffee and croissants, then some filming in a bookstore for Blue Peter. Then Anthony spots the ladder onto the roof. With a glint in his eye he's off, the BBC film crew trailing in his wake.He certainly takes his own adv...See the full content of this document
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