Horowitz's mother introduced him to Frankenstein and Dracula. She gave him a human skull for his 13th birthday. Horowitz said in an interview that it reminds him to get to the end of each story since he will soon look like the skull. [9] Horowitz wrote many stand-alone novels in the 1990s. His 1994 novel Granny, a comedy thriller about an evil grandmother, was Horowitz's first book in three years, and it was the first of three books for an audience similar to that of Groosham Grange. The second of these was The Switch, a body swap story, first published in 1996. The third was 1997's The Devil and His Boy, which is set in the Elizabethan era and explores the rumour of Elizabeth I's secret son. In 2016, Horowitz's adult novel Magpie Murders was published. Having previously spoken about the book in 2005, it was initially described as being about "a whodunit writer who is murdered while he's writing his latest whodunit". [42] Horowitz finally expected to finish it in late 2015, [43] and it was finally published in October 2016. [44] A follow-up novel, Moonflower Murders, was released in 2020. A third and final novel in the series is expected to be released as well, with Horowitz expressing hope that he'll start writing it sometime in 2023. [45] Anthony Horowitz: 'Labour has done all it can to demonise our". Independent.co.uk. 23 October 2011. Archived from the original on 7 May 2022. In October 2014, the estate of Ian Fleming commissioned Horowitz to write a James Bond novel, Trigger Mortis, which was released in 2015. It was followed by a second novel, Forever and A Day, which came out on 31 May 2018. [40] A third novel entitled With a Mind to Kill was announced in May 2021 and will be released in May 2022. [41] Horowitz is the only author in recent years to have been invited by Ian Fleming Publications to write successive, official James Bond novels.

Espinosa, Michael (22 October 2006). "YOZONE: Anthony Horowitz sur la Yozone – (Cyberespace de l'imaginaire". www.yozone.fr (in French) . Retrieved 7 June 2021. Horowitz began his most famous and successful series in the new millennium with the Alex Rider novels. These books are about a 14-year-old boy becoming a spy, a member of the British Secret Service branch MI6. As of 2021, there are eleven books where Alex Rider is the protagonist, and another connected to the Alex Rider series: Stormbreaker (2000), Point Blanc (2001), Skeleton Key (2002), Eagle Strike (2003), Scorpia (2004) Ark Angel (2005), Snakehead (2007), Crocodile Tears (2009), Scorpia Rising (2011), plus Russian Roulette (2013). [27] Horowitz had stated that Scorpia Rising was to be the last book in the Alex Rider series prior to writing Russian Roulette about the life of Yassen Gregorovich, [28] but he has returned to the series with Never Say Die (2017), Nightshade (2020) and Nightshade Revenge (2023).Rich and strange (and kitted out with an eye-catching cover), but stronger in the set pieces than the internal logic.

Living in central London now, he currently resides with his wife and two sons there as he continues to write to this day. Producing his television series ‘Foyles War’, he met his wife Jill Green in Hong-Kong in 1988, after which they had their two children. His two children now are said to help him with ideas providing new material and fresh insight for his many books to come. Writing Career

Horowitz began writing for television in the 1980s, contributing to the children’s anthology series Dramarama, and also writing five episodes of the third season for the popular fantasy series Robin of Sherwood. Even though Tad started off unlikeable, he changed for the better as he spent more time in Bob's shoes (literally). The character development was well done in the sense that it was believable and gradual. In the meantime, the way their lives eventually intersected once more was interesting. Several other characters were mildly fleshed out so no one was really wholly "good" or "bad". The ending wasn't exactly expected but it was fitting for the story. Horowitz, Anthony, 1955–". Library of Congress . Retrieved 1 May 2015. (Anthony Horowitz) CIP data sheet (b. April 5, 1955) He credits his family with much of his success in writing, as he says they help him with ideas and research. He is a patron of family support charity Home-Start in Suffolk and child protection charity Kidscape. [14] I also loved Tad's character development as he sees the world in a whole new way. He is truly changed from the inside out, and I was delighted with the complexity of his personality.

Horowitz devised the 2009 ITV crime drama Collision and co-wrote the screenplay with Michael A. Walker.

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Horowitz lives in Central London (Clerkenwell) with his wife Jill Green; [11] they eloped to be married in Hong Kong on 15 April 1988. [12] Green produced Foyle's War, the series Horowitz wrote for ITV, and other television shows he has written. [13] They have two sons. A third Bond novel by Anthony Horowitz to come in 2022". Ian Fleming. 28 May 2021 . Retrieved 28 May 2021. In 'The Switch', Tad Spencer is a spoiled brat who leads a life of luxury thanks to his father's highly successful beauty business. Instead of appreciating everything he has, he is constantly unsatisfied. One night, he goes to bed angry because his parents refused his request to go to a theme park. He wishes to be someone else, only to wake up as a completely different person.. In 2017, Horowitz began a new series of detective novels which includes himself as a novelist enlisted by an out-of-work detective called Hawthorne to write books about the way Hawthorne solves crimes. The fictional Horowitz accompanies Hawthorne as he investigates murders committed in London and other locations. So far, starting with The Word is Murder, four of these books have appeared, with three others commissioned.

a b c Kean, Danuta (27 August 2017). "Anthony Horowitz: 'People used to disagree. Now they send death threats' ". The Guardian . Retrieved 23 October 2023. The estate of James Bond creator Ian Fleming also chose Horowitz to write Bond novels utilising unpublished material by Fleming, starting with Trigger Mortis in 2015, followed by Forever and a Day in 2018, and a third and final novel With a Mind to Kill in May 2022.Cullen, Helen (5 July 2020). "Author Anthony Horowitz and his wife, Jill Green, on their rollercoaster courtship". The Sunday Times . Retrieved 23 October 2023. Having produced work for both film and television now, his career is only growing from strength-to-strength as it progresses. Knowing his audience he’s managed to find his niche and work on it effectively, as he continues to create material of a high standard. This will carry on in the years to come as he shows no signs of stopping anytime soon. Stormbreaker Anthony Horowitz, author of The Killing Joke, answers our questions". Orion Publishing Group. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007 . Retrieved 12 October 2006.