Interview anthony horowitz biography book

If Anthony Horowitz had his way, this feature would be threaded with hidden messages and coded allusions to people and publishers you know.

For Horowitz is a trickster, a playful wordsmith with not one but two books out this year. Or has he? Actually it is three, he corrects me: his £1 Alex Rider Undercover has already been published ahead of World Book Day.

Second up, then, is a new Alex Rider, Nightshade, published by Walker in April.

It is 12th in the children’s series and comes 20 years after Stormbreaker, which introduced us to the 14-year-old boy turned MI6 recruit (for those who don’t know, the book has Alex thwarting a plan to release a deadly virus in the UK).

Stormbreaker remains Horowitz’s all-time UK bestseller, and Walker will mark the 20th year with a series of promotions, including an anniversary edition of that first book.

His next adult title, Moonflower Murders, arrives