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Charlie Higson

July 2024

  • Young James Bond, depicted by Kev Walker

    Crossword blog
    Crossword book club: Double or Die by Charlie Higson

    Crosswords play a vital role in this entry in the Young Bond series

January 2024

  • ‘We had a cult following’ … (from left): Paul Whitehouse, Simon Day, Charlie Higson and Mark Williams in 1996.

    Nice! Cast of The Fast Show to reunite for a UK stage tour

    The comedy series’ originators Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse will lead a 30th anniversary live show due to begin in March

August 2023

  • Jacqueline Wilson

    ‘Times change’: what authors think about rewriting older books

    Jacqueline Wilson is latest writer to wade into debate over changing dated and offensive language

March 2023

  • Person reading James and the Giant Peach

    Sensitivity readers: what publishing’s most polarising role is really about

    The Roald Dahl alterations thrust sensitivity readers to the foreground, but the profession is nothing new

January 2023

  • Charlie Higson sitting on steps in denim jacket

    Charlie Higson: ‘I hope to be so unwound I can just lie on the sofa’

    The comedian and author on gorging on granola, long lie-ins, Zen housework and feeling totally relaxed

September 2021

  • Daniel Craig as James Bond in Casino Royale (2006)

    Daniel Craig has given us ‘woke’ James Bond, says Charlie Higson

    Young Bond author highlights how much the spy has changed since Ian Fleming created him in 1953

April 2021

  • Charlie Higson

    The funniest thing
    Charlie Higson: ‘Vic Reeves Big Night Out is the funniest show I’ve ever seen’

    The actor, author, comedian and former singer on the things that make him laugh the most

August 2020

  • The Fast Show: Just A Load of Blooming Catchphrases Picture shows: Back row L/R John Thomson as Louis Balfour, Paul Whitehouse as Rowley Birkin, Mark Williams as Jesse, Simon Day as Billy Bleach, John Thomson as Professor Denzil Dexter, Charlie Higson as Johnny, Paul Whitehouse as Ron manager, Simon Day as Dave Angel. Middle row L/R Charlie Higson as Bob Fleming and Arabella Weir as Katie. Front row L/R Arabella Weir as No Offence, Paul Whitehouse and Mark Williams as Ken and Kenneth and Charlie Higson as Swiss Toni.

    'Lockdown? Suit you, sir!' The Fast Show characters on the Covid era

    How are Swiss Toni, Ron Manager and a very drunk Rowley Birkin QC handling life in 2020? As The Fast Show returns for a special, its characters talk masks, pronouns and Meghan Markle

June 2020

  • ‘He is very inappropriate and out of date’ ... Charlie Higson as Swiss Toni in The Fast Show.

    Charlie Higson: 'The Fast Show was never meant to offend'

    As he reprises his Swiss Toni persona, the comedian and author explains his jam-packed lockdown schedule, and why sketch shows are risky business

September 2016

  • Author Charlie Higson

    Charlie Higson hands Fast Show scripts to UEA literary archive

  • Brilliant photograph

    Brilliant! The Fast Show archive - in pictures

July 2016

  • Alex Hahn

    Harry Potter and the curse of middle age: should fictional children ever grow up?

    JK Rowling’s beloved characters are taking to the stage as adults in The Cursed Child. But are fans ever ready for their childhood heroes to grow up? Leading authors have their say

January 2016

  • ITV’s Jekyll and Hyde has been axed by ITV after disappointing ratings

    ITV’s Jekyll and Hyde sets 'to become shelters at Calais refugee camp'

    Creator of recently axed show reveals sets will follow Banksy’s Dismaland in being reused at camp near French port

November 2015

  • Hunger Games Katniss

    Children's books
    From Hunger Games to Harry Potter: would you survive your favourite fandom? - quiz

  • Pub quiz illustration by Alec Doherty

    Do Something pub quiz
    Charlie Higson's horror pub quiz

  • Jekyll and Hiyde

    Media Monkey
    Media Monkey: Jerry Hall, Nigella Lawson and Jekyll and Hyde

  • The Dresser

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: The Dresser; Catastrophe; Detectorists; Homeland; Jekyll and Hyde

October 2015

  • The End by Charlie Higson

    Children's books
    Free read! The End by Charlie Higson

    The sickness struck everyone over fourteen. First it twisted their minds. Next it ravaged their bodies. Now they roam the streets - Crazed and hungry. Sickos swarm the streets of London. Gathered in the centre of the city, they lie in wait. The survivors have one final epic battle to overcome. Read the first chapter in the final book of The Enemy series here
  • Charlie Higson

    Children's books
    Charlie Higson: 'The Enemy series is my own zombie survival plan'

    As the final book in his zombie apocalypse series, The End, is published, site member sapphirebooklover speaks to the YA author and TV scriptwriter about his fascination with horror, how to kill off characters and some unexpected influences – and gets some spooky film tips for Halloween!
  • Tom Bateman as Hyde

    TV review
    Jekyll & Hyde review – Charlie Higson cleverness and a snoggable monster

    Charlie Higson’s colonial-era update, focusing on Jekyll’s grandson, takes Robert Louis Stevenson’s original and runs with it
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