November Harper Highlights

Untitled Novel 11 DAV I D WAL L I AMS & TONY ROS S

Walliams has become one of today’s most influential writers, dominating the industry charts and delighting kids all over the world! Since the publication of his first novel, The Boy in the Dress (2008), illustrated by the iconic Sir Quentin Blake, David Walliams has seen ten years of success, with global sales exceeding 25 million copies! The Guardian hailed him ‘as important to the market as any Booker prize-winner and heir to the Rowling crown’. In 2017, David also became the first children’s writer ever to spend a hundred weeks (non-consecutive) at number one in the UK children’s charts, beating his rivals by over twenty weeks. In Australia, Walliams’s book sales – at 500,000 copies each year – rank him as one of the top ten highest-selling authors in the country. His new novel will once again see David Walliams delight young readers and their parents with a heartfelt story filled with humour and a band of memorable characters that even Roald Dahl would be proud of. Stay tuned for more! DAVID WALLIAMS – AUTHOR, COMEDIAN AND ACTOR – RETURNS WITH HIS ELEVENTH, HIGHLY-ANTICIPATED STANDALONE NOVEL!

Children’s | November 2018

David Walliams continues to take the literary world by storm. His tenth novel, Bad Dad , was an instant number one, following the triumph of The Midnight Gang , the biggest-selling children’s book of 2016. David’s books have now exceeded 100 weeks in the children’s number- one spot, and have been translated into 53 languages, selling more than 25 million copies worldwide. London-born Tony Ross went to art school in Liverpool. His first book published in 1972, and he has since written more than 100 titles and illustrated over 2,000!

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9780008297244 | Released: 02/11/18 NSH | 448pp | AU $22.99 NZ $25.00 Publicity contact: Georgia.Williams@harpercollins.com.au

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