Children’s literature is “going downhill” because publishers are flooding the market with silly books rather than proper ...

In our call, he adds: “You don’t talk about the Anthony Horowitz books so much as the Alex Rider books. Characters do, as it were, outlive their authors, and are more interesting. After all ...

Author and screenwriter Anthony Horowitz has high hopes for the future ... such as the sexism recently identified by Helen Mirren — Horowitz said he felt it was important to set the books in the 1950s ...